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    out with a younger man getting ready to go canyoneering in the canyons in Utah. As he packs‚ he seems to be in a hurry to leave when he leaves his better pocketknife behind due to the fact he has misplaced it. Aron Ralston is a guy who loves the outdoors and the experiences that come with it. He enjoys exploring by himself and being with his own thoughts‚ to get the full experience. He carries a video camera to reflect on all his experiences as he aspires to be a guide in Utah’s Canyonlands National

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    English Literature Summer Task The Great Gatsby‚ Life of Pi and Great Expectations: The Opening Chapters The opening chapters of each of these three books are both similar and different in many ways‚ and succeed to keep the reader interested enough to carry on their journey with Pip‚ Nick or Pi. The way characterisation is put forward in these three novels is rather similar‚ in the fact that all three are written in the first person‚ giving the impression that the character in question is telling

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    How Great Was Alexander the Great? Alexander the Great was great in that he conquered and established authority throughout Eurasia at a young age. His military tactics were quite impressive. However‚ while Alexander the Great founded many cities‚ he failed at building a lasting empire. After his death‚ his empire began fall apart. Alexander the Great is known for his achievements. According to document E‚ by the time he died at the age of 33‚ Alexander the Great formed

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    overcoming the issue. Just like when Great Britain was faced with the challenge of recovering from the Great Depression and they made the choice to leave the gold standard. The gold standard was a monetary system in which a country’s currency‚ the British pound in this case‚ was backed by gold. Britain’s decision to leave to Gold Standard gave them the tools they needed to recovery successfully. Although Britain tried many times to recover from the Great

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    Alexander the great was born in July 356 B.C. to his father Phillip II. Alexander’s father prepared him for a life a conquests and legacies by allowing young Alexander to take over the battle of Chaeronea. This was a very important battle for Alexander since it showed his leadership skills considering he was only 16 years old. After the battle of Chaeronea‚ Alexander’s father‚ Phillip II‚ was assassinated. Now a new ruler at the age of twenty would emerge to the Macedonia people‚ he was know as Alexander

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    bravery. The vicissitude he bequeathed to military tactics made it perceptible that he was not an asset of the society he lived in‚ but a ruler. Alexander‚ born as Alexandros‚ son of King Philip I of Macedon and his wife Olympias‚ could be considered great due to the fact that he was an incredible leader‚ forming the largest empire in all of history. The creation of his empire was a journey toward anti-racism‚ uniting people from the Balkan Mountains to the Indus River and encouraging them to work together

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    controversial parts of the book The Great Gatsby is whether Gatsby was really great after all. He really isn’t great at all but he works hard to try to me others believe he really truly is great. He live is a world of fairy tales‚ over romanticized details‚ and surrounds him self with people who puss up his over sized ego. Being a great‚ good honest person was not at all Gatsby. I think Gatsby was great to the people that got to know him‚ but to most Gatsby was just a GREAT mystery. Gatsby become obsessed

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    downturns would be the current recession and The Great Depression though out 1929 to 1939. The cause of these two economic events cannot be blamed on one single person or a group‚ but on the United States as a whole who neglected to perform their economic duties. While these two deflationary periods in our economy have several differences‚ they have many similarities as well‚ such the difficulty in receiving money from bank banks but they differ in that the Great Depression was much more difficult to go

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    wasted his resources and power in trivial things such as unnecessary wars and luxurious items and palaces. He sold the idea of divine right as his right of leadership‚ and expanded France’s army and wealth throughout his reign. Alexander the Great was a great ruler who focused on the expansion of territory of his empire and expanded Greek culture and beliefs. At his death at only 32 years of age‚ he possessed one of the biggest empires ever seen. Philip II of Spain was a studious monarch

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    Pattern Recognition 41 (2008) 432 – 444 www.elsevier.com/locate/pr A real-time object detecting and tracking system for outdoor night surveillance Kaiqi Huang a ‚ ∗ ‚ Liangsheng Wang a ‚ Tieniu Tan a ‚ Steve Maybank b a National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition‚ Institute of Automation‚ Chinese Academy of Sciences‚ Beijing 100080‚ China b School of Computer Science and Information Systems‚ Birkbeck College‚ Malet Street‚ London WC1E 7HX‚ UK Received 27 April 2006; received in revised

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