In the article "What Obama Hopes To Accomplish Before Leaving The White House" The Onion uses accomplishments and fails from President Barack Obama’s two terms as president and puts a lighthearted spin on them using horatian satire. In this piece Barack Obama is putting together a frivolous to-do checklist to complete before he leaves office. The article takes many accomplishments of Barack Obama during his presidency and uses it in a humorous context. This draws on the audience’s pathos and
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I enjoyed watching this Ted Talk by Dalia Mogahed. It was a beautiful speech The reading on Arab Families gave me a lot of insight about the Arab culture. The main two topics that interested me was language and family structure. I have a friend who is Muslim and he let me know how family is the main concern in the Arab societies. He also informed me that the men are allowed to have up to four wives if they desire to. However‚ he said if the men fear that they cannot be just to all then they should
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The theme is the main point‚ or underling purpose within a story. The tone of a story is how the writer reflects their attitude and feelings. The setting is where and when the story takes place (Abcarian‚ Klotz‚ & Cohen‚ 2016). “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ has a theme of revenge. Montresor plans to get revenge on Fortunato by careful planning and trickery (Poe‚ 2016). “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a short poem by Robert Frost. The theme is that nothing that is good‚ will last
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sun never sets. I dream of strange lands where the sky is strange to me. I dream of landscapes that are new and strange‚ I dream of lands that only I have ever seen. I dream of travels around the globe‚ looking at a new sunset every day‚ at a new sunrise every morning. I dream of crawling through tiny spaces and looking at the small beaches no one ever visits‚ at the sand no one ever treads on. I wish to wake up every morning not knowing the road will take me‚ not caring about where I might end
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rotates w-e ~The position of Earth’s axis is fixed in respect to the North Star ~Tropics-warm low latitude areas near equator ~Polar Regions- Cold‚ high latitudes‚ surrounds poles ~Direct/ indirect rays affect amt solar energy‚ temps‚ time b/t sunrise and sunset‚ daylight hours ~Greatest angle toward or away from sun-solstice (Dec. 21 and June 21) ~23.5* below equator Tropic of Capricorn; north is t o cancer ~66.5* bellow equator Antarctic Circle; north is arctic circle ~June- N has longer
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LORAN and SHORAN • LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) - is a terrestrial radio navigation system using low frequency radio transmitters in multiple deployment (multilateration) to determine the location and speed of the receiver. - The most recent version of LORAN in use is LORAN-C‚ which operates in the low frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum from 90 to 110 Kilohertz. ♦ History -LORAN was an American development‚ advancing the technology of the British GEE radio navigation
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their game. They end up succeeding in getting Miss Foley to fall under their trap‚ turning her into a little girl and making her be in the carnival. A quote from the book to support this is: “Will nodded. ’She must’ve heard the music‚ gone out at sunrise. Something went wrong. Maybe the carousel wasn’t fixed right. Maybe accidents happen all the time. Like to the lightning-rod man‚ him inside-out and crazy. Maybe the carnival likes accidents‚ gets a kick out of them. Or maybe they did something to
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breath in and a breath out. He decides to close the box with a winkle in his eye. One great memory he remembers was Pablo loved listening to him play the piano. He slides his fingers on the piano keys and plays Pablo favorite song‚ “With Every Sunrise”. After a couple replays of the song he heads to the park‚ another favorite for
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The youth theme this year comes from one of my all time favorite scriptures 2 Nephi 31:20‚ which reads “Wherefore‚ ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ‚ having a perfect brightness of hope and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore if ye press forward‚ feasting upon the word of Christ and endure to the end‚ behold thus saith the Father: ye shall have eternal life.” I love the direction this verse gives us. How do we press forward with a steadfastness in Christ? I have been thinking
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Yin-Yen: There are many different accounts of Darius’s rise to the throne but the most important came from both Darius and Herodotus. Both accounts state he killed Smerdis‚ son of Cyrus‚ and claimed the throne with assistance of 6 other nobles. Darius claimed in his Behistun inscription that the supposed Smerdis was actually an impersonator called Gaumata‚ a Magian. Darius therefore stated that he was restoring the kingship to the rightful Achaemenid house. However‚ according to Herodotus‚ Smerdis
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