Justin Carlton PI DAY 3/14/13 * Definition of pi: Pi is the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet. It is equal to 3.141592 when shortened‚ but never ends. * Archimedes-One of the major contributions Archimedes made to mathematics was his method for approximating the value of pi. It had long been recognized that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was constant‚ and a number of approximations had been given up to that point in time. Archimedes was the first person
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still managed to preserve our nation’s culture throughout the years. But as years passed‚ questions lingered in my mind: Do citizens who experienced this freedom give importance on what Independence Day really meant to those who sacrificed their lives? Do they know the real quintessence of this day? I doubt it. Yes! We do celebrate our independence every year. But we often celebrate this because it’s requisite‚ not because we honored its real essence whole-heartedly. Fellow citizens‚ let’s all
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The entire structure of Mama Day is fitting to the telling of multiple love stories entertwined. Like the most heartfelt episode of Seinfeld ever Gloria Naylor doesn’t tell a love story‚ but rather lays out in detail the events of everyday life for all of the central characters. In the process the love stories of the characters are all told at once. The most obvious example is the relationship between George and Cocoa (arguably the main love story). Through the book we see them meet‚ fall
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Brandon M. Silerio 8th The Day Of The Doctor “Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire‚ through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought‚ and a whole‚ terrible‚ wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? They’re old eyes… and one thing I can tell you‚ Alex: monsters are real.” (Doctor who personal quote “Night Terrors”) Doctor Who is a story where the main character‚ “the Doctor”‚ is constantly time traveling to explore
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Half A Day Analysis Michael Weis Introduction to Literature Half A Day Analysis “Half A Day” by Naguib Mahfouz is an allegoric short story about the different stages of life. He talks about the different stages of life through his first day at school and how they relate to your entire life. He makes the story very slow at the beginning but towards the end it kind of fast-forwards to him as an old man and it comes out of nowhere. He is leaving from schooling and he is by the road waiting
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It is indeed a privilege and honour to be invited to speak on the occasion of the independence day . I take this opportunity to congratulate each one of you on this great day ‚ a day when India won her freedom 68 years back on 15th August 1947 and became a sovereign nation. Being born in a free country‚ living and taking breath in free air is a privilege given to us by great leaders. On this day we pay tribute to our great freedom fighters The country spans over 3‚million square kilometres from
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A Lucky Day It was a beautiful Sunday morning‚ my dad hit upon a sudden idea that he would like us to try something different we have never done before. When hearing that‚ I couldn’t wait to do something special and funny and expected where Dad was going to take us. With joy and excitement‚ we kids sang happily and talked cheerfully all the way in the car. When we arrived the quiet and peaceful country with a great view welcoming our visiting‚ I just felt like I was in a wonderland surrounded with
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S Selina Jamil Professor Jamil EGL 1020 7 February 2014 Following a Pattern in “Half a Day” Naguib Mahfouz’s suspenseful focus on life’s transience in “Half a Day‚” translated into English by Denys Johnson-Davies‚ enables him to trace the process through which the human mind usually loses its potential over and becomes oblivious to the passage of time. Journeying for the first time to school “alongside” his father‚ the Narrator as a child‚ who is conscious of “time” and of “a street lined with
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On Friday April 26‚ 2013 my Health Care Careers class and I visited Grand View Hospital for the day. Each of us were assigned to a new department to spend the day. I was assigned to the Telemetry B Unit. We went there to job shadow the nurses that work in that department. Our goal was to follow the nurses and observe them giving basic care to their patients. Upon arriving at Grand View I was excited and could not wait to get to my destination. Finding the Telemetry B unit was confusing because
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The Fateful Day It happened as my three excited brothers‚ parents‚ our golden beagle-basset‚ and I drove the last thirty minute stretch to my grandparent’s house. We’d been on the road for an hour‚ having just grabbed some lunch from a McDonald’s drive thru. I could never have imagined the drastic turn of events that took place that ordinary day. The day I understood how you never know how much you love someone‚ in my case my family‚ until you think you’ve almost lost them. “Are we there
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