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    A theme is a concept in the movie that is continued throughout in order to establish a connecting motif that ties the movie together. One prevalent theme in the movie "North by Northwest" is double or false identities. Everyone in this movie either steals‚ creates‚ or assumes double or false identities at some point in the movie. No initial character ends up being who they appear to be. One major character that carries this theme is Roger O. Thornhill‚ played by Cary Grant. He begins as himself

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    In recent years‚ air pollution has been one of the top concerns of Hong Kong. Declining of air quality will lead to the decrease of visibility. The problem is getting more serious. According to the Hong Kong Observatory‚ low visibility occurred 18% of the time‚ which is the highest on record‚ in 2004. And the number of days in visibility which was less than eight km rose to 102 in 2005 from 40 in 1997. Not only does the air pollution have deep influence on environment‚ also citizens’ health. The

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    Twenty-fifth special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation and outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) 7 June 2001 New York Mr. President‚ Mr. Secretary-General‚ Excellencies‚ Ladies and Gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure‚ Mr. President‚ to see you preside over this important special session of the General Assembly. I am confident that with your able leadership and diplomatic skill‚ you will steer the

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    Deforestation

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    Bibliography: * National Geographic http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/ * NASA Earth Observatory http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Deforestation/ * MongaBay http://www.mongabay.com/brazil.html

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    he is and that she has her whole life to live and other relationships to make. Another instance of lighting is when the girl who Yale is cheating with goes with Woody Allen’s character‚ Issac‚ to the planetarium. In this example‚ they are in the observatory and it is completely dark and you can only make out their figures. They are talking and getting more and more involved with each other and more comfortable. This is telling the viewer that they do not know where this is going because before they

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    UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2010 question paper for the guidance of teachers 8001 GENERAL PAPER 8001/11 Paper 1‚ maximum raw mark 50 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’

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    Carl Friedrich Gauss

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    possibility by constructing a regular 17 sided polygon into a circle using only a straight edge and compass. Barely 30 years old‚ already having made landmark discoveries in geometry‚ algebra‚ and number theory Gauss was appointed director of the Observatory at Göttingen. In 1801‚ Gauss turned his attention to astronomy and applied his computational skills to develop a technique for calculating orbital

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    What is Light Pollution?

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    pollution by enhancing the amount of light scatter. Effect City lights reduce the views of the night skies. Light from the urban areas compete with natural light from stars and planets‚ which reduces the visibility of objects that scientists in observatories study. Light pollution also harms the environment and the animals / people that inhabit it. It affects the wildlife and plants negatively. Night lights disorient hatching sea turtles‚ migrating birds and nocturnal animals. Interference with

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    progress has been made with people controlling robotic limbs and computers with their minds.  6. At nubmer 6 is an astronomer seeing alien planets‚ or "exoplanets"‚ directly in 2008‚ using theHubble Space Telescope and the infrared Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii.  “This space we declare to be infinite... In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.” An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that does not orbit the Sun and instead orbits a different star More than 1800 exoplanets

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    History of Long-Term Comets Have you ever wondered who and how things were discovered? Who named Mars‚ how the names for constellations for created‚ or how long-term or short-term comets were named and discovered? Long-Term comets are comets that have an orbital period greater than 200 years and are 50‚000-70‚000 AU (astronomical units) from the sun. In this paper‚ I will tell you briefly about how long-term comets are named and seen‚ and about two major long-term comets‚ Comet West and Comet Kohoutek

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