Majuma Mganga period 7 Chemistry Rubber Bands and Spontaneity Purpose: The purpose of this activity was to determine if a chemical or a physical change is spontaneous. This activity was also designed to determine if a change is spontaneous by using change in enthalpy and change in entropy with the structure of polymers. Hypothesis: If you heat the rubber band and then streatch it‚ then the rubber band will become shorter meaning it will release eneregy because it is not relaxed and the
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1. Today I am here to talk to you about something which is becoming a huge issue in our world. Air Pollution is a major problem facing our government today. It is harmful to every living creature on the planet. Just imagine one day having to walk outside wearing a mask or not being able to open the windows of your house on a hot summer’s day‚ or even worse‚ imagine looking out of your window and not seeing any form of life; all vegetation has died due to acid rain and other chemical such as sulphur
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Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a practice where people of color and of certain religions are disproportionately targeted for investigation and enforcement of various laws. The existence of racial profiling dates back to slavery. In 1693‚ Philadelphia’s court officials gave police legal authority to stop and detain any Negro (freed or slaved) seen wandering around on the streets. This discriminatory practice continued through the Jim Crow era and now in the twenty first century‚ racial profiling
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Desmond Newton 10-17-12 Block 4 White Barack Obama “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time‚ we are the ones we’ve been waiting for‚ and we are the change that we seek.” Barack Obama’s entire presidency Obama has been helping America. On May 2nd 2011‚ Obama put an end to Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Laden was the mastermind behind the tragic 9/11 attack in 2001. That was one of Obama’s greatest achievements. Now Obama is
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Marijuana as a Gateway Drug: The Causal Fallacy The marijuana plant‚ perhaps the most widely-used illicit drug in the world‚ was once demonized by authorities and the media. In the 1936 film Marijuana: Weed with Roots in Hell‚ director Dwain Esper portrayed teens smoking marijuana and then engaging in perceived evils such as nude bathing and unchaperoned partying‚ with one girl becoming pregnant. The film went on to further depict the characters becoming addicted to marijuana and committing serious
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Racism For the past centuries‚ racism has greatly influenced wars‚ slavery‚ the formation of nations‚ and legal codes. Racism is the belief that one racial group are superior to another. Racism is an absolute ideology‚ because a person fixed beliefs on a certain race gives that person a sense of superiority of another race. For example‚ all colored people are for all time inferior to the white population in mental capacity. This attitude always causes‚ therefore‚ a hierarchy of the society. “The
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feel that they were being treated the way Great Britain ought to treat them. Indeed‚ the colonists expressed many social‚ political‚ and economical grievances that the British unlawfully thrust upon them. Specifically‚ there are several prominent causal factors that led to the American Revolution‚ such as revolutionary women’s roles‚ the Stamp Act‚ as well as the French and Indian War. Women played a significant social role in aiding and abetting the start of the American Revolution. Although not
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Racism in Pocahontas The film Pocahontas‚ produced by Walt Disney films‚ portrays the tension between the Powhatan tribe and English settlers during the establishment of Jamestown‚ the first permanent English settlement in the "New World." In examining this film using the article "Ten Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Racism and Sexism‚" it quickly becomes apparent that although there are forms of racism as described in the article (what will be referred to as traditional media racism’)
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others have encouraged racial democracy. Brazil‚ a modern and industrialized nation‚ suffers from racial discrimination based on their position in the world economy and built on the ideology of the past. History Brazil’s history is rife with racism and slavery‚ dating back to its discovery by Pedro Alveres Cabral in 1500. Brazil was originally settled with the intention of harvesting Brazilwood. However‚ over time the profits from that were supplanted by sugar‚ which soon became the major
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Introduction Research and analysis clearly illustrate the concept that issues related to racism have created an immense impact on various activities undertaken by individuals in diverse communities as well as the social structure in the different nation across the globe. Racism has been ascertained to entail the labeling of diverse group categories‚ related cognitive structures‚ beliefs‚ feelings‚ and identity. The factors have also been explained and expressed in the lines of behavior and interaction
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