* Why do nurses and physicians use 70% alcohol to wipe the skin before injections? 70% alcohol is used rather than pure alcohol because when combined with water‚ the alcohol can penetrate and kill microorganisms more effectively. "Alcohols are more effective combined with purified water—70% isopropyl alcohol or 62% ethyl alcohol is more effective than 95% alcohol‚ because the alcohol gets inside the cell better. " Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectan… * Why is 100 percent
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An Analysis of the Common Themes Found in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe A Research Presented to The faculty of the English Department In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English IV By March 2010 Acknowledgement The researcher would like to thank the following people who help and give guidance to make this project To the Project adviser and the home room adviser of the researchers‚ who gave his outmost patience and time to check the drafts and format of each
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Nikki Hrubec Ms. Birdsall English 11 February 15th‚ 2011 Common Theme in Two Poems In the two poems‚ "Cinderella and Barbie Doll‚" both authors use different literary devices to prove a common theme. The common theme throughout both poems is that people will mutilate themselves to obtain what they perceive as happiness. Also‚ the poems show how societies create a standard of living‚ which classifies how certain genders should act. The poem "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton is describing
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dead and nothing resolved. How an assassin’s bullet in Bosnia triggered one of the world’s bloodiest wars the world has ever known and how alliances‚ imperialism and militarism take a huge part of how the war started. These big factors lead to the question was the outbreak of the war in 1914 inevitable. One of the fuses to the war was imperialism. The rush for the biggest empire was dramatic. Once all the European countries had seen the British Empire which stretched across the world. It was very
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Common themes in Corporate Governance Scandals According to ACCA (2014) “Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled”‚ also the corporate governance definition in the ACCA (2014) and Financial Times (2015) are quite different but similar at the same time‚ “How a company is managed‚ in terms of the institutional systems and protocols meant to ensure accountability and sound ethics. The concept encompasses a variety of issues‚ including disclosure of information
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Karen Armstrong is so anxious to distinguish mythos from logos that her account of Paleolithic religion would seem obviously to be in sharp contrast with the “intellectualism” of theorists such as Tylor and Frazer‚ true? Explain. Throughout history there have been numerous theories to our origin as well countless questions and theories to answer such questions of our existence‚ why certain things happen in such a way or where we come from or where we may go after our deaths on Earth. Some of the
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turmoil‚ an upstarting journalist in Philadelphia by the name of Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet entitled common sense. His simple purpose for this fairly large document was for his fellow man to set aside his or her prejudices and listen to his arguments; mainly that the time for talking has passed and the only thing left to do is raise arms. Paine wields the argumentative appeals‚ Ethos‚ Pathos‚ and Logos in a strong and yet eloquent way that adds immense power to his disputes with Britain. Paine begins
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Examining Some Common Myths About Computer Use in the Early Years The Information Age has simultaneously ushered in feelings of excitement and trepidation for the teacher in the school classroom. While the computer is a symbol of powerful and limitless possibilities‚ teachers have the daunting task of figuring out how to use the computer successfully‚ how to utilize computers properly into a particular lesson at hand and how to plan around any presupposed computer glitches that may arise in front
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In The Great Gatsby‚ The theme in both the novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and movies directed by Jack Clayton in 1978 and Baz Luhrmann in 2013‚ were portrayed differently in a certain way. Both author and directors did this to match a certain type of style‚ but they all shared a common theme of the” American Dream”. As this is something in this time period strived for‚ they all wanted to become “something out of nothing”. In the movies and the novel‚ Gatsby was able to achieve longing American
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There are four common themes when looking at cell injury and death. These themes include adenosine triphosphate depletion‚ oxygen derived free radicals‚ calcium alterations‚ and defects in membrane permeability. Cells are unable to properly function if they lack certain important cell factors. ATP depletion A cell needs mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate in order to function properly which is why when a cell is injured or dying‚ a common theme seen is lost or decreased ATP. ATP loss or a deduction
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