Abel Fields was a 39-year-old California resident who claimed he served in the military and received a purple heart at a city meeting he attended for public safety. Each one of Abel Field’s claims were false. He had not served in the military and had not received a purple heart. He was prosecuted and convicted under the Stolen Valor Act. The Stolen Valor Act states that it is a crime to make false claims about receiving military medals and awards. The law stated‚ “fraudulent claims surrounding the
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lesson for this week I felt that I struggled with identifying the rhythm and meter. In the first line of lines 344 to 347 I identified the rhythm and meter as trochaic pentameter. The word ‘required’ is identified as iambic and it is important to the meaning‚ because it emphasizes that these syllable have to be equal. The second line of this section of lines is iambic tetrameter. The third line of this section of lines is identified as anapestic pentameter. The fourth line of this section of lines
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in 1938‚ the service was given a renewed focus on research and development. Muroc Field drew attention because the nearby dry lake was so flat. Arnold described it as “level as a billiard table” that it could serve as a giant runway‚ ideal for flight testing. Over $120 million was spent to develop the base in the 1940s and expand it to 301‚000 acres (470 square miles) The base’s main runway‚ fifteen thousand feet long and three hundred feet wide‚ was completed in a single pour of concrete. --- Florence
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Field hockey is a sport played by both men and woman and is considered to be one of the oldest sports in the world. It’s played with a curved stick and a hard‚ small ball. The objective of the game is to score goals and defend your own. It started out as folk culture‚ just like most sports‚ so exact origins of when and who first played the game are unknown‚ but there are still many traces and variations of the sport from the past. In 510 B.C.‚ a group of people in Ancient Greece had played a field-hockey
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I knew what this class was about when I entered it. I knew the work I was up against. I knew it was all or nothing. Knowing all of this‚ I still slacked off and my grade suffered. Of course it’s no one else’s fault but mine but I’m stubborn it took a couple of classes for me to finally learn some work field values that I never thought I really lacked until I stopped to think. For one I’m always late and that is not good for entering the work field but the answer wasn’t as simple. It takes 12 days
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Chapter 9 1) Approximately how much water do you need each day to stay healthy? Water constitutes 50% to 70% of the human body. Its unique chemical properties enable it to dissolve substances as well as serve as medium for chemical reactions‚ temperature regulation and lubrication (found in the knees and other joints of the body); it also aids in regulating the acid base balance in the body. It helps remove waste from the body and is the basis for saliva‚ bile and amniotic fluid. It is
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The Many Uses of Baking Soda – Informative Speech 1 The Many Uses of Baking Soda General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: The audience will learn about baking soda‚ the many different ways that it can be used to promote their health‚ cleaning uses around the home‚ cooking‚ in the home uses‚ and enhancing beauty. Thesis: Baking soda is very low cost‚ effective alternative to cleaning around the home‚ promoting health‚ and enhancing beauty. Introduction I) Fellow classmates‚ what if I
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LONG-RUN EQUILIBRIUM OF A FIRM UNDER PERFECT COMPETITION In the long run‚ a firm in the perfectly competitive market can earn only normal profit. So‚ the profit maximization under long run is: (1)Necessary condition P=LMR=LAR=LMC=LAC (2)Sufficient condition Slope of MC > Slope of MR We can establish this condition from the following analysis. In the above diagram for any market price OP1 the existing firms can earn supernormal profit as for the equilibrium output level OQ1. The average
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Written by Dr. Brian Weiss‚ Many Lives‚ Many Masters is a book that follows the true story of Dr. Weiss’s journey through past life regression therapy when treating a seemingly hopeless parent by the name of Catherine. Weiss does so through exercises involving hypnosis. Catherine had long been struggling with troubles involving the fear of airplanes‚ water‚ dying‚ and chocking which leads her to not want to swallow pills. Along with the previously stated troubles Catherine had gone through‚ she also
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