Sun)‚ and the Moon is in orbit around the Earth‚ not the Sun. The stars are distant objects that do not revolve around the Sun. Instead‚ the Earth is assumed to rotate once in 24 hours‚ causing the stars to appear to revolve around the Earth in the opposite direction. In this new ordering the Earth is just another planet (the third outward from the Sun)‚ and the Moon is in orbit around the Earth‚ not the Sun. The stars are distant objects that do not revolve around the Sun. Instead‚ the Earth is
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Name _____________________________ Date ____________ Period _______ Completing the Square Day 1 For each expression‚ find the number you would add to make it a perfect square trinomial. Leave fraction answers as improper fractions (no mixed numbers or decimals). Then factor each trinomial. 1. x2 + 10x + _______ 2. y2 – 6y + ¬¬¬¬_______ 3. z2 – 8z + _______ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ 4. x2 + 12x + _______ 5. x2 – x + _______ 6.
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World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. It was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5–16 June 1972. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972.[1] The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s anthology‚ The Thing Around Your Neck‚ explores the difficulties Nigerian women face both in Nigeria and America. She highlights how cultural values can be a barrier to women having their own voice as in Nigeria‚ due to the patriarchal values of society‚ women are often disempowered by the men in their lives. Many of the female characters are disempowered and do not have the means to direct their own lives. Females are often financially and emotionally at the mercy of their
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SPEECH: RAMI MASANGO 10 JUNE 2011 WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY YOU ARE YOUR ENVIRONMENT! Good day colleagues. The World Environment Day is a reminder of how grateful we need to be to Mother Nature‚ which sustains all forms of life. This is the day to focus our thoughts and our energies to make collective efforts towards protecting the environment. World Environment Day was commemorated last Sunday on 5 June. It is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention
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The critics did not like the books and the reviews were awful. Next year he revisited his novel One Day In The Afternoon of the World and it was published in May 1964. The reviews were not too positive. As he was unable to write a great novel he was striving for‚ he returned to writing short stories and wrote with the same vigor as he did in his youth writing one story
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The Thing Around Your Neck Many immigrants back in Africa dreamed of having a life in America‚ where they can live free‚ fulfill their dreams and have a future. In this heartbreaking story‚ “The Thing Around Your Neck”‚ by Chimamands Negozi Adichie is a story told in second person. A young woman named Akunna who wins the lottery for an American visa. She leaves everything behind to receive education and become someone in the future. Author Chimamands explains how immigrants come to America thinking
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There are 365 days out of the year and the only time people can express how they truly feel about the opposite sex is on Valentine’s Day. The statistics show about 62% of adults will celebrate this holiday in the United States. This special holiday is celebrated in some countries‚ although other places around the world it’s a normal work day for some people. Around this time of year people go all out just to express how they feel about that special person hoping to find true love. However‚ many people
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Independence Day What is an Independence Day? Independence Day‚ observed annually on 15 August in India commemorating the nation’s independence from Kingdom of Great Britain on 15 August 1947. India attained independence following an independence movement noted for largely nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by the Indian National Congress (INC). Independence coincided with the partition of India‚ in which the British Indian Empire was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan;
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INDEPENDENCE DAY "At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru (on Indian Independence Day‚ 1947) “Every year‚ we celebrate our Independence Day with great fervour as well as joy and justifiably so‚ as it commemorates that day‚ when after many years of subjugation‚ our country gained its freedom.
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