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    West Side Story

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    Beth Cooper Professor Barrett Introduction to Drama West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical’s plot is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York in the mid-1950s‚ the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks‚ two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation

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    Good Afternoon‚ thank you for coming to our 8th grade promotion. 9 years ago I walked onto this campus for the first time hand in hand with my mom. Being only 5 years old‚ I had no clue regarding what would happen in the years to come. All I knew was in that moment‚ I was utterly terrified. Looking back on it now though‚ I had nothing to worry about. These past years have been eventful‚ exciting‚ and strange. I have formed new friendships‚ and left some behind as I’ve grown. I have been challenged

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    Dying in your 40’s. Relying on candles. Manual Labor for everything. This is the reality of Anthem. Almost all technological advancements were lost during a time we cannot mention. After these times‚ there has been an effort to keep them at bay and eradicate all evidence of its existence in order to keep the society in control. Anthem’s technological primitiveness is due to the fear of the science and technology and its lack of progress is due to the loss of individuality. Inventions are not easily

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    Throughout the book Eldest‚ Eragon can be characterized as naive and adapt. To begin‚ Eragon can be characterized as naive. One example is Eragon’s mindless pursuit of Arya. Eragon says‚ “Arya‚ I’ll do anything to win your hand. I would follow you to the ends of the earth. I would build a palace for you with nothing but my bare hands. I would—” (Paolini‚ 473). This conversation left Arya angry and she clearly does not wish to speak with him any further‚ but Eragon finds her to be cruel‚ proving

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    As young men born in the same year (1955)‚ they set out from the same starting point‚ but with radically different personalities. In the early days of personal computers‚ both dropped out of college and launched their own businesses. Of the two‚ the late Steve Jobs was always the quick‚ live-for-the-moment hare‚ while Bill Gates was the dispassionate‚ lawyerly‚ bide-your-time tortoise. For two decades‚ the race between the two went according to script‚ with the hare jumping out to a huge early

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    Ode to the West Wind

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    Q. Critical Appreciation of Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. / Bring out the revolutionary zeal of Shelley in the poem Ode to the West Wind. / Critically analyse Shelley’s use of imagery in the poem Ode to the West Wind. A. Ode to the West Wind‚ the single most renowned and anthologized of Shelley’s poem‚ presents him as the visionary idealist and romantic revolutionary who makes a fervent plea to the greatest of natural forces – the west wind – to disseminate his message of reform and change among

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    West Teleservice IPO

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    memorandum to: from: subject: West TELESERVICE IPO date: May 15‚ 2014 After a careful analysis of the teleservice industry and the players in the space‚ we chose the following companies as comparable to West Teleservice: SITEL Corporation‚ APAC Teleservices and Precision Response Corporation. West Teleservice is an integrated teleservice provider whose business model is based on recurring large volume application with focus on state of art technology‚ quality of service‚ long term

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    Point of View

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    freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble‚ and to petition the government for a redress grievances.”  Types of Speech that are not Protected by the First Amendment and may be Totally Forbidden by the Government • • • • • • Obscene Speech relevant to Defamation information technology Incitement of Panic Incitement to Crime “Fighting Words” Sedition (incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government) } Obscene Speech  Miller

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    West African Jihads

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    did not fully believe in the Islamic state and resided in West Africa. The Jihads of this era not only changed the faith of many people‚ but also the landscape of West African democracy. Although Islamic Jihads had occurred in the past‚ they never surmounted to the magnitude of those of the 18th century. What factors and leaders caused the West African Jihads‚ of the 18th and 19th centuries‚ to be so effective? The people of West Africa were tired of governments who constantly over taxed

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    children work out in factories and fields. Factory owners hired children to work in factories because they were small enough to fit in places that were too tight for a grown adult to fit into and kids were cheaper for factory owners to pay. In the Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem babies are taken away from their birth mothers and put in a home with other children to be raised as a group. In Anthem‚ Equality 72521 talks of where he was raised‚ The Home of Infants‚ and the living conditions he faced.

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