Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian philosopher who made an important contribution to mathematics. She was born on May 16‚ 1718 in Milan‚ Italy and died on January 9‚ 1799. She was known as the first women in the Western World that a reputation of having achievements in mathematics. However‚ she typically wasn’t famous‚ but still made an impact on the mathematic world. Her life was simple‚ but she decided to give up mathematics in her life because it wasn’t what she was interested in. During her
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There are many reasons why I elected Maria Goretti as my saint‚ the main reason: being due to the fact‚ that in here few years of living she endured many hindrances and yet she still managed to keep a concrete spirit and keep a bosom relationship with God. At only the age of 9 she had been deprived of her father to a gruesome disease‚ malaria. I personally can’t imagine how grueling it must be to lose a parent. Not to mention‚ that they were struggling financially while her father was living‚ now
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1. Decision Maker A: Maria Hernandez. 2. Issue Identification A: Maria is concerned whether she will be able to pay her father interest on his loan of 6% per year. A challenge Maria realized she is facing is the fact that the equipment and software she had purchased had a technological life of no more than 3 years from the time that she had purchased them. She is also facing a problem in drafting meaninngful reports to present to her father. Last‚ she is concerned of the reasons behind the fact that
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FROM MARIA COLWELL TO VICTORIA CLIMBIE: REFLECTIONS ON A GENERATION OF PUBLIC INQUIRIES INTO CHILD ABUSE Plenary paper by Professor Nigel Parton for the BASPCAN conference‚ July 2003 (published in Child Abuse Review (2004)‚ 13 (2)‚ pp80-94) In his statement to the House of Commons when presenting Lord Laming’s Inquiry Report into the death of Victoria Climbié‚ on 28 January 2003‚ the Secretary of State for Health‚ Alan Milburn‚ said: It is an all too familiar cry. In the past few decades there
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Recruitment in the workplace Section 1 - To what extent was the human-resource documentation fit for purpose and likely to produce the end result you were looking for Job Advertisement What was the purpose of the document? The purpose of the advert was to merely attract potential applicants to the role being portrayed and influence them to apply‚ so in this specific case‚ the role of this advertisement was to attract individuals who were interested in undertaking the role as a part time
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ADESOYE COLLEGE A’QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE FOUNDED JANUARY 1987 “WE ARE WHAT WE REPEATEDLY DO. EXCELLENCE‚ THIS NOT AN ACT BUT A HABIT” (Aristotle) PROSPECTUS TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE COLLEGE……………………………………………………. SCHOOL ANTHEM…………………………………………………….. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES………………………………………... PHILOSOPHY………………………………….. CODE OF CONDUCT……………… THE BOARD GOVERNORS……. ADMISSIONS………………. FEES……………………. GROUND FACILITIES CURRICULUM…………………………………………………………………… JUNIOR SECONDARY……………………......................... SENIOR
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During a time period in which advice literature on child rearing often prompted parents to use harsh means to raise their children‚ Lydia Maria Child’s The Mother’s Book stands out. Unlike other advice literature books from the 1800’s‚ it offers sensible advice without the need for severe punishments. In fact‚ in an excerpt of The Mother’s Book‚ included in the book Going to the Source‚ Child provides her suggestions for handling teenage daughters‚ and states that what a mother needs is “a ready
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the individual and the state is perpetuated in Metropolis‚ and it is in its plot that the modernists fears of the machine age are evident. Robot Maria is used as a narrative device in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to orchestrate chaos and disunity in the city‚ perpetuating the conflict between the Head and the Hands. Rotwang creates her as the antithesis of Maria and the personification of vice‚ so Joh Fredersen can use her to “…sow discord between them and her!” It is in the visual representation of the
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Maria Tatar’s new point of view on the famous old tales is that fairy tales served as a window into the world of grown-ups‚ providing a safe perch from which to explore children anxieties. In order to teach children to be good‚ but first we have to show them what’s bad. By adding some of the lurid staff‚ such as brutally violent‚ wicked stepmother‚ and wife-killing baron into the fairy tales to show the negative side. With parents appropriate explanations and their own cultural translations will
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Josef Rudolf Mengele was a very significant officer in Auschwitz‚ one of the many WWII concentration camps. He was born on March 16‚ 1911 and was in service as a German SS officer and physician from 1938-1945. He started out as a supervising physician for the selection of arriving prisoners and eventually worked his way up to becoming Chief Medical Officer at the main infirmary in Birkenau‚ the sister camp to Auschwitz. As Mengele had a Ph.D in anthropology and a doctorate in medicine from Frankfurt
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