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    functioning materials they still want more than that; people strive to have the best of the best when it comes to materials. In “Waste”, Berry said: “It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom—a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom—and all of us are involved in it.” (Wendell Berry, pg. 485-486). People want new materials that make their lives easier, and the production of new materials create a…

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    A variety of materials added to the repertoires of some tailors for creating diverse types of clothing. Most tailors worked in highly specialized shops where templates and clothing materials allowed them to create more copies of specific garments. Tailors procured and shaped many materials into clothing. Peasants simply made, found, stole or inherited their clothes they wore. The clothes were often shapeless or had lots of holes and tears in them and were made of rougher materials. Only the…

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    other hand, reducing the use of toxic materials. The reusing means to dismantle some components of the obsoleted phone and install on another phone. For example, a battery could be designed to be used to similar products in different brands. Therefore, the idle batteries would be reused in new devices, instead of storing and throwing away. Therefore, the replaceable components improve the utilization of material and reduce the pollution caused by toxic material. However, as it is impossible that…

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    recycle, but then we do not know what to do with this stuff. By making use of waste materials, the manufactures of these new building materials are creating exciting new markets and completing a loop,” says Kate Warner (Shulman). Recycling is a practice familiar to mankind since 400 B.C, though the word itself can trace its origin back to 1922 in regards to industrial processes and in 1960 for the reuse of waste material. Recycling has been a common practice in the efforts to help the economy as…

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    will have already worked with the golden bead material in the three to six age group but during that time the children worked with the “bank” which was a group presentation. Now each child will start the six to nine maths with the first section which is Individual work with the golden bead material. Going through each section the teacher will have prepared sums which start from simple to complex. From this the child will work with a variety of materials until they then reach the abacus which is…

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    the responsibility to plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free of material misstatement whether caused by error or fraud. The Auditor has standards of fieldwork that should be used as a guide to fulfill their responsibility. These standards are covered in SAS 99. Fraud is the intentional act that results in a material misstatement in financial statements that are the subject of an audit. There are two types of misstatements relevant to…

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    What are the challenges and requirement of digital preservation?  Recording media for digital materials are vulnerable to deterioration and catastrophic loss, and even under ideal conditions they are short lived relative to traditional format materials. The archivists have been battling with acid-based papers, thermo-fax, nitrate film, and other fragile media for decades. They are the first reusable media and they can weaken…

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    excessively large stocks. But it is not easy to determine the cost of stock-out. 3. VED Analysis: In this analysis, the items are classified on the basis of their criticality to the production process or other services. In the VED classification of materials: V = Vital items E = Essential items D = Desirable…

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    Miller Vs California

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    proved to have significant impact and influence on the creation of the legal definition of obscenity in the United States. In the case of Roth v. United States (1957), Samuel Roth was tried and convicted for the publication and mailing of obscene materials, which was a violation in the Southern District of New York, under the Comstock Act. In the courts decision, “First Amendment protections are defined as, all ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance, unorthodox ideas,…

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    Shear Stress Lab Report

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    depends on the types of material used. For the lab, we conducted four different experiments. Three of the materials (paper, plastic film, & sand paper) used had different frictional coefficient (μ) values and the forth experiement was a repetition of one of the three materials previously used. We observed that among the three materials used, the sand paper has a higher coefficient of friction than the two remaining materials.This is true because sand paper was the roughest material of all the…

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