...“Family Matters” Growing up it was always important to my parents to visit my grandparents. I have five sets of grandparents. Each set lives in a different city and state, yet my parents made it a point to schedule visits for all of them. My father that raised me is not my biological father and he made sure that me and my sister got to visit our other grandparents as well. As children, it was always fun for us to be able to sit around and listen to old family stories and get to see our grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. Now, that I am grown with children of my own I understand the value of children knowing their family and spending time with older relatives. I remember when I was a little girl, loading up our van with clothes, food, blankets, and pillows getting ready for a road trip to one of the grandparents’ house. It was always exciting to anticipate seeing my cousins and playing with them for hours on end. Also me and my sister always knew we would come back with plenty gifts. My Mammaw Faye, which is my mother’s mother, lives in Shreveport, La. She has a huge field and barn in the back of her house and when I was little she had horses. We always rode the horses and played in the barn, discovering and exploring. My cousins from my aunt were two boys and forever getting me and my sister in trouble. I believe most of all I enjoyed the time I spent with the other children, sitting in the living room listening to my Mammaw, aunt, and uncle telling stories from when...
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...Renowned Irish playwright and literary critic George Bernard Shaw once wrote that “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” One can then extend this sentiment to its logical end and intuit that an unhappy family is the antithesis of heaven- an earlier Hell, perhaps. Eveline, the protagonist of James Joyce’s short story of the same name, would likely empathize more closely with the latter theory. Joyce’s character faces the ostensibly unconquerable conflict between her own personal happiness and the welfare of her family, with arduous sufferings pushing her to the arms of her boyfriend Frank and a sense of dutiful devotion anchoring her home. In “Eveline” of Dubliners, Joyce demonstrates the impregnability of familial bonds and duties and the need for familiarity of environment, for Eveline ultimately is unable to take the easy escape route from her harsh life, proving the family and household milieu to be an intuitive, yet acutely powerful, drawing force. While contemplating the decision to abandon her family, Eveline cannot help but dwell on her comfort in and closeness to the environment around her. Sitting at the window, watching the “evening invade the avenue” (Joyce 25), Eveline exclaims, subconsciously and panic-stricken, “Home! She looked around the room, reviewing all its familiar objects, which she had dusted once a week for so many years…never dreamed of being divided,” (25-26). Notice the sudden exclamatory use of the expression “Home!” which interjects almost violently...
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...1. Explain if it matters that a parent literally had nothing to do with a biological child in order for the child to take advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to care for that parent. Yes, it does matter if the parent had nothing to do with employee who is requesting FMLA to care for that parent. The FMLA definition of parent is defined as “a biological, adoptive, step, or foster parent, or an individual who stood in loco parentis to an employee when the employee was a child” (U.S. Department of Labor-Wage and Hour Division (whd)-Fact Sheet, 2010). Loco parentis is a term under FMLA commonly referred to the individual employee or individuals who cared for and financially supported an employee as a child (U.S. Department of Labor-Wage and Hour Division (whd)-Fact Sheet, 2010). Therefore, if a loco parentis relationship did not exist between the employee and the employee’s parent as a child, the employee is not eligible to utilize FMLA to take care of that parent. 2. Explain whether the size of the business can have any effect on whether Tony is eligible for family leave under the FMLA. Yes, the size of the business can have an effect whether Tony is eligible for family leave under the FMLA. If the business has in excess of 50 employees for every working day for the period of 20 weeks or more in the present or previous year, it is covered by the FMLA (England & Guerin, 2007). The 20 weeks don’t...
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...Matter is generally considered to be anything that has mass and volume. The volume is determined by the space in three dimensions that it occupies. The mass is determined by its rest mass (or invariant mass), which is measured by the acceleration a body has when a force is applied. The greater the mass, the slower the acceleration for the same force. Matter is thus a general term for the substance of which all observable physical objects consist. Typically, matter includes atoms and other particles that have mass, but this definition confuses mass and matter, which are not the same. Different fields use the term in different and sometimes incompatible ways; there is no single agreed scientific meaning of the word "matter," even though the term "mass" is better-defined. Common definition The common definition of matter is anything that has both mass and volume (occupies space). For example, a car would be said to be made of matter, as it occupies space, and has mass. The observation that matter occupies space goes back to antiquity. However, an explanation for why matter occupies space is recent, and is argued to be a result of the Pauli exclusion principle. Two particular examples where the exclusion principle clearly relates matter to the occupation of space are white dwarf stars and neutron stars, discussed further below. Atoms and molecules definition A definition of "matter" that is based upon its physical and chemical structure is: matter is made up of atoms and molecules...
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...assistance in helping Andy Grove who had inquiries of him and wanted to know what he can do within his business to be successful. The author teaches the difference between telling someone what to think and teaching that someone how to think. This is exactly what he did with Grove by teaching him principles that was applicable to him through showing him the way and how to get there and at the end, launched the Celeron processor and made a great difference in the world of computers. It is sad to think of how many of his classmates that either had broken and painful relationships, or were in jail and were just utterly unhappy but seemed to have been so successful and happy at their school reunions. Other form recognizing the small things that matter most, it is important to know where your priorities lay and how you can find happiness in achieving them. Many are too focused on finding one grand idea that will bring...
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...Burgess page 1 Christina Burgess English 5/10/2014 My Supportive fiancé Having a supportive fiancé, is one of gods greatest gifts to a women. People say that men aren’t supportive; however, I believe they can be supportive. It’s the matter of finding the right man for you. Everyone should have that kind of man in their life. Support can help you overcome just about anything that everyday life throws at you. My fiancé, has been my biggest cheerleader through my triumphs and setbacks. The support that I have received from Christopher has helped me overcome many challenging obstacles in my life. Three months after Chris and I started dating we had a miscarriage. It was one of the hardest times in my life, but with his support I was able to overcome the pain. It’s not just the big things that he supports. It’s also, the little things that happen in life that he supports. One day, I told Christopher I wanted to get a dog; in fact, I told him I wanted to get one that same day. He supported me and really didn’t say much. No matter what, I always receive his support. He has supported me financially by pitching in for my school tuition and personal needs. I never thought I would go to college; however, Christopher always believed in me. At first, I wasn’t sure how I was going to work and find time to do my homework, but from the beginning Christopher has supported me working fewer hours. He encourages me to be the best person I can be all the time. I wouldn’t be where I...
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...Early Action Please return this form to us as soon as possible, and by October 15, if possible. Final deadline is November 1. Valid for entrance in September 2013 only. Please submit this form as well as the Common Application or the Universal College Application as soon as possible. Regular Decision Please return this form to us as soon as possible, and by December 15 if at all possible. Final deadline is January 1. A completed application includes all portions of the Common Application or the Universal College Application, as well as the Harvard Application Supplement, required official testing results, a Secondary School Report, two Teacher Evaluations and a $75 application fee or fee waiver request. Full legal name Goswami Last/Family IE Arunesh First Apt./Unit W Middle Jr., etc. Prefer to be called Date of Birth 02/02/1994 (MM/DD/YYYY) Address 324-D TYPE-2 BLOCK-6 NEYVELI No. and Street CUDDALORE DISTRICT PR EV NEYVELI City State/Province India Country 607803 Zip/Postal Code Telephone Number (home) 091041422683 (cell) 091809813561 Secondary School JAWAHAR HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL CEEB/ACT code 000004 If you can be reached by fax or e-mail, please provide a fax number or e-mail address and name of the contact person. Fax number Contact person aruneshapplication@yahoo.com ARUNESH GOSWAMI E-mail address Contact person Would you like your admission decision e-mailed to you? Yes No A decision...
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...ABSTRACT The effect of molecular weight on the rate of diffusion was assessed using two tests: the glass tube test and the agar-water gel test. In the glass tube set-up two cotton plugs soaked in twodifferent substances (HCl and NH4OH) were inserted into the two ends of the glass tube.The substance with the lighter molecular weight value (NH4OH, M = 35.0459 g/mole) diffused at a faster rate (dAve = 25.8cm), resulting in the formation of a white ring around the glass closer to the side of the heavier substance (HCl, M = 36.4611 g/mole; dAve = 10.8 cm). The agar-water gel set up was composed of a petri dish of agar-water gel containing three wells. Drops of potassium permanganate (KMnO4), potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) and methylene blue were simultaneously introduced to each well. Methylene blue, having the largest molecular weight, displayed the smallest diameter (18 mm) and diffused at the slowest rate (0.3668 mm/min.). Thus, the higher the molecular weight, the slower the rate of diffusion. INTRODUCTION A substance in the gaseous or liquid state consists of molecules or atoms that are independent, rapid, and random in motion. These molecules frequently collide with each other and with the sides of the container. In a period of time, this movement results in a uniform distribution of the molecules throughout the system. This process is called diffusion (Everett and Everett, n.d.). Diffusion occurs naturally, with the net movement of particles flowing...
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...Outline - Phase 2 Individual Project Computer Revolution ●~● The atom is the basic building block of all matter. ▪ What are 3 essential elements of any material? 1) Volume 2) Mass 3) Density (OR) There are four elements are present to some degree in every unit of matter. 1) "Earth Element - This is the property by which a material body has some degree of hardness or softness, roughness or smoothness. 2) Water Element - This represents the property of cohesion. Because of the water element, material particles bind together and adhere to one another. 3) Heat Element - This is the principle of heat by which all material phenomena possess some degree of heat. Even when a particular substance feels cold to us, that is only becasue it contains less heat than our body. But every material body possesses some degree of heat. 4) Air Element - This is the principle of distention, by reason of which all material particles are in a state of vibration. By reason of the air element, material bodies exhibit a motion". (D. Hamma, 2014). ▪ New materials often lead to new technologies that change society. Describe how silicon-based semiconductors revolutionized computing. • What are microchips? • How are they related to integrated circuits? • One of the pressing questions about the increasing ability of computers to quickly process large amounts of information is whether a computer can be built that is considered "alive" or...
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...100 LECTURE UNIT 1. FOUNDATIONS OF CHEMSITRY Chemistry is the study of matter and the changes it undergoes. Matter is anything that occupies space and has mass. Applications of Chemistry • Energy and the Environment • Fossil fuels • Solar energy • Nuclear energy Health and Medicine • Sanitation systems • Surgery with anesthesia • Vaccines and antibiotics Materials and Technology • Polymers, ceramics, liquid crystals • Room-temperature superconductors? • Molecular computing? Food and Agriculture • Genetically modified crops • “Natural” pesticides • Specialized fertilizers • • • Classification of Matter A substance is a form of matter that has a definite composition and distinct properties. An element is a substance that is composed of tiny particles called atoms. A compound is a substance composed of atoms of two or more elements chemically united in fixed proportions. Compounds can only be separated into their pure components (elements) by chemical means. A mixture is a combination of two or more substances in which the substances retain their distinct identities. Physical means can be used to separate a mixture into its pure components. Homogenous mixture – composition of the mixture is the same throughout. Heterogeneous mixture – composition is not uniform throughout. 1 |P a g e _____________________________________________________________________CHEM 100 LECTURE PROPERTIES OF MATTER Physical properties: readily observable/measurable without altering the...
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...ABSTRACT The effect of molecular weight on the rate of diffusion was assessed using two tests: the glass tube test and the agar-water gel test. In the glass tube set-up, two cotton plugs soaked in two different substances (HCl and NH4OH) were inserted into the two ends of the glass tube. The substance with the lighter molecular weight value (NH4OH, M = 35.0459 g/mole) diffused at a faster rate (dAve = 25.8cm), resulting in the formation of a white ring around the glass closer to the side of the heavier substance (HCl, M = 36.4611 g/mole; dAve = 10.8 cm). The agar-water gel set up was composed of a petri dish of agar-water gel containing three wells. Drops of potassium permanganate (KMnO4), potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) and methylene blue were simultaneously introduced to each well. Methylene blue, having the largest molecular weight, displayed the smallest diameter (18 mm) and diffused at the slowest rate (0.3668 mm/min.). Thus, the higher the molecular weight, the slower the rate of diffusion. INTRODUCTION A substance in the gaseous or liquid state consists of molecules or atoms that are independent, rapid, and random in motion. These molecules frequently collide with each other and with the sides of the container. In a period of time, this movement results in a uniform distribution of the molecules throughout the system. This process is called diffusion (Everett and Everett, n.d.). Diffusion occurs naturally, with the net movement of particles flowing from an area...
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...The universe. What makes the universe? Galaxies. What makes up galaxies? Solar systems. What makes up our own solar system? Planets, moons, asteroids, and one star. What makes up our planet? The atmosphere, solid earth, water, plants, animals, and people. What makes up plants animals and people? The same thing that makes up everything else, matter. What is matter made of? Atoms. And atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons and neutrons can be broken down even further into the quarks up, down, charm, strange, top, or bottom. What can quarks be broken down to? Theoretical matter aka empty space. How do these things work? Energy, pure energy. When you break it down everything comes down to either empty space or energy. How do you control energy? You control energy with energy. There are several types of energy, but let’s start with the most basic. Good and bad. Good energy is when the energy you are using or the energy that is around is being used or put to a good purpose. Bad energy happens when the intent is to harm or negatively affect someone or something. You also have physical and mental energy. Physical energy is when you affect something outside of yourself, mental energy is what happens inside your own mind. There is potential for mental energy to become physical energy (like when your brain sends signals to muscles to move you) but one thing at a time. First let’s focus on bad energy. Define “bad”. Well: “bad-adjective-having undesirable or negative...
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...for him right now that calms him. Pondering how he will be able to come back from this shattering of dreams. He has a wife and kids to provide for, a stack of bills he has no idea how to pay. He stuck by his company through thick and thin and he was tossed out into the cold brutal world. He is scared how a low education person will make it in a world that has changed without him noticing cause in his eyes; he thought he was secure in his place in the world. How is he going to come back from this; how is he going to manage change? In the 1970s, to be successful you just needed a high school diploma, and then skip twenty or thirty years later people needed a bachelor’s degree. And finally jumping to the present to where none of these things matter and now a master’s degree is what people need to reach for. In my opinion, it’s a game like putting a dollar on the string. A person gets ever so close to grabbing the dollar to have it yanked farther away from their grasp. Never allowing the person to achieve true greatness; for in this world, change is the only thing that is constant. According to Mark Harrison opinion on the change blog, he has three key ways on change that I completely agree with. First thing is that people who respond well to change will have a high ambiguity threshold. Next is a skillful manager of change will have a constructive ‘internal monologue.’ I like this one for it basically is...
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...Empedocles of Acragas developed radical new ideas about the nature of the universe. His philosophy of the four elements in the universe and the definition of matter as the various ratios of these elements foreshadowed later developments in atomic theory by philosophers such as Democritus of Abdera (c. 460–c. 370 B.C.). Empedocles was born in Acragas, Sicily. His father, Meto, was wealthy, and his grandfather, also named Empedocles, was renowned for winning a horse race in the Olympia. Empedocles is believed to have travelled to Thourioi shortly after it was established approximately 444 B.C. Empedocles's keen intellect enabled him to combine talents in philosophy, natural history, poetry, and politics, and to achieve superstar status in his day. According to the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), Empedocles was the inventor of rhetoric, a talent Empedocles often utilized as a statesman. He became popular among his fellow citizens through his support of democracy. Empedocles's scientific inquiries usually included mysticism. However, his philosophies contained early insight into basic laws of physics, including atomic theory. Although sometimes labeled a Pythagorean, Empedocles followed the Greek philosopher Parmenides (c. 515–c. 445 B.C.) in the belief that matter (or, "what is") is indestructible. Empedocles claimed that matter was the only principle of all things and that four elements in the universe—air, fire, earth, and water—made up all things according to various ratios...
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...Actual Value is a MATTER THAT MATTERS this week. Unlike Perceived Value, Actual Value is not measured by your valuables, and it needs more than prayers because it is not a gift bestowed by providence on only a few rarely endowed individuals. Statistically, actual value determines perceived value, Jesus Christ said ‘for every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.’ There will be problem if people get different value (perceived value) from the value they thought they would get (actual value), so, building a healthy Actual Value needs; 1. Strong Determination: When we make the determined effort to implement healthy values, good fortune is sure to follow. Everyone can develop his own actual value if he has sufficient desire to do so. Healthy actual value is good and all good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get, it takes strong determination to possess a healthy actual value. To be nice, diligent, excellent, godly, hardworking, accountability, competence, openness et al are healthy value one must possess. 2. Being a Student of Life: Society acquires values through a long process of trial and error experimentation with various approaches to life. Let all you meet in the journey of life serves as teacher. Pick out the good points of the one that express healthy value and utilize their values and to those with that are bad, not their bad values and correct them in you...
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