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    Description of Artefacts

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    Artifact Descriptions Clara Barton first tasted nursing at age 11 when she helped her brother recover after a fall. She learned how to use leeches‚ a medical technique of the time‚ to heal him. This was one of my most interesting and fun artifacts. At first I wasn’t sure on how to create a leech but I got several ideas. I ended up buying some gummy worms and food coloring. Women were not allowed on the battlefield during war. Clara was required to have a pass from an officer or even the president

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    David Livingston - First To Cross Africa With The Gospel By: Mrs. J.H. Worcester‚ Jr. David Livingston was born in Blantyre‚ Scotland on 19 March 1813. He was raised in poverty. His parents were both devout believers and his father was a strict tee-totaler. David was an avid reader and had a thirst for knowledge. He studied books of science and travel but readily avoided religious topics until he discovered Dicks "Philosophy of Religion" and "Philosophy of a Future State"‚ the latter with

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    “Sure Thing” response essay In David Ives’ play "Sure Thing‚" the key and only characters are Bill and Betty. The two characters meet‚ by happenstance in a restaurant and the play unfolds from there with the punch line always being‚ “Sure thing”. The comedy is centered on a bell that one of the two characters ring when the exchange takes an unwanted twist; the bell signifies that the question asked or conversation being held begins anew with a different outcome. With the bell ringing‚ it is almost

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    The New CIO Preparing for IT Leadership E xc e r p t e d fro m The Adventures of an IT Leader By Robert D. Austin‚ Richard L. Nolan‚ and Shannon O’Donnell Harvard Business Press Boston‚ Massachusetts ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-3008-7 3009BC Copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America This chapter was originally published as chapter 1 of The Adventures of an IT Leader‚ copyright 2009 Harvard Business School

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    Hume begins section nine with the assertion that we reason by way of analogy. That is‚ we come to expect certain events from particular causes. Being presented with similar causes will give rise to inferences‚ and different cases with varying degrees of similarity will have corresponding levels of analogy‚ with very similar cases resulting in inferences that are taken to be certain and conclusive. Hume provides an example of a strong case of similarity‚ in which a man‚ who is familiar with iron‚

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    Jennifer Castillo    Mrs. Gates     4A    Henry David Thoreau      “It’s both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply”(d.j). “The Moon” is a poem  about a man who fell in love with the moon. The man has a faulty life‚ but his love for the moon  helps him look past the life he hates. The man describes his love for the moon in a passionate  way‚ and his love for her makes him lose sight of the problems within his life. He sees the  moon’s light as a sign that darkness is beauty a

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    David Foster Wallace In this essay I am going to do my best to give the reader the most informative explanation (within my constraints) of one of the most brilliant authors of the age‚ David Foster Wallace. He was the author of many great and insightful (at times‚ dark) works. Some of the more popular/well-known pieces being _The Broom of the System‚ Girl with Curious Hair‚ Infinite Jest‚ A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again‚ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men‚ Oblivion_‚ and finally his incomplete

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    Ricardo Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience Throughout history the government’s gained too much power are likely to be corrupt. It is up to citizens to go against government and get rid of any negativity. In order to change the government citizens should vote for an individual who can change the country in a positive way. Henry David Thoreau was a philosopher‚ observer‚ and writer best known for his attacks on American

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    Henry David Thoreau: An American Non-Conformist Could you survive living in the woods by yourself for twenty two months? Would you be willing to go to jail to protest something you truly believed in? Henry David Thoreau did both of these things in his short life. Thoreau was a carpenter‚ ecologist‚ writer and philosopher. He was never famous in his lifetime‚ and actually many of his peers thought some of his ideas and actions were crazy‚ but we now look back on Thoreau as one of the first great

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    Synthesis: Thoreau and His Influences From the infamous high school sit-in from the class of ‘01 or Gandhi’s well known salt march‚ Henry David Thoreau paved the way of passive protest with his display against the government when he wouldn’t pay taxes. Thoreau wouldn’t pay his taxes because he knew that his and everyone else’s tax payments would go to support the Mexican-American War. Henry didn’t know he would inspire some of the greatest civil activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma

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