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    "I will show you to the Baron." Guntlaf said‚ raising from the chair inside his small tent. "Thank you." The cavalryman‚ who wore the yellow and blue uniform of westergard’s hussars replied‚ following the cuirassier. He couldn’t help looking in disdain the long old-fashioned braids which shown below Guntlaf’s helmet. "The squadron seems to be in an unexpected good condition." The hussar said "My men try to put a brave face‚ but most of them are wounded." Guntlaf replied‚ silently cursing the unexpected

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    O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman O captain My captain was an expiring poem for me. This poem filled my mind with great memories snd make think of my loved ones who are now Angels.I am still feeling the connection. In my opinion‚ I can say that peopleare physically dead be we can keep them in our mind alive as long as we want them to be part of our lives. Father and I had different character. We had the same interest such as reading‚ watching news‚ assisting on conference-debates

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    of authors Gladwell and Baron. Whereas Gladwell states that social media is not the adequate tool to organize social or political activism‚ Baron maintains that even without social media available‚ people will continue to fight for what they believe in. One way that each other tries to persuade the readers is through logos. Gladwell begins talking about the sit-ins that happened in Greensboro in 1960 and continues giving other examples of activism. On the other hand Baron uses less evidence but incorporates

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    America’s Great Potato Baron Eric Schlosser’s biography “Fast Food Nation: Why the Fries Taste Good” explains how this invention started out of a simple potato by a man named John R. Simplot who was raised on a farm‚ un-educated and by his own account‚ left home at a young age. According to Eric Schlosser’s claim‚ “John Richard Simplot‚ America’s great potato baron‚ whose seemingly inexhaustible energy and willingness to take risk built an empire base on French fries” (Schlosser par. 2). The

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    PLP Task 4B: Numeracy STEP 1 BASIC OPERATIONS: Just like me Mostly like me Like me Sometimes like me Never like me Know how to add‚ subtract‚ divide and multiply Understand importance of order of operations‚ BODMAS Convert fractions to decimals‚ to percentages‚ to fractions Convert percentages to quantities Calculate money and give change MEASUREMENT: ALGEBRA: PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS: Just like me Mostly

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    William Thomson‚ 1st Baron Kelvin OM‚ GCVO‚ PC‚ PRS‚ PRSE (/ˈkɛlvɪn/; 26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907)‚ was an Irish and British mathematical physicist and engineerwho was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics‚ and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. He worked closely with mathematics professor Hugh Blackburn in his work

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    I. Read the following passage carefully‚ and answer all the questions A Moment of Madness It was Arvind’s birthday. In the afternoon there would be a cake and a party‚ but it would be like other birthdays‚ and Arvind was eleven. So in the morning‚ he collected his friends‚ Jimmy and Paudeni‚ and they set off to the forest that lay on the hillside in a huge half-moon behind the village. When they reached the first few trees they stopped‚ listening to the sounds of the birds and searching

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    The Red Baron is the autobiography of the famous German flyer‚ Manfred von Richthofen. The book was published in Garden City‚ New York by Doubleday & Company‚ Inc. in 1969. In 230 pages‚ The Red Baron‚ demonstrates what warfare is like from the eyes of von Richthofen. The book was crafted using entires to his diary and letters he has written to his family. Manfred von Richthofen was born in Kleinberg‚ a small town near Breslau (Now Wrocław‚ Poland)‚ May 2nd 1892. He was born the eldest in to an

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    erudite terms are only important in upholding these ideas. The main themes of his "O Captain! My captain!" are death of a hero‚ family‚ a journey‚ and defeat vs. victory. The themes are supported by a variety of concrete stylistic techniques‚ including tone‚ apostrophe‚ allusions‚ archetypes‚ and repetition. Death of a hero is the first theme to consider. It’s obvious the narrator has great respect for the Captain‚ rendered by tones of compassion‚ reverence‚ and ceremony in the poem. "Exult‚ O shores

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    The book‚ Among the Barons‚ is set in a place where the government doesn’t allow a third child.Luke Garner (one of the main characters) was hiding from the Population Police for 12 years.Until‚ Luke got the identity of Lee Grant‚ a Baron‚ and was sent to a all boy boarding school as Lee.This thrilling book was written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and the genre of this book is Mystery.This book is amazing and it always has so much action and suspense going on throughout the book. The main characters

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