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    Native American Pow Wows

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    A Pow Wow is a gathering of North America’s Native people. The word Pow Wow comes from the Narragansett word powwaw‚ which means "spiritual leader". A modern pow-wow is a specific type of event where both Native American and non-Native American people meet to dance‚ sing‚ socialize‚ and honor American Indian culture. There is generally a dancing competition‚ often with significant prize money awarded. Pow-wows vary in length from one day session of five to six hours to three days. Major pow-wow or

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    Why Did The Pows Escape

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    Having wasted enormous resources on recapturing Allied prisoners of war (POWs)‚ the Germans move the most determined to a new‚ high-security prisoner of war camp. The commandant‚ Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger‚ tells the senior British officer‚ Group Capt Ramsey‚ "There will be no escapes from this camp." Ramsey replies that it is their duty to try to escape. After several failed escape attempts on the first day‚ the POWs settle into the prison camp. Gestapo and SS agents bring Squadron Leader Roger

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    WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND My grandparents would always say “What goes around surely does come back around.” Looking back on my life I see that I have made many mistakes and majority due to my lack of patience and never listening to what my elders told me. If I had only listened to their words of wisdom and took into consideration what was being told to me‚ I would have saved myself a lot of trouble. Coming The first valuable lesson I learned was my ninth grade year of high school‚ when

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    in Cumberland House‚ Saskatchewan and Terrace‚ British Columbia‚ this wasn’t my first Pow Wow. I will say I don’t remember going to any in Cumberland House as I was only two when we lived there‚ but I there are quite a few funny pictures of me‚ a chubby blond haired blue eyed baby in my pink jacket sitting among all the brown skinned‚ brown eyed‚ and black haired Native babies. I do however remember going to Pow Wows in Terrace. These two places are very different from each other‚ the Costal peoples

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    Corey s Camels POW

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    Jason Vo Ms. King 3/11/15 Period 1 Due Date: 3/13/15 Corey’s Camels POW Problem Statement The problem basically is about a camel named Corey that has to carry 3000 bananas to a place 1000 miles away. But‚ Corey can only carry 1000 bananas and Corey has to eat one banana for every mile she walks/runs/skips/hops‚ etc. In addition to that‚ there is a refrigerator at every mile. So the question being asked is how many bananas can Corey get to the market with all these requirements?

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    What Goes Around Comes Around “What goes around comes around” is a well known saying which means that whatever we do in this life to other people‚ whether it is good or bad‚ the same will return to us. I remember back in my primary school‚ I read a storybook borrowed from the library that was so much related to this idiom. Although it was just a short story‚ the moral in it was such a true fact of life‚ and could really lead the life in a good and positive way. The story was about a man helping

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    Shoe Horn Sonata Speech

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    response. | In the Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ John Misto uses an analysis of dramatic‚ language and visual techniques to construct powerful images of Bridie and Sheila’s experiences in the prisoner of war camp (POW). Misto explores‚ through the two friend’s testimonies‚ the untold story of hundreds and thousands of women imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II. He conveys these experiences through the use of techniques such as 1st person narration‚ symbolism and music. In the Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ Misto effectively

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    Imp Linear Nim Pow

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    9/12/10 IMP POW Linear Nim In this POW‚ we had to play a game called Linear Nim. In this game‚ we drew 10 lines on a paper‚ and we had to take turns crossing out 1‚ 2‚ or 3 of the marks. The person that crossed out the last mark was the winner. The first task of this POW was to find a winning strategy for this game. After we found this out‚ we were supposed to make variations to the game‚ for instance starting with more or less marks‚ or allowing a player to cross out more or less marks. We were

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    Little Big Horn

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    * Custer entered West Point the U.S. Military Academy. He graduated last in a class of 34 in June of 1861. * In the two years since the war had broken out‚ he had been promoted several times all the way to the rank of Brigadier General of Volunteers‚ commanding the Michigan Cavalry Brigade. * Through the rest of the war he steadily advanced in responsibility and rank. By war’s end in 1865‚ Custer commanded an entire Cavalry Division holding the rank of Major General. In many cases‚ Generals

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    “A Sticky Gum Problem” POW 4 Problem statement: The next scenario is very similar. In this one‚ Ms. Hernandez passed a different gumball machine the next day with three different colors Once again her twins each want a gumball of the same color‚ and each gumball is still one cent. What is the most amount of money that Ms. Hernandez would have to spend in order to get each of her daughters the same color gumball? In the last scenario‚ Mr. Hodges and his triplets pass the same gumball machine

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