Reconcile and Progress: Miltiades- Kaidy Li All Athenians shall forgive the past wrongs of those who aided the Thirty and will file no lawsuits against them. My fellow Athenians‚ dwelling too much on the past will surely hinder Athens in the future. If we focus on every trifling act committed‚ we will forget the real danger looming ahead of us- division. Nothing more would please Sparta and our enemies than to see Athens weak‚ suffering‚ and in turmoil. Considering all the land‚ young men‚ and
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“The Contribution of Calculus in the Social Progress” The history of calculus falls into several distinct time periods‚ most notably the ancient‚ medieval‚ and modern periods. The ancient period introduced some of the ideas of integral calculus‚ but does not seem to have developed these ideas in a rigorous or systematic way. Calculating volumes and areas‚ the basic function of integral calculus‚ can be traced back to the Egyptian Moscow papyrus (c. 1800 BC)‚ in which an Egyptian successfully
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Similarities between Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness.Much literary criticism find similarities between two books‚ merely because they have similar settings or address superficially similar issues. Such is the case with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.Although these two books do have much incommon‚ and focus on similar topics‚ they still have fundamentally different purposes. ThingsFall Apart tries to show that Africanculture was valuable‚ not primitive‚ while Heart
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Behavioral Change Results My behavioral change was to decrease my days of bad moods to only four in a month. I wanted to make this change because my moods had been affecting my productivity. With homework‚ graduate school applications‚ and an honors project‚ it was imperative for me to be productive. I used the Profile of Mood states questionnaire to track my moods. I filled out this survey once a week and answered the survey based on my overall mood for that week. I did reach my goal of reducing
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CONTENTS HKCEE Biology Long Questions SECTION 1 THE CELL 1 The cell and its activities P1-11 SECTION 2 ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 2.1 Diversity of organisms P12-16 2.2 Ecosystem P17-23 2.3 Human impacts on the environment P24-33 SECTION 3 ENERGETICS 3.1 Photosynthesis P34-40 3.2 Respiration P41-46 SECTION 4 OBTAINING ESSENTIALS FOR LIFE 4.1 Nutrition and gas exchange in plants P47-51 4.2 Water relation and transport in plants P52-64
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course of action‚ or should people give up if they are not making progress? We are blase about the mentality people hold toward success‚ especially in this modern society‚ that don’t waste time on something any more if you haven’t achieved accomplishment. While‚ I still cannot help but believe despite my own cynicism that persistence is the panacea to reach the goal. When it comes to the clash between insistence and relinquishment‚ a well-known saying originates from the British dramatist‚ William Shakespeare
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start in December 2007‚ when global recession begun and affected the entire world economy. This is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the threat of total breakdown from large financial institutions‚ the bailout of banks by national governments‚ and downturns in stock markets around the world (Reuters‚ 2011). All that could not spare accounting industry‚ where the current environment and audit fee competition has
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Nowadays‚ the term progress is widely used since humankind experience rapid changes in every aspect of life. Even though its meaning is generally perceived positively by many people‚ we should also look at the other side of the coin. Which means‚ I don’t think that progress is always good. Throughout this essay‚ I will try to figure out why I hold this opinion. No doubt‚ there are plenty of technological developments such as Internet‚ mobile phones‚ televisions‚ computers‚ planes and so on that
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The Reason for the Past In the words of Jan Gildewell‚ "You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest‚ that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present." Jay Gatsby in the book The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ didn’t only cling to the past and forget about the future but also tried to recreate it. There are symbols from Gatsby’s past that display his yearning for a different life all through this piece of literature. Gatsby’s mind can only conceive one way to change his current
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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The last decade however exposed the declining level of client’s satisfaction from the built facilities as a result of poor quality performance in addition to the perennial problem of time and cost overrun ( Arazi and Sodangi). Xiaohang 2011 explained that construction contractors have big influence upon project and their success. There are many main contractors’ selection criteria that can be found in literatures‚ but in real practice‚ clients may have their different criteria
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