a device small enough to fit into a shotgun shell casing but powerful enough to incapacitate a subject was no easy task. The development team at Taser had to find a way to balance power with size. Not only did they need the device to travel farther than a standard Taser‚ but also to have the right amount of mass. If it had too little mass‚ it wouldn’t travel far enough. But if it
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Bryon McCoy 2/8/99 Less Than Zero Analysis Less Than Zero‚ written by Brett Easton Ellis‚ is almost as much about Blair as it is about Clay. Further more‚ the relationship of clay and Blair is the underlying theme that nits the fabric of this book together. As we look at the book we see several characters. Each of which is‚ to be blunt‚ screwed up. There are five characters that could be successfully argued as the main ones. There?s Trent‚ conniving and conceded who is a ?male model? and ?won?t
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Less Than Lethal Weapons For many years law enforcement has faced controversy about officer involved shootings. The use of non-lethal force has alleviated a lot of these occurrences. Law enforcement now has many options other than firing there guns. Some developments in the less than lethal weapons include the taser which is a stun gun that incapacitates a human target by generating a series of powerful electrical output pulses across first and second space apart output terminals in response to
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Education divides rather than unites. “True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality‚ the inequality of success‚ the glorious inequality of talent‚ of genius‚” the famous educator‚ Felix Schelling stated. Individuals of our society unintentionally receive different degrees of education indicates the class disparities amongst the public. Hence‚ education divides the society. Education divides the society rather than unites. This can be seen in developing
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“Do you dare to suppose me so great a blockhead‚ as to not know what a man is talking of?” What does Austen reveal through misunderstandings and cluelessness in ‘Emma’ and other works? Jane Austen’s novels are known for their depiction of the lives of young women who are represented as heroines and embark on a journey towards clarity and understanding and growth towards maturity. In the time period of Austen’s writing the expectations for women were for them to find a man with wealth who could offer
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Course ID: FOUND 1401 Assignment: Research Essay Name: ID#: Date: 2012 – 11-20 Tutor: Mrs. Paulette Bell – Kerr Stream/Day & Time: Thursday (6 p.m. – 8 p.m.) What are some of the reasons that contribute to the high rate of absence of fathers in Caribbean families‚ and how significantly does the presence of the father affect the development of Caribbean children? Leading psychologist‚ Michael E. Lamb (1999) expresses that fathers are the “forgotten contributors
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by Claudius. Hamlet is full of resolve to do the right thing‚ but he makes no attempt to kill Claudius until Act III‚ Scene IV. (That attempt is frustrated when he mistakenly believes Claudius is praying.) Why does Hamlet wait so long to act? Or‚ rather‚ to attempt to act? The answer lies in what has happened just before the attempt--the staging of the play within the play during which Claudius‚ seeing enacted a murder similar to the one of which he is guilty‚ calls out for lights. At that point
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Running head: LESS THAN FUNCTIONAL Less than Functional HCS 433 December 23‚ 2013 1 LESS THAN FUNCTIONAL 2 Less than Functional System integration Wilhelm Ostwald (n.d.) once said‚ “In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which‚ in a certain general or theoretical sense‚ is left a cripple or invalid”. As a person ages biology and environment can have a variety of affects on the systems
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attributions that exist in Nigeria as to avoid any intercultural misunderstandings. One of the most important things a visitor to Nigeria should know is that there are different ethnic groups and they have their own languages. Though English is the official language‚ it should not be surprising to visitors that not everyone they meet can express themselves in English. Visitors should not be embarrassed when they hear people speak languages other than English. It is established that most people in my country
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In the 1990 article “I’d Rather Kiss than Smoke” in the National Review‚ Florence King tries to persuade her readers to look through a smoker’s eyes in a smokist world. King has been around people smoking even before she was born. Her mother started smoking when she was twelve and she started this habit when she was twenty-six. Since she started smoking‚ she has been analyzing how non-smokers discriminate against them. Florence King expects everyone to be okay with smoking because it is what
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