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    Milk Fat Research

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    Title: What effect does temperature have on the percentage of milk fat produced form heavy cream? Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to see the affect that temperature has on milk fat produced from heavy cream. Background Information In investigating the components of a lab report, one must first consider the purpose. According to many, a “laboratory report informs the reader of the results and conclusions as a result of experimentation. In addition to informing the reader, a well-written

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    look at the world, and some say that it was the first time that individuals tried to unify the world. While the earlier Milesians - namely Thales and Anaximander - had developed their own theories as to explaining what “stuff” makes up everything, Anaximenes had done more to supplement and establish his theory. While the term ‘scientist’ was first coined by William Whewell in 1833, over two thousand years after Anaximenes and the other Milesians lived, science had existed long before that (plato

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    than inductive reasoning, should be used to evaluate a theory based on the idea that proving a theory false provides a stronger argument compared to proving a theory true. Popper also argues that theories cannot be considered scientific theories unless they are able to be proven false, or are falsifiable. They must be able to be tested, and have the ability to be proven false through those tests, before it can be considered a scientific theory. Popper argues that scientific revolutions come about

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    5. There are so many differences between Westerners and Non-Westerner when it comes on to knowing. Higher education, No matter what a Westerner would always get a higher education than a non-westerner. Because of that spectrum that they both fall under. Also, Westerner education reflects a lot around science which they think is the right way to educate one's self, was non-westerner lies more with experience, nature, and storytelling. This all link back to place and power. According to Wildcat, higher

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    Further on, Mr. Collins makes a key statement, which, I think is the essence of this article: “…. sociological activists lose their creativity and their credibility with the public, appearing only as purveyors of facts chosen by persons whose minds are already made up.” I could only augment this viewpoint by restating that researcher’s probity as an ideal in absolute meaning of this definition is out of touch since it is always driven by the people’s interest. Probity has been defined by Claude Adrien

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    1. What is it that the Pre-Socratic philosophers were curious about? What were they trying to explain? How would we today explain the phenomena the Pre-Socratics were curious about? Carefully explain your reasoning. Pre-Socratic philosophers were curious about how life was supported, how life came to be, the gods and their secrets, and more topics. Each philosopher was trying to explain their idea of what preoccupied them like how Democritus explains his idea of atoms within a void with the example

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    How hard would it be to live in a house with parents that beat you if you don’t do chores? Unstoppable is about an orphan boy named Harrison that lives in a very cruel foster home. When people find out that his foster parents, the Constables, are beating and mistreating Harrison, They move him to a new foster home with nice foster parents, the Kellys. Harrison’s new foster dad is the head coach of a football team which was very important to Harrison because his dream is to play professional football

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    In his book, The Great Influenza, John M. Barry speaks of the work of scientists with the sort of reverence and respect of one who understands the complexity and greatness of their work. He uses juxtaposition and conceit to present the adversity and nobility inherent to scientific research. In addition, he portrays this research as potentially thankless work. In characterizing scientific research, Barry chooses specific diction that has strong connotations so as to create the greatest effect by

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    Is Scientist-Practitioner Model an Ideal Rather Than a Reality? The scientist-practitioner model is established on the ideology that the knowledge and skills on both research and clinical practice are essential to trained professional psychologists. It claims that, professional psychologists should play three roles, as a researcher, a consumer and an empirical evaluator. However, some researchers argue that, scientist-practitioner model is “an ideal rather than a reality” (Prochaska & Norcross, 1983;

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    exactly separates hard science from pseudoscience. He came to the conclusion that all theories which are to be deemed scientific must be falsifiable. In other words, the theory must have the ability to be tested and proven to be true, and not just deemed to be true because it happens to be true in some instances. Popper’s logic was that the only reason to test a theory was to find a way to deem it untrue, and so theories which are unable to be tested cannot be considered as science. I believe that this

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