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    Deborah Samson was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served for over a year in the revolutionary war. I think it was very brave of her to do that knowing how much trouble she could have got in. In Deborah Samson’s child and teenage years were rough because she lived in poverty. It didn’t make anything any better when her father left on a expedition

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    Malcolm X v.s. Deborah Tannen Malcolm X and Deborah Tannen developed their ideas forty years apart. “Malcolm Little” was Malcolm X’s nick name (Malcolm X 85). Born in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ in 1925‚ Malcolm X rose from a world of street crime to become one of the most powerful and articulate African American leaders in the United States during the 1960’s (Malcolm X 85). Born in 1945 in Brooklyn was Deborah Tannen (Tannen 192). She taught in different countries‚ different states and many different

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    ENG.111.0002 5 July 2016 Sex‚ Lies and Conversation In the essay "sex‚ Lies‚ and conversation” Deborah Tannen deliberates about the variance in communication styles between men and women and how it originates the many problems in relationships and marriages leading to separation and divorce of most couples. There is more to communication differences than just basic stereotypes about the two genders‚ Deborah gives examples‚ experimental results and researches conducted to analyze and explain communication

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    Kathia Sosa The Long Way Home An American Journey From Ellis Island To The Great War Monograph Essay Lone Star College Cy-Fair Laskin D. (2010) The Long Way Home An American Journey From Ellis Island To The Great War. New York. Harper. The Long Way Home an American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War is a book written by David Laskin about the struggles different immigrants went through over the period of coming to America and the Great War. Author David Laskin‚ graduated from

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    Part IIA: Brief Outline of Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis In many ways‚ Ellis has managed to create a detailed and carefully illustrated history of the American Revolution and the people and events that surrounded it in the parameters of a series of stories that few have ever heard. Depictions of the duel between Hamilton and Burr that changed the strictly passive coping mechanism of the revolutionary generation give a helpful insight into the minds of those who contributed to the

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    women learn to speak like women?"(Cooper and MacDonald 9). Well‚ not actually from two separate cultures‚ but the idea of men and women being opposites as pointed out in the opening. Deborah Tannen has made her theory that a male culture and female culture each exist‚ very popular with the human population and has written an extensive book on her theory. To define these communication conundrums‚ Tannen discusses "rapport-talk" and "report-talk". She defines "rapport-talk" as "For most women‚ the language

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    Frequency wise cross tabulation:   | 0-10 minns | 11-60 mins | 1-2hrs | 3-6 hrs | >6 hrs | 0-10 mins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11-60 mins | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1-2 hrs | 9 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3-6 hrs | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | > 6 hrs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Row Wise %age cross tabulation :   | 0-10 minns | 11-60 mins | 1-2hrs | 3-6 hrs | >6 hrs | 0-10 mins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11-60 mins | 40 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1-2 hrs | 50 | 5.55 | 33.33 | 5.55 | 5.55 | 3-6 hrs | 50 | 10

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    initially the key motivation. In Warwolf we see however that the peasants fought to preserve their way of life and mercenaries fought for material gain although the motivation of the leadership was religiously based. In Eye Deep in Hell by John Ellis we see a very different type of motivation for the individual soldier. These soldiers are initially inspired to fight because of patriotic duty and the good of their country. Horrific and deplorable conditions in the trenches as well as extraordinary

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    ask ourselves‚ “have we given up on public schools?” Have we given up on the kids because we have given up on the future? Benjamin Barber stresses this thought-provoking idea because there is‚ without a doubt‚ a need for a change. In a book written by Deborah Tannen called The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue‚ she expresses the idea that when two parties have a debate over an issue then usually there can only be two sides to a solution; no more no less. The more one side gets into

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    I. Introduction This takes place as part of the executing process group. This is the process of tracking‚ reviewing‚ and regulating the progressed in order to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan. In addition to reviewing the work that is being performed‚ this process also makes sure that the deliverables themselves‚ plus the way in which they are being delivered according to the project management plan. This is a macro integration process and looks at the progress

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