Lengthen the School Year Call it a last-minute clarification or a June surprise‚ another piece of bad news: A trailer bill that the Legislature will vote on Wednesday permits districts to slash the school year by an additional three weeks for the next two years‚ if voters reject Gov. Brown’s tax increase in November. That’s twice what Gov. Jerry Brown seemed to suggest in the May budget revise when he proposed the elimination of 15 days divided over a two-year period. Instead‚ the Legislature is
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Final Year Project Title: 2556 Voice Command Control for Mobile Robot by Fong Chee Fai (1051100739) B.Eng (Hons) Electronics Session 2009 / 2010 VOICE COMMAND CONTROL FOR MOBILE ROBOT FONG CHEE FAI 1051100739 2009/2010 MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY MAY 2010 Copyright The copyright of this report belongs to the author under the terms of the Copyright Act 1987 as qualified by Regulation 4(1) of the Multimedia University Intellectual Property Regulations. Due
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The War Years Questionnaire – Dr. Courtney Welch “A Tale of Two Counties” – Franklin County‚ PA and Augusta County‚ VA Directions: Please access the following website http://valley.lib.virginia.edu in order to answer the following questions. Please type your answers to these questions – please list your answers by question - in short answer format. DO NOT use font larger than 12 font. This assignment is worth a total of 50 points of your final grade. This assignment MUST be turned in during class
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ended the Thirty Years War‚ has long been considered a turning point in the international system by scholars and historians alike but what quality was it that made this treaty any different from the dozens of other treaties signed across Europe in that century? The answer lies not only within the terms it’s paragraphs stipulated but within the time it occurred‚ with the parties that were involved in that conflict and more importantly the sides they chose to fight for. The Thirty Years War was not born
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of information in A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. This instability of the language in this proto-novel is caused by the author citing two sides to every point or statement he makes causing contradictions. On top of this Defoe repeats the same points throughout the entire text. This uncertainty helps to make the reader believe the writing is an actual journal as opposed to an edited‚ actual non-fiction. A Journal of the Plague Year starts out with the narrator‚ H.F.‚ discussing
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“My name is Solomon Northop‚ I am a free man residing in Saratoga‚ New York” CITATION McQueen \l 1033 (McQueen). Unfortunately at this point for Mr. Northop it would do no good for him to speak up‚ in fact‚ it did more harm than good. In the film 12 Years A Slave‚ the audience encounters the horrible kidnapping‚ based on a true story‚ of a free black man named Solomon Northop. This film is by no means easy to watch but it accurately portrays the life of slaves‚ and free blacks‚ who were caught up in
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Extended School Year Some people are concerned about academic achievement in the twenty first century. For example‚ a proposed solution to this problem would be to extend the school year. Students in in United States only attend school 180 days while many other countries around the globe attend school in upwards of 240 days. Extending our school year would give more time for learning and covering material needed to be successful in life. As a parent‚ I believe we
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Brandon Butcher 4/27/13 Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup was a free man‚ then lured to Washington D.C. and put into slavery from 1841 to 1853. His father‚ Mintus Northup‚ was owned by a family named Northup‚ who came from Rhode Island to New York. Henry B. Northup was a relative of that family. After the owner of Solomon’s father dies‚ his father is now a free man. Shortly after‚ his father moved to Essex county‚ N.Y.‚ where Solomon Northup was born on July‚ 1808. Solomon Northup married
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Starting my Junior year back at savanna again I was ready to make a change and be different from my sophomore year. I already knew what class I was going to take and what I was going to do so that I could go to college. In the first couple weeks of my junior year my grades were okay. I had A‚B‚ and C. In my english Class I had a B and that was the first time I had a B in english since I was in junior high. The reason that I had a B in english my junior year was because of my teacher Ms. Stele. She
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2012-The Year of Mathematics P.Bhattacharyya [pic] [pic] (GH Hardy ‚ Ramanujan and Littlewood) The great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on the 22nd of December 1887 in Erode‚ Tamilnadu. In a function held in the Centenary Hall of Madras University on the 26th of December 2011 marking the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan‚ the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh proclaimed: “Our
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