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    The Virginia Plan‚ drafted by James Madison and proposed at the Constitutional Convention by Edmund Randolph‚ was to install a national government with a bicameral legislature and was to be comprised by representative that held seats‚ in the new congress‚ in proportion to each states population. After the delegates at convention accepted the Virginia Plan as a basis to build on the national government‚ debate quickly arose against the share of distributed legislative power the northern states would

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    Use of Allusion in Jane Eyre

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    ALLUSION IN JANE EYRE This paper will focus on the use of allusion that Bronte has made in her novel Jane Eyre. The novel is written in first person. The novel has in it elements of the gothic. The gothic novel is an amalgamation of romance and terror. The tradition started with Horace Walpole’s novel ‘the castle of Otronto’. Bronte uses elements of this tradition in Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre digresses from the other novels‚ written

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    APGAR SCORES Professor Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) • American paediatric anaesthesiologist • Founder of neonatology field • Also founder of Apgar score (1952) ← “designed first standardized method for evaluating newborns transition to life outside the womb” ← Further related Apgar score to labour‚ delivery and anaesthetics ← Apgar score at 5 min can predict neonatal survival and neurological development • In 1949: she was the 1st woman at Columbia

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    the northern government.  The poor Quakers were flying from persecution in England.  They cast their eyes on these new countries as asylums of civil and religious freedom; but they found them free only for the reigning sect.  Several acts of the Virginia assembly of 1659‚ 1662‚ and 1693‚ had made it penal in parents to refuse to have their children baptized; had prohibited the unlawful assembling of Quakers; had made it penal for any master of a vessel to bring a Quaker into the state; had ordered

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    Event Proposal Letter and Form Dear Event Coordinator‚ As an event coordinator your job is to run or plan an event either for or in conjunction with CAS Student Council. In order to host an event‚ you must submit an event proposal for approval. Your proposal should be submitted in person at a General Assembly meeting at least six weeks before the date of your event. Three copies of the proposal must be submitted: one to the attention of the Vice-President‚ one to the attention of the Secretary

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    The genre of detective fiction is one that has changed significantly since its beginning during the Victorian era‚ with the scale of the crimes being committed on a larger scale nowadays and also the methods of solving crimes used by detectives. I will argue today that: “Fictional detectives that star in films and stories in the genre of detective fiction have changed dramatically in terms of their appearance and their role. Nowadays detectives can be anything from an investigative journalist to

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    Twain’s novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain makes use of various rhetorical strategies to convey a humorous atmosphere for his readers. Literary techniques such as Allusion‚ Irony‚ and use of the unexpected are all expressed within the book‚ particularly Chapter 14‚ in an abundance of ways. An allusion to the tale of King Solomon the Wise is made in the first few moments of the chapter. Specifically through Twain’s character‚ Jim‚ with the paragraph‚ “He had some er de dad-fetchedes’…

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    1. Introduction The New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards‚ 1958 (“Convention” or “NYC”)‚ at its basest level‚ is a mutual understanding between signatory states that their legal systems will make genuine efforts at recognising and enforcing an arbitral award that is jurisdictionally linked to another signatory state. As it is first and foremost a creature of international law‚ this agreement obliges each signatory state to apply only the rules specified

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    that represent constituents of a sentence. Then the functions of the major word classes will be described and a distinction will be drawn between content and structure words. The text being analysed is an extract from the novel To the Lighthouse‚ by Virginia Woolf. The text is therefore narrative. The literary technique used in this text is very rare‚ it is known as the stream-ofconsciousness. This suggests that most of it is written as an unbroken flow of perceptions‚ thoughts and feelings. What is

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    Flowing from Virginia Woolf’s poem “Memoirs of Being” is a beautiful piece of her childhood. This picture that has been created‚ is one that is filled with imagery‚ anaphora‚ and is an allusion to a time when her cares were not burdened in the way that they would become later in the poem. We can see that the piece is a picture of a time of youth. One that is not yet marred with the understanding of consequences. And a joy can be seen from start to finish‚ but her understanding of that joy experienced

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