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    Speaker’s Relationship with the Audience: The Brandenburg Gate Speech Ronald Reagan‚ the former president of the United States from 1981 to 1989‚ spoke in the Brandenburg Gate. Ronald Reagan gave his famous “Tear Down this Wall” speech in Berlin. Many people in Germany were ready for freedom and others wanted it as well. Many people felt there should be peace within the city. Ronald Reagan wanted to persuade the Soviets and Communists that change and openness was a great thing. Ronald Reagan’s speech

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    Why The Ishtar Gate

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    the construction of The Ishtar Gate‚ one of eight gateways into Babylon‚ a city in what we now call Iraq. The gate’s name comes from Ishtar‚ the goddess of love and war. Years later‚ during 1899 to 1917‚ Robert Koldewey and his team‚ excavated the Ishtar Gate. The Ishtar gate was reconstructed in the 1930s‚ and currently resides at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The Ishtar Gate stood 46ft high‚ and 100ft wide; built mainly of blue varnished bricks. The Ishtar gate features intimidating patterns of

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    Emily Ingalls English 101 Professor Parkin 23 September 2014 Stuck in the Middle: A Critique of Robert Bryce’s “The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence” In the article The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence by Robert Bryce‚ Bryce argues that energy independence is unachievable. This topic of discussion is important at this time because global warming is a big issue among environmentalists‚ and most Americans believe that if we have energy independence‚ then that will solve our global

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    Hero Bill Gates

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    heroic qualities and is able to be called a hero is Bill Gates. Bill Gates is able to be depicted as a hero because of his generous donations to charity‚ creation of Microsoft‚ and promotions of scientific research. To begin with‚ Bill Gates has made numerous donations to various charities throughout his career. Bill Gates’ generous donations demonstrate his willingness to help others and make sacrifices. It has been estimated that Bill Gates has donated over 36 billion dollars‚ half of his net worth

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    Essay On The Raven's Gate

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    Book review 4 by Justin Shain: The Raven’s Gate The Raven’s Gate by Anthony Horowitz is a thirdperson horror novel. The Raven’s gate is set in the UK around the early 21century. It’s a story about a fourteen year old boy named Matt freeman. Matt has always been different from the other kids‚ his parents died in a car crash when he was young and the night before he saw it while he was dreaming. Matt’s aunt took him in after his parents death. Matt was always in trouble with the police until one day

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    How far was King Louis VII responsible for the failure of the second crusade? (24 marks) There were many reasons for the failure of the second crusade. One of these was definitely the mistakes made by Louis VII but there were also other reasons that inffluenced the failure of the crusade. These included the lack of Byzantine aid by Manuel Commenus and also the rivalry between Kings. Firstly‚ Byzantiu did play a part in the failure of the failure of the second crusade. One reason for this was

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    Bill Gates Entrepreneur

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    Executive Summary Bill Gates is one of the 21st Centuries most successful entrepreneurs. This report will take a closer look into Bill Gates whilst simultaneous exploring entrepreneurship and its role in business‚ entrepreneurial approaches to opportunity and innovation‚ management and leadership‚ growth and longevity in additional to entrepreneurial traits and characteristics. Contents Executive Summary i 1.0 Introduction 1 2.0 The Opportunity Recognised 1 3.0 The Entrepreneur 2 4.0 Managing

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    louis howard

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    R.S Prep-why is the bible so important to Christians: B question The Bible is important for Christians because it is the word of God and in the New Testament God speaks to us directly through the life of his son (see Hebrew 1:1‚2). The bible is also very important to Christians because it reinforces the existence of Jesus and provides proof of his existence through the letters from Peter when he stated that “we were eyewitnesses of his majesty” (see 2 Pet 1:16 -18). The Bible is an eyewitness

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    Operation Broken Gate

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    profession. Independence is the first common issue considered by the SEC. To detect frauds or violations of independence of the CPAs and CPA firms in providing auditing services for their clients and protect the public interest‚ “Operation Broken Gate” was launched by the SEC in October‚ 2013. Through the

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    Bill Gates Article

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    Dorr Eng. 122 September 9‚ 2013 Robot in Every Home Bill Gates‚ Co-founder of Microsoft has another dream similar to the one he had 50 years ago. His dream back then was to put a computer in every household in America. Back then‚ this never before seen industry that can change the world had a very foggy future and it had a long way before anything really significant happened. It was the computer industry and 30 years ago B. Gates and P. Allen were working on foundation for the information age

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