If anyone asked me to describe Educational Talent Search‚ I would say it is the most outstanding program that any student can participate in during their high school career. The program facilitated my desire to attend college. As a first-generation student‚ college was not the highlight of my single-parent household’s conversations. Whenever my peers would mention college‚ I would not engage in the conversation because I did not have the confidence‚ based on my socio-economic background‚ to say that
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The Thousand and One Nights‚ generally known to the English‚ speaking world as the Arabian Nights‚ is a compendium of Arabic tales compiled between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. The collection starts with the story of King Shahrayar. Betrayed by his adulterous wife‚ he swears never to trust a woman again‚ deciding instead to marry a different virgin every night and have her executed the next day. He carries out his plan for three years‚ until his Vizier can no longer find a virgin to
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GOOGLE’S ALGORITHM: ==Algorithm== PageRank is a [[probability distribution]] used to represent the likelihood that a person randomly clicking on links will arrive at any particular page. PageRank can be calculated for collections of documents of any size. It is assumed in several research papers that the distribution is evenly divided among all documents in the collection at the beginning of the computational process. The PageRank computations require several passes‚ called "iterations"‚
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Megan Couture-King October 19‚ 2014 Dr. Margo Shea World History Since 1900 Concentration Camps: A Dehumanizing Life Victor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning outlines the difficult life within a concentration camp. He utilizes the Nazi’s masochistic forms of punishment along with clever survival strategies to show the meaning of life in times of great suffering. He also is able to reveal the startling ways in which the prisoners in these camps were able to adapt and survive when put in
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When I was younger my dad and I was at the bus stop waiting for the school bus to arrive‚ when we looked up in the sky‚ still kind of dark and this light is just sitting there. It was very bright but also looked like the North Star so we did not pay it much attention when all of a sudden it took off faster than the speed of light. My dad and I just looked at each other and brushed it off. Sometimes we still talk about that morning but we never say anything to anyone because we did not have proof
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In the novel‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini‚ the main characters Laila and Mariam obtain personal strengths that benefit each other immensely. While these skills are excellent on their own‚ when they are brought together‚ they make both women invincible. Traits such as confidence‚ patience and selflessness are combined between both characters. These advantages contrast with one another to fill the emptiness and weaknesses that both Laila and Mariam possess. Throughout everything
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Cabigas‚ Lance Vincent‚ M. L85-A Search and Destroy The people of the state Utah‚ were shocked to find a murder which occurred in the night. Police came to the scene‚ only to the find the corpse of a 5-year old girl. Apparently‚ the girl was murdered by her mother due to a heated argument and a mix of alcohol. The crime was not a surprise‚ but what surprised the people was the weapon used: A spatula. Quite an odd story isn’t it? However‚ this was a real occurrence back in July
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professionals and a sharp rise in payroll costs‚ and the crisis will deepen with the number of hotel rooms set to more than double in five years. "There is a lot of pressure on hotel bottom lines‚" says Natwar Nagar‚ managing director of HVS Executive Search that helps hotels recruit staff. "The demand for manpower from across new hotels is coming up and supply is naturally restricted. Hence there has been an increase in per-employee costs by default‚" he says. Hoteliers say their payroll costs have
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A Thousand Splendid Suns: The burqa as a symbol of both the social plight of women and a hidden sense of freedom “Mariam had never before worn a burqa. Rasheed had to help her put it on. The padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull‚ and it was strange seeing the world through a mesh screen. She practiced walking around her room in it and kept stepping on the hem and stumbling. The loss of peripheral vision was unnerving‚ and she did not like the suffocating way the pleated cloth kept
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Dream of a Thousand Cats In the “Dream of a Thousand Cats” there was a particular section that stuck out to me. Looking into the eyes of the dream cat‚ the Siamese saw a world much different from hers. Large cats being groomed‚ fed‚ and pet by tiny humans‚ who were then hunted out of amusement. One human stood up and told his fellow man that they can change their world. It can be a world of human beings where they were no longer hunted and killed. The humans had dreamed together‚ a thousand‚ and stood
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