Last Stand of the 300 Isabelle The battle of Thermopylae was fought between the Greeks (Sparta and Athens) and the Persians. The Persian leader‚ Xerxes‚ wanted revenge on the Greeks for the destruction of Sardis‚ a Persian city‚ so he led the Persian army of up to 300‚000 men to invade Greece (which was not known as Greece at the time‚ just as separate city-states). The Spartan leader‚ Leonidas‚ learned of the attack and gathered 7‚000 men (only those who had fathered a son)‚ to meet the Persians
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Question 1: Write a program to input a start limit S (S>0) and the last limit L (L>0). Print all the prime triplets between S and L (both inclusive)‚ if S<=L otherwise your program should ask to re-enter the values of S and L again with a suitable error message. Algorithm: * Start * To input the lower limit * To input the upper limit * To run the outer loop * To run inner loop * To calculate total number of prime numbers between
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Last Train Home The documentary Last Train Home filmed by Lixin Fan shows us what Chinese’s families’ faces when they migrate from farms to work in factories in the larger cities. With the life of Mr. Zhan as an example‚ we can understand the conflict and suffering that these families have. They lose theirs so called “Hokou” which is “a household registration system that is designed to aid the distribution of welfare and resources‚ and keep watch on criminal activity”‚ and also they leave
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In the article “The Last Meow”‚ written by Burkhard Bilger and published in the New Yorker‚ Bilger describes the current life of owning a pet and just how many expenses go into these animals. Bilger believes the care for pets nowadays is too extreme and that people spend way too much money to perform outrageous surgeries along with other beneficial practices just to save their pets. I agree with him to an extent. Although I do believe some smaller practices are necessary to help pets‚ like treatments
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#1: Orlando trip on last New Year’s days I had never felt so exciting in my life. I had spent 4 days and 3 nights in Orlando. The members for travelling consisted of 4 international friends who I had met in the church. More exciting thing is that I had driven my car for myself for a long time. This is the first time to travel another area with international friends using my car. I felt a little bit exciting and a little bit nervous because my driving history is very short. My trip to Orlando had
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Analysis18 STRATEGIC SELECTION19 STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION19 STRATEGIC ISSUES21 REFERENCES25 APPENDIX26 INTRODUCTION Lastminute.com is a Europe’s leading travel and leisure website. Based on the idea of matching supply and demand‚ it offers consumers last minute opportunities to acquire airline tickets‚ hotel rooms‚ package holidays‚ entertainment tickets‚ restaurant reservations and home delivery‚ speciality services‚ gifts and auctions. Due to the diversification of sectors the company is operating
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The Last Storyteller Before the Europeans colonized America different tribes of Native Americas appointed storytellers to keep the tribes history alive. In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ by Sherman Alexie an odd boy named Thomas Builds-the-Fire holds the title of storyteller. This short story is about a journey Thomas takes with his old friend Victor to claim Victor’s father’s ashes from Phoenix‚ Arizona and bring them back to their reservation in Spokane. The story ultimately
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The Last Castle - Write-up The story portrays a picture of the prisoner (army personnel General Irwin who held a very high rank in the US Army) in a jail in USA. The film basically talks about the leadership skills of the protagonist General Irwin‚ who was found guilty of violating the presidential order and sending the troop to Burundi‚ Africa. In the prison‚ the warden‚ Colonel Winter was trying to make General Irwin‚ understand the system‚ making himself perfectly clear what prisoners are supposed
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I Spent my Last Night on Earth‚” by Todd Strasser‚ the character named Legs takes a big risk and the outcome was very great. When reading Strasser’s story‚ the literary elements conflict‚ characterization‚ and point of view add excitement to the story. Strassers added enthusiasm to the story by making the conflict in the story something that can be related into the real world for most of his teenage audience. One conflict is that Legs was scared to talk to her crush Andros. She says “My mind went
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In the documentary film by John J. Valadez and Cristina Ibarra‚ “The Last Conquistador”‚ sculptor John Houser contemplates in creating the earth’s towering bronze horseman monument for the city of El Paso‚ Texas. Houser visualizes an astonishing sculpture in remembrance of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate that will merit the contribution Hispanic people made to creating the American West. However‚ during the progress‚ things go downhill. Furious Native Americans‚ protest for project to be stopped
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