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    The Power of Words In 2004‚ human rights were violated in the form of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape and homicide of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. These acts were committed by military police of the United States Army. Did this happen because the soldiers considered the Iraqis as inhuman‚ and was it caused by having a certain language to refer to the enemies? In war‚ soldiers find it easier to cope after killing if they know that they have killed the opposing side

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    them from far away. C. The dancer floated across the stage. D. The canoe with the blue stripes. 4. Which sentence contains repetitious words that should be left out? A. The bright star is visible. B. The bright star is visible to the eye. C. The star was visible centuries ago. D. The star will soon disappear. 5. Which sentence contains words in italics that form a gerund phrase? (A gerund is a verb form used the same way as a noun.) A. The laughing boy sat down. B. An interesting

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    A Thousand Words Napoleon Bonaparte said‚ "A picture is worth a thousand words.” Throughout history‚ art has reflected what defines a culture and time period. This is found in particular in artwork from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Although they are very similar in some ways‚ there are also many differences‚ from color to backgrounds‚ to the 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional qualities. Medieval and Renaissance art have some similarities‚ but more noticeable are the differences. Both

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    salary if employee is above grade level 10 then bonus is 30% of basic salary On Sheet3 (rename the sheet to Student grade) Q3. Create a worksheet to calculate student grading system using the following as field options‚ S/N‚ student name‚ class‚ MS word‚ access‚ PowerPoint‚ Corel draw‚ publisher and internet scores respectively‚ calculate the total score and average score hence compute the student grade given that if Average score is above 79 student grade equal A1 if Average score is above 69

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    "Age" Word Problems (page 1 of 2) In January of the year 2000‚ I was one more than eleven times as old as my son William. In January of 2009‚ I was seven more than three times as old as him. How old was my son in January of 2000? Obviously‚ in "real life" you’d have walked up to my kid and and asked him how old he was‚ and he’d have proudly held up three grubby fingers‚ but that won’t help you on your homework. Here’s how you’d figure out his age for class: First‚ name things and translate the

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    English Idioms Idioms and idiomatic expressions in English An idiom is a group of words in current usage having a meaning that is not deducible from those of the individual words. For example‚ "to rain cats and dogs" - which means "to rain very heavily" - is an idiom; and "over the moon" - which means "extremely happy" - is another idiom. In both cases‚ you would have a hard time understanding the real meaning if you did not already know these idioms! A (26) B (26) C (27) D (25) E (25)

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    the English speaker rather than having them accommodate me‚ my tongue will be illegitimate.” It would be a lie if I started to explain how I dealt with the difficulty of this passage‚ because the truth is that I didn’t find anything difficult about Gloria Anzaldúa’s text; no‚ it’s not that I’m the smartest reader out there‚ it’s just that I completely understand what she’s talking about; being a Mexican kid that just moved to the U.S. I guess I’ve too been surrounded by the mixture of the different

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    In the Words of Wordsworth: Explain what Wordsworth means when he calls nature “The anchor of my purest thoughts‚ the nurse‚ / The guide‚ the guardian of my heart‚ and soul / Of all my moral being.” Compare your own responses to nature and the natural landscape. To what extent do you share the Romantic view of nature? Chapter 27 Journal Jeannine Orndorff January 20‚ 2013 William Wordsworth had a great love for the natural world. His poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”

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    Soli Gustafson Honors English Mr. A Lee Period 3 11/16/13 Major Essay: Compare and Contrast Pictures and Words Movies have long been struggling to capture a book in pictures and sound and have long been failing. So much more can be put into a few pages of a book than ten minutes of a movie‚ and books can be much longer without the author worrying about the reader losing interest. Anyone who has read and liked the book before going to see the movie will automatically find the book to be far

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    type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings? 7.8. What are the 2 kinds of Language? 9. What do you call it when words share either the same vowel or consonant sound but not both? 10. When a word rhymes to a word from a different line. 11. What do you call the central idea of the poem? 12. What kind of rhyme is it when a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line? 13. What do you call the pattern in which end rhyme occurs? 14-20. What are the 7 kinds of stanzas? (In

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