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    These shows not only acquaint young children with this domesticized and friendly vampire, but also solicit a friendship between youthful audiences and vampires, generating an amicable friendship that enables children to learn how to count, read, and furthermore, handle adolescent problems like exclusion and difference. This tendency in television has continued through teen shows such as The Vampire Diaries (CW 2009-), where “vampirism becomes a metaphor for teen angst, physical changes

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    Literacy Narrative I Remember that time I had that one page essay assigned back in my 5th grade English class and I thought to myself, “How on earth will I possibly write one page on something I hardly know anything about or share little to no interest on”. Well that 1 page essay is not looking so terrible now that college is here and the minimum amount of pages for most essays is up to 3 pages. Writing has been something that has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I was first

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    Discrimination in education goes further than the theory of the school to prison pipeline. Discipline in schools raise several questions but one in particular, are minority children punished more harshly than white children for the same infractions? Most parent’s response to that question would be home school. Common among white Americans, is showing an increase among African American kids. The government play a huge role in education, however what role does the government and the Obama administration

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    Answer 3. a). Gender Requires one of two responses – male or female From this question, we will get Nominal data. Because it has two possible values male or female. We can count no. of males and females but both doesn’t have their actual values neither we can compare them to each other i.e. we can’t say that male has higher value than female. But we can say no. of males are less than or greater than no. of females. b. Fahrenheit

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    The first thing that I would address in the meeting with the board would be our mission as a local United Way organization and our stance on discrimination. The mission of the UWCW is “helping people, changing lives, making every contribution count.” (United Way of Columbia-Willamette 2011). According to the UWCW website their vision is “for a community where … diversity is embraced, where people live and work together, encouraging and supporting one another.” I would discuss that by ignoring

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    The purpose of the following study is to determine where the two unknown bacteria acquired in Microbiology lab should be classified in regards to temperature, pH level, and osmoregularity. It is important to classify bacteria in order to identify them. Identification of bacteria is important because they are not only useful but potentially dangerous as well. The identification of bacteria can lead to breakthroughs in healthcare regarding treatment of old and new diseases alike. Identifying bacteria

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    Climate change is a current event that many debate. The National Climactic Data Center reported that, as of June 2012, the average combined global land and ocean temperature was 0.63 degrees Celsius higher than the twentieth century average. This is the fourth highest temperature ever recorded. Many credible sources, such as a number of United Nation bodies, the International Panel of Climate Change, and academic scholars state that climate change cause resource scarcity. A lack of resources

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    The zero tolerance policy has become a national controversy in regards to the solid proven facts that it criminalizes children and seems to catch kids who have no intention of doing harm. Although, there has been substantial evidence to prove that the policies enforced in many schools have gone far beyond the extreme to convict children of their wrongdoing. The punishments for the act of misconduct have reached a devastating high, and have pointed students in the wrong direction. Despite the opinions

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    Climate Change will positively impact Canada 's Agriculture Thesis: Climate change will negatively impact Canada 's Agriculture due to heavy rainfall, droughts, irrigation problems, pesticide issues and not enough nutrients available? Intro Agriculture is highly dependent upon weather and climate in order to produce the food necessary to sustain human life. North America is the world’s largest and most productive supplier of food and fiber (3). Canada is the second largest country in the world

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    Relevance Three examples of modern day temperature measurement devises and their uses: Scientific Theory  Explain the science behind how a mercury thermometer works using the particle model. When a mercury thermometer or any type of thermometer comes into contact with a heated or cooled object the kinetic energy of the molecules of the thermometer heats o cools to match the objects temperature. The thermometer normally has a liquid substance such as mercury or alcohol that will

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