REINDEER AND ENGINE – COMMENTARY The poem ’Reindeer and Engine’ by Josephine Jacobsen is an extract from the poet’s 1966 work ’The Animal Inside’. The poem is about a reindeer who is fleeing from a steam engine‚ in the forests of Finland. However‚ wherever the reindeer seems to turn‚ engine tends to follow. The poet Josephine Jacobsen introduces a very relevant issue‚ from the title of the poem itself – that of nature versus technology. In a sense‚ the reindeer and the engine are contrasting ideas
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Dose of drug administered ABSORPTION DISTRIBUTION Drug in tissues Drug in systemic circulation Pharmacokinetics Drug metabolized or excreted ELIMINATION Drug at site of action Pharmacologic effect Pharmacodynamics Toxicity Efficacy PHARMACOLOGY Pharmacodynamics Actions of drug on the body Specific to a drug/ class of drugs • Interaction with target sites (receptors/enzymes) • Effects at site of action • Dose-response relationship • Reduction in symptoms • Modification
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E- Governance Assignment On Public Private Partnerships in India Submitted to: Dr. Gyan Prakash Submitted By: Neha Misra (2011-MBA-013) Public Private Partnership Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a contract between a public sector institution/municipality and a private party‚ in which the private party assumes substantial financial‚ technical and operational risk in the design‚ financing‚ building and operation of a project. Traditionally‚ private sector participation has been limited
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ceiling‚ sensing the minutes tick by for what seemed like the hundredth night in a row; Cassie knew the feeling well. Every few minutes or so her eyes would flick over to the glowing red numbers as they crawled towards the time her alarm would go off‚ signalling a new day. The demonic red numbers switched to 3:00 am; the time for sleep fell to four hours. Cassie forced an inhale‚ and then breathed out slowly. It had been hours since she had persuaded herself to lie down in bed‚ yet her mind was still reeling
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lower pay if other benefits emerge‚ eg. Healthcare. Firms/ Business [Their main objective is to maximase profits. Also to spend less on raw materials] Prices & Profits have three key functions: 1. Incentive function 2. Rationing function 3. Signalling function When prices rise consumers tend to ration (cut down) their demand. When prices fall consumers extend their demand (an end to rationing). The Production Possibility Boundary (PPB) The key problem in economics is that we have
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to the development of the first high pressure steam engine; he also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. On 21 February 1804 the world’s first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Trevithick’s unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks‚ in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Catch Me Who Can was the fourth and last steam railway locomotive created by Richard Trevithick. Built in 1808 by Rastrick and Hazledine at their foundry in Bridgnorth
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The most significant event in Canada’s history would be the building of the railway. It opened up new markets to the country and brought areas together. It also created a need for new resources and technology‚ which led to the important development of industries in Canada. Early railroads in Canada were mainly for shortline and were developed for transportation all year round‚ so when the canals and rivers were frozen there was still a way to get around. The development in railroads in C
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SEGREGATES SUCH AS “UH HUH” AND “SHHH” VOCAL FEATURES • INTONATION IS VARIATION OF SPOKEN PITCH THAT IS NOT USED TO DISTINGUISH WORDS; INSTEAD IT IS USED FOR A RANGE OF FUNCTIONS SUCH AS INDICATING THE ATTITUDES AND EMOTIONS OF THE SPEAKER‚ SIGNALLING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATEMENTS AND QUESTIONS‚ AND BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF QUESTION FOCUSING ATTENTION ON IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF THE SPOKEN MESSAGE AND ALSO HELPING TO REGULATE CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION • PROSODY IS THE RHYTHM‚ STRESS‚ AND
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Due to the fact of the absence of many men‚ who either joined the military and/or took jobs in a war production industry; women were obligated to move outside their traditional roles and take positions in employment historically reserved for men. For instance in the United States‚ images like "Rosie the Riveter" promoted the ideology that it was patriotic and not unfeminine for women to work in these various industries. Posters in Canada were launched illustrating a women holding a bomb stating
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Taste of Fear from 1961. To analyze the musical piece‚ It starts innocently enough with a simple tonic chord‚ though the E is not in the bass so the chord is slightly unstable. The melody lifts up to an upper neighbor‚ creating dissonance and signalling a change of harmony to come soon. The next chord is the dominant chord‚ though with a suspension: the E refuses to let go. When this suspension does resolve‚ Chopin "misspells" the chord with an Eb instead of a D#. The melody turns this dominant
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