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    When William was alive he always said to Mary what to do and he maked rules for her like not smoke cigarettes. William said in his letter “Be good when I am gone‚ and always remember that it is harder to be a widow than a wife. Do not drink cocktails. Do not waste money. Do not smoke cigarettes. Do not eat pastry. Do not use lipstick. Do not buy a television. Keep my rose beds and my rockery will weeded in the summers. And incidentally I suggest that you have the telephone disconnected now I shall

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    Mary Rose Research Paper

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    The Mary Rose The combination of many factors led to the sinking of the Mary Rose in 1545. Theories include a French cannon‚ a structural change in the ship‚ inexperienced or unruly crew and an unexpected gust of wind. However it was a combination of these factors that caused the Mary Rose to sink. Firstly‚ a French cannon firing into the ship was a possible factor in the sinking of the Mary Rose due to the ship going off to fight the French. However‚ there have been no discovered holes in the

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    Mary Kay Case Study

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    Mary Kay is a cosmetics business which faced the problem that every company wished they had. They were growing so quickly that the system they have in place was no longer a viable option to process the orders they had coming in‚ which ranged from 25-30‚000 per day. At the outset of the company‚ they had a decentralized system. This meant that the orders were scattered across 4 different mediums: web‚ phone‚ mail‚ and desktop computers‚ and many mistakes were made as a result. With over 850‚000 IBCs

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    of the story is Mary‚ but also Roger and their grandfather can be considered the same. 1–2 3. How long does TA-NA-E-KA last for? Now it lasts 5 days‚ but it used to last for eighteen days. 1–2 4. In what season does the story take place and what’s the weather like? The story takes place during spring and the weather‚ as it‛s usual during this season‚ is quite warm and the sun shines. 3–4 5. What did Grandfather think Mary would look like when she returned? He thought Mary would look like

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    Mary I Queen Of England

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    Mary I‚ Queen of England was a very prominent figure in European history. Her reign as queen was filled with many trials and tribulations that were not accepted by most of England. Many of Mary’s rash decisions were most likely do to her upbringing and her lack of will power. Whether it is being declared a bastard as a young child by her tyrannical father‚ Henry VIII‚ or her marriage to Phillip of Spain‚ Mary was easily influenced by others and it showed as she grew older and took over

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    Mary Richard Early Life

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    and cultivated each other. Mary Richard‚ born May 29th‚ 1930‚ grew up a modest southern girl in a miniscule agricultural‚ country community outside Church Point‚ Louisiana. There wasn’t much extravagance to take part in locally‚ or opportunity to travel too far away from neighboring communities‚ so most life experiences worth keeping close to her involved family‚ friends‚ and the days spent together. Life did not always take a pre-paved pathway‚ but the people Mary surrounded herself with‚ shaped

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    The story “The Lamb To The Slaughter” written by Ronald Dahl is an amazing story. In the story there are two main characters‚ Patrick and Mary Maloney. Patrick Maloney is a very hardworking detective and‚ Mary Maloney is a hardworking housewife. In the story “The “Lamb To The Slaughter” written by Ronald Dahl. Patrick Maloney comes home to his wife and tells her he wants a divorce.mrs. Maloney does not mrs. Maloney does not want to take that very well. She goes crazy mentally but on the outside she

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    Mary Rowlandson who wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson described her first person experience she had with Native Americans. She depicts the events as would be seen by an outside observer which become partly biased due to the emotions she felt during captivity. Her story takes place during King Philip’s War‚ a territorial battle between Native Americans and English settlers. Mary and her children were captured and taken as prisoners by Native Americans in order

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    Mary Mallon Food Poisoning

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    Mary Mallon was a hardworking‚ well respected chef in the 1880s. She cooked for the wealthy families of New York. In 1906‚ Mary was hired by Charles Henry Warren to cook for his family during the summer at their vacation home. One day‚ one of his daughters came down with typhoid fever‚ a form of food poisoning. Within a few days half of the people in the home had become sick. Nobody could figure out where the typhoid had came from‚ so a man named George Soper‚ who was a sanitary engineer‚ decided

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    Mary Evans Research Paper

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    may throw you for a loop within this discussion of this author is that “he” is not whom he appears to be‚ for George Eliot is actually a pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans. Women during the 1800s were really looked at as pretty property‚ as mentioned earlier. They were not thought to be writers and were also not really accredited for their works; thus‚ Mary Ann took on this pseudonym to draw in more of a serious eye for her work and give it more credibility. She wished for works to be looked at fairly and

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