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    V1/T1=V2/T2 1788 John Smeaton Engineered the first modern diving bell that uses a tube and pump. This allows air to be pumped into the diving bell allowing it to be completely submerged. 1803 John Dalton John Dalton was a remarkable chemist who studied and discovered a wide variety of things. It was Dalton who theorized in a mixture of gases that each gas has a partial pressure it emits and the sum of partial pressures is equal to the total pressure.…

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    To point out this blindness, prejudice, and discrimination, Wright, drawing heavily from the Marxist framework, incorporates a tinge of socialist equality in the novel. As far as the communism is concerned, Wright’s portrayal of communism throughout Native Son, especially in the figures of Jan and Max, is one of the novel’s most controversial aspects. Wright was still a member of the Communist Party at the time he wrote this novel, and many critics have argued that Max’s long courtroom speech is…

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    views the cause of their suffering as a an unbeatable blanket of oppression against their skin color. Chicago is also the perfect place for Bigger to confront his shame. His small, dirty, and dingy apartment is a jail cell compared to the luxurious Dalton house, and Bigger is terrified to touch anything. The rising fear and shame contribute to his inner bitterness, and Wright uses these as tools to demonstrate how different black and white communities were, and that quick transitions like the…

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    My father, Doug Hibbs recently lost his job for complaining about the health care system. He was also put on probation. This is despite the fact that he worked for a private company. Here in Canada, we do have freedom of speech. But it’s only during election time when people can speak their minds without the fear of being arrested and losing their jobs. This what we call the Free Speech Period. I remember a conversation I had with my parents one evening as all of us sat at the dinner table.…

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    anything else they can do except lie on their backs”(106). Quentin tries to fight Gerald, and miserably fails(104). This fight mirrors Quentin’s previous fight with Dalton Ames, the suspected father of Caddy’s child. Quentin attempts to save Caddy by ordering Dalton Ames to leave, and Quentin loses miserably due to his own physical weakness. Dalton Ames tried to protect Quentin’s dignity by lying that he hit him to knock Quentin unconscious(102). Quentin fights these men to defend Caddy’s honor…

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    is the study of atoms. Chemical scientists study what atoms are made of and how they connect. Atoms are the building blocks of matter. Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. It was John Dalton who put forward his ideas and theories about atoms at the beginning of the 19th century: Dalton proposed that atoms were like tiny, hard balls (Absorb Learning, 2008). Then at the end of the 19th century JJ Thompson discovered the electron through an experiment. When JJ Thompson did some…

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    Monogamy, Second Shift

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    members and friends are not even aware that they practice monogamy. To them, it is all they know and are accustomed to. They do not even consider other practices like polygamy or polyandry; probably because it was never exposed to them. According to Dalton Conley (2015), monogamy is “the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time” (p. 372). In other words, only having one wife or husband. I believe the majority of people only have one spouse at a time, and the majority of…

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    At the age of twenty, what girl would even think about her boyfriend proposing? I know that every girl dreams of her wedding day, how it would look, and the way it would turn out. Planning a wedding is not an easy task like everyone thinks it is. Planning my wedding involved three main things; the date for the wedding, the type of dress that I would wear, last but not least, would be the type of venue I was going to have. Another main important thing is, where it would take place. The emotions…

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    Bullying In High School

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    looked their persecutor in the eye, and spoke just two words. “Stop it.” That’s it- it was all I had the courage to say. To his credit, the bully looked ashamed, but quickly recovered and continued with his torment. I turned and left, but as I did, Dalton walked away with me. He was my shadow for the rest of the…

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    which is Truth through observation/ experience. Another main trait of Transcendentalism is Non-conformity. Non-conformity is doing your own thing and acting for yourself. In the movie, the school is having an assembly and in the middle of it Charlie Dalton question authority by asking why there is no girls at their school. Also in the play when Charlie’s teacher take the class out to march, Charlie does not march with the rest of them. This shows nonconformity did his own thing and did not…

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