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    Adult life is messy, gross, and all around nasty. Nothing is more of an example of this than dinner dandruff. At least according to Robert Fulghum’s “Dinner Dandruff”, where he describes the disgusting life of an adult. Fulghum explains that life will be gross at times, but you will need to power through it, because that’s what adults do. He uses a mixture of syntax, diction, and imagery to show how gross life as an adult is. Fulghum uses a mixture of very long sentences, followed by a…

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    alternating current and developing countless designs for electrical devices. As a young man, Nikola Tesla attended the Technical University at Graz, where he had his first experience with true electrical engineering. The Gramme dynamo was one of the first electric motors/generators, and it proved to inspire many aspects of Tesla’s future inventions (“Nikola Tesla, Britannica”).…

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    generating station 's electrical power distribution system, which provided 110 volts direct current (DC) to 59 customers in lower Manhattan. However Edison became stuck, as in order for his system to work he would need to have power stations scattered every mile to make it economical. Which wouldn’t work, the reason being that to bury the cables would be very expensive and the cables would also lose current over long distances, because of the resistance inside…

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    He slowly became better and stood up which was miraculous to the doctors. After he returned, there was a war breakout with the Turks, Tesla was asked to draft in the military. If he did not accept, then he was going to receive jail time plus the 3 years of military. As time went by his father did not want him to draft into the military so he told Tesla to…

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    Nikola Tesla and The War Of Currents When you are watching a movie and it gets just a little too loud it only takes a click of a button to fix that, and when you want to remember a moment forever all it takes is a little raise of a camera and a click. Nikola accomplished many great things in his lifetime. Simple things that make life easier are often overlooked, but we have Nikola Tesla to thank for many; Tesla developed the alternating-current electrical system that is widely used today.…

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    Nikola Tesla's War

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    Nikola Tesla was a man of wisdom. The war he had with Thomas edison went on for a long time. Nikola tesla invented the ac, a type of current we still use today. The whole war was over eddison and is dc current. Which means direct current. Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. He was not an american citizen at first. He came from the austrian empire to america. From 1856 to 1867 he was apart of the empire. Then he came to america and became a citizen here. His father was a priest…

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    A-1 Case Study

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    After reviewing the information about A-1’s company, it is evident that due to it reaching capacity at its current facility and nearly exhausting its customer market, A-1 must make a change if it wants to continue to improve profits. Although there are several paths that A-1 could take, the best one is as follows: A-1 should purchase another facility in a location just outside of its current customer base. One facility should be used for the finishing of metal products and the other devoted to…

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    approach to ensuring that LMHS meets the current and future needs of its medical staff. The identified concern was that the current locations for trainings, nursing residency education, orientation, and other meetings have had their locations renovated into patient care areas. This places a strain on the healthcare system as these scheduled meetings are necessary to ensure communications are disseminated, new employees are properly trained and oriented to current culture, and leadership is able…

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    Good Morning, my name is Adam McNamara and I am a senior adviser for Imperial Financial Advisors. As Oliver has already said I will be analysing Dick Smith. Today I will share with you a brief history of the company, the main Deviations from the market in the last six months, the key financial data of Dick Smith, the Buy/Sell Decision, Dick Smith compared with Quickflix and research and observation.⇒ Dick Smith started as a very small business in 1968 and started with only having a capital of…

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    in 1856 in a small village in Serbia during the Austrian regime. In 1884 Tesla emigrated into the United States to work for the famous scientist Thomas Alva Edison in New York City. If Tesla had stayed in Serbia, he might had died in the First world war and we couldn’t define modern era as it is today. Tesla shouldn’t have stayed in Serbia if he wanted to achieve his dreams.…

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