... enough oxygen. But if it were packed too loosely, it couldn't build up enough gas forces to push the cannonball to it's target. A new way to make gunpowder into grains, instead of powder, was invented in the fourteen hundreds. In this method you would moisten it and pound it into a cake. Then it was broken into small bits and put into a sieve to be sifted. The pieces that came through the sieve were different shapes and would not fit together well enough to pack tightly, so that careful packing of a cannon was not necessary. When a long-barreled, rifled cannon came into use, it became necessary to slow down the burning rate of the gunpowder. ...
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... smirk. As I flipped through a magazine, this advertisement immediately caught my attention. My first belief of the marketer’s intentions was to give an idea that “if you wear their product, you can be with whomever you wish, , and however many partners you desire.” Of course, this was ridiculous to me, but it definitely caught my attention. It seems as if the condoms signify multiple partners. The fragrance is the “center of attention” in the entire ad and you will be to if you us the product. I asked a few people what it seemed like the advertisement meant and most of them had similar opinions to mine. The whole idea of a “sexy ...
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... God's saving grace. To Augustine, humans seek an object of love they can't lose. The problem with that to humans is that humans can't provide that to other humans completely. Only God can and that in turn causes hostility among humans. The love of God, then, is the only way humans can completely satisfy all four virtues and have eternal peace. Eternal peace is where faith, love, and hope are to be enjoyed, such as in The City of God. In Book XIX, Augustinian social theory summarizes the principle of ordered harmony. This theory finds perfection in a mutual society that believes in God. Believing in God, though, lends a problem in the simple ru ...
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... In this case, or any other, neither the object that has the ability too nor the object in the state of action can be the first to act. The wood cannot be the first to act, as it is in the state of ability too. When the wood is in this state, it has no action to transfer, and therefore is obviously not the first to act. The fire, although able to transfer the action, must have been at one time in the state of ability too, and therefore was acted upon, making it not the first too act. The first to act is understood to be God. God is that which has action, but did not receive the action from another object. God was never in the state of ability too. God is on ...
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... only visit on Sunday or public holiday. Since everyone go shopping at the same time, the shopping complex will become very crowded and people will feel very uncomfortable when walking in such situation, the followings are some situation that occurs: Queuing In crowded environment, queuing is an usual scene. We can easily found long queue either in front of the cashier counters, food stalls or even in car park. Time Consuming Sometimes it is very wasting time by just walking around without any purpose. Just like people walking around and don’t know what he/she is planning to buy. Besides, when a person is looking for a particular thing and the thing ...
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... University. Because of the political turmoil, the U.S. stated to its public that the students and citizens on were in danger. President Reagan also stated to the press that there was no way for our citizens to get off the island. However, the State Department had issued a formal note to asking about the safety of its citizen, to which the minister of external affairs replied, ˇ° The interest of the United States citizens are in no way threatened by the present situation ... which the Ministry hastens to point out is a purely internal affairˇ±(Musicant 374). The Chancellor of the school, Charles Modica, was announcing that the students were in no danger, and th ...
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... of the twentieth century. Security and privacy issues have been in existence long before the computer became a vital component of organizations' operations. Nevertheless, the operating features of a computer make it a dangerous tool. Computer technologies with reliable error detection and recording capabilities, permit the invasion of a supposedly secure environment to occur on a grand scale and go undetected withought any suspicion . Furthermore, computer and communications technology permits the invasion of a persons' privacy. Two forces threaten privacy: one, the growth of information technology with its enhanced capacity for surveillance, communication, computat ...
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... to your conscious attention. Perhaps you are playing a computer game and you suddenly recognize the voice of the company president coming down the hall. Even though you are strongly focused on the game, the recognition of that voice destroys your concentration as it is brought to conscious attention. This same pattern of recognition process is happening in another way. "Your experiences as an unfolding sequence in time are continually being compared to previous sequences to see if there is some important relationship. If one of these is important enough it is brought to conscious attention as an idea or feeling."{Wade, 1996}. With sensation what is brought to the ...
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... about its value. What is ? provides in-depth indexing and abstracting of articles in 3800 biomedical journals. It is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Its coverage includes the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, with a total of 8.6 million records dating back to 1966. Very few of the journals have any consumer focus, nor are they even intended to be read or understood by consumers. MEDLINE is but one of 40 databases in the MEDLARS family of databases, which includes AIDSLINE, TOXLINE, and HEALTHSTAR. There is overlap among many of the MED ...
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... capability enables management to perform a more comprehensive alternative planing work in developing the marketing and business plans. Operating variable could be regulated to examine the systemwide response to the proposed operating change. Besides includes the entire set of activities involved in the planning and control of production operations. It consists of a variety of functions of modules and includes production planing, resource requirement planning, master production scheduling, materials requirements planning (MRP I), shop floor control, and purchasing. Process of Step 1 - Market Demand; the process begins with an aggregation demand from all sourc ...
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