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    Is Animal Testing Wrong?

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    Is Animal Testing Wrong? It 's on the internet, it 's in magazines, it 's even on the news. Animal testing is a major debate among both academics and everyday people. The most common animals used in testing ae mice, rats, and apes. Some people think that animal testing is obsolete in this day and age but it isn 't obsolete because animal testing helps determine what chemicals are potentially harmful to humans, it helps determine what medicines are potentially safe for human use, and it helps advance

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    “...Captain McVay had requested a destroyer escort. Despite the Indianapolis having no sonar and despite evidence of Japanese submarine activity in the area, the request was denied. Instead the admirals had simply instructed McVay to adopt a ‘zig-zag’ course” (Pukas, Anna). The zigzag course was to make it harder for sonar equipment to detect the boat (Donohue, Mark), but according to the commander of the Japanese submarines that sunk the Indianapolis,

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    Clitoral pain is associated with clitoral recession and clitorectomy. We may give medications to prevent more virilization [10]. Good value with using abdominal sonar in congenital adrenal hyperplasia with ambiguous genitalia to demonstrate the uterus and renal anomalies [11]. CAH is one of the pathological etiologies of Addison’s disease rendering infants with CAH more prone to Addison disease (congenital Addison

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    Animal Britch Report

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    Activist found Britches alone in a cage with bandages around his eyes and a sonar device strapped to his skull that emitted a high pitched screech every few minutes, The sonar device made britches neratic. Britches condition was described as inside contact, Britches clinged tightly to their fingers as they lifted him to freedom. The ALF didn't want to break into the lab but something had to be done to save the animals from pain. there are no laws to protect animals from laboratories not even laws

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    Hunting, whether it be for treasure, information, or lost cities, has always sought to serve a purpose. Be it to satisfy the wanton needs of wealth hunters who scavange the ocean floor, hurricane data recorders who are in constant serch for knowledge to better the rest of the world, or archealogists who share both qualities, the most universal thread is the fact that meathods for "hunting" have changed over time. Near every type of hunting has benefited through advancements in modern technology

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    sphere critique Essay

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    Sphere      Sphere is an interesting story about a group of scientists from different disciplines who are brought to a super-secret underwater site where the U. S. Navy has discovered a mysterious, glowing sphere. Although the movie was very interesting, a lot of scientific facts, it was just too long and there were parts of the film where I found myself yawning. I give the movie a thumb up for being the movie my teacher chose to show the class. Although the movie was directed

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    code was improved, resulting in ‘the Drumbeat crisis’ when shipping losses were their greatest – until March 1943, when the German code was again broken. 2. Sonar had been invented before World War I, but after 1942 the US Navy Department developed ‘console sonar’ which could plot accurate bearings using an echo ‘ping’. Training of sonar operators was also improved. 3. Radar was improved so that U-boats could even be detected in bad weather. 4. The British developed HF/DF (‘huff-duff’), whereby

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    applications of ultrasound can be also found in non-destructive testing (NDT), where invisible flaws in structures or products can be easily found. Another, well known application is SONAR (Sound Navigation And Raging), which uses transmitted and reflected underwater sound waves to detect and locate underwater objects. Diagram for sonar and some ultrasound range Non-destructive testing is one of the topics discussed later in the study. NDT incorporates a

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    The Titanic If you are from the U.S then you have probably ran across the movie “The Titanic”. One of the most dynamic and thrilling movies that involves a romantic disaster of two passengers, featuring leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet as Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater. The main plot of the story portrays jack and rose meeting each other in the Titanic aka “the ship of dreams” and falling madly in love with each other. Unfortunately the ship hits a iceberg and sinks to sea leaving many passengers

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    The Mermaid Theme

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    “I thought martial arts was my forte, but then I realized I wasn't the only person that could do this when I got into show-business. Compared to others, I wasn't really that good. So, I became a children's TV program host.” This came from the mouth of one of the famous comedy film directors named Stephen Chow. One of the films I like is “The Mermaid” which is a romantic comedy film directed by Stephen Chow. It was released in the year 2016 and it also broke a few box office records such as the biggest

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