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    I sat down on the park bench by the Mirror Lake that was closest to the fountain. Even though nobody was sitting on the seven foot long bench‚ I sat on one corner occupying the minimum amount of space possible. Only after sitting on the wooden bench I realize that the bench was still slightly wet from previous night’s heavy rain. Though autumn had stripped away the youthful leaves of deciduous trees around the lake‚ it brought a strange nostalgic beauty to the campus. Dry and crispy fallen leaves

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    Before sunrise They meet cute on a train in Austria‚ and striking up a conversation. He is an America with an Eurail pass on his way to Vienna to catch a cheap plane back home. She is French‚ a student returning to Paris after visiting her grandmother. They go to the buffet car‚ drink some coffee‚ keep talking‚ and he come up with this crazy idea when the train arrive at Vienna: Why couldn’t she get off the train with him in Vienna and so they can be together until he catch the airplane. “Imagine

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    Spherical Mirrors A spherical mirror is a mirror which has the shape of a piece cut out of a spherical surface. There are two types of spherical mirrors: concave‚ and convex. These are illustrated in Fig. 68. The most commonly occurring examples of concave mirrors are shaving mirrors and makeup mirrors. As is well-known‚ these types of mirrors magnify objects placed close to them. The most commonly occurring examples of convex mirrors are the passenger-side wing mirrors of cars. These type of mirrors

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    Tricks With Mirrors by Margaret Atwood In Part I of Tricks With Mirrors‚ Atwood uses a seemingly vague introduction to the subject matter‚ but gets straight to the point. Within five lines‚ she distinctly identifies her role as a mirror as she says‚ "I enter with you and become a mirror‚" (4-5). She gives the impression that she is merely an object in this relationship. She is a mirror through which her self-absorbed lover may view himself. "Mirrors are the perfect lovers‚" she states (6-7). They

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    I Knew This Was My Moment

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    “I knew this was my moment.” “Dear diary‚” I started to write on one of the blank pages of my diary. For the past few months‚ my diary has been my only companion. These pages are where I write my stories and let my imagination run free while I pour my heart out on each page. I continued to write. “I’ve decided that‚ for today’s diary entry‚ I’ll write a story. A story I have never had the courage to write. But lately‚ it is all I have been thinking about. I need to get it out of my head and

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    highlights the contrast between the permanence of circumstance and the possibility of a fruitful future. While Alexie provides somber backstories for several leading characters of the story‚ such as Thomas Builds-the-Fire‚ Chess and Checkers‚ Junior‚ Victor‚ and Robert Johnson‚ he uses each individual character to juxtapose how reactions to the past can affect the future. Furthermore‚ Alexie explores the theme of reconstruction and how the idea of tragedy itself can be repurposed into a new possibility

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    In  "yancey’s "book Jesus I never knew" in  the last chapter titled "what he left behind". When I first read the title I could releate a lot to this title. I remember after graduating high school I was at home applying to college. My little cousin was  in elementary school she brought her assignment from her  Christian religious study class and one of the question was "what did Jesus leave behind for us?" my little cousin said to me "what’s the answer" I said "he left so many things behind for us

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    Given what I have experienced in The Civic Mirror game and what I have learned about the United States I think that government and politics are paramount to keep our society stable and running smoothly‚ maintain order‚ and give the people an organized voice through voting and representation. One reason that I think that government and politics are necessary is because they are the building blocks of our society. If we were able to maintain a balanced society‚ protecting natural rights and limiting

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    Mirror Image Personal Response Our society judges too much on physical appearances. A society such as todays‚ I think judges everyone too much on how the look. Such as how tall a person is‚ skin colour‚ hair colour‚ and body size. From my experience as a teenage girl‚ there is a lot of pressure in society and surrounding community to be thin and have a certain look. Such as have straight hair‚ white straight teeth‚ to have no acne on your face‚ and to wear the clothes that are in fashion

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    The focal length of convex mirror Date of exp: 16/1/2015 Sub group: Ali Emad - mobeen jafer - mortadha abd al-aaly Apparatus Convex mirror and holder‚ small plane mirror and wooden clamp Convex lens and holder. two mounted pins‚ metre rule or optical bench. Method: Place a mounted pin at a distance from the convex lens greater than the focal length so that a real image of the pin is produced. Locate this image by means of the second pin. Place the convex mirror between this second pin and

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