Delia Valdez Prof. Abad English 1B June 14‚ 2015 Is Financial Aid Distributed Fairly to Every Social Class? In a society where a college education is necessary to attain a job‚ people will pay any price to get a degree. Since 1965 government assistance programs such as FAFSA have made attending college much more simple for the working class. However‚ such programs focus much of their efforts on assisting lower income students and fail to contribute to students from middle class families. Middle
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A powerful monster‚ living down in the darkness‚ growled in pain‚ impatient….” (Lines one and two) This is how the epic poem Beowulf begins. There are many differences between the poem and the movie of Beowulf. I liked the poem better because there were more details and probably because I read the poem before I watched the movie‚ but I still enjoyed watching the movie because it was visually exciting. Even though the basic plot and characters are similar in the movie and the poem; their differences
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-Chaucer was basically involved in espionage and also fought in and was ransomed in a war. -Milton was blind when he wrote Paradise Lost. -John Bunyan spent more than 10 years in jail which is when he started writing Pilgrim’s Progress. -Daniel Defoe‚ first novelist (as we know them today)‚ invented modern journalism. -John Dryden‚ writer of great satire‚ was Jonathan Swift’s cousin. -I didn’t know Dickens was an actor (and accomplished at that)…I don’t really know much about him
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Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge‚ skills‚ and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching‚ training‚ research‚ or simply through auto didacticism Generally‚ it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks‚ feels‚ or acts. Etymologically‚ the word "education" is derived from the Latin ēducātiō (“A breeding‚ a bringing up‚ a rearing") from ēdūcō (“I educate‚ I train”) which is
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Cocaine is a powerful central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that heightens alertness‚ inhibits appetite and the need for sleep‚ and provides intense feelings of pleasure. It is prepared from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush‚ which grows primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Street dealers dilute it with inert (non-psychoactive) but similar-looking substances such as cornstarch‚ talcum powder‚ and sugar‚ or with active drugs such as procaine and benzocaine (used as local anesthetics)‚ or other
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My Part a lot of coastal shipping‚ especially around the Seto Inland Sea‚ pays for the lack of sailing rivers. The Pacific coastline south of Tokyo is described by long‚ narrow‚ gradually low inlets produced by sedimentation‚ which has created a lot natural harbors. The Japanese islands are the best of mountain ridges uplifted near the end of the continental shelf. About 73 percent of Japan’s area is made of mountains‚ and scattered plains and intermontane basins cover only about 25 percent
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THE ELEPHANTS There are two types of elephant‚ the Asian elephant and the African elephant. Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world. It can weigh up to 6.000 kilograms and measure up to 3.3 meters at the shoulder. Elephants can live to be over 70 years old. Elephants are herbivores and can spend up to 16 hours a day collecting leaves‚ twigs‚ bamboo and roots. An elephant’s skin is 2‚ 54 centimetres thick. Elephants have poor eyesight but an amazing sense of smell. Both female
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1. Blue whale weighs about 150 tonnes as much as 150 cars. 2. Marine iguana from Galapagos Islands lives only in sea for his whole life. 3. Reticulated python is ten metre long as long as 10 bicycles put in a row 4. Opera house is made up of sand‚ water‚ limestone and soil. 5. Plovers hop inside crocodile’s mouth to clean their teeth by eating up worms and insects. 6. banknotes are made up of cotton rags 7. Snakes do not blink as they do not have eyelids. 8. Giraffes and
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Jupiter is composed primarily of gaseous and liquid matter. It is the largest of four gas giants as well as the largest planet in the Solar System with a diameter of 142‚984 km at its equator. The density of Jupiter‚ 1.326 g/cm3‚ is the second highest of the gas giant planets. The density is lower than any of the four terrestrial planets. Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is composed of about 88–92% hydrogen and 8–12% helium by percent volume or fraction of gas molecules. Since a helium atom has about
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Scalpel A scalpel‚ or lancet‚ is a small and extremely sharp bladed instrument used for surgery‚ anatomical dissection‚ and various arts and crafts (called a hobby knife). Scalpel blades are usually made of hardened and tempered steel‚ stainless steel‚ or high carbon steel. Surgical scalpels consist of two parts‚ a blade and a handle. The handles are reusable‚ with the blades being replaceable. In medical applications‚ each blade is only used once (even if just for a single‚ small cut). Scalpel
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