Mixture model Essays

  • Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

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    related body” (3). While he does supply this definition he never specifies what he defines as success. Using his numerous examples of what Gladwell considers to a successful person, it is safe to conclude that his definition would be – success is a mixture of opportunity, intelligence, and hard work. When these three characteristics are combined it equals great success, and cannot be reached with only one or two of these things, all three must be present. Gladwell presents multiple instances where

  • Andre Romelle Young Character Analysis

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    Dr. Dre aka Andre Romelle Young. The personality that describes my friend Dr. Dre is a hip hop gangster artist. He is a hard worker who comes from the project,which is also known as Compton Los Angeles. Dr. Dre mannerisms behavior of people is when people get him mad for not doing what they are not supposed to do. He has an attitude of a thug,which he is not afraid of no one. The most ironic thing that happens to Dre was when his brother died in a fight. Dre cried day and night when his brother died

  • Individuality in Korean Art

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    Understanding the Korean people is important in understanding the individual nature of their art throughout time. Ethnically, the Korean people are a mixture of central Asian tribes, settling down, during the Neolithic times, on the peninsula of Korea. These tribes mixed with an already existing people, the jomons, a Caucasoid people. The uniqueness in this mixture can be seen in it's early Neolithic art. like its pottery with combed surfaces; typically found in Siberian areas, and rarely found in China.

  • King Lear and Madness in the Renaissance

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    Shakespeare's portrayal of madness parallels Bright's A Treatise of Melancholie (Wilson 309-20), yet, the medical model alone is insufficient to describe the madness of Shakespeare’ s King Lear. Shakespeare was not limited to a single book in his understanding of madness; he had at his disposal the sum total of his society's understanding of the issue. Since Lear's madness is derived from a mixture of sources, it can only be effectively described in this larger context. Because much of Renaissance medical

  • Chlorine

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    strongly reacts with metals to form mostly water-soluble chlorides. Chlorine also strongly reacts with nonmetals such as sulfur, phosphorus, and other halogens. If you were to mix hydrogen and chlorine gases and keep them in a cool dark place, the mixture would be stable, but if it were exposed to sunlight, it wo...

  • Amphetamines

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    Amphetamines are part of a class of drugs called stimulants that affect the central nervous system. It is also known as 1-methyl-2-phenethylamine, 1-phenyl-2-aminopropane, and Benzedrine. It is made up of a 50/50 mixture of the l and d isomers. The l isomer affects the body, and the d isomer affects the brain. It boils at 200ºC and is soluble in alcohol and ether, slightly soluble in water. It was first created in Germany in 1887. In the 1930s and 40s amphetamine was used in the treatment

  • Hermaphrodites

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    Hermaphrodites Since the beginning of time, humans have been lumped into two different groups: male and female. There was no in between. Hermaphrodites broke this model with their status as "he/she's." Was there something in between male and female? Gender is now thought of a combination of a host of different qualities that work together. Hermaphrodites are a genetic anomaly, but these individuals have a gender. It may not fit the classic mold of male or female, but they have a gender nonetheless

  • Motivation to Teach

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    teacher and a student is very special and is something that should be always be cherished. I had many teachers who taught me valuable lessons, and I want to model the impact they made in my life. I plan to use a variety of teaching methods in my classroom. I will use the essentialism philosophy as my foundation and incorporate a mixture of progressivism and social reconstructionism. I believe the teacher and students should work together in determining the curriculum... ... middle of paper

  • I Love Those Lips, But Those Lips Belong to Another

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    interesting. Then they showed me that life was going to get really good. Then after leaving me with an odd sense of power, they said bye, now life is sad. Its movements resembled that of a shape-shifter: causing the creation of circles, ellipses, and a mixture of feelings. These were the actions of a pair of lips belonging to a vision of beauty. When I first saw them they were in their top form. They gave me a smile. The execution of the smile forced the bottom arch to push from the top corners upwards

  • Television Talk Shows

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    regularly programmed talk show called Broadway Open House from May 1950 to August 1951. Two Veteran Jerry Lester and Morey Amsterdam, who were stand up comedians, shared the hosting duties for this talk/variety program. Broadway Open House was a mixture of routines, singing, dancing and comedy, which would start a trend of new talk shows to soon follow. The Tonight Show staring Johnny Carson, which premiered October 1, 1962, was one of those shows that followed Broadway Open House. With Johnny’s

  • Dry Cell Battery Essay

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    Leclanche cell, invented by a French chemist Georges Leclanche in the 1860s. The electrolyte for this battery consisted of a mixture of ammonium chloride and zinc chloride made into a paste. The negative electrode is zinc, and is the outside shell of the cell, and the positive electrode is a carbon rod that runs through the center of the cell. This rod is surrounded by a mixture of carbon and manganese dioxide. This battery produces about 1.5 volts. Another widely used primary cell is the zinc-mercuric-oxide

  • A Crisis of Faith in Salvation, by Langston Hughes and Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    In �Salvation� by Langston Hughes and �Young Goodman Brown� by Nathaniel Hawthorne there is a crisis of faith was present in both stories. Although both of the stories are very similar, they also are very different, too. In both stories, the main character experiences a loss of innocence through a faith crisis. The outcome of the loss of innocence in �Young Goodman Brown� was both positive and negative and in �Salvation� entirely negative. The faith crisis affected the way Goodman Brown and Langston

  • To Autumn – A Proclamation of Life and Hope

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    to illustrate the progression of death, and to show that there is still life at the end of life. From the very beginning of "To Autumn,” sound appears to be an important aspect of Keats’s technique.  When the words are studied, there is an even mixture of loud and soft sounds.  Some soft sounding words – words that use consonant sounds that are soft when spoken such as an s -- include mists, close, son, bless, mossed, and trees.  There are also the hard sounding words – words that use consonant

  • I Am An English Major

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    of eight, I was a child who loved reading and writing, and at the age of eighteen, I was a first-year student at State College who decided to major in English. I am now a senior in college (thinking about that fact literally sends a strange mixture of frightened, yet excited shivers charging through my body) and a very different person than that nervous first-year student I used to be. The entire idea sounds almost trite-I've grown tremendously through my college days; however,

  • Shakespeare’s Richard III Essay: Richard's Loss of Self

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    own advantage to judge himself. As the king, who seemed to be above the "afflict[ion] of "coward conscience" (5.5.133) is overwhelmed by the many different conceptions of who he is that are presented in the play, the audience cannot help but feel a mixture of sympathy and relief. Richard's self "love" (5.5. 141), the kernel of his own identity, is threatened by the "fear" (5.5.136) his conscience instills in him. Throughout most of the play, the statement "Richard loves Richard" (5.5.137) functions

  • The Meaning and Importance of Dreams

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    involves absolutely no meaning whatsoever. The dream is meaningless and involves a chain or series of events that are unrelated to one another and may be of people or places familiar or not. These dreams are most likely created because of the flash and mixture of chemicals that occurs during sleep. Many times these dreams are actually so bazaar that they have no meaning even to the dreamer. So these dreams are mostly just passed over and ignored. The second type of dream is one in which the dreamer can

  • Testing the Theory of the Oedipus Complex

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    of a child to the parent of the opposite sex and hostile or jealous feelings toward the parent of the same sex that may be a source of adult personality disorder when unresolved. It is a pattern of profound emotional ambivalence, a troublesome mixture of love and hate. The Oedipus Complex occurs during the phallic stage, from roughly ages 3-6 years. Freud believed that during this stage boys seek genital stimulation and develop both unconscious desires for their mother and jealousy and hatred

  • History of Fireworks

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    History of Fireworks The birthplace of fireworks is generally recognized as China, with the first explosive mixture found being black powder, during the Sung dynasty ( 960-1279 ). It is said that a cook in ancient china found that a mixture of sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal was very flammable and would explode if enclosed in a small space. The first application of this technology was for entertainment. The Chinese are still the leader in the production of fireworks. Once the recipe for black

  • Fireworks

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    oxidizing agent, a fuel (reducing agent), a coloring agent, binders and regulators. These mixed together are what make up the basic fireworks: Oxidizers The first thing in a firework is the oxidizing agent. These produce the Oxygen to burn the mixture. Oxidizers are usually nitrates, chlorates or perchlorates. The common oxidizers are nitrates. These are made up of a metal ion and the nitrate ion. I'll use potassium nitrate as an example. Nitrates only give up 1/3 of their oxygen. The resulting

  • Sodium Thiosulphate & Acid

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    Measure I will vary the amount of Sodium Thiosulphate (10-50ml), but keeping the same amount of Hydrochloric Acid (25ml) to make it a fair test. Also when I vary the amount of Sodium Thiosulphate, I will always keep the same total volume of the mixture, therefore topping it up to 75ml every time. I will be observing the reaction of the two chemicals, and measure how quickly the sulphur is produced. I will also keep the start temperature the same. What Will I Try To Find Out I am going to