is the single most essential factor in shaping the nation tomorrow as the saying goes education is the key to success. Furthermore‚ the educational level also reflects the image of a country to the neighbouring country as well. Ironically‚ teenagers nowadays do not seem to be paying a closer attention toward their academic level as a result of lack of reading culture. So‚ this raises a curiosity on what are the factors that propels them in cultivating this bad culture which will only tarnish their
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Justin Whaley Dr. Dreyer ENGL1213 20 January 2013 Smoke Signals My aunt Sharon was of my favorite relatives. We were close to say the least. As the tears ran down my face‚ at her funeral‚ I started to see the signals. They were signals of the effects that long term smoking can have on ones’ body. Now‚ I know what you’re thinking‚ but she didn’t pass away from lung cancer. Long term use of smoking tobacco can have come with many health risks‚ other than lung cancer. These risks can have an acute
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1 Smoke Detector ∗ Sardar Nimisha Sankhe∗ ‚ Nisarg Vinod† and Ekta Vira Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ nimisha.sankhe@yahoo.com † Sardar Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ naughty.nisarg@yahoo.co.in ‡ Sardar Patel Institute of Technology‚ Mumbai-400058‚ India‚ ekta vira@ymail.com Abstract Most of the smoke alarms available in the market use one or another kind of smoke sensor which increases the cost and also require complicated interfacing circuitry
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Smoke Detectors A smoke detector is a device that detects smoke and prevents fire. Smoke detectors were used in many houses in North America and it is important safety devices for homes. Smoke detectors are cheap and it gives alarm of any warning when it rise a high temperature that was produced by a fire this is because smoke detectors can detect the combustion gases from a small flame. In the article‚ a woman resident of the Silverpuff apartment were seriously injure of a fire because
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Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke is dangerous to anyone who breathes it in. There is no safe amount of it. Secondhand smoking is a problem that needs to be stopped because it affects the lives of many innocent people. What is secondhand smoke? According to the American Cancer Society‚ secondhand smoke is defined as‚ "environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Secondhand Smoke is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: Sidestream smoke – smoke from the lighted end of a cigarette
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Smoke Signals ( Smoke Signals‚ DVD. 1998) is a movie that depicts Native Americans on the Coeur’d Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho during the late 20th century. Smoke Signals illustrates contemporary Native American culture. The movie is gives insight into the characters struggles to preserve oral tradition‚ and making peace with personal histories. The main characters‚ Thomas and Victor‚ deal with discrimination‚ life on a reservation‚ preservation of their culture‚ and economic problems. There
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Name: Leung Chun Wai Student no.: G20554292 Topic: (NT3048) Smoke extraction design for large space such as atrium 1. INTRODUCTION Atrium inside a building is an old architectural concept for about two thousand years. This concept has been developed and extended to modern buildings. Current trend of atrium design provides an ‘ideal’ external environment to the occupants with a large undivided space. The major problem for fires in atrium is hot and toxic gases accumulating and go down in the atrium
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SECONDHAND SMOKE Secondhand smoke is defines as the smoke inhaled from a lit cigarette‚ cigar‚ or pipe‚ and the smoke exhaled by a smoker. Non-smokers that inhale second hand smoke actually breathes in almost the same amount of chemicals as a smoker. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ more than 50 of which are known to cause cancer.6 Chemicals that cause cancer include: Arsenic‚ Benzene‚ Beryllium‚ Butadiene‚ Cadmium‚ Chromium‚ Ethylene Oxide‚ Nickel‚ Polohium-210
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Carlile V Carbolic Smoke ball Company is considered a landmark in English Law of Contract” Analyise the above statement by explaining the facts of the case and by discussing in detail three legal principles which were upheld in the case. In the late 1800’s it was common for English Businesses selling medicinal products to make promises about the various illnesses that their products could cure. One such firm The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company‚ created the “Smoke Ball’ which claimed
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Jamason‚ diagnosed with asthma as an infant‚ has never smoked a cigarette. One day‚ he was cleaning up at the fast food restaurant where he worked. Unfortunately‚ he was cleaning near a group of his coworkers that were on their “smoke break”. Shortly after he returned inside he started having trouble breathing. Frantically‚ he called his mother‚ who arrived to find him gasping for air. He was then hospitalized for four days after‚ for something he couldn’t have prevented. Fortunately Jamason Coles
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