In the United States‚ the people don’t always get the original story. Censorship is the act of suppressing unacceptable or unmoral parts. Media is censored all over the world for many reasons. Sometimes it is unmoral or is not the "right" religion. Other reasons media is censored is that it is offensive to a race or culture and that it puts the wrong ideas into people’s heads. Media censorship has always played a big role in American movies‚ music‚ books‚ and technology. First‚ let me give you an
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AUSTRALIAN TRIVIA - Questions and Answers Sport 1. Which horse won the Melbourne Cup in 2002? 2. What was Sir Donald Bradman’s batting average? 3. Who is Australia’s only Formula One driver? 4. Who won the Brownlow Medal in 2003? 5. Who was the most recent Australian to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon? 6. Which Australian was named the most valuable player in the US’s WNBA? 7. Which Australian has won the FIM World Motorcycle Championship 5 times? 8. How many gold medals did Australians
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Science trivias There are 62‚000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8‚000 one megaton bombs Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion‚ billion‚ billion liters of alcohol Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in
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Print these in Landscape form by going to File‚ Page Setup‚ and Landscape. |Science Trivia! |Science Trivia! |Science Trivia! |Science Trivia! | | | | |
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Science Trivia Quiz - Set 1 1. What is the change in body form that an insect undergoes from birth to maturity? 2. Where is the Sea of Tranquility? 3. Where is the Islets of Langerhans located in the human body? 4. _______ is the male part of the flower. 5. What is the term used to describe a large natural satellite of any planet? 6. What is the green pigment found in the cholroplasts of plant cells? 7. What is the branch of Physics that deals with light and its properties? 8. What
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Tabaco National High School Tabaco City MATHEMATICAL TRIVIAS Kim Patrick Barcenas II-Mendel Mrs. Sylvia Bo-Sariola Math Teacher When 111 111 111 is multiplied by 111 111 111 it is equal to 12345678 9 87654321 You can remember the value of PI (3.1415926) by counting each word’s letters in “May I have a large container of coffee?” 21978 when multiplied by 4 is the same number with digits in reverse order... 21978 x 4 = 87912 If you add up numbers 1-1000 consecutively
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Math Facts & Trivias 1. The value of zero was first used by the ancient Indian mathematician Aryabhata. 2. The implicit curve equation (x2+y2-1)3-x2y3=0 produces the heart shape. 3. The Reuleaux Triangle is a shape of constant width other than a circle. 4. If each count were a second long‚ it would take about 12 days to count to a million and about 32 years to count to a billion. 5. Forty’ is the only number that has all its letters in alphabetical order. 6. The National Pi Day ( π ) is
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Nguyen Buad 301-14 2/10/2011 Case 7.1 Westwood Publishing Prewrite: • Westwood Publishing is a magazine publishing company. • Dan Cassidy is director of employee relations for Westwood Publishing. • Catherine Callahan is the vice president of human resources. • Catherine Callahan proposed that with the layoffs‚ offer a voluntary severance package or early retirement package. • Westwood Publishing had never laid off anyone in the 13 years of their existence
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Our society needs censorship because things have gotten out of control. If the government fails to exercise control over what people have access to‚ God’s children will completely fall apart. In the book‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ Ray Bradbury’s character‚ Baetty‚ tries to tell the people that the books they are reading are bad for them. He feels like censorship is needed in that society. Censorship can help keep children under control and sometimes cause children and parents also to think about what they
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MATH TRIVIA When is a billion not a billion? Did you know that the American system for naming large numbers is not the same as the British system? What we call a billion‚ they call a thousand million. And what they call a billion‚ we call a trillion! And it continues from there. After a million‚ we do not agree on any of the names for large numbers. The chart below summarizes the differences. Number Power of 10 American Name British Name 1‚000 103 thousand thousand 1‚000‚000 106
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