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    beginning of the novella. He spent most of the time between his running away and the battle at hand attempting to justify his actions, settling finally on the line he had left being “the imbecile line” and convinces himself that running was “full of strategy” and “work of a master’s legs” (41). Henry’s mind quickly evades the tactic of running and exchanges it for courage in battle. The change between fear and dauntlessness can be clearly seen on page 101, in the moments before Henry becomes the bearer of the flag. Crane writes that in the moment Henry saw the flag in him "was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him". This patriotic love Henry uncovers within drives him to pick up the colors and lead the charge when the bearer is killed a short while later. The passion for the flag helps Henry find true purpose; his purpose is no longer to save himself, but is now to fight for the cause. Henry also sees a need for bravery and heroism when the flag bearer is hit. Crane writes on page 101 that "no harm could come to it [the flag]". At no point in time were the colors to hit the ground and be lost to the battlefield; therefore, it was…

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    What is standard care? Standard care is a measure of what the community expects and demands from a person from a person in a given situation (Varone, 2012). There are two types of standard care, ordinary and professional. Ordinary standard care is the degree of care that the reasonably prudent person would not run would have exercised under the circumstances and professional standard care is the care that a person with professional skills and training is required to exercise, namely, the care…

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    far more profitable than an honest one. Although laws about murder may not be as serious as a laws about embezzlement, the same idea applies here. Without businesses having a standard that they must adhere to, it would be far easier and more profitable to live a life of corruption. Sure it 's easy to believe that many people have too good of a conscious to commit harmful acts, but if these acts still occur while there are tremendous consequences on the table then it would only make sense that…

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    is an inspiring book about three young men rising from the streets and fulfilling a dream to become doctors. Their experiences and emotions educate teachers about the daily struggles students face, while also helping teachers comprehend Standards Two and Three of the New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers. This is especially true when considering the three young men’s assets and liabilities that contributed to their learning, such as such as their individual experiences, family, and…

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    policies and green chemistry policies. Green Chemistry is the practice of chemistry in an environmentally safe way to prevent pollution. We used green chemistry to minimize the amount of waste we were to be creating. We ended up creating waste from degalvanizing nails. There was a 6 molar solution of hydrochloric acid that stripped the zinc on the nails. Nails are dipped in zinc to prevent rusting. The amount of zinc placed on these nails has to comply with industry standards. A high standard…

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    ASTM STANDARDS Short introduction – ASTM standards are consensus standards for systems, services, materials and products. ‘ASTM International’ is one of the largest voluntary standard developing organization in the world. It is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for the development and publication of international voluntary standards. There are approximately 12,575 ASTM standards that operate globally. TESTING ASTM STANDARDS- Scope- There test methods help in the determining of…

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    Taxation In Pollution

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    iv. Taxation Taxation is one of the methods that many economists support because of its supposed efficiency. Under this method of pollution regulation, a tax rate is set for each standard unit of pollution that is equal to the social cost that pollution creates on society. The firm then has a choice of whether to pay the tax or seek methods to abate pollution. This method provides the firm with the freedom to compare the potential tax with the cost of abatement and reductions in output to allow…

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    1. a. The data set consist of 44 female and 53 males. b. There are 21 people under the age range of 13-35, which account for 21.6% of the total 97 in the sample. c. The mean level of the hour spent in the office during week 2 is 47.47 hours, with the standard deviation of 17.06. The distribution is slightly negative skew (-0.237), although in an acceptable range suggest that slightly more samples spend more hours in office than the average. The distribution’s value for kurtosis (-1.005)…

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    was performed to determine if the average diameters of the two groups of rivets are the same. Conclusions from both statistical techniques led us to believe that both rivet suppliers on average provide rivets with about the same diameters. Therefore supplier with less expensive rivets should be given consideration for future needs. Analysis: Data for case 10.1 was obtained from the CANVAS class web page in an Excel file format. It included 100 samples of each rivet family from the two…

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    On December 12, 2015, President Obama and 150 world leaders came together in order to discuss the tragic effects of climate change. We all need to come together to fight this problem. Obama states his concern for the rapid increase of damage caused by climate change. Obama stated that “ Fourteen of the fifteen warmest years on record have occurred since 2000..” Our world is taking the turn for the worst if changes are not made our world will come to an end. Eventually, the climate of our world…

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