them. When a family or parent is unable to provide for a child‚ the child ends up either with other relatives‚ homeless‚ or into the foster care system which is temporary placement for a minor to be given care by a certified caregiver of the state also known as a foster parent. According to Child Welfare Information Gateway‚ more than 250‚000 children enter the foster care system every year and 60% of these children cannot return home. Since these child are entering different homes where someone who
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AGE OF THE EARTH Scientists have settled on the age of the earth of about 4.6 billion years as a result of research started almost 50 years ago. This conclusion was based upon carefully designed and conducted experiments that compared the ratios in rock samples of parent elements to daughter elements ( some of which would have been from radioactive decay of the parent‚ some of which may have been present in the sample at the time of formation). Since radioactive decay is known to occur at a constant
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Convections Currents The main idea that I would like you to get from this set of notes is that convection currents are a swirling motion of a fluid that needs a heat source and a cold source to work. The rest of the notes will deal with supporting this idea and giving some examples of convections currents here on earth. Once the earth collects enough material it will start to get so heavy that it compresses inward toward the center of gravity a lot. This smashing of
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Young Discoverer Series UNIVERSE NICKNAMES OF PLANETS: Mercury – Speedy Messenger. Venus – Morning or Evening Star. Earth – The Blue Planet. Mars – The Red Planet. Jupiter – Jove or the Galilean System. Saturn – The Ringed Planet. Uranus – Father Sky. Neptune – The Windy Planet. Pluto – The Ice Planet. DEFINITIONS: STAR: A huge body made of hot luminous gas that is held together by its own gravity. Compared to other stars‚ our Sun is a star of average size and energy. PLANET: A large
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I. Essay 1: Foster Care a. Temporary Placement: It’s very important to note that the purpose of foster care is to provide temporary care for children. This is because‚ for foster children‚ the goal is to eventually reunite children with their parents. If this hope isn’t attainable‚ foster care then becomes a temporary placement until social workers can find families to adopt these children and to provide permanent homes. While some families foster children with the intent to adopt them‚ the main
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seafloor using available echo profiles‚ the resulting mapped showed a large canyon that traversed the length of the ridge. ⦁ Hess explains that as new crust is being formed at the ridges old ocean crust is being destroyed as it is pulled back into the Earth in deep ocean trenches which lie along the edges of continents called subduction zones ⦁ Ewig found that beyond the continental shelf the ocean floor contained only recent sediment and unlike what was expected for the 3 billion years of accumulation
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How to organize a commentary – general tips Structurally‚ the commentary is similar to the essays you have written in the IB program. There is an introduction‚ a body‚ and (to a lesser degree) a conclusion. In your introduction‚ put the extract in context‚ present a central assertion‚ and indicate the main developments or thematic clusters of the passage you will discuss INTRODUCTION You may very briefly summarize the piece. What’s the occasion here? For pieces studied in advance‚ provide context
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INVENTORY – PERIODIC INVENTORY SYSTEM In a Periodic Inventory System‚ no effort is made to keep up – to – date records of either the inventory or the cost of goods sold. Instead‚ these amounts are determined only periodically __ usually at the end of each year. It is used by very small businesses having manual accounting systems. Questions 1 – 3 (Meigns & Meigns)‚ Question 4 (Fess & Warren) Question 1:- Mach IV Audio uses periodic inventory system. One of the
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Good Earth‚ by Pearl S. Buck Essential Questions: • How does Buck portray the theme of contentment vs. greed? Can wealth destroy traditional values? • What does it take to make one truly happy? • How does literature show the effects of social class and oppression? • How does the novel explore the theme of man as a part of nature? Expectations: • The novel will be completed by April 1. • Five journal entries will be completed by April 1. • One project to be
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Earth with No Moon A world with no moon would be much different without the Moon. Without the moon‚ Earth would be greatly different. The length of the day would be different‚ the origins of life on Earth would be slowed‚ and the biological evolution of life on Earth would vary greatly. But there would still be life on Earth‚ and many things on Earth would remain the same. Lunar tides are perhaps the most obvious effect of the Moon on Earth. The Earth without the moon would have a day that
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