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    Culture: Jazz Dance   Jazz dance‚ is defined as any dance to jazz accompaniments‚ composed of a profusion of forms. Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in black American society and was popularized in ballrooms by the big bands of the swing era (1930s and ’40s). It radically altered the style of American and European stage and social dance in the 20th century. The term is sometimes used more narrowly to describe popular stage dance (except tap dance) and jazz-derived

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    To Be Black and Blue James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues”‚ is an honest‚ unflinching look at pre-civil rights era‚ American life in the predominately black neighborhood of Harlem. Baldwin’s short story speaks on issues of family conflict‚ drug addiction‚ class separation‚ and coping with life amidst the concentrated poverty of the public housing projects. These same problems occurred in most of the industrial cities of the north during the post-World War 2 era as many people were competing

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    Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield is a New York based that is involved with the delivery of finances‚ health care services and long –term insurance countrywide. Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield revealed that the company had learnt of an apparent breach against their system where hackers were able to gain illegally access to its customers’ information on September 10‚ 2015. According to the company’s spokesperson‚ the information accessed included claims and financial payment information; names of clients;

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    stranger that I’ve become. When I opened them I was laid on the bathroom floor‚ my head was kept elevated by the school nurse‚ I saw a young girl with a frighten confused face‚ and I saw men walking around talking into walkie-talkies screaming “Code Blue! Code Blue!” Once they noticed I was awake I was bombarded with questions back to back. My mind was blank‚ nothing

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    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY‚ VOL. 54‚ NO. 4‚ APRIL 2008 1735 [31] V. Vovk‚ “Competitive on-line statistics‚” Int. Stat. Rev.‚ vol. 69‚ pp. 213–248‚ 2001. [32] M. H. Wegkamp‚ “Model selection in nonparametric regression‚” Ann. Statist.‚ vol. 31‚ pp. 252–273‚ 2003. [33] K. Yamanishi‚ “Minimax relative loss analysis for sequential prediction algorithms using parametric hypotheses‚” in Proc. COLT 98‚ 1998‚ pp. 32–43‚ ACM Press. [34] Y. Yang‚ “Adaptive estimation in pattern recognition

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    Consider the structure‚ rhetorical strategies‚ and content of the two essays and answer the following questions. 1. How does Bass construct and support his argument? He constructs the argument by stating that he was a hunter before but not to the degree that he is now. He then states the reasons why he has become an avid hunter. He describes how beautiful and life changing the landscape and wild life is in Montana. He says how the valley of Montana has converted nearly every local into a hunter

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    Position Paper Globalization is the process making the worlds citizens increasingly interdependent economically‚ politically‚ and socially‚ as well as environmentally and technologically. Although‚ to what extent should we embrace it? By the given definition‚ you would expect globalization to allow cultures‚ ideas‚ and beliefs to spread across the globe‚ which would lead to the development of our countries. However‚ this is not the case as said here by William K. Tabb‚ Economist: “Globalization

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    Derivatives Soluion: Application for Financial Futures Case Solution for ’Peoples Federal Savings Bank ’ 1. Should Peoples Federal Savings have hedged its September 1 savings certificate rollover? Yes. The reasons are explained as below: Peoples had accumulated assets of $556m. These assets were funded by short term consumer deposits‚ consisting largely of 3-month fixed rate savings certificates. These savings certificates were highly affected by interest rate fluctuations. The long term loans

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    Amanda Patch Powerful people surround us every day. People who have may have more money than us‚ people that have more knowledge or people who simply just have more power. Since there are so many people like this around us‚ we often believe that since they consume so much power‚ that it is impossible for us to have any. However‚ anyone can be powerful. Alice walker said‚ “The most common way people give up their power‚ is by thinking they don’t have any‚” which is exactly true. Anyone can have power

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    I know you said you weren’t trying to hurt me. I know you said you were trying to do this the best way you knew how. But when you stood there with your knife at my throat‚ and I begged you please‚ you still pressed it in. You heard me scream and beg‚ and you still dug deeper‚ until you couldn’t hear me anymore. You could hear the blood gushing to the floor‚ the universe’s way of saying you’d fucked up. But you’d already ripped out my throat‚ you couldn’t go back from that. But that’s not what happened

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