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    PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM KARANJA OIL BY TRANSESTERIFICATION INTRODUCTION Majority of the worlds energy needs are supplied through petrochemical sources‚ coal and natural gases‚ with the exception of hydroelectricity and nuclear energy. All these sources are finite and at current rate of usage these will be consumed shortly. The high energy demand in the industrialized world as well as in the domestic sector and pollution problems caused due to the widespread use of fossil fuels make it

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    Humans‚ we can be an imperfect species. We all make mistakes‚ some mistakes are insignificant but others can completely disorient us making us living in confusion for the rest of our lives. Humans ‚ we can be a destructive species. Destroying and decimating the things in our lives just to gain the pleasure or power that we seek for ourselves.. Humans‚ we can be a hypocritical species We say we want to gain peace between people or countries but instead we create wars and murders and riots. Humans

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    The Making of a Hero The Odyssey an epic poem by Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) has many various themes woven throughout the story. One of my personal favorites is: falling into temptation will take you farther back than your starting point. You can see this theme portrayed as Odysseus struggles to find his home but when tempted stays to long with Circe. Or as they are almost home to Ithika and Odysseus’s crew opens the sack of winds. Also when they land on the island of the sun god

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    1. Why do we have states? Would it be possible for people to live without them? If they disappeared in the future‚ what would replace them? We have states so that the general public can be protected from external‚ as well as internal threats. States have armies to protect citizens from other countries who might invade or who pose some other sort of threat. States also have some sort of police force to protect citizens from criminals who wish to do them some kind of harm. The social contract theory

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    1.Why do we have government? As the colonist declared their independence from Great Britain‚ many did not want a political system‚ due to England’s horrid political structure. This resulted in a conflict between those who wanted to live free from rule‚ and those who saw the need for a system. The colonists’‚ who did not want to be ruled‚ compromised because they wanted their natural rights and liberties to be protected. The government ensures the protection of inherent rights‚ and protects freedom

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    punished. We are more now more aware of police brutality then back then since police brutality has always being happening. According to the police brutality infographic “Rapid growth in a video- enabled smartphones is largely responsible for the increase of police brutality‚ with more than 60% of Americans are now carrying a video enabled mobile devices”. Saying that we are now we are more aware of such a brutal crimes because we have a visual evidence of what is going. In the article “why

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    development of children. Without standardized testing there would be certain aspects of the mind of our youth that we wouldn’t know. Standardized testing gives us a measurement of the mind of the test takers capabilities to successfully solve the answer to the basic questions of knowledge. We need standardized testing to show us if a teacher is doing his or her job in the classroom. We have many needs for these standardized tests. Standardized testing has been a around longer than you might realize

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    Why Do We Dream Introduction a. Attention Getter: i. Who am I? Where am I? And why am I here? ii. Over time these three questions have become the classical philosophical questions of our existence. However‚ for you‚ I have the answers not even Aristotle‚ Socrates and Plato could give you. iii. You’re a broward college student‚ you’re in building 1008 and you’re here spending money for a better education. iv. But why do you dream? b. Topic Reveal: The question has yet to be answered. With the help

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    Ishmael Beah’s grandmother explains the local adage that “we must strive to be like the moon” by telling him that people complain about the heat when the sun shines‚ but when it is cold or rainy they want the sun. Although people complain about this they never complain about the moon shining‚ therefore we must strive to be what people don’t complain about. Ishmael has remembered this saying ever since his childhood because when he understood what his grandmother was telling him‚ he begins to observe

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    Title: Why do we need Administrative Law? What kind of disputes are being settled(solved) by the administrative courts Administrative law is a branch of law governing the creation and operation of administrative agencies.It covers a wide and varied area of practice‚encompassing many different types of governmental legal procedures and regulations‚and is not easily defined.Much of government and its public programs operate largely through various agencies on different levels:federal‚state‚county

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