A Most Mysterious Material: The Aerogel In his book‚ “Stuff Matters”‚ Miodownik discusses‚ through personal narratives‚ the many facets of material science and their applications in real world instances. Out of all of the different types of materials he encounters‚ perhaps the most exotic were aerogels. In this chapter‚ “Marvelous‚” Miodownik begins in a top secret U.S. government laboratory where he first sets his eyes on this mysterious material. At first‚ Miodownik is denied a chance to observe
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Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life. John McCain Why Does McCain mean by saying that “without courage all virtue is fragile”? It means that if we lack courage to hold on to our beliefs in the moment of testing‚ no just when everybody agrees with our opinion but also when they go against opposition‚ then our beliefs are superficial and weak and add nothing to our self respect for our virtues. Explain the concept of moral courage using an example. Is it different from physical
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A Temporary Matter Husband and wife Shukumar and Shoba are notified that their electricity will be turned off at 8:00PM for five evenings in a row in order to fix a power line. Shoba tells her husband this news. He looks at her‚ noticing that her makeup has run from her time at the gym. He reminisces about how she would look in the morning after a party in happier times. Shoba insists that the electric company should work on the lines during the day. Shukumar takes slight offense at this idea; since
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English 2 27 November 2013 Viva La Revolution General Purpose: to persuade our audience that common core is a viable solution to our currently flawed education system. Introduction A. Attention getter: This is Toni‚ your average American college student. Growing up in Southern California‚ her public education was significantly below par. As a fourth grader‚ she made the trek with her family to Minnesota. This move promised many things‚ and a proper education was amongst
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Four Failures That Matter Jimmie L Green POS/355 July 10‚ 2014 James Johnsen Four Failures That Matter Introduction: Operating systems has come a long way and a much improvement in the way each system built. This paper will discuss the four common types of distributed computer system failures‚ which are crash failure also known as operating system failure. Hardware failure. Omission failures and byzantine failures. Included in the discussion are failures‚ which can also occur
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DIFFERENCES MATTER: A NEW PARADIGM FOR MANAGING DIVERSITY BYLINE: by David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely; David A. Thomas is an associate professor at the Harvard Business School in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Robin J. Ely is an associate professor at Columbia University ’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York City. Their research and teaching focus on the influence of race‚ gender‚ and ethnicity on career dynamics and organizational effectiveness. ABSTRACT: MAKING DIFFERENCES MATTER: A NEW
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Matters of life and death In a new book‚ A Miracle and a Privilege‚ Dr Francis Moore‚ 81‚ of Harvard Medical School‚ discusses a lifetime of grappling with the issue of when to help a patient die. An excerpt: Doctors of our generation are not newcomer to this question. Going back to my internship days‚ I can remember many patients in pain‚ sometimes in coma or delirious‚ with late‚ hopeless cancer. For many of them‚ we wrote an order for heavy medication – morphine by the clock. This was not talked
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disappointment‚ Catherine began to get much older and lose much of her attractiveness. Henry not only began to lose interest in his wife‚ but he also began to worry about not having a son to succeed him on the throne. This was when the King’s great matter began. Throughout this time period‚ Cardinal Wolsey‚ an advisor to Henry and very powerful in the Catholic Church‚ moved closer and closer to Henry. As the
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C’est la vie The literary art of realism is used by authors in pieces of literature to portray how life really is for some people and also to prove that there isn’t a happy ending to every story. 19th century authors like Mark Twain and Henry James mastered the genre of realism in their time period. This was the time in history that writers realized that all stories didn’t need to have a “Cinderella story” ending‚ but rather provide descriptions of the conditions of living and seek to
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Why Ethics Matters There are many situations in which ethical perspectives are in contrast to another person’s opinion on the same subject matter. Every person has found themselves looking over his shoulder asking himself "am I doing the right thing?" Ethics is what a person does when no one is watching. Whether it is a corporation or a government entity‚ they all expect their employees to behave ethically. What are ethics? Webster defines ethics as "a set of moral principles" or "a theory or
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