Essays on Burrows

Like many other United States National Parks, Badlands is unique unto itself with physical attributes that when they are seen one knows it is Badlands National Park. Located in an area rich with history, the Badlands was created and founded as a national monument in 1939 by President Roosevelt before officially becoming a national park in 1978 (Steiner, 1993). The landscape of buttes, ravines, and hills found in the midst of the prairie of Southwestern South Dakota influenced the Lakota Sioux to call the area, ‘mako sica’ or ‘badlands’ (“South Dakota Legends,” 2003). The Sioux Pine Ridge reservation lies ...

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Spectrophotometry is one of the most common and efficient means of chemical analysis currently used in estimating the concentration of some chemicals. The technique exploits the radiation absorption property of various chemical substances in determining their concentrations. Spectrophotometry is based on Beer-Lambert Law. Beer-Lambert Law is the linear relationship between the absorbance and concentration of an absorbing species (Nair, 2010; Burrows et al., 2013). The mathematical expression of Beer-Lambert Law is shown in equation1 below: A=aλ*b*c Equation 1 In the equation 1 shown above, A represents the measured absorbance, a is the absorptivity coefficient which depends on ...

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The Relevance of the Common Law to the New Zealand Legal System The legal system of New Zealand comprises legal principles obtained from the English 'common law', legislation or precedent which comes from the amassed and compiled court decisions or resolutions. Constitutional guidelines which are embedded in the common law involve specific civil rights, like the right to freedom of expression, including the Governor-General's specific powers and the majority rule in the parliament system (Gearey, Morrison, & Jago, 2013). Similar to England, the rule of parliamentary sovereignty is firmly institutionalized and Parliament in consequence has the authority to overrule or ...

There are many affective, cognitive, and social functions of music that have been identified and covered in many types of research conducted in different countries. The increasing concentration and attention are the cognitive reasons of music being crucial and bond, and group cohesion is one of the social reasons (Krumhansl, 2002). The level of a person’s well-being varies among individuals, and his/her links with music are due to reason that could be different from others. The music is vital and a must component to achieve effective wellbeing. The music generates positive outcomes in almost every individual (MacDonald, Kreutz, & ...

Different Perceptions of the Escape TV Show

“Prison Break,” a TV show that aired on the Fox from 2005-2009, seems to be promoting a message of unyielding love between different types of relationships a person has throughout their lives. There are many shows that carry this theme though, so the TV show must be about something else as well. The show is really promoting the escape of realities such as jail, corrupt laws, governments, and companies that, on their face, seem to have twisted ideologies. The show was so successful at promoting this idea to wide audiences, that it went past the two seasons it was ...