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  • Four Way Light Switch Report

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    a four-way switch that turns on the same light. I got the idea to make one when I went online to search for the perfect project idea. I found information about a three way light switch and decided that this is what I want to do, but to make it more difficult I decided to create a four way light switch instead. It sounds like the perfect experiment to try. I felt that if I did this project I would learn more about electricity and the way it works. What is a four way light switch? A four way

  • The Price of Mercy in Hamlet

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    in the history of literature, and certainly one of the most debated. The famous 'sword switch' which results in Laertes' death with his own poisoned weapon has been fought over for centuries as to its accuracy, believability and execution, yet it has seldom been performed correctly on stage. There is one way that Shakespeare intended this maneuver to be performed, however, in a way that both facilitates the switch with the weapons of Shakespeare's own time, and gives clarity to Hamlet's character and

  • Change vs. Development

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    different, adjust, shift, vary, recast, restyle, remodel, reorganize, reform, revolutionize, transfer, transmute, mutate, transform, turn, convert, metamorphose; exchange, replace, substitute, swap, trade, switch, shift, interchange, shuffle, remove and replace; difference, modification, switch, shift, variation, deviation, variety, fluctuation, veering, alteration, conversion, substitution, swapping, reform, reformation, revolution, reorganization, and remodeling.” Roget’s Desk thesaurus even gives

  • Spam: Junk Email

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    at my America Online email account. In fact, I received so much junk mail that I decided to switch to another account with Lycos. Because I was having so much of a problem with unwanted mail, I figured that there were many more people with this problem. Hence, I decided to do my research project on junk email, otherwise known as “spam”. Similarly, my story involves the main character having to switch her email accounts because of the increasing volume of junk mail that she received. Throughout

  • Fun With Starters

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    The function of the starting system is to crank the engine to start it. The system is composed of the starter motor, starter relay (also called a solenoid), battery, switch and connecting wires. Turning the ignition key to the start position sends a signal to the starter relay through the starter control circuit. The starter relay then connects the battery to the starter. The battery supplies the electrical energy to the starter motor, which does the actual work of cranking the engine. This is pretty

  • Last Of The Mohicans

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    in the book, there was not a big love scene between Hawkeye and Alice as there was in the movie between Hawkeye and Cora. Thus making the movie a more romantic story. In the movie, key things that happen have different importance because the roles switch. For instance, towards the end of the book, Cora dies. In the movie, Alice dies. This is important because Alice and Cora have certain traits that make this more and/or less important to the story. Differences in the between Heyward are that in the

  • How Industrial Revolution Made Life Easier

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    electric light, but also an electric lighting system that contained all the elements necessary to make the incandescent light practical, safe, and economical.” Before it was created, human beings had to use fire and now you’re able to just turn the light switch on and you automatically have whatever lighted. You wouldn’t be able to take pictures of anything for memories if the camera wasn’t invented. Louis Daguerre invented the first camera just to capture things for memory. The camera was invented to capture

  • The Left Membrane Vs. The Right Membrane

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    language. Our hopes, thoughts, emotions, and personality are all lodged-somewhere-inside there. “After thousands of scientist have studied it for centuries, the only word to describe it remains Amazing” (Ornstein & Thompson, 15). In normal people, the switch with manic depression, allows either the left or right hemisphere to be dominant during different mental tasks, with the two sides constantly taking turns. In people with manic depression, one hemisphere becomes locked into a dominant position in

  • A breif HIstroy of ATMS

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    allowing customers of one bank to withdraw money by using ATMs of other banks. Banks paid other ATM owners "interchange" fees, to cover the marginal cost of the "off-us" transactions by its customers on the owner's machines. Banks paid the network a "switch" fee per transaction, plus an annual "membership" fee, to cover the costs of the network. Originally, these fees were not directly passed onto consumers. After all, from the perspective of a bank, banks that joined the network could advertise that

  • Wonder Collar

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    then vibrates or produces a noise. There is a switch on the collar attachment that allows for eight levels of noise and three levels of vibration. Another switch allows you to choose the noise or vibration option, or both! The pager has a range of up to 100 ft. and can be used indoors and out-of-doors. The collar attachment has an internal antenna and is waterproof. Perfect for all types of environments. It also comes with an on/off safety switch. It is powered by a 6-volt battery pack that is

  • Animal behavior

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    beak. When a releaser leads directly to behavior it is called a fix-action pattern. If an egg rolls out of a nest the mother will immediately try and recollect it. But if the egg is taken away the mother will still do it. This shows that once the switch is turned on it will continue. Fix action patterns can be learned by humans, and will soon become autonomic. Usually hormones and timing will motivate animals and drive their behavior; timing through biological clocks, the animals circadium rhythms

  • Electoral Reform in Canada

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    nine-member Commission on Legislative Democracy in December 2003 to the groundbreaking decision by the British Columbia Citizen’s Assembly on October 24, 2004 that the province will have a referendum on May 17, 2005 to decide whether or not they will switch to a system of proportional representation. This kind of reform is only expected to continue, as Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty decided to take BC’s lead and form an independent Citizen’s Assembly with the power to determine whether or not Ontario

  • Freaky Friday

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    “Freaky Friday” The movie that I chose to review was titled “Freaky Friday.” It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter who switch bodies for a day. In this film, Tess Coleman (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) is a widowed psychiatrist juggling her job and family while planning her second marriage. Anna Coleman (played by Lindsay Lohan), who disapproves of her mother’s second marriage plans, is of no help to her mother at all during her stressful situations. Anna is a rebellious

  • Physics of Personal Watercraft

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    tighter angle than traditional boats with keels and rudders.The main drawback to this maneuverability is the fact that if there is no thrust coming from the engine the ability to turn is effictively zero meaning that anytime the driver presses the kill switch (a large red button) they lose all ability to steer. This is extremely dangerous whenever an inexperienced person may drive the PWC back to dock or into shore. PWC's have no brakes and have no ablilty to stop other than turning around. They have an

  • Air Conditioner Controller

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    potentiometer. 2.     A Display indicates the temperature – both the set value and the actual value. 3.     An indication when the set range is beyond limits. 4.     The system turns ON the Air conditioner when the set temperature. 5.     A mode selector switch is provided to select between SET MODE and RUN MODE. 6.     When the SET mode is selected the display indicates the set value. When RUN mode is selected the display indicates the actual room temperature. The whole circuitry works on 230V AC. From

  • Define And Explain Price Elasticity of Demand

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    available for a good. The closer the goods are, the greater will be the price elasticity of demand of that good. The reason for this being that people will be able to switch to the substitutes when the price of the original good goes up. The greater the number of substitutes and the closer they are, the more people will be able to switch, and so the bigger the substitution effect will be of any price rise. Another determinant is the proportion of income spent on the good. The higher the proportion

  • Ignorance in 12 Angry Men

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    Twelve Angry Men, is a play written by Reginald Rose. The play is about the process of individuals and a court case, which is determining the fate of a teenager. It presents the themes of justice, independence and ignorance. Rose emphasises these three themes through the characters and the dialogue. Justice is the principle of moral rightness or equity. This is shown through juror number eight who isn’t sure whether or not the boy is actually innocent or guilty, but he persists to ask questions and

  • X2: X-Men United

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    Though the story line follows the classic good versus evil paradigm, it is not dependent on the original X-Men movie to tell its story. X2’s plotline twists keep the viewer wondering about the loyalties of characters that appear at one moment to switch to the good side, and then just as easily revert to their roles as bad guys. Requiring the viewer to ask, “How do we know who we can trust?” Equally, the film’s visual effects are stunning without being overwhelming or redundant. We do not see

  • Politics in Animal Farm

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    Politics in Animal Farm In George Orwell’s Animal Farm we get a glimpse of a strange switch in totalitarian rule.  From Mr. Jones a cruel farmer who feeds his animals to little and works them to hard, to Napolean a pig that will have you killed for a bottle of liquor.  Through stupidity, narrow mindedness and pure cowardice of some animals we view the inevitable as the farm animals become ruled by pigs.  Old Major probably not the first animal to think of as an animal to ruin a utopia for the farm

  • Destiny, Fate, Free Will and Free Choice in Homer's Iliad

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    not their own directly.   In Book I, the plague is a result of the upsetting of Apollo.  The gods produce situations over trivial things, such as forgetting a sacrifice or, in this case, insulting Chryses.  The gods have temper tantrums, and they switch sides quickly and without consideration.  One day they protect the Achaeans, the nextt day the Trojans.  The gods play favorites with no sense at all of any of the moral or political issues involved in the war.  Zeus does what he can, but the others