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Around 380 million years ago, during the Devonian Period, North America and Baltica collided. This collision created another mountain range located in the same place where the Grenville Mountains and Taconic Mountains were formed. The Acadian Orogeny happened on the northeastern side of North America. Like TIA and the Grenville Belt, there was another land piece between Proto-North America and Baltica. This land piece was called Avalon. Avalon was believed to have broke apart from…

Australian Rail Track Corporation LTD 2005 define a railway ballast as; free draining coarse aggregate or metallurgical slag used to support railway tracks. It is recommended that ballast should be “hard durable and as far as possible angular along edges/corners, free from weathered portions of parent rock, organic impurities and inorganic residues” (Reference) Rocks which contain minerals which are deemed harmful to the longevity and behaviour of the ballasts may be rejected following…

I spend a lot of my time and energy in worrying about survival. 6. My life is full of stress. 7. Security is the most important thing to me. Worries about survival and feeling desperate reflect feelings about the general insecurity surrounding physical existence, as does the feeling that life is stressful. 8. Physical existence is just something we have to suffer in order to reach a higher plane. If you checked off two or more of the above statements, you probably have some degree of…

of the Arduino using a relay. 3.2. DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS [2] Arduino/Genuine Uno is a microcontroller board based about the ATmega328P. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 do keep chronic namely PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz quartz crystal, a USB connection, a government jack, an ICSP header or a reset button. It contains everything wished according to assist the microcontroller; virtually join such after a computer with a USB cable then monitoring such along with a…

Coming of age is a very special time in all countries. First hearing the phrase many people may not be to sure what coming of age day is, originally I had thought of it to be perhaps a holiday, or maybe a special event, and to an extent it is both of these things. Coming of age, is a time in one's life when they are considered to be an adult in their particular culture or community. This time is celebrated very differently in all cultures, religions, and even provinces. Coming of age is a major…

The course of love is rarely harmonious, and is often susceptible to lack of reason and sense. Unrequited love is a tragically universal theme experienced by most that cruelly targets its victims with little discretion. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theme of love’s uncontrollable power is reflected through a metaphor mouthed by an emotion-blinded Helena after she follows Demetrius to find Lysander and Hermia in the woods during Act Two, Scene One: “You draw me, you…

just an observation that there is a crack in the ground before a landslide or mudslide after a odd amount of rain, they look to the building blocks of rocks, minerals. Minerals are what make up all rocks, and there are many types of minerals like quartz which can be seen in most types of sandstone, which is a sedimentary rock. This and other minerals make up rocks, but the minerals themselves are made up of even smaller building blocks like atoms, forming a structure which defines how…

The sharing of ideas leads to homogenization in fashion brands At present, globalization has caused different parts of the world to become connected as one place. Along with the advancement in technology, transportation systems bring both people and goods from one place to another place. As Water said, globalization has become not only a major historical process that has a great impact on culture but the central substance of contemporary culture (2002). By sharing ideas, people can enjoy the…

There are many mysteries left by our predecessors, one of them is Stonehenge. There are many theories as to why Stonehenge was built but only some of them are actually believable. Stonehenge is one of England’s most puzzling structures, built on Salisbury plains in England; it has historians, researchers, Scientists and archaeologists very unsure of its actual purpose. Pearson (2012) think’s Stonehenge would have been built around 3100 BC and finished around 1100 BC in three stages; these dates…

The product offered by Cathay Pacific consists of various components, such as the cabin, and inflight entertainment. Cathay Pacific flight cabins feature various travel classes, such as first class, business class, premium economy class and economy class, priced at different price levels targeting different customers/ market segments. Nine first class seats are available on the Boeing 777-300ERs, making it a very exclusive service to travellers. Decorated with fine leather and a burgundy carpet…