Kentucky Derby. On the first Saturday in May‚ the granddaddy of horse race – the Kentucky Derby is run at Churchill Downs in Louisville‚ Kentucky Derby. The amount of money bet‚ in millions of dollars‚ on this race for the file named DERBY5 on the CD. Build an extrapolative model for the amount bet and provide a justification for the model. Use linear and/or nonlinear trends to build the model. Once you have chosen your preferred model‚ use it to forecast the amount bet in 1993 and 1994.
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Moolaadé Essay Seven years ago‚ a woman and a mother refused to subject her only daughter to be under the atrocious practice of female circumcision. Moolaadé is the story of this woman‚ Collé Ardo‚ a seditious and strong-minded second wife of Ciré in a small secluded African village who single-handedly refused to allow five girls to suffer through the customary Salindé ceremony. She was in opposition with the practice of genital mutilation due to her personal experiences and she didn’t want others
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Thomas Cole was born on February 1‚ 1801 at Bolton‚ Lancashire in Northwestern England and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1818. Throughout the early years‚ Cole lived in Philadelphia‚ Ohio‚ and Pittsburgh where he worked as a traveling portrait artist. Thomas Cole was primarily self-taught‚ however‚ he stilled worked with members of the Philadelphia Academy‚ and his canvases appeared in the Academy’s exhibitions. In 1825‚ Cole’s exhibition of small paintings of landscapes in Catskill
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Cole through the book goes through three stages of being able to control his anger stage one being the beginning where he is only able to hide his anger‚ stage two he is able to suppress his anger and stage three he is able to control his anger. In the first part of the book we see Cole at his worst for his anger. At this time in the book we see that Cole is unable to control his anger when peter warns the authorities about cole robbing a hardware store. After hearing that a classmate has informed
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The poetry collection I decided to analyze is No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay. Sarah Kay is a young American female poet‚ known for her spoken word poetry. Kay is also the founder and co-director of Project VOICE‚ which uses spoken words poetry to promote empowerment‚ improve literacy‚ and encourage empathy and creative collaboration in classrooms and communities around the world. I appreciated Sarah Kay’s collection due to its modern voice and style‚ which made her poems easily relatable and
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Sasha was the most perfect of all bats in school‚ and wanted her to be for him. After class right before lunch started‚ Louis brutally kicked Pumpkinito in front of Sasha. She shoved him away from Pumpkinito. Pumpkinito’s day was lit up because the love of his life had saved him. Pumpkinito couldn’t even say “Thanks” because he was tongue tied around
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marble building that stood towering over me like a mountain. Or at least that’s what it felt like. My past year had been an interesting one. I had attempted to adopt three kittens‚ Mist‚ Cole‚ and Owl‚ all of which ended up being sick. Mist developed a growth in her throat that would be too expensive to care for‚ Cole was diagnosed with a rare disease with no known cure‚ and Owl caught a fungus called ringworm. I was almost at a breaking point after three sick kittens. I believed that any kitten I tried
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The author of this newspaper article is Sarah Ali. She was a foreign traveler to the United States in 2010 and wrote for her newspaper back home in Turkey about slavery. In American history‚ slavery is a significant and interesting subject. Slavery was a legal foundation of human chattel enslavement in the United States. African American was the most common and during that time people had the right to buy‚ sell‚ and own someone forever. It is important to know how slavery began. According to some
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(Wong 246). Wong originally found her dull compared to Barbie (Wong 247). As the essay continues‚ Wong realizes that this black-haired doll she disliked actually looked like her‚ while the more "prettier"‚ blond Barbie looked like Wong’s best friend‚ Sarah. This is the point of comparing. (Wong 248). In the end‚ I think the message this essay was trying to give was that what you can be is more important than already looking pretty. Wong probably organized this essay the way she did because she wanted
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2017 Thomas Cole: The Oxbow The great American frontier‚ long depicted as a harsh and ruthless place over and over again for hundreds of years. Thomas Cole depicts the very beginning stages of this legendary story of expansion in 1832 in his piece titled The Oxbow. Cole argues through this piece and through his Essay on American Scenery that indeed American scenery is just as great as that of Europe if not better due to its untouched Beauty. In the painting we see a very clear argument Cole the artist
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