Notes on significant figures When we use an equipment to take measurement‚ it is important to be honest when reporting a measurement‚ so that it does not appear to be more accurate than the equipment used to make the measurement allows. To achieve this‚ we can control the number of significant figures used to report the measurement. When we look at a number‚ its first significant figure is the first digit from the left‚ other than 0. E.g. - in the number 539 the first significant figure
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28.10.2013 How was the education like during the French Revolution? Even though the French Revolution brought terror and it seems like nothing good came out of it‚ in the following sections you’ll find out that the educational system was one of the things that did improve and what the education was like before‚ during and after the revolution. Not only that people realized their need for education‚ but also important figures‚ as Napoleon‚ supported them and came
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Was the 1920’s an era of liberal social change or a period of conservative retrenchment After returning from World War I‚ in 1920‚ the United States was desperate for excitement. While there was retrenchment with the KKK and immigration restrictions liberal social change took over the nation. In the decade of the 1920’s the United States radically altered its economy‚ culture and politics. This was an era of mass production that created a pathway for the lower class to better life.
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One of the causes of the French Revolution was enormous public debt. MIRABEAU presented a now famous oration in defense of Jacques Necker’s patriotic tax. MIRABEAU: Two centuries of depredations and brigandage have made the chasm in which the kingdom is ready to engulf itself. We must close this fearful abyss. Well‚ here is a list of French proprietors! Choose among the richest‚ thus sacrificing the least number of citizens! But choose! For must not a small number perish to save the mass
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the article "A Change of Heart About Animals ’’ the author Jeremy Rifkin argument that animals are the same as human beings and that we should also treat them with love and respect. For some reasons‚ activists and some law schools believe in animals rights and they want to protect animals but if there were a bill of rights for animals some certain things would change for a reason some would not be benefit from this. Pass a bill of right it is not a good idea because it would change many things.
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there longer than humans in the history. Humans have taken for granted of the non humans because we humans are the most dominated in the food web. Also humans don’t realize how much pain we could cause to non humans. Both article “A Change of Heart about Animal” by Jeremy Rifkin and “Hooked on a myth” by Victoria Braithwaite states that humans don’t really care for animals and want change to treat animals fairly. However‚ humans do not feel any type of emotions‚ take for granted and treated them unright;
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centuries. They made people confront the dangerous journey to the new colonies‚ a journey which killed about one half of the people who tried it. People were led by strong motives‚ and even if not all were exactly quite as important to European expansion‚ all of them played a part in it. Taking in mind the medieval attitudes of people at the time‚ religion can be taken as a very important motive. This was the major cause for the Crusades in the early Middle Ages‚ and the spirit of spreading Christianity
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file) What was the environment in which you were raised? Describe your family‚ home‚ neighborhood‚ or community‚ and explain how it has shaped you as a person. My family consists of me‚ my mother and father‚ and my three sisters‚ two older and one younger. Growing up‚ our house was always bustling with friends and family as me and my sisters attended private school and later public school. Constantly being surrounded by people and animals created a hectic lifestyle for my family and me which has encouraged
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From Peace-Keeping to PeaceEnforcement to Peace-Building SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OF THE UN ACTIVITY FROM 1948 UNTIL TODAY List of Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 2 2. Traditional peace-keeping during the cold war ............................................................... 2 3. Peace-enforcement after 1990 ...........................................................
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Essentials of Sociology Social Revolutions that resulted from new technologies Technology has been a primary driver of social change for thousands of years. It has often been used to fill gaps between our “old world” habits and the demands of the “new world”.Often times challenges are presented in keeping up with our ever-growing changes‚ leading way to social changes-revolutions even. There are four innovations in technology that gave way to a swift social change; the invention of the plow
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