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    William Oughtred was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England in 1574 and died on June 30, 1660, in Albury, Surrey. He was not only an English mathematician and an inventor; he was a vicar of Shalford and then became an Anglican priest. He received schooling from Eton School where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1596 and master’s degree from King's College in 1600. He is considered one of the greatest mathematical teachers and the world's great mathematicians from the seventeenth century. He…

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    Tartrazine Tartrazine is a chemical that contains numerous positive and negative effects. It is a lemon yellow azo dye mainly used as a food coloring. It has no taste, but s commonly used in foods we eat. Tartrazine’s chemical symbol is C16H9N4Na3a2. The molar mass of Tartrazine is 534.3g/mol. Also, Tartrazine’s melting point is 300 c. It is often used in bakeries on frosting and other pastries to add a splash of color into it. It is extensively used for a variety of different products. But, if…

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    is gone –‘ He ran forward, stooping. ‘I’m Chief!’ Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. (201) Ultimately, the death of Piggy and the conch is key for the downfall of the islands social order. It makes the boys eliminate all rational thought in existence and puts all the boys in their most primitive state. The savages single out Ralph, the only boy left with some form of moral dignity still etched in his heart. The tribe erodes into savage beings whose solitary pleasure is…

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    Ralph’s specific choice of words, and dark undertones throughout the novel has a strong significant meaning in the overall story and its theme. For example, the way the phrase is displayed makes it seem as though there is something dark and foreboding about this "creature" of boys. As though the boys are capable of bringing some kind of anarchy or devastation to the island, which foreshadows what they will do at the end of the novel. Furthermore, Ralph is really not afraid at this point, but…

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    “Beast” was the subject used through the whole novel, every character has their own identify of the “beast” in William Golding’s allegorical novel Lord of the Flies. The “beast” was generated by the innate evil within the boys. Golding convey the human nature and the conflict between good and evil through their different identify of the “Beast” by the developing of diverse endings of the characters. In the story, “beast” symbolized the innate evil, fear and violence. “Beast” was first told by…

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    The climax starts when Simon is alone in the woods, and he begins to daydream and talks to the pig’s head on the stake. In Simon’s hallucination, the head becomes the Lord of the Flies. The pig says that this Beast is something you can not hunt or kill and that he is within all humans. While a great storm builds over the island; Simon starts to walk back towards the other boys. As he stumbles through the jungle, he discovers the beast that the twins thought they saw. It was a dead man who had…

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    The element Titanium is a very light metal and it’s in the periodic table group 4. This element is a transition metal and the symbol is Ti. The color of titanium is a silver grey and white color. The atomic mass is 47.867 and atomic number is 22. This element however is resistant to chlorine, and sea water. It has 22 electrons, 22 protons, and 26 neutrons. The density is 4.54 The discoverer who found titanium is William Gregor a Mineralogist. The year it was discovered was in 1791. Where it had…

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    In Time Mise En Scene

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    The film “In Time”, directed by Andrew Niccol expresses the capitalistic society through the movie by setting that money is currency. In this scene, the timekeeper Raymond Leon arrests Will Salas and takes back all of his time that he received from Henry Hamilton for a gift. After losing his time just left with 2 hours, he ran away with a hostage which is Sylvia Weiss. In this interrogation scene, the power of a system and ignorant society was shown with a high angle, low angle and wide shot for…

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    Research Paper On Cobalt

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    Cobalt: The element Cobalt it is located on the periodic table, Group 9. Cobalt is the 27th element on our Periodic Table. It is a chemical element, it has a density of 8.9 grams per cubic centimeter. Cobalt has a boiling point of 3,100 degrees Celsius (5,600 degrees Fahrenheit). Cobalt’s symbol is Co, The atomic # is 27 so the protons and electrons are 27 as well. Cobalt has an atomic mass of 59 and 32 neutrons. The melting point is 2,719 degrees Fahrenheit. This element was discovered in…

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    In spite of ingestion of these additional commercially produced glutamates, our body metabolizes this glutamate in the same way it does with the other glutamates found naturally in foods. What that means is that our body does not distinguish between naturally occurring glutamates or the MSG found in a bottle of ketchup. Interestingly, a research report not suggests that glutamate from food or MSG is important for a normal digestive function. (Food Insight, 2009) In 1958 the FDA (U.S. Food and…

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