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    COMPARISON BETWEEN HALF-CASTE AND LIMBO: Half-Caste’ is a poem that talks about the attitude of intolerant people that he must have found‚ who consider people of mixed races to be inferior to themselves. The poem is written in a non-standard English way‚ this means that it is written in an English from a non-English speaker; this is why the words in the poem are spelled exactly as they sound. Limbo is a poem tells the story of slavery in a rhyming‚ rhythmic dance. These two poems‚ in a way

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    Modren Gaming - Half-Life

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    Modern Gaming Brief History Gaming has changed a lot in the past few years‚ from whole games being developed by a three to five man teams usually consisting of a programmer‚ designer and an artist to near a dozen programmers and close to a hundred artists. When did we make this huge leap? Gamers often agree that this development happen somewhere around 1995 to 97‚ just as 3d games where surfacing and becoming playable. 3d games have excited since the late 80s‚ when referring to 3d games I’m referring

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    Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel is an amazingly emotional‚ and completely original book. It is a books with a unique plot‚ complex characters‚ and a variety of themes and ideas. This books stands apart from others the second you open it. Told from the point of view of the son of two scientists‚ Ben’s totally unhappy to find his parents are bringing a chimp home. He never asked for it‚ and isn’t welcoming towards Zan‚ the chimp. But‚ slowly‚ Ben bonds with Zan. He

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    July 8‚ 2013 The Half Life of a Radioisotope By Jeremiah Stoddard Abstract: The half-life of a radioisotope is the time required for half the atoms in a given sample to undergo radioactive‚ or nuclear‚ decay. Half-life is given the symbol t1/2.Different radioisotopes have different half-lives. The amount of radioactive isotope remaining can be calculated using the equation‚ ln [ (A)0 / (A) t1/2 ] = kt1/2 ‚ or‚ rearranged: ln 2 = kt1/2. A sample data set was provided due to safety concerns

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    room he shut the door‚ and the flood tears appeared simultaneously. He cried himself to sleep that morning. The hours flew by for Pumpkinito. When it was time to go to school‚ he started to dread even existing. He was taken to school to start a good day. At least that is what his mother thought. He quickly spotted Sasha‚ and his heart started beating as loud a drum. He soon noticed he felt deep passion for her. While Sasha tried talking to him‚ he ignored her because he was speechless around her. Louis

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    'Nathan Hymn In Half Bad'

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    Reading‚ Half Bad‚ I felt repentant for the main character‚ Nathan Brynn‚ because from the minute he was born he was despised by everybody‚ except for Annalise‚ his brother‚ his grandmother‚ and eventually a black witch‚ Gabriel too‚ because he wasn’t a pure white witch‚ he was half black and half white. For example‚ nobody would talk to him‚ or even look at him when he was young‚ almost everybody was completely disgusted by him. His mother was forced by the witch council‚ and eventually his gran

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    Simone Simon could never forget the day the tall‚ burly Baltimore county policeman‚ named Jim Barclay‚ knocked on her family’s front door in Sparks‚ Maryland. It was Saturday‚ October 13th‚ 2000. It came at exactly nine-thirty a.m. like the force of thunder cracking through the silence of an otherwise uneventful morning. "Uneventful‚" indeed‚ since Simone’s only sister‚ Sunny‚ had gone missing five weeks earlier during the Labor Day weekend festival the family attended downtown at the Baltimore

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    Half way around the world

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    Half Way Around the World Getting a chance to travel halfway around the world during school seemed like a very good choice until I reached there. It was my first time traveling outside of the U.S and I sure was excited for this trip of a lifetime until I got there. I was on my way to India‚ or to be exact‚ New Delhi. You can say traveling to other countries just gives me a lot of joy. Whether it be trying new foods or even to go see the beautiful artwork‚ wildlife‚ traditions‚ and their lifestyle

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    Piano and Half Past Two

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    Half Past Two‚ Piano and Refugee Mother and Child share a common theme of childhood. In Half Past Two‚ the author talks about remembers about the feeling of simplicity and timelessness during his childhood. In Piano‚ the poet expresses his feelings towards the loss of childhood in comparison to his present. In Refugee Mother and Child talks about the loss of a child and the misery they all have to go through. In Half Past Two‚ by U.A. Fanthorpe‚ we are taken into the past from the very start with

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    In the film Half the Sky‚ filmic elements cinematic techniques are used to produce the meaning of raising the awareness of women abuse through documentary. Several filmic elements were used in the film‚ including interviews‚ narration‚ the use of sorrowful music and the use of close-ups. In terms of effectiveness‚ interviews‚ music and close-ups are more effective in bringing the meaning of the movie. However‚ narration is less effective in my opinion. To start off with‚ one of the filmic elements

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