The word zero came via French zéro from Venetian zero‚ which (together with cypher) came via Italian zefiro from Arabic صفر‚ ṣafira = "it was empty"‚ ṣifr = "zero"‚ "nothing". This was a translation of the Sanskrit word shoonya (śūnya)‚ meaning "empty". The first known English use was in 1598.[4][5][6][7] ------------------------------------------------- History Mesopotamia By the middle of the 2nd millennium BC‚ the Babylonian mathematics had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system
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By: Nnamdi Anige In the book We beat the street Dr.Hunt‚ Dr‚ Jenkins and‚ Dr‚ Davis show how you do not have to get caught up in everything your friends do. When you do make mistakes‚ learn from those mistakes. These 3 doctors beat the hood‚ stealing‚ and jail in their neighborhood by staying positive. One thing they show in the book is how they beat the hood. For example “Quit throwin bottles in the street‚ man” (21). This shows how they would not let their neighborhood be destroyed and
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Audrey Vertovec May 15‚ 2010 Cultural Analysis Essay Influences of Hip Hop on Today’s Generation: Rising Deviance Hip-hop is a popular form of music in today’s mainstream culture. In its first realm it appeared in forms of jazz as a verse style capturing the absence of melody‚ but has since evolved into a form of capitalizing egoism through criminal references. Therefore‚ deviance within youth in society is rising thanks to hip-hop music and the trends it provokes. Throughout Rap’s
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In the novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry there are a few reasons why the schools attended by blacks are inferior to the schools attended by whites. On Little Man’s first day of school‚ the students are given textbooks. Little Man opens the book and notices the racist remarks on the first page. The books first issuance was September 1922 and had been used by white children until the condition was “very poor”. Little Man noticed and politely asked for a new book. He did not get a different book and
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In Writing to the Beat by Perry Garfinkel the writer of this essay explains how drumming has influenced her writing she sates the because of her attraction to music she has also developed an attraction for reading and writing and this is because she says all writers have a rhythm she explains that when people choose two close sounding words they are more entailed to reading that book because of the beat. The author of this essay states “We sense when a beat is missing from a line”. I believe that
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Currently I’m In the 7th grade and this year I plan on going on to A Honor roll. The reason on why I want to achieve this goal Is because I want to do good In highschool and college so when I get there I would know most of these things. Another goal of mine Is to make a lot of friends because in times of sorrow they would be there to help me out or help me with a question. Also I would want to look for a upcoming job In the future. This is important because when the future comes I would know what
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One Passionate Night with Outstanding Rock Bands Have you ever experienced an overload of every sense at once? Well‚ I had when I went to see 2013 RODFEST of June 5. It was truly a sensory overloading festival and nearly drove me crazy. My body shook as if they stood on the middle of the big earthquake because of the monstrous excitement that held me. Also‚ the quality of sound was so extremely magnificent that I could feel every step of guitarists’ fingering with superb performances. And every
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greatest band of the rock history. Some might say that we’re exaggerating. How can we consider a group that never changed anything since its start as "big"? What credibility these old rockers dressed in black leather have at the beginning of the new millennium ? These are the two criticisms that are usually made concerning the four "Big Apple Men"‚ and that are denied by irrefutable facts: more than 2.000 concerts; about 20 albums of great quality‚ 3 of which are part of the rock history; thousands
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“Beat the White with the Red Wedge” is a 1920 constructivism propaganda poster by a Russian artist‚ Lazar Markovich Lissitzky. The pierced red wedge in the poster symbolises the bolsheviks‚ who are penetrating and defeating their opponents‚ the White movement‚ during the Russian Civil War. It is considered symbolic of that war in Western publications. It is an example of abstraction and also suprematism which is an art based on geomoetric shapes. Those shapes move through the picture creating war
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from exercising‚ if the heart rate is in the target heart rate zone. Age‚ x Maximum number of heart beats‚ y 20 140 30 133 40 126 50 119 60 112 70 105 a) Plot the data in the table above. What kind of pattern can you observe from your graph? b) What type of relationship appears to exist between the maximum number of heart beats and age? The maximum number of heart beats decreases as the age increases. c) Select any two points to find the average rate of change‚ and the function
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