around the world. I address you today as Queen of sixteen United Nations Member States and as Head of the Commonwealth of 54 countries. I have also witnessed great change‚ much of it for the better‚ particularly in science and technology‚ and in social attitudes. Remarkably‚ many of these sweeping advances have come about not because of governments‚ committee resolutions‚ or central directives – although all these have played a part – but instead because millions of people around the world have
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One of our first steps in finding a topic that we were both interested in. World War two was one subject that we both were very interested in. One of the first topics that we decided to do more research on was the Yalta Conference. This topic seemed like it was too narrow though so we decided to broaden our view on WWII for a topic. We finally decided that we wanted to do our project on a specific country’s role in the war and to be even more precise a specific person that took a stand and was very
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DK Denmark Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies www.cifs.dk Anders Bjerre abj@cifs.dk 63 © EUROCONSTRUCT‚ June 2014 1. Summary and Conclusions Denmark Compared to the estimates of the previous EUROCONSTRUCT report‚ construction fared considerably worse in 2013‚ according to the preliminary official statistics. This means the figures for 2013 have been downgraded considerably for new construction of all types. Total construction activity in Denmark declined by 1.4% in 2013. share have
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Atmospheric Pollution in Beijing and the Solution Based on Traffic Planning Xu Zhao JRSB101‚ Communications I Jackie Quantz‚ Instructor December‚ 02‚ 2010 Summary The following report introduces the main reasons of air pollution in Beijing - Coal burning and auto emissions. Also‚ the report analyzes the current situation of Beijing - private vehicles increased rapidly in recent years and public traffic cannot meet the demand of public transportation. Comparing Beijing with Hong Kong
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the World and Evaluate Attempts to Address it on a Global Scale Poverty is the state of being extremely poor and being inferior in quality. Nearly half of the world’s population‚ nearly 3 billion people‚ live on less than two dollars a day and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the poorest 48 nations is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined. Poverty can be caused by many issues particularly social and economic reasons. There have been many attempts to address poverty
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“The Charlotte Address” 22 years ago a the Queen City was at it’s worse for for homicides. In total 193 homicides. Mainly these deaths were caused by gunfire. The gunfire were usually over the new formly drug crack. Gun violence Now the city is full of midnight marauders‚crooks living in castles‚ young women referring to their gluteus Maximus as their number 1 tool of for fatal attraction. Every night lead is dancing all over the starry night. This situation has come to a point whom the residents
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Stylistic Language of Gettysburg Address Lincoln’s Gettysburg address has a great rhetorical significance partly achieved by its style. Some stylistic devices used in the speech are persuasive definitions; clarity‚ rhythm‚ and vividness of the language; and a combination of various elements within the speech. In this essay‚ I will elaborate the use of these aspects and how they affect Gettysburg address when the speech is read aloud‚ read silently‚ and read in paraphrased version. Persuasive definitions
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Corporation “Gettysburg Invitations” Library of Congress Online Exhibits. (October 2000) http://icweb.loc.gov/exhibits/ Lincoln‚ Abraham. “The Gettysburg Address” Liberty Online (1999) http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Lincoln/gettysburg.html. The World Book Encyclopedia 4 “Civil War” World Book Inc. (1985) 472-493 The World Book Encyclopedia 8 “Gettysburg” World Book Inc. (1985) 165-166
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because they thought President Lincoln would abolish slavery in America. The speech was given on November 19‚ 1863 in Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania. The Gettysburg Address changed the course of the Civil war because of its location‚ message‚ and significance. The location of the Gettysburg Address greatly impacted the importance to the speech. The address was given in Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania after the battle of Gettysburg. The battle was one of the bloodiest and most crucial battles of the Civil war. Twenty
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Terms: Wannsee Conference: * Held on January 20th‚ 1942 in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee * 15 men gathered to discuss the “Final Solution” * The conference was held by an SS officer named Reinhard Heydrich * The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews. * Heydrich proposed the deportation of Jews from Europe and North Africa to the east. * By the end of the conference‚ it was concluded
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