Good afternoon. I am pleased to announce that one of our students‚ Marissa Kelleher‚ has been named a Commended Student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. Today‚ I presented Marissa the Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). About 34‚000 Commended Students throughout the nation (and the only one at GHS!) are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit
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Centrally planned economy is defined as an economic system whereby economic factors are fixed by central authorities namely the states and the government of a respective nation. Such system is as opposed to one where decisions are made by private residents and companies‚ specifically the market economic system. Centrally planned economy approaches toward an assumption in which the market does not revolve around the utmost interest of the people‚ and that central power decisions are required in
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Noah Stewart-Maddox Chem 121 10/12/11 Synthesis of Potassium Ferric Oxalate Trihydrate and The Determination of Oxalate Ion in Ferric Oxalate Trihydrate using Titrimetry Abstract: In this two-part lab‚ we will learn about coordination compounds and their uses with stoiciometry. We will also find out about how theoretical yield is calculated from a reaction we will create. We will also synthesize Potassium Ferric Oxalate Trihydrate (K_3 [〖Fe(C_2 O_4)〗_3]•3H_2 O) using a two step reaction. In
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Short Essays on Thermodynamics 1. The two ways of transferring heat are Conduction and Radiation: Heat conduction‚ also called diffusion‚ is the direct microscopic exchange of kinetic energy of particles through the boundary between two systems. When an object is at a different temperature from another body or its surroundings‚ heat flows so that the body and the surroundings reach the same temperature at thermal equilibrium. Conduction happens in both fluids and solids. Thermal radiation‚
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Cambridge Teacher “Best Practices” Workshop Program DEC. 3‚ 2012 J I L L PAV I C H ‚ N B C T J I L L . PAV I C H @ PA L M B E A C H S C H O O L S . O R G * * * B O C A R AT O N C O M M U N I T Y H I G H S C H O O L Jill Pavich‚ Workshop Facilitator Boca Raton High School‚ English Department (9 years) AICE: General Paper‚ grades 9 & 10 (4 years) Kent State University‚ English Education/Writing minor Florida Atlantic University‚ Curriculum & Instruction/ELA Nationally Board Certified
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Pollution and its Negative Effects Pollution is the degradation of natural environment by external substances introduced directly or indirectly. Human health‚ ecosystem quality and aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity may be affected and altered permanently by pollution. Pollution occurs when ecosystems can not get rid of substances introduced into the environment. The critical threshold of its ability to naturally eliminate substances is compromised and the balance of the ecosystem is broken.
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Rachel Student ID: 1155062752 Course: UGFH1000SD Subject: Short Essay Date of Submission: 6th March‚ 2015 Question 1: Love between Calypso and Odysseus The love between Calypso and Odysseus can be discussed mainly on the grounds of Pausanias‚ Socrates. The love between Calypso and Odysseus can be considered as Common Eros‚ according to arguments of Pausanias in Symposium. Common Eros is regarded as “composed of the female and male elements”1 and “one falling in love with the other’s body rather than
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Shefsky ENG 4UZ Ms. Eldridge Thursday‚ March 11‚ 2010 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ Nor lose possession
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This short essay will focus on the “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe‚ in particular‚ his use of dramatic irony and the tragic disparity of awareness we‚ as the reader‚ are privy to. Poe uses irony to cast a sarcastic undertone over his dark story and create a personal‚ almost fraternal relationship between the narrator and the reader. Poe establishes this relationship in the story’s opening referring to the reader directly as ‘you‚ who so well know the nature of my soul’ (Poe). The
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Formal cultural system is essential to creating an ethical workplace. In the simplest form‚ an ethical workplace can be described as an organization whereby ethical behavior is practices and spread among its entire employees. Upon joining an organization‚ individual employees naturally become part of an organization culture that influences them in how they think and behave ethically. So‚ what is an organization culture? It is defined as the underlying assumption‚ beliefs‚ values‚ attitude and expectation
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