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    the peoples was the Bloodiest dictator in all of Latino history‚ Raphael Trujillo1. When his regime ruled over the Dominican Republic he seemed to not care at all at all for the lives of people. Over his 30 years of dictatorship he renamed Pico Duarte to Pico Trujillo‚ when a hurricane destroyed Santo Domingo he rebuilt the city and named it “Ciudad Trujillo” and put 2000 statues of himself in it. He even had signs that flashed “God and Trujillo” 2. He There was an upper class family that stood

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    The SMD Critical Appraisal Check List for Research Papers (50 marks) You will be expected to provide a short detailed answer to each question. Yes or No are not sufficient This may need a literature search to establish the use of any reference used by the authors of this research paper. It is essential to use the format of this checklist to facilitate marking. The potential marks for each question are in brackets. 1) Give the full citation of the paper (1) Kunchur‚ Ranjit‚ Allan Need‚ Toby Hughes

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    The island of the Dominican Republic has a wide range of biodiversity due to its isolation‚ tourists bringing in nonnative fauna and flora‚ and most of all due to the range of biomes within their country. The natural biomes that occur in the Dominican Republic vary from very dry biomes to very wet biomes. The most common biome in the Dominican Republic is subtropical coniferous forests‚ due to low levels of precipitation and adequate temperature variability. These trees have needle-leafs in order

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    Puzzles to Puzzle You

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    2. Problem from SAKUNTALA DEVI ’PUZZLES TO PUZZLE U’. Problem no: 23( Walking back to happiness.) The walking time : 55 mins. 1. There are twelve consecutive flags at an equal interval of distance. A man passes the 8th flag in 8 seconds. How many more seconds will he take to pass the remaining 4 flags ? 2. A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of

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    OCCUPATION: Journalist‚ Author * BIRTH DATE: October 10‚ 1906 * DEATH DATE: May 13‚ 2001 * EDUCATION: Maharaja College of Mysore * PLACE OF BIRTH: Chennai‚ India * PLACE OF DEATH: Chennai‚ India * ORIGINALLY: Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami Indian author R.K. Narayan is widely considered to be one of India’s greatest English language novelists known for his simple and unpretentious writing style‚ often compared to William Faulkner. Narayan has been nominated

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    Andrew Hsia ahh2137@cumc.columbia.edu PICO #1 In patients with atherosclerosis‚ can off-pump CABG compared to on-pump CABG reduce adverse side effects‚ improve treatment outcome‚ and reduce complications? Patient‚ Population Problem- Patients with atherosclerosis Intervention Off-pump CABG (coronary by-pass graft) Comparison: On-pump CABG Outcome reduction of side effects. Reduced complications‚ improved treatment outcome EBP Coronary artery bypass grafting is performed in patients who

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    Steenbergen (1994: Sage Publications‚ London) Heater‚ Derek‚ What is Citizenship? (1999: Polity Press‚ Cambridge‚ England) Henderson‚ Hazel‚ “Transnational Corporations and Global Citizenship‚” American Behavioral Scientist‚ 43(8)‚ May 2000‚ 1231-1261. IyerPico‚ The Global Soul (2000: Alfred A. Knopf‚ New York). Jacobson‚ David‚ Rights across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship (1996: Johns Hopkins University Press‚ Baltimore) Lie‚ Rico & Servaes‚ Jan‚ “Globalization: consumption and identity

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    attitude and the decline of church absolutism. This secular viewpoint altered man’s reason for existence from an otherworldly quest to an intimate‚ immediate appreciation for that which exists on earth. Humanism is a primary source of individualism. Pico della Mirandola’s "Oration on the Dignity of

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    The impact of the Renaissance on Europe Jacob Burckhardt best describes the renaissance as the prototype of the modern world‚ for it was the period between the fourteenth and fifteenth century in Italy‚ when the base of modern civilisation was formed. It was mainly through the revival of ancient learning that new scientific values first began to overthrow traditional religious beliefs. People started to accept a new rational and objective approach to reality and most

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    Golding‚ William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann‚ 1962. Print. At first I was not actually interested in Lord of the Flies‚ but to be honest‚ I did not know what it was about. It was kind of uninteresting to read at first and I was just judging it by its cover. When the book became a little wilder and chaotic I did gain interest in it. I truly am fond of the idea of order and chaos in the world. This book is one of the several great examples. Most people might think that the book was

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