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    Queen Elizabeth 1

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    Elizabeth I (also known as Elizabeth the Great‚ or the "Virgin Queen") was born in 1533 into a dangerous world of political intrigue. When she was only two years old‚ her father‚ King Henry VIII killed her mother‚ Ann Boleyn‚ because she had not yet produced a male heir. Henry’s routine killing of her successive stepmothers every few years traumatized Elizabeth‚ who loved her father. Although Henry finally did father a son‚ Edward VI‚ the boy did not live long‚ dying at the age of sixteen after a

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    Wind Technology Case

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    Introduction Founded in 1981‚ Wind Technologies (WT) has been a supplier of many different varieties of weather related radar and instrumentation. In 1986 the company focused its production on wind profiling radar systems that measure wind and atmospheric conditions. Management of Wind Technologies felt as though this consolidation would position the company as an industry leader in the future in a market that would have little competition. This consolidation was mainly due to being purchased

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    Virgin Islands Biographies

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    Term Junior High School in Bovoni‚ St. Thomas Addelita Cancryn 53 years of service in DOE Former Name: Wayne Aspinall Junior High School Book: Man of Vision Musician‚ Organist and Choir Director for All Saints Cathedral Elena Leonie Elizabeth Davis Christian Former Name: Christiansted Junior High School Educator for 54 years BP: St. Kitts‚ BWI American Association of Retired Persons Resource Person for the Elderly of the USVI Chairman of the Altar Guild St. Croix Chapter of Business

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    Advantages of Wind Energy

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    Wind Energy 1 Advantages of Wind Energy Ahmet Engin Erkan Faculty of Civil Engineering 010080357 English 201 Mr. Lieberman November 26‚ 2009 Wind Energy 2 Advantages of wind energy Thesis : Wind energy‚ which has a rapidly increasing use around the globe‚ is advantageous because it is friendly to environment‚ good for economy and readily available around the world. I. Friendly to environment A. Producing no contamination B. Having pollution free electricity C. Setting

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    Advantages of Wind Power

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      |   | ADVANTAGES OF WIND POWER: |   |   | 1. The wind is free and with modern technology it can be captured efficiently. 2. Once the wind turbine is built the energy it produces does not cause green house gases or other pollutants. 3. Although wind turbines can be very tall each takes up only a small plot of land. This means that the land below can still be used. This is especially the case in agricultural areas as farming can still continue. 4. Many people find wind farms an interesting feature

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    Wind and Solar Power

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    Aleksander Tucker 21 April 2013 ECS 310 Wind and Solar Power Wind and solar power are the future. They are clean‚ renewable‚ and infinite sources of energy and allow for energy to be produced domestically. They are also complimentary; Wind and solar energy will also be economically beneficial. Maintenance is easy‚ and long-term cost is a great advantage. Wind turbines and solar panels can also be very aesthetically attractive‚ and people can comfortably live around them. Human health risk is

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    into the human effects on the planet and its ecosystems. For example‚ Kolbert visits One Tree Island near the Barrier Reef and the Island of Castello Aragonese to collect water samples. The scientists at One Tree Island wanted to test the carbon dioxide levels of the water during high and low tide. One scientist at Castello Aragonese collected water and animal samples from the vents under the water that spewed 〖CO〗_2. Kolbert references some studies that show that since the Industrial Revolution

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    Ode to the West Wind

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    portrayed in the poem‚ Overall it is the poet asking the wind to scatter his words throughout the world Asking the wind to hear him First three cantos - decribtion of the powers of the wind First Canto Explains the purpose of the wind during the seasons Shows that the ode to the wind is not only optimistic. Dark element(leaves dead‚ Ghosts) The wind is considered the destroyer because of the way it sweeps life from the trees The wind id considered the preserver because it helps spark spring

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    Wind-Ted hughes

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    Wind - Ted Hughes Setting: A house and the surrounding landscape exposed to a violent storm Main Figure: The wind itself which represents the forces of nature Theme: Man’s helplessness as opposed to the power of nature Tone: Potent‚ Vigorous Structure: ’Wind’ is written in six‚ four line stanzas characterised by enjambment. Enjambment is when sentences‚ in poems run over the end of one line and into the next one(s). In ’Wind’ lines spill into each other and the end of one stanza runs

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    Island Voices

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    English Essay Island Voices “The use of symbolism is interestingly used to express the theme of ‘seeing’ and the effects of modernism in Tanjong Rhu and Lee” The stories in Island Voices were compiled to highlight the consequences faced by Singaporean as the city transformed from a traditional society to a cosmopolitan Asian city. Many of the authors of these short stories use literary devices to emphasize their message. I feel that Tanjong Rhu and Lee both use symbolisms to emphasize the

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