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    An Historical Place

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    Particularly‚ visits to historical places teach us so many things. Some times such places tell us stories better than the books on history. It is well said‚ “Architecture is a frozen music” A visit to historical place is always valuable for a student. It enriches his Knowledge and increases his vision. As it is said‚ “All the history is the biography of great men” Last Sunday‚ we decided to go for outing. I had not seen the tomb of Jahangir. So we agreed that this historical place should be visited

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    When I first examined “Border Crossing‚” the first thing I noticed was that the man was carrying a woman on his shoulders. I also noticed that the two people were Mexican. This statue by Jose Jimenez is said to be endorsing illegal immigration on campus. It had been rumored that organizations had been trying to do away with the statue. The statue is not meant to be offensive or promote illegal immigration. It is meant to tell the story of a man crossing into another country in the search for a better

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    Historical Bias

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    believe. You may think that this is something that just happens at this day in age‚ but this occurs everywhere and has occurred over time. This is called historical bias. This paper will investigate ways to avoid historical bias‚ how historical bias may affect how we think about our past‚ and other examples of historical bias. First‚ avoiding historical bias may be hard but it is not impossible. There are many things one can do to make an accurate decision or even a compromise of all the stories and

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    Essay on the short story ” Crossing” The short story ”Crossing” from 2009 written by Mark Slouka canters around a ritual trip where a father‚ suffering a life crisis‚ wants to show his son how to beat the difficult opponent that Nature is and there by strengthen the relationship between them and once again find meaning with his own life. We see a father trough a third limited narrator who is on a difficult path to see things right in his now current life‚ after a divorce from his wife. This

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    Railroad crossings are something that you will run into several times throughout driving and there are certain precautions that you should take to cross them safely. Trains often move very fast and won’t be able to stop for you so you must be very cautious when coming acrossthem. When approaching a railroad crossing it is very important to exercise caution.When approaching a railroad crossing you must slow down and if you are to park by a railroad crossing you may not park within 50 feet of the

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    Atticus Finch Courage

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    In your mind what does courage look like‚ and how is it embodied by people? Different characters embody many forms of courage in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The main character of the book is a southern girl named Jean Louise Finch‚ and she lives near a house that the characters call the Radley house. Jean Louise believes that a mysterious man nicknamed Boo Radley is being held in the Radley house‚ and as a youthful girl this frightens her and the other characters. In addition to

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    Figures of Speech

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    Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor  Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the

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    1. Simile My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red‚ than her lips red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚ yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go‚ My

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    Railroad crossing is a very important factor in being safe while driving. In this lesson‚ I learned about all of the many different warning devices for railroads and light rails. I also learned safety tips‚ and what to expect when approaching one of these. With railroads and light rails‚ it seems as if need to be extremely careful.There are many warning devices that are there to keep us safe from getting in situations that could become dangerous. Of these devices‚ according to the handbook‚ they

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    Railroad crossing may seem extremely simple at first; however‚ their are a few factors that come into play that you may not be aware of. You should use extreme caution at all railroad crossings. They are warning devices that inform you of upcoming railroads and trains. Advance warning signs are posted before railroad crossings to allow you to prepare for them. The pavement also is painted to warn you of upcoming railroads. To begin with‚ railroad crossings are marked and shown in many ways to inform

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