Warren Ellis’s grim graphic novel Fell‚ Part 5‚ revolves around the interrogation of a suspected murderer Michael Connah by Detective Fell. Connah barely speaks during the interrogation‚ his guilt or innocence can only be inferred by his reaction to Fell’s insistent questions and accusations that escalate into violence with a hidden gun. Fell’s interrogation tactic involves exposing Connah insecurities by building a case of possible motives to explain a string of grisly murders of couples in proximity
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It is traditional to divide industries into categories according to the degree of competition that exists between the firms within the industry. There are four such categories. At one extreme is perfect competition‚ where there are very many firms competing. Each firm is so small relative to the whole industry that it has no power to influence price. It is a price taker. At the other extreme is monopoly‚ where there is just one firm in the industry‚ and hence no competition from within the industry
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) France Pascal was an outstanding genius who studied geometry as a child. At the age of sixteen he stated and proved Pascal’s Theorem‚ a fact relating any six points on any conic section. The Theorem is sometimes called the "Cat’s Cradle" or the "Mystic Hexagram." Pascal followed up this result by showing that each of Apollonius’ famous theorems about conic sections was a corollary of the Mystic Hexagram; along with Gérard Desargues (1591-1661)‚ he was a key pioneer
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Loving a person isn’t about logic or reason. (Paradise Kiss) Is there a limit to how much you can love somebody? No matter how much I hurt him or get hurt by him‚ I find myself far from hating him‚ actually hoping that those wounds will scar‚ like burns…because then you can never forget me. Kamijou Hiroki (Junjou Romantica) Everyone goes around trying to find their soulmate‚ but no matter how hard they look‚ they can never find it. So instead‚ they force two bodies together. Everyone wants
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Alternatives to Violence History 12 “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.” John F. Kennedy September 25‚ 1961 The Cold War‚ which took place between 1945 and 1989‚ has been the event in which the two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union directly threatened each other with nuclear weapons‚ almost bringing “an end to mankind”. All those that offered explanations during and after the Cold War have been classified
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Alternative medicine is a medical practice that is generally founded on metaphysical beliefs. Many a times‚ alternative medicine is found to be antiscientific. The practice of alternative medicine has progressively become popular in the recent past decades with more and more patients preferring alternative medicine to modern scientific medicine (Skeptic dictionary‚ 2009). Alternative medicine practice falls into five main categories as classified by National Center for Complementary and Alternative
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and manufacturing)‚ transportation‚ and personal energy use‚ our world’s fossil fuel supplies are rapidly depleting. Even more‚ fossil fuels pollute our environment. Scientists are on the search for alternative energy sources so the world can be weaned of its fossil fuel supply. Out of the many alternative fuel sources‚ I will be focusing on solar and wind power. Solar power is simply the conversion of energy from the sun into usable energy. Solar energy can be harvested in two ways: indirectly by
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such as crude oil and coal. Let us first take a look at where we stand in terms of overall investment achievement in the energy sector. The World Bank has estimated the minimal annual investment needed for energy and related infrastructure at about 5 per cent of the GDP. New electricity generating capacity of nearly 700‚000 MW would need to be added—at the rate of 140‚000 MW per Five Year Plan period. Compare this with the capacity addition of 21‚000 mw during the 10th Plan that just
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With the growing popularity of complementary and alternative medicine certain therapies have become more common without the need of a practitioner ’s hand. One of these common therapies is called aromatherapy. Aromatherapy combines the medicinal properties of plants with oil massages. Aromatherapy can be found in one of the five categories of therapies defined by the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and with the available knowledge it can
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Mary Anne Warren argues the position that abortion is morally permissible because the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights therefore not immoral to be killed. I shall argue that Warren’s position is invalid since her argument “appears to justify not only abortion‚ but infanticide as well.” From the time that Warren’s article “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” was published she has gotten critiques that her argument “appears to justify not only abortion‚ but infanticide as well.”
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