ENC1102-0000 October 7‚ 2013 Breed Specific Discrimination Every day in the United States‚ there are innocent bystanders and cherubic children that are being ripped to shreds by pit bulls. Or at least that is what the media would have you believe. On average‚ it is believed that pit bulls kill 19 Americans per year. The real question that should be considered‚ but that usually is not‚ is exactly what is a “pit bull”? Generally speaking‚ when someone utters those two little words‚ the breed that
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A crime-specific strategy is a targeted enforcement or intervention in the exact place and time with an specific offender and offense (Hoover‚ 2014). Of these specificity strategies‚ there are two‚ that in my opinion‚ go hand in hand and would be of the greatest importance or impact. These would be that of field interview and/or that of directive response patrol. With your field interviews you have more hands on in your beat to allow you knowledge of the general area‚ where as the crimes are usually
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Determination of specific heat Capacity of a solid by electrical method Introduction Thermal conductivity heat is transferred as a consequence of temperature difference between 2 bodies‚ heat energy passes form a hotter to the colder body. Specific heat capacity is the amount of heat energy required in joules to raise 1kg of a substance by 1 degree Celsius‚ different substances absorb heat energy at different rates not all substances require the same amount of heat energy to increase the
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Investigation 11 Specific heat capacity Aim: Investigate to determine the specific heat capacity of a metal cube provided Apparatus: -thermometer -stirrer -water -calorimeter -beam balance -metal cube -beaker Procedure: Using the normal equipment for Thermal Physics investigations‚ you are required to design and carry out an investigation to determine the specific heat capacity of a metal cube provide by teacher. Furthermore‚ you will need to compare your obtained value with
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Marybeth Brooks Physics Lab III Specific Heat Capacity Lab May 25‚ 2011 Abstract The specific heat capacity of various metals can be calculated and compared to accepted literature values. Dropping heated metal samples into a calorimeter filled with water and then measuring the change in the temperature of the system accomplished this. The metal samples were heated in a boiling water bath and were assumed to be at 100 C when they were removed. It was added to a calorimeter and stirrer
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Work Specific Skills Work specific skills focusing on the use of standard operating procedures for different types of laboratory equipment‚ the calibration of standard laboratory equipment and the use of a lab book. This was chosen as a priority for me due to these skills being an essential part of any work I wish to do in the future‚ working or continuing my studies with in a lab. This set of skills is relevant to my skills matrix because it is a skill I have only had the chance to develop at
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Specific Heat of a Metal Post-Lab I. Purpose The purpose of this lab is to determine the specific heat of an unknown metal. II. Safety Wear goggles and lab apron at all times. Use caution when boiling water. Do not pick up hot beaker or hot metal with hands. Use tongs. III. Pre-Lab Questions 1. A 12.5 g metal is raised to 100C in boiling water. It is put into 82.8 g of water at 22.4C‚ and the water rises to 28.6C. Recalling that the specific heat of water is 4.18J/gC‚ use the equation above
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mind when thinking about the new laws that have been passed against pit bulls. After years of discrimination of people‚ we are now discriminating against breeds of dogs. Even though aggressive dogs tend to bite more‚ I am against the idea of breed specific legislation because it is not the breed of the dog but how it is trained. There are many advocates for BSLs‚ including the leader of PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals). This is an excerpt from the leader of PETA‚ Ingrid Newkirk‚
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Course/Number Institution Date Instructor Name Uses and Gratifications Theory Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) according to West and Turner (2007) is a mechanism of getting to know the reason and how individuals keenly look for specific media to meet their particular needs. As opposed to other media theory that seeks to understand what the media do to individuals‚ UGT seeks to understand what individuals do with media. UGT as argued by McQuail (2010) is an audience-centered means
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culture-bound syndrome was included in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2000) which also includes a list of the most common culture-bound conditions (DSM-IV: Appendix I). Included in DSM-IV-TR (4th.ed) the term cultural-bound syndrome denotes recurrent‚ locality-specific patterns of abnormal behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV-TR diagnostic category. Many of these patterns
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