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    An Indian Former

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    An Indian former * Introduction- India is an agriculture country. It is a land of farmers. They live in village and die in village. They lead a very simple life. Their houses are made of mud and straw. They are very small and simple. The farmers are the true sons of the motherland. Gandhiji said India lives in village. * His Dress- the farmers do not wear fashionable dresses. They wear simple clothes. Generally they wear dhoti‚ kurta and a cap. The women wear cheap and simple dhotis

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    A quantity surveyor (QS) is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with building costs.The profession is one that provides a qualification gained following formal education‚ specific training and experience that provides a general set of skills that are then applied to a diverse variety of problems.[1] Predominantly these relate to costs and contracts on construction projects. Other areas in which QS find employment include property surveys for hidden defects on behalf

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    Indian Mathematicians

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    Indian Mathematicians RAMANUJAN He was born on 22na of December 1887 in a small village of Tanjore district‚ Madras. He failed in English in Intermediate‚ so his formal studies were stopped but his self-study of mathematics continued. He sent a set of 120 theorems to Professor Hardy of Cambridge. As a result he invited Ramanujan to England. Ramanujan showed that any big number can be written as sum of not more than four prime numbers. He showed that how to divide the number into two or more squares

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    I am here today to discuss the two Poems‚ ‘If I was the son of an Englishmen’ and ‘the man from Snowy River’ and their different representations and stereotypical aspects in both poems about Australia and Australians are fair and accurate or if they are exaggerated and inaccurate. The author Komninos Zervos wrote the poem ‘If I was the son of an Englishman’ in 1985‚ and later wrote the poem ‘Nobody calls me a Wog anymore’ in 1990. And the author Banjo Patterson the writer of ‘The man from Snowy River’

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    The Top 20 Astronomers

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    Huygens was a Dutch scientist. He lived from 1629-1695. He proposed the earliest theory about the nature of light‚ a phenomena that puzzled scientists for hundreds of years. His improvements on the telescope allowed him to make the first observations of Saturn’s rings and to discover its moon‚ Titan. CARL SAGAN Sagan was an American astronomer. He lived from 1934-1996. He may not have been a great scientist in comparison to others‚ but he is one of the most famous astronomers. Sagan

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    confederates surrendered to the union. After the civil war was over all of the slaves became free. They were call freedman. In some states they were not one hundred percent free though. Even though the slaves became free white people still did not like them and they were very racist to them. In Mississippi they had black codes which restricted blacks to do many things. How did whites attempt to reimpose bondage on their former slaves? The African Amercian ’s were not allowed to rent or lease land

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    Farmers

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    Farmers and the Populist Movement MAIN IDEA Farmers united to address their economic problems‚ giving rise to the Populist movement. Terms & Names WHY IT MATTERS NOW •Oliver Hudson Kelley •Grange •Farmers’ Alliances •Populism Many of the Populist reform issues‚ such as income tax and legally protected rights of workers‚ are now taken for granted. •bimetallism •gold standard •William McKinley •William Jennings Bryan One American’s Story As a young adult in the

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    duty of quantity surveyor

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    quantity surveyor. Tips:  Highlight the key points  Identify duties/ roles/ responsibilities/ obligations/ steps to be taken in each case – as a QS  Relate to reasonable standard of skill and care  Relate to expected standard (if below expected standard may cause negligence)  Cite relevant cases A Quantity Surveyor (QS) is a professional which is essentially construction accountant who manages the financial costs and contracts within construction industry. A Quantity Surveyor is involved

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    The Role of the Quantity Surveying Profession The origins of the Quantity Surveyor (QS) profession can dated back during the 19th century where from the earlier "measurer"‚ a specialist tradesman‚ who readied schedules for a building project in which all of the construction materials and labour activities and were quantified. Based on this information‚ competing builders could submit priced tenders. Because all tenders were based on the same schedule of information‚ they could be easily compared

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    Banneker unmasks his views on slavery by dispensing his thoughts onto a letter to Thomas Jefferson. Banneker refutes Thomas Jefferson’s published ideas about the inferiority of blacks by quoting Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal". Banneker reveals that the crude treatment to slaves is immoral by using parallelism and appeals. By using parallelism‚ Banneker demonstrates the unjustness of slavery. He begins his sentences

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