Name:____________________________ Period: ________ Using Triangle Skills to Solve Problems For each word problem below‚ you must draw a picture and show your work towards a solution. Solutions are given for each problem. Since these are real-life type problems‚ answers should be decimal approximations as opposed to being in simplest radical form. You are allowed to use anything you know about triangle similarity‚ right triangles and right triangle trigonometry. This assignment is a learning
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The Brain Who Seeks Approval In the movie The Breakfast Club‚ I am a mixture of the characters‚ Brian Johnson and Claire Standish. I am a complete nerd just like Brian‚ the brain‚ in the movie. Although I am not a pampered princess like Claire‚ I share the similar characteristic of seeking approval from others. I am the complete nerd just like Brian in the movie. The one word that my peers would always use to describe me is a nerd. I have the stereotypical glasses‚ gigantic book bag
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Why Do People Seek Revenge? “An Eye for an Eye” that’s what most people say when it comes to revenge. People don’t consider their decisions are right or wrong‚ all they think about is how to get their revenge with people that tend to harm them or humiliate them. It seems like a trigger that is waiting to be pulled‚ so when someone says or does something that is extremely upsetting it develops a tremendous desire to seek revenge. Revenge develops negative behavior toward others‚ that can lead
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Revenge To seek revenge means to inflict harm or hurt on somebody for something they have done. Seeking revenge can leave you dwelling on the situation‚ causing you to be unhappy. Revenge is one of the biggest instincts we have as humans. It is an emotion that is triggered when somebody does you wrong. In the Shakespearean play Hamlet‚ revenge is the theme that sticks out the most. In the play‚ Hamlet and Laertes seek revenge for the wrong doing of their fathers. While doing so‚ they both end up
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ARTICLE #1* 3 ways to spot start-ups opportunities Our story thus far… I left employment back in 07 to do an MBA in Entrepreneurship with the UK’s Top Entrepreneurial University. I loved every MBA minute. When I finished I convinced one of my best friends‚ Simon Oxley‚ to leave his well-paid corporate job with all its benefits to start a business. We really did ‘burn our ships’ as we did not know what we were going to start-up in. We left ourselves no choice‚ no retreat! However‚ we did have
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The Debate of Privacy from the Government A Critic of “The Nothing to Hide Argument” The author of this article is Daniel J. Solove. He discusses the different perspectives and opinions of various people of the government’s control of viewing personal information. The article demonstrates this through examples of what people say‚ book references‚ and the opinion of the article himself. In the article‚ “The Nothing to Hide Argument”‚ Daniel J. Solove argues that the information- gathering programs
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It is perceptible that the ancient Greeks valued creativity with regard to Greek mythologies and their innovative society. In order to fulfill King Mino’s goal to hide the Minotaur‚ Daedalus fabricates the Labyrinth‚ a jail that “[is] so complex that no one who [enters] it could ever find a way out” (“Daedalus”). Due to his creativity‚ Daedalus is able to construct a sturdy and secure creation so that the Minotaur doesn’t escape. Since it is inescapable‚ the jail exhibits Daedalus’s extraordinary
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Can We Really Hide From Failure? Does success and failure go hand in hand? Success gives people satisfaction and delight‚ where failure can discourage and exhaust them. But what people can tend to forget is that in life‚ everyone comes across failure every once in a while. What everyone should remember is that no one is perfect and they should not lose hope and give up. Winston Churchill once said “Success is not final‚ failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts” (Winston
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We the colonists seek independence. We feel that it’s our natural right to have freedoms. The right to do as we want‚ but with restrictions that are reasonable. The rules that Britain has given us are against our rights and freedoms. We demand change! The colonists have governed themselves for 150 years‚ and now the king wants to control us? There is no way under god’s hot sun that we will allow this kind of foolishness. We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal‚ that
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represented in The Wanderings of Odysseus through Odysseus’s family structure. As he attempts to return home to Ithaca‚ his wife is left to tend to the house for seven long years. She must supervise her servants‚ as the reader sees in Chapter 5‚ Telemachus Seeks His Father. This is the first time that readers are introduced to Odysseus’s family and their whereabouts at the time of the story. According to The Civilizations of The Greeks‚ “A wife was.. . expected to take care of her family and her house‚ either
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