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    3 Pillars of Indian Democracy Legislature Executive Judiciary Legislature * The national legislature is the ultimate administrative body of India. * The legislature of the States is described as State legislature. * Indian legislature is Bicameral in nature‚ so called because of the two houses- Lok Sabha (House of the People) and Rajya Sabha (Council of States). The Constitution of India came into force on January 26‚ 1950 and India became a Republic. Parliament arose in April

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    Jackson Pollock

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    Paul Jackson Pollock was born January 28‚ 1912‚ in Cody‚ Wyoming. He grew up in Arizona and California and in 1928 began to study painting at the Manual Arts High School‚ Los Angeles. In the fall of 1930‚ Pollock moved to New York and studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Benton encouraged him throughout the succeeding decade. By the early 1930s‚ Pollock knew and admired the murals of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. Although he traveled widely throughout the United States

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    Michael Jackson The king of Pop is the person who made me look at the world with different eyes. Michael was the embodiment of goodness‚ innocence and purity‚ he gave everything he had. A sentimental man‚ childish and loving as you can not meet everywhere. He had curly black hair and in his dark eyes you could read the fear of being himself. He created his own style of clothing‚ unique‚ always in fashion. He was and he will always be the best singer and dancer who will ever exist. He also

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    Shirley Jackson was born on December 14th‚ 1916 in San Francisco‚ California. She grew up in Burlingame‚ California”. “At a young age living in California she wanted to pursue her career in writing poetry and short stories”. In Shirley’s teenage years she moved to the east coast where she attended university of Rochester.The following year Shirley attended Syracuse University where her writing became serious and finally wrote her first book. She then married a man named Stanley Hyman. Stanley was

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    Salt Lake City Best Sports City Without Doubt! While many computer games have turned today’s young ones into small couch potatoes: Salt Lake City Games is looking to change all of that. Wii‚ or just called "Wii" by many folks‚ is an interactive action-based video game you connect to your TV. We asked them to select two (2) athletics to play within an organized league. Here the discipline of the game and learning how to cope properly with adult authority added to their overall increase. Never did

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    when the story’ true meaning becomes apparent. The author Shirley Jackson gives the reader subtle symbolic hints that the small New England town has a ritualistic nature. When the reader reaches the ending of The Lottery; all of Shirley Jackson’s signals begin to come together similar to puzzle pieces. The reader realizes the irony in the story because the winner of the annual

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    Once known as the number one agricultural county in the nation‚ Los Angeles County houses nearly 10 million residents. This means the demand for consumable water is high‚ and with this demand comes depletion. Many areas of the Central and West Coast Basins are experiencing ground water depletion‚ which has resulted in an intrusion of saltwater in coastal aquifers‚ “natural filters that trap sediment and other particles (like bacteria) and provide natural purification of the ground water flowing through

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    In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing to clue at what happens at the end of the story which is‚ Mrs.Hutchinson gets stoned. For example‚ Shirley Jackson starts to give us little hints throughout the story. For instance‚ when the town people were getting ready for the lottery‚“Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones.”(Jackson) This quotation displays that Bobby Martin was using foreshadowing to hint at what the lottery really was. The part where Bobby Martin stocked

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    Phillip Warren Averett University 30 March 2014 Professor Buksar‚ MA It is very easy to understand why Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” caused controversy at the time it was first published in 1948; which was shortly after World War II. The story may have been seen as an attempt to look at traditions that have become questionable. In “The Lottery” Jackson attempts to compare real world traditions that are no longer relevant‚ with those of the story by displaying what happens when

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    Salt is modern book written about the history of salt and its effect on the events of the past. The book maintains a semi-chronological flow to it. It is nonfiction and there are no characters. Salt has had an effect on the past that is often overlooked‚ but not by the author of Salt‚ Mark Kurlansky. Salt takes you through the history of the only edible rock. It begins talking about the sexuality of salt as a hook‚ then begins talking about the nutrition of salt. The rest of the book is about different

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