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“Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.” Said the great aviator Howard Hughes. This businessman, film producer, philanthropist, and aviator just basically did everything people thought was impossible like building the biggest plane to building the fastest plane, and the best films, but also became a billionaire at the age of 40. He was also known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals of the world. What was…

the motion. The velocity is used in the equation to determine acceleration, therefore, the graphs end up looking similar to each other (both trend lines tend to increase when moving rightward). The standard deviation for velocity is calculated to be 2.26 ± 0.8023 m/s. On the other hand, the standard deviation for acceleration is 5.566 ± 0.4453 m/s2. In addition to that, the accelerations from each testing height are also compared to the theoretical acceleration (9.8 m/s2). The lowest percent…

Question 8 Under the heading of offences involving criminal negligence, and section 220 stating that, “every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable”, the case of F.J. (2008) set how the section should be applied. In the case, the accused failed to act and prove the necessaires of life to this foster son by not protecting him from the abuse the son suffered from the spouse; nevertheless, the accused was acquitted of charges.…

The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 Revised (CSAI-2R), is one of the most frequently used instruments in the evaluation of situational anxiety in sports competition. Objectives: The objective of this study was to validate the Tunisian version based on the French version of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 Revised (CSAI-2R), including the direction and the frequency scales. Method: 418 athletes ranging in age from 14 to 34 years in different individual and team competitions,…

In the next step, the graded response IRT model will be analyzed again for each identified domain, but without the excluded items, and the model fit statistics will be assessed. If the model has a good fit statistics, the best item for each domain will be selected according to the distribution of the threshold values across the latent scale and the discrimination value; item that has threshold values cross the whole latent scale and high discrimination value will be selected. Sample Size Graded…

¥ For how many students do you have Verbal Aggressiveness scores? We have Verbal Aggressiveness scores for 59 students. ¥ What is the mean for the entire sample? The mean for the entire sample is 44.0169. ¥ How do you interpret the mean score? When we interpret the mean score, we should look at the minimum and the maximum scores, so we can see the mean are close to each one. In verbal aggressiveness, the minimum is 26 and the maximum is 65, which indicates that the mean around the middle of…

Wealth, helped the american people by making oil affordable to the masses and creating new ways to use the by-products of refining oil. Through the life of John D. Rockefeller, he influenced the United States especially with his philanthropy, founding standard oil, and making oil accessible to the masses. Rockefeller was born to William and Eliza Rockefeller. Rockefeller went through high school, then enrolled into a business school graduating after a year. Rockefeller thought…

After watching The Yes Men Are Revolting, in which notorious political and environmental activists take the stage to expose large corporations and individuals for their greed, the students of Pitzer College were fortunate enough to host the duo and their producer, Laura Nix. Expecting a hilarious exposition and look into the elaborate schemes and motivations behind Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, I found myself disappointed by their presence. Although their movie produced a large emotional and…

In his article, Jack Minz contends that current government policies of taxation are ineffective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He begins by discussing the failure of the Canadian government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by six percent between 1990 and 2012, as promised during the 1997 Kyoto protocol. At the time this article was written, with policies of tax giveaways and subsidies failing, the Liberal party leader Michael Ignatieff promised a system of carbon taxation if elected.…

The Rockefeller Legacy Beatriz Elena Soto José María Vargas University  Abstract  The history of the Rockefeller family begins with the marriage of two opposing families. The marriage of Eliza Davison and called "Devil Bill" Rockefeller was a union between the faith of a young oil salesman sagas. From this union was born John D. Rockefeller who started the growth of the wealth of the family. John created a bad family reputation between their competitors of their competitors. His…