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    There are approximately 107 billiion people who have ever lived in this world. Today there are 7.3 billion people who live on the earth now and another 360,000 are brought into the earth each day. 50% are male and 50% female and all 100% have at some point been subjected to gender roles. To understand gender roles one must first understand and evaluate the time period and places being discussed. Different cultures, time periods, and the 107 billion people that have ever lived have shaped and…

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    EXSS 2025 Motor Control and Learning Experiment 4: Reaction, Movement& Response Time in Decision-Making Tasks I. Question 3: (i) Why are multiple repeated trials in each task required (ii) Why do we need to complete checks on the data (identify errors etc)? (iii) Why was there a variable fore-period between the start of a trial and the appearance of a stimulus in the tasks? (iv) Why was randomization necessary from Task 1b onwards? (v) Why was 80%(congruent) vs 20%(incongruent) split used in…

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    ------------------------------------------------- A life insurance company wants to estimate their annual payouts. Assume that the probability distribution of the lifetimes of the participants is approximately a normal distribution with a mean of 68 years and a standard deviation of 4 years. What proportion of the plan recipients would receive payments beyond age 74? Round your result to four significant places after the decimal.…

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    Below is the “study guide” for the MidTerm Exam. Of the 100+ questions below – 65 of them are the MidTerm. No answers are provided in the study guide (since the whole idea is for you to” review and study” the material to prepare for the test). True or False Chapter 01 1. Much of managerial accounting is directed at gathering useful information about costs for planning and control decisions. 2. Direct materials are not usually easily traced to a product. 3. A variable cost…

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    When it comes to individual, everyone has different levels of ability to deal with memory. In reality, you will find many women complaining that their husbands or boyfriends tend to forget their birthdays and anniversaries; and men always explain that they have bad memories. So, is it true that women have a better memory than men? Dose gender affect memory? The evidence shows that gender dose affect memory. In fact, men and women are equally affected by short-term memory loss. Nevertheless,…

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    Abstract The value for the acceleration of gravity was measured in this report through the investigation using three different methods, each varying in accuracy, to calculate the period of a pendulum. The period was measured by repeatedly timing the time it took for the pendulum to return to its original position once it was swung from a certain point (for the first method one oscillation was timed, however in the second and third ten oscillations were timed and the overall time was divided by…

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    Being successful in life is not always easy because of the different perspectives that success can be achieved. With many theories out there on success, it is hard to figure out what is needed to be done to gain success in everyone’s life since there are many different beliefs out there that can lead to it. In the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, there are numerous theories that are covered with examples of successful people that clearly show how success can be done in not just one way but…

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    level of social equality. There is a paradox saying that “US is the richest nation in the world, but has the most unequal distribution of wealth among industrialized nations” (Kelsey, Lecture. Sep 20). This kind of unequal distribution also reflects in the educational system which was influenced by social policy, unequal conditions among the communities, and unfair distribution of wealth. In this paper, I will explore the relationship between social inequality and our educational system. I will…

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    Introduction On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln delivered a speech during the dedication of the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, which hit every main point in less then two minutes. One line in particular, Lincoln states, “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” (Burns, 2012). Inequality had brought on the civil war, with the issues of slavery and central power which had divided the United…

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    not a new concept, in fact it has affected(?) millions of people across the world and is a political conflict in every nation. In the United States however, its measures don 't reflect our country 's healthy economy. Due to the extremely uneven distribution of wealth in the United States, inequality rates are not parallel with what is to be expected of a high income country like ours. As the steps of the economic ladder move further apart it seems as though it will only get harder to climb…

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