Examples of Age word problems : 1. Six years ago Jun was 4 times as old as Joan.In four years‚ he would be twice as old as Joan. How old are they now? 6 years ago joan x jun 4x .. after 4 years joan x+10 Jun 4x+10 4x+10=2(x+10) 4x+10=2x+20 4x-2x=20-10 2x=10 x=5 joan 6 years ago. Now age = 11 Jun 4x‚ = 20‚ 6 years ago. Now age =26 years now 2. At present‚ Pedro’s age is 25percent of his father’s age.Twenty years from now Pedro’s age would be 50percent of his fathers age. How old
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4U1-02-Period 1 September 20‚ 2012 The Word and How Should One Read a Book? : The importance of words to society One should never live without knowing how affective words are towards the structure of society. In Pablo Neruda’s The Word and Virginia Woolf’s How Should One Read a Book? The authors present words as a source of power obtained by consumers and those who are willing to live by it. Within both works of art‚ there are evidence of how words are important for the use of communication
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chatter of the wind and rain. Sitting in the stifling silence‚ Mary Maloney was drowning in her whirlwind of thought as she anxiously paced the floor. Suddenly‚ she stopped at a chilling epiphany: she can’t carry the burden of killing her own husband. It was eating away at the little amount of mental stability she had left. She couldn’t bare knowing she would have to raise her daughter without a father because of her own actions. Mary‚ in a stupefied state‚ muttered to herself‚ "What am I going to
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In the Poem "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski‚ the point that the speaker is trying to get across is that one must learn to accept or praise the faults of the world‚ to see the beauty to help heal the mutilated world. We as a society must remember the good things when times begin to get arduous. Zagajewski uses repetition with the phrase "Praise the Mutilated World‚" and each time the phrase is written‚ it means something completely different because of the tone that is being
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The first main theme in the “Parable in Praise of Violence” and The Road is excessive violence. In "Parable in Praise of Violence"‚ the first lines are listing off multiple occasions where violence was unnecessary but used anyway. He begins: "Thanks for the violence. Thanks for Walt’s rude muscle/ pushing through the grass‚ for tiny Gulliver crushed/ between the giant’s breasts. Thanks for Moby’s triangular hump/ and Ahab’s castrated leg. Thanks for the harpoons" (Barnstone 1-4). Barnstone is obviously
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elementary school classmates. They would not be able to use emoji instead of words to craft a sentence. However‚ technological advances make people be too immersed in the virtual world and disconnect from people around them. It means that technology has gradually taken the place of the side by side connection and face-to-face conversation. There is a sense of panic about how technology interferes with human interaction. Sherry Turkle‚ a psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ in her
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conspicuous consumption‚ emotional consumption) B. gambling (e.g. pathological gambling) C. substance abuse (e.g. drug abuse‚ alcoholism) D. online activities (e.g. cyber-bullying‚ internet addiction‚ online crime) E. extra-curricular activities F. reclusive adolescents G. compensated dating H. unmarried mothers – premarital sex 9. life skills – goal setting‚ emotion management‚ finance management‚ time management‚ problem solving‚ interpersonal communication‚ coping with adversity (resilience)
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your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you‚ but what together we can do for the freedom of man" said by the thirty fifth democratic president John F Kennedy. John F Kennedy was a man with charismatic and a charming personality. Although he had charm and was the youngest man elected president he was also the youngest to die. He was also the first Roman Catholic to become president. Even though he was not
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Amanda Dulinky 1/23/13 Reader Response # 1‚ on Alone Together‚ written by Sherry Turkle. Reading the first part of Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together has brought some interesting questions to my mind. I have often joked about friends of mine who play Massively Multi-player Online Games‚ such as World of Warcraft and Second Life‚ being addicted to their “game of choice”. And after reading & discussing this book‚ while also
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all as individuals have power in who we are. Whether wealthy politicians‚ middle class‚ or impoverished people. But with power comes the possibility of corruption and the greed for power. Which causes the theft of others power. In her short story‚ Mary Maya Angelou tells the story of a young middle aged maid named Margaret who serves a ugly old women named Miss Cullinan whose unable to bare children and as a result her husband left her for a colored women and as a reaction she projects her anger
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