each side of a square is 3 in. more than the length of each side of a smaller square. The sum of the areas of the squares is 149 in2. Find the lengths of the sides of the two squares. Uniform Strip 3. Cynthia Besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 12 ft wide and 15 ft long. She wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. She can afford to buy 108 ft2 of carpeting. What dimensions should the rug have? Rectangular piece of metal 4. A rectangular piece of metal is 10
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freezing. Carol‚ our tour guide‚ escorted us into the main room where patients gave blood. As she spoke about procedure and strolled around the room‚ I found myself realizing how different it was compared to the other areas she had lead us through. Everything appeared the same; the walls were still white and the lights above us continued to wash out everything in the room‚ including the people. The smell‚ however‚ was entirely different
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World War I. Soon After‚ Cummings was thrown into French Prison (“…Biography.”). He was accused of treason and spent many months in the French prison camp (Blumenkranz). Cummings’ experience in the camp inspired one of his famous books‚ The Enormous Room. The book is based on his life during this time period (“…Biography.”). Cummings had an affair with Elaine Orr‚ the wife of Scotfield Thayer. Thayer was a friend of Cummings that he met at Harvard (…The Famous…). Although she was married‚ Elaine had
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The one room school house of the past required one teacher to meet the needs of many‚ usually in isolation‚ with limited resources and inferior materials. The legacy of the one room school house is deeply steeped into the modern education system‚ the effects of which make teaching difficult‚ especially for the novice teacher. Most teachers enter the education field with positive attitudes and lofty goals. They believe they can make a difference in the lives of their students. Difficulties in the
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love in a furnished room. He meets the owner of the furnished room that his love has rented recently. In the latter part of the story‚ the young man commits suicide in the same room where his love committed suicide‚ too. Moreover‚ the landlady tells to a friend that she knows the girl that the young man is looking for but she does not tell him because she is greatly taking care of her reputation and her business. She wants no one to know that someone committed suicide on her room because it won’t attract
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For my book report I read the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. This book was published by Haughton Mifflin in 2005. The novel takes place mostly in New York City‚ shortly after terrorists destroy the Twin Towers in 2001. However‚ the time switches from the narrator’s present to the late 1940s when his grandparents are newlyweds and even farther back to when they are teenagers in Germany. In the present time‚ Oskar lives in an apartment building. Across the street
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Close Relationships One of the closes relationships that I am currently engaging in is with my boyfriend ST. We have been together for almost three years now‚ and most of the time we are 6000 miles apart. Yes‚ we are in a long distance relationship‚ he lives Xuzhou‚ China‚ and I go to school here in Seattle. During the span of three years‚ we have seen some hardships and struggles‚ and the experiences and memories we share are incalculable. There are times when I am overjoyed and filled with happiness
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The Unthinkable Happens in ’Room 8’ Have you ever ignored someone’s advice and later regretted your decision? Well‚ for the main character in Room 8 his decision to ignore someone’s advice leads to serious misfortune. Written and directed by James W. Griffiths‚ Room 8 follows the story of a man who is a new prisoner in a foreign jail. When he enters his cell‚ he is greeted by his aloof cellmate. Determined to hold a conversation with him‚ he tries everything to get his cellmate to talk to him
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classic tales of Shakespere or the modern novels of J.K. Rowling they learn that some things never change. The literary themes and devices of ancient times develop throughout modern times. The modern saying that someone can feel alone in a crowded room sumarizes a similar theme between "The Seafarer" written by an unknown author and "You Found Me" written by The Fray. The two works portray a common theme that finding God helps change the emotion of lonliness and disappointment by using the similar
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experience an event that would almost cost me my life. While I was recovering nicely‚ not quite one week after my surgery‚ I had symptoms that my discharge instructions clearly indicated I should visit the emergency room because I could be in trouble. While I was in the emergency room‚ an unfortunate event happened that I believe led to the fight of my life. I will spare you those details‚ but it was extremely scary and traumatic. I remember the next morning that my abdominal muscles ached more
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