Fabian Ochoa Carrie Spencer His 111 February 19‚ 2013 The Leadership of Alexander the Great Alexander the third of Macedon was considered to be the great (greatest?) ruler of Asia Minor during his conquest of the Persian Empire. As an effective general‚ Alexander won the majority of his battles during the conquest‚ and created new societies for the people. His success created an expansion of the Greek empire‚ and conquered many lands for Alexander to be considered a great leader‚ and the
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Math‚ and specifically Algebra‚ is used every day in people’s lives. Explain why you agree or disagree with that statement and provide examples to justify your stance. Include a useful example with numbers to support your claims. Yes‚ I do agree we use math and sometimes algebra everyday. For example‚ math which we use for the grocery store‚ shopping‚ paying bills‚ purchasing items and taxes. As a matter of fact whenever you have to buy‚ sell‚ or trade you’re using math or algebra in some kind
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Short Story Elements Checklist Title: I Stand Here Ironing Author: Tillie Olsen (Identify sentences/words/phrases in the story to support your information.) Title (Significance?): The title prepares us for the narrator before we learn anything about her. Just like the title says “I stand here ironing”‚ is exactly what she is doing. The title gives us details about the narrator life such as; does not have a lot of money and probably has a large family. Setting (Time‚ Place‚ Social Context-(Significance
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Two women‚ two authors‚ and two different stories raise that question and leaves many people to speculate the right answer. Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are the hosts of the two characters Stella Rondo and Miss Emily Grierson respectively‚ and both stories show the unique‚ yet cryptic tales of two women’s roles in a town and family. Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” speaks as an explanation of a story that includes a strange family‚ which the narrator
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world. Hearing their stories would help you learn about all the vast cultures out there‚ maybe understand them better‚ this could all lead to a more peaceful community due to the fact that you can help world leaders learn about the cultures of other countries and how to negotiate with them. When you looking back at great historical events or buildings like the pyramids of the Great Pyramid of Giza and not only be able to tell people that you’ve seen them but to be able to tell them "I saw them being built"and
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Drugs have been known for their horrific problem igniters‚ and have been heavily used by millions of Americans. The drugs became such a problem within
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“B4 Rosa – Here I Stand‚” “Najee Dorsey.” Claudette Colvin was fifteen-years-old when she refused to give up her bus seat. A young girl living in Montgomery was one of first to come in contact with bus segregation and refuse‚ but not many people know that. “Black leaders believed her young age‚ complexion and low social standing did not make for a strong face for the Civil Rights Movement‚ so her act went largely unrecognized.” (Rushworth) Her age played a huge role in many reasons why she wasn’t
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books to show what it is like to live in a specific culture. Throughout my first book‚ If I Ever Get Out Of Here‚ each character had different cultural components to their life. Lewis Blake ‚ one of the main characters‚ lives through life challenges every day. He is not blessed with things that most people have. For example‚his house is caving in‚
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Comparison of The Lottery and The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour”‚ by Kate Chopin; this story was about a wife who was told that her husband had died. The wife went through many emotions but the main emotion she went through upon hearing about her husband’s death was elation. She felt free from his presence in her life‚ but at the same time‚ she also felt sadness. She did not feel sadness for her husband’s death. She felt the sadness for her happiness about his death. “When she abandoned
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Flood Stories Comparison While most people have heard about the Hebrew flood story with Noah and his Arc‚ many do not know that there are two other flood stories in other cultures that are very similar in nature. All of these flood stories contain strikingly similar plots about a god who is angry and wipes out everyone in a flood‚ except a few lucky survivors who escape via some sort of boat. These two other stories are the Sumerian and Greek flood stories‚ and the similarities these stories share
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