A/N: a short story done for my mock English GCSE exam‚ where the question was to ’describe a nightmare world’. Instead of going for the cliché‚ hell-like landscape‚ I decided to base my so-called ’nightmare world’ off of a real nightmare‚ in the world we live in – a young boys perspective during a bombing in WWII. Note: I got an A for that exam paper! Nightmare World Every day they come‚ in their great terrifying birds of steel‚ overhead and through the clouds that I once thought held heaven
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Desiree Garrison December 3‚ 2012 Political Communication The Rise of the Role of the First Lady Vibe magazine stated that‚ “Michelle Obama delivered one of the most poignant speeches in recent political history at the Democratic National Convention.” With all the attention placed on the office of the president sometimes we forget about the role and effect of the first lady. Often times‚ the First Lady takes a backseat to her husband‚ and the problems and policies that are important to him. This
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2014 Is the First Lady of the United States Necessary? Women’s only use is to care for the children‚ the home and to complete the look of a “perfect american family”. This 1950’s ideation still exists today‚ in a more subtle manner. The first lady is a representation of how the country currently feels about women‚ the white house gives her ceremonial “jobs” however‚ they serve no purpose. So what exactly is the position of the first lady? The most basic definition of the first lady is the wife
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international relations The Thirty Years’ War was the first Pan-European war of modern times‚ it was a conflict which started in Bohemia (Holy Roman Empire) and took place from 1618 to 1648‚ ending with the well-known Peace of Westphalia. This war started as a religious conflict between the Protestants and the Catholic Church in Germany‚ but latter on it developed into a Franco-Habsburg war involving most of the European continent and having a decisive impact on all the European states and nations
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In the early times leading up to the World Wars‚ nations never had a need to fully understand the relations of the world and how this affected the world and politics. This means that before 1918‚ International Relations did not exist as a study on its own. International relations as a discipline grew out of the study of diplomatic history and International Law as cited by (Nicolson‚ 1939 as cited by Kydd n.d. ) . After World War I however‚ a new approach had to be found to better understand why
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First Draft of a Commentary Assignment For this assignment‚ write a 750-1‚000-word commentary that addresses a trend/topic related to ADHD. According to Trimbur (2013) in The Call to Write‚ “Commentary is a genre of writing that uses analysis and interpretation to find patterns of meaning in events‚ trends‚ and ideas. The purpose of commentary is not simply to report on things but to give readers a way to make sense of them.” This means that your essay should review a single trend related to
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Horses and mules are such a huge part of our world history and had such a huge impact on the wars that people fought. Both horses and Mules were used in all the wars from the Battle of Kadesh to World War 1. They really changed history and the way that people fought‚ without horses who knows where we would be. The horses and mules were used as mainly a source of transportation but the horses would be the ones to go into enemy fire. World War 1 was the last war where horses were actually used to
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Her First Ball – Katherine Mansfield Characters: Protagonist: Leila Her first ball is based primarily on Leila‚ who is the protagonist of the story. In this story‚ we do not particularly know her appearance‚ but can form an image of her through the description of her personality. Leila is youth and idealism personified. She is simple; she tries to act mature in the story because she feels indifferent amongst her cousins and it is uncomfortable for her. “She tried not to smile too much; she
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Best-first search is a search algorithm which explores a graph by expanding the most promising node chosen according to a specified rule. Judea Pearl described best-first search as estimating the promise of node n by a "heuristic evaluation function f(n) which‚ in general‚ may depend on the description of n‚ the description of the goal‚ the information gathered by the search up to that point‚ and most important‚ on any extra knowledge about the problem domain."[1] [2] Some authors have used "best-first
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Alam‚ H. (2016‚ September 26). B.C. First Nations grand chief absent from royal ceremony in protest. Toronto Star. Retrieved from https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/26/royal-ceremony-snubbed-by-bc-first-nations-grand-chief.html In this newspaper article‚ the author emphasizes the fact that the B.C. First Nations grand chief‚ Stewart Phillip‚ has recently declined to participate in a royal ceremony. This was done as an act of protest from the grand chief‚ with his argument being that
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