FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE? In 1989 an earthquake hit San Francisco‚ on the west coast of USA‚ killing around 63 people. Twelve years later an earthquake hit Gujarat‚ in India. This time it killed approximately 20‚000 people. In this report I will be comparing the two earthquakes‚ giving reasons why the Gujarat earthquake was so much more destructive than the one in San Francisco. An earthquake is a movement or tremor in the earth’s crust. Earthquakes happen all the time‚ but some are so weak that they
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REPORTING AND COMPARING SCHOOL PERFORMANCES Geoff N Masters Glenn Rowley John Ainley Siek Toon Khoo Paper prepared for the MCEETYA Expert Working Group to provide advice on national schools data collection and reporting for school evaluation‚ accountability and resource allocation December 2008 Commissioned by the Reporting and Accountability Branch‚ National Education Systems Group‚ Commonwealth Department of Education‚ Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) i Reporting
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Pg1 Comparing Values Melanie Taylor HSM/210 Human Services in the United States 10/03/2012 Maria Brown University of Phoenix Pg2 Comparing Values 1. What values underlie your desire to help others? Answer: My values that underlie my desire to help others are the ability to make my clients my number one priority
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Comparing Authors William Shakespeare and W.H. Auden are widely known for their great poems. Shakespeare’s “My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” is a love unlike any poem from the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare does not use false comparisons to describe his lover like most love poem do‚ which is refreshing. W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is another love poem that is little gloomier. However it shows how much death can affect an individual’s life. Together Shakespeare and Auden use similar and
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Comparing Memories The memory I have chosen for this paper is one in which I was in the fifth grade‚ and happened eleven years ago when I was ten years old. The other perspective besides my own that I will be comparing is my dad’s‚ who was the only other family member who was their when it happened. Here is the event as I remember it happening “I was in grade five and I had recently made the basketball team. After school we would have practice at four o’clock‚ however we got out of classes at
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Describe yourself is not easy as you think‚ who is define‚ is limited! Comparing me with something can be so difficult‚ I’m the kind of person that changes my feelings and my attitudes faster than ever! Like in the moment I would like to drink a soda‚ but few minutes later change my idea for a chocolate milk! So I never know exactly what I want! In this moment if I could describe myself with a sentence‚ this would be "Live your life like there is no tomorrow"‚ I love the way this sounds good
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Greco-Roman goddess Hecate associated with magic and the wild. This is referring to the sea and how ruthless it can be. This poem deals with nature‚ focusing on its wild and violent side. This poem also reflects on human actions. The poem is comparing the nature with the human being‚ because we can also get wild and violent. It seems a criticism of the alienation of the human being -above all when living and working in big cities. So the author may be calling our attention – the speaker of the
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COMPARING QUAKES! This exercise should allow you to compare the effects of quakes on countries at different levels of development and to then try and suggest reasons for any differences or similarities you find. | |MEDC – Kobe‚ Japan |LEDC – Kashmir‚ Pakistan | |Location |Kobe is located 32 kilometres west of Osaka on the |The epicentre is Muzzafarabad the capital of
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deviation (σ) is very similar to the MAD. It also is a measure of spread that uses the mean of the data. Standard deviation is used much more often than MAD in daily statistics because it allows comparisons to the overall data set and is very useful for comparing percentiles. It also maintains the unit of measure of the original data. Here is the formula for standard deviation: σ=√Σ (x−x̄)2 n σ = Greek letter sigma that signifies standard deviation in statistics Σ = take the sum of x = each data
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to an individual ’s culture and environment. Psychology also plays an important role in culture. Comparing and contrasting an American Culture from a Sierra Leonean culture‚ which is a very small country in West Africa will clear up a lot of stereotypical ideas that people believe in. Compare and Contrast Your Cultural Background and Another Cultural Background The culture that I will be comparing in the American Culture‚ where I currently reside‚ and the Sierra Leonean culture where I am originally
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