Catapults are one of the most famous ancient siege weapons among others including battering rams and siege towers. It has been mostly recognized as a weapon of the medieval era‚ but earliest records of catapults been used by a Greek task force in battles at just 399 BC. It was described by the historian Diodorus Sicilus as a “mechanical arrow-firing catapult”. Writings show that it was invented by Dionysus‚ the Elder of Syracuse. Mainly used in Greece‚ Rome and by far England and surrounding city-states
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Introduction The Joker who is a criminal mastermind appears in the city of Gotham where he stirs up trouble. He began to attack the city with the hopes of killing Bruce Wayne and the people who Wayne cares about. The Joker and Batman are the main characters in the movie The Dark Knight. The movie is set in the early 2000’s. The Joker is a Caucasian‚ 35 years old male‚ his height is 6’5” and he weighs 192lbs. He has green eyes and green yellowish hair. His face is covered in white paint with black
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The government does not properly regulate media there is so much exposed to the world and it influence can have a negative reaction. On the flip side because there trying to keep up with the society more things are over looked. Like discussed in class‚ obscene things weren’t allowed or blatantly displayed in the past as they are now. It’s all moving to a more open society and the government is regulating accordingly. Because times have changed from just television‚ news‚ newspapers and radio to social
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一． Loan Capital VS Share Capital (where does money come from) Generally speaking‚ money that a company raises can be divided into two headings: Loan Capital: Banks‚ Governments‚ Bonds‚ Building society Share Capital: Friends and Relations‚ Your own savings. Loan capital 1. Banks Banks are in business to provide a market place and the product they deal in is money. Namely‚ banks provide a link between those who have spare money in invest‚ and those who wish to borrow it. What do the banks get out
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Flows • Know how to format an income statement when discontinued operations and extraordinary items are present. • Know when an item qualifies for discontinued operations and extraordinary item reporting. • Know how to report unusual or infrequent items on the income statement • Be able to do the income statement reporting of discontinued operations (when discontinued operations are sold in the reporting period and when they are held for sale‚ both with tax
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SWOT Analysis Sampling Design As seen below is the computation using sample size formula. n = Sample size N = Population size e = Margin of error (10%) For employees: For customers: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This study will identify the success factor of Internet Shop business on Katipunan Avenue‚ Quezon City 1. What is the strength of the Internet Shop business? 2. What are the weaknesses of the Internet
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How Does the Thermometer Work? A thermometer is a device that measures the temperature of things. The name is made up of two smaller words: "Thermo" means heat and "meter" means to measure. You can use a thermometer to tell the temperature outside or inside your house‚ inside your oven‚ even the temperature of your body if you’re sick. One of the earliest inventors of a thermometer was probably Galileo. We know him more for his studies about the solar system and his "revolutionary" theory
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the revolutionary movement was because she met a girl by the name of Sinita‚ Sinita tells Minerva about all the horrible things Trujillo has done to her family; Minerva then considers how Trujillo isn’t the saint as everyone proclaims him to be and how being aware of what is happening has set her free‚ “And that’s how I got free. I don’t mean just going to sleepaway
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tragedy. In the play there are numerous accounts of physical and mental suffering. Although Laius and Jocasta are the catalyst that starts the story in Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus takes the role of the catalyst and becomes the cause of all tragedy to others. In the play Oedipus causes some of his own suffering. Oedipus’s pride gets him into situations that cause him to suffer later on in the play. “He tore the brooches-the gold chased brooches fastening he robe –away from her and lifting them
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Terms: Forecast vs Forecast Error We clarify the terms used in the practice problems and the final exam problems. Some statisticians speak of the standard deviation or variance of the forecast. The forecast here is the distribution of future values. It is a random variable‚ which has a standard error (standard deviation and variance). Other statisticians use the term forecast for the mean of the distribution of future values. The forecast error (the error term in the forecast) is the distribution of future
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