for a shot at the summit. About half of those people make it to the top. 280 people have died trying to climb Everest or make it back down. Yet despite the cost‚ even your life‚ the number of attempts and summits is on its way up every year. In Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer‚ Everest stands as symbol of dreams and hopes; for the westerners. To the workers of the mountain‚ the Sherpas‚ it was a symbol of God and their way of life. Above all Everest was a symbol that commanded respect. Throughout the
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Gas Chromatography: Purifying alcohol Introduction The goal of this lab is to understand the principles of chromatography by purifying alcohol using fractional distillation. Running standards with gas chromatography we were able to see and calibrate our data to find not only how much ethanol our alcohol attained but also what a mixed unknown sample contained. Chromatography is a way of being able to separate substances in solution that can help not only identify the analytes (the studied
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and tablets are there to give us entertainment when we suffer from boredom. We all need a break occasionally‚ right? Yes‚ but this technology is consuming us. Plastered all over these different ways to cure boredom‚ are unrealistic expectations. Too-thin bodies‚ filtered faces‚ photoshopping to the extreme. Commercials and movies are over sexualizing women‚ making a woman’s worth based on her body. The overload of make-up adverts claiming to hide “imperfections‚” various weight loss solutions and implanting
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In this passage from Jon Krauaker’s Into Thin Air‚ Jon Krauaker does not display the sense of accomplishment that one would expect from achieving such a difficult endeavor. He really displays a sense of grief and dissatisfaction from what he had accomplished. For taking a risk as life threatening as this‚ in Krauaker’s eyes‚ he couldn’t possibly be proud of what he had done when so many men had lost their lives during the same excursion that he journeyed on. Throughout this novel‚ Jon Krauaker
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Learning to be a Depth Camera for Close-Range Human Capture and Interaction Sean Ryan Fanello1‚2 1 Cem Keskin1 Shahram Izadi1 Pushmeet Kohli1 David Kim1 David Sweeney1 Antonio Criminisi1 Jamie Shotton1 Sing Bing Kang1 Tim Paek1 Microsoft Research 2 iCub Facility - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia a b c e g d f h Figure 1: (a‚ b) Our approach turns any 2D camera into a cheap depth sensor for close-range human capture and 3D interaction scenarios. (c‚
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CHAPTER 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Identification of camphor and menthol using gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC – MS) In this study‚ the presence of menthol and camphor were determined from 5 different locally produced medicinal topical ointment samples. Sample of Vick® VapoRub® and Hurix’s Massage Balm were purchased from local pharmacies‚ Bunga Cengkih Balm and Serai Balm samples were purchased from the grocery shop. Buah Pala Balm sample was purchased from the night market
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Sociology/SS310 Cultural pressures to be thin Have you ever taken a second to compare the size of men and women today to the sizes years ago? Recently there is a huge new trend of becoming as thin and fit as possible and thinking this how one becomes beautiful. No one actually knows where this idea has emerged from. In the past big has been known as being healthy and beautiful. Take for instance Marilyn Monroe‚ she was the pin up girl for many men and wasn’t exactly thin to today’s standards. Today’s
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Hawthorne’s Thin Line When thinking of great American authors‚ one usually thinks of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne is best known for his classic work‚ The Scarlet Letter. This novel is a story about a women named Hester and her sin of adultery. In the preface to the novel ‚ Kurt Neilson writes that‚ "Hawthorne sees a very thin line‚ if any‚ between the "real" world and the spiritual and/or imaginary one." Hawthorne’s writing throughout The Scarlet Letter fulfills this claim made by Neilson in
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Chromatography: Separating Mixtures Introduction: Magic marker inks are often mixtures of several compounds. Paper chromatography is a common method of separating various components of a mixture. After separation‚ you can observe the different colors that make up a particular color of magic marker ink. You can also calculate a ratio Rf‚ which compares how far each compound traveled to how far each solvent (substance that dissolves another substance) traveled during the experiment.
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Into Thin Air Questions Pages 7-27 1. Why didn’t Krakauer climb down the fixed rope? People were already climbing up the rope‚ he couldn’t descend. 2.Why did Krakauer run out of oxygen so fast? Harris had accidentally fully opened his oxygen tank valve‚ which drained his oxygen tank. 3. What discovered the highest mountain in the world? A Bengali computer named Radhanath Sikhdar. 4. Who was the first person to reach the top of Everest? Hillary and Tenzing were the first climbers ever to reach the
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