Earthquakes: Why do some places suffer more than others? Whilst earthquakes are perhaps the most frequently occurring natural hazard‚ their impact on people‚ property and communities varies enormously from one place to another. It is possible to identify a number of factors that cause some places to suffer more than others. Whilst some are large scale and are to do with tectonic location‚ others are decided at a much more local scale‚ and relate to building design and levels of preparedness. Perhaps
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12/10/2012 2012 Sidra Inam University of Engineering & Technology 12/10/2012 Why Starting Current of Induction Motor Is Higher Than the Synchronous Motor Why Starting Current of Induction Motor Is Higher Than the Synchronous Motor Starting Current Of Induction And Synchronous Motors:- Starting Current of both motors were different‚ when analyzed using ETAP. Starting current of Induction motor was more than that of the synchronous motor. However Induction motor is used for Stable operation
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(temperature inversion) In LA‚ the combination of sunny weather and mountains can produce temperature inversion about 320 days annually. During a temperature inversion‚ air pollutants cannot escape‚ so their concentration may rise to dangerous levels. The production and severity of photochemical smog‚ which can occur even without a temperature inversion‚ are amplified by that accumulation
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Why do we have seasons? We all know that The Earth‚ our planet‚ spins around on its own axis. It is an imaginary line passing through the North and South poles. That’s how we get night and day. But why we get different seasons is more complex. The Earth isn’t standing straight up at a 90 degree angle. It’s more tilted on its axis that measures about 23.5 degrees. As the Earth revolves around the Sun in a wide circle‚ sometimes the top portion (Northern Hemisphere) is towards the Sun‚ and sometimes
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Summer of 1967 During the summer of 1967 in Detroit was a summer to never forget. On July 23‚ 1967 Detroit police had raided the blind pig ‚which caused chaos on the 12th street. The Detroit riots started when a person threw a bottle into the street and at a cop car. After this happen people began to loot stores. There were 1‚700 stores being looted and 2‚000 building destroyed. After stores were looted governor Jerome P. Cavanagh put national guards in front of stores. When this happen somebody
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Reformation A Ruler of Men A Sacrifice Hit A Service of Love A Snapshot at the President A Strange Story Of course there are two sides to the question. Let us look at the other. We often hear "shop-girls" spoken of. No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make their living that way. But why turn their occupation into an adjective? Let us be fair. We do not refer to the girls who live on Fifth Avenue as "marriage-girls." Lou and Nancy were chums. They came to the
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passed during the Queen Mary’s reign. However‚ the general rules at the time were similar to modern day. The rules included: no theft‚ no poaching‚ and begging. Begging was considered a huge crime in the Elizabethan Era. The Laws of the Elizabethan Era affected the Lower Class the most‚ since they were the class who did not have the knowledge like the Upper Class did. The Lower Class made more mistakes than the Upper
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Identify and briefly explain reasons why people from some ethnic minorities seem to have a higher participation rate in religion than other social groups. Being at an ethnic minority can cause people to turn towards religion for many reasons. One being that religion holds the community together and keeps the poorer people involved with society. Davie suggests that religion helps maintain tradition‚ cohesion and community solidarity. Some religions even use their place of worship as community centres
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Higher Education‚ More Important than Ever Higher education is perceived as extremely important‚ and for most people a college education has become the necessary admission ticket to good jobs and a middle-class lifestyle. Parents of high school students place especially high importance on a college education‚ and African American and Hispanic parents give college an even higher priority than do white parents. All groups believe that the country should ensure that no qualified and motivated student
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Crime Influences on a Rapid Growing Crime Rate Crime at the present is at an all time high‚ it seems that each evening that you turn on the news there is headlining story of someone being murdered‚ robbed‚ assaulted‚ or harassed. Right now‚ countless numbers of violent acts are being committed and rapidly increasing the overall crime rate. This may sound bizarre‚ but many people believe that just by avoiding urban communities they can decrease their chances of
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