Patrick Edward Connor commanded the Stockton Blues of the California Militia at the outbreak of the Civil War. He quickly recruited the Blues to regimental strength and was appointed colonel‚ 4 September 1861. The regiment and two companies of the 2d California Cavalry were immediately ordered to Utah Territory to protect the Overland Stage and Pacific Telegraph rights of way‚ and to act as a force of observation in order to forestall any joint activity between Mormon recalcitrants and Southern sympathizers
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Character Sketch - Patrick Jane‚ The Mentalist Patrick Jane is the primary character on The Mentalist‚ a dramatic series that uses the homicide team of the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to showcase Jane’s talents. He has a reputation for his observation skills‚ which are highly useful when questioning suspects and witnesses‚ even though he can appear unfeeling when interacting with the recently bereaved. He frequently challenges his superiors‚ and does it in a mocking manner
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If the fiction novel A Monster Calls‚ by Patrick Ness‚ had gone on for one more chapter‚ it would have described Conor O’Malley’s life after his mother died. In Patrick Ness’s novel‚ Conor was a thirteen year old boy whose mother suffered from cancer. This cancer plagued the mind and body of Conor’s mother until it finally consumed her. A huge mystery that was left unsolved at the end of this book was what happened to Conor after his mother died. On page 199 when Conor’s grandmother was driving him
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In the novel Anil’s Ghost‚ by Micheal Ondaatje‚ it is demonstrated that one of the main themes is the fact that a persons identity is not constant throughout his/her life. It grows and changes as the person does. The author demonstrates this by using Anil’s friend Leif‚ and sailor as symbols‚ as well as through certain events in the character of Anil’s life. One of the way the author demonstrates the theme of the novel‚ the idea that a persons identity is always changing‚ is through the character
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During 1775‚ the American Colonies disputed among themselves at the Virginia Convention on whether a war should be declared against Britain. At one of the meetings‚ Patrick Henry‚ an attorney and politician‚ gave a speech explaining his position on why the colonies should go to war. In his speech‚ Henry successfully applied the rhetorical strategies of metaphor‚ imagery‚ and repetition to convey his argument that a war against Britain was the only right course of action. At the Virginia Convention
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In the nonfiction book Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall‚ he describes a variety of pain that can be found in the human body‚ and how this pain is caused. Patrick Wall is a professor of physiology at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. He gives examples of patients that he has come in contact with while working and goes in depth about the pain that relates to those people. Wall goes into explicit detail about the body‚ which includes the nervous system‚ and he provides visuals for
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David Arnett English 102 May 1‚ 2013 Paper Six Certainty is perfect knowledge that has total security from error; no certainty is used in this play. Emotions are the only fact in this play. Doubt‚ A Parable by John Patrick Shanley‚ was written in 2005. This play is a classic antagonistic pair. Shanley writes about the suspicions of the principal of a catholic school about the new Father at the parish. The principal‚ Sister Aloysius is the hard charging strict nun‚ and Father Flynn is
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In Patrick Henry’s Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought? (1788) He expresses deep concerns about the government’s ability to maintain its ideals over time. Henry starts off by saying “But how different is the genius of your new Constitution from this!” This statement begs the reader to question how long their current government will be maintained. He wants to show his worries about the future and what that would mean for others and himself. He is concerned about three things‚ the future of the loss
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Grignard Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol Aim The aim of this experiment was to prepared Grignard reagent (phenylmagnesium bromide) from bromobenzene and magnesium‚ to use the reagent prepared to synthesise a tertiary alcohol (triphenylmethanol) by reacting reagent and ester (methyl benzoate)‚ and the product formed is analyse by infrared spectroscopy (IR)‚ melting point‚ thin layer chromatography (TLC)‚ gas chromatography mass spectrum (GCMS) and finally Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy. Introduction
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and chaos. It was accepted among colonial politicians at the time that there was conflict between America and Britain‚ but many disagreed that conditions were bad enough to justify war. Many speeches were given on either side of this question. Patrick Henry’s 1775 speech to the Virginia convention urging the colonists to fight is remembered while others are forgotten because it was an ingenious work of persuasion -- appealing to reason to defeat every argument against war‚ then appealing to emotion
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