SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION SENATOR CAROL LIU‚ CHAIR BACKGROUND INFORMATION REQUEST You may download a copy of the background sheet from the Senate website at www.senate.ca.gov under committee information. Measure: Author: Sponsor: List your name and all contact information (office‚ cell‚ etc.) for individual staffing this bill. Name: Office Telephone #: Cell Phone #: Other: 1. Origin of the bill: a. Who is the
Premium United States Senate Legislatures United States
Aral Sea The Aral Sea use to be the forth-largest saline sea in the world‚ that is until in the 1960s. The former Soviet Union diverted the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea‚ to make water available to the surrounding cotton fields and other crop farming regions in the desert like area. Due to the diversion of the rivers‚ the Aral Sea has begun to evaporate into the Aral Sea we see today. Even though the irrigation of the desert did wonders to the farming industry‚ it has left the Aral Sea a complete
Premium
What is Sea-floor spreading? Seafloor spreading is a process of plate tectonics in which new oceanic crust is created as large lumps of the Earth ’s crust split apart from each other and magma shafts up to fill the gap. Who discovered sea-floor spreading? The man who discovered sea floor spreading was Harry Hess. Harry Hess was a geologist. Part of his mission had been to study the deepest parts of the ocean floor. In 1946 he had discovered that hundreds of flat-topped mountains‚ perhaps sunken
Premium Plate tectonics
An Analysis of Form and Style Introduction I have chosen to do an analysis of form and style based on The Bathers‚ 1884-87 by Pierre Auguste Renoir and The Large Bathers‚ 1898-1906 by Paul Cézanne. These paintings are from the impressionist and post-impressionist period. Though similar in subject matter‚ the way the artists demonstrate form and style is unique to each and I will compare and contrast them separately under the headings form and style with reference to the theories of art critics
Premium Impressionism History of painting Art
ELECTIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH Assignment (Based on Blocks 1-7) Course Code: EEG-01/BEGE-101 Assignment Code: EEG-01/BEGE-101/TMA/2011-2012 Maximum Marks: 100 1 . Show your understanding of literary and non-literary prose by citing examples and discussing them. 450 words (You may give the source) (20) 2. Fill in the blank in the following passage with suitable prepositions: The man was playing cards ................................. some other people. He tried ...............
Premium English-language films The Passage
Israel’s escape from slavery in Egypt and forty years they spent in the desert on their way to the land God had promised them (Catholic Youth Bible‚ 2004)1. Through the strength of Yahweh and being guided by Moses‚ the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea and were led to the Promised Land. Exodus was intended to exist as a continuation of a narrative that began in Genesis and was completed in Leviticus‚ Numbers and Deuteronomy. The first five books of the Bible are together known as the Pentateuch. Exodus
Free Bible Moses Israelites
DEFINITION OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM A type of cultural criticism‚ postcolonial criticism usually involves the analysis of literary texts produced in countries and cultures that have come under the control of European colonial powers at some point in their history. Alternatively‚ it can refer to the analysis of texts written about colonized places by writers hailing from the colonizing culture. In Orientalism (1978)‚ Edward Said‚ a pioneer of postcolonial criticism and studies‚ focused on the way
Free Literary criticism Literary theory
A Literary Analysis on Flanner O ’Connor ’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Written by ShaLynn M. Andrews Flannery O ’Connor ’s short story‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about a Georgia family on their way to Florida for a vacation and the day ending in disaster and murder. The story opens with the grandmother‚ also being the main character‚ trying to convince her son‚ Bailey‚ not to go to Florida; she had just read an article about a recently escaped convict‚ the Misfit‚ who was supposedly heading
Premium Short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find Good and evil
FORMS OF SUBSTRUCTURE Tutor: David Brooke Submission Date: 14 December 2012 FORMS OF SUBSTRUCTURE * Table of Contents Site 1 1 Site 2 2 Site 3 3 Precautionary actions and temporary works 4 1 Bibliography 5 * Site 1 Dry compact gravel‚ or gravel and sand subsoil’s are usually suitable for strip foundations. Mostly 700mm to 1000mm deep foundations are acceptable as long ground has suitable bearing capacity. If the water level is high than the bearing capacity will reduce
Premium Geotechnical engineering Soil
but predicted many things about human life like strife‚ anger‚ hope‚ desire‚ etc. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee or “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee” is such masterpiece depicting the Biblical scene of Jesus and the disciples crossing the sea when there is a raging storm. The painting was complete in the year 1633 and Rembrandt took the maritime theme of the painting to ensure that the theme will be familiar to the people of the age and time. As an effort to establish himself as an artist
Premium Odyssey Odysseus Jesus