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    EXAM 1 Additional Review Problems Adjusting Entries: 1. A year-end physical count of office supplies on hand reveals supplies worth $1‚800. The balance sheet reflected a balance in the office supplies account of $3‚700 before any year-end adjustments were made. What is the amount of supplies expense that will be included on the current year income statement? 2. On December 1‚ 20Y1‚ Nelson collected rent of $7‚200 (for December‚ January‚ and February rent) from a tenant renting some space

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    The United States of America became a union through sacrifice and freedom. Prior to the Civil War‚ most slaves in the South risked their lives for freedom. Harriet Tubman‚ along with Thomas Garrett and Frederick Douglass‚ were all important figures in the Underground Railroad. Their heroic deeds illustrated the themes that made their country unite. As a conductor‚ Tubman led more runaways to the promised land. Her motto was‚ “We got to go free or die. And freedom’s not bought with dust.” She

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    The Similarities of Jacob and Joseph The Book of Genesis shares many realistic and sacred obstacles experienced by Jacob and Joseph. Jacob spends his early life fleeing from his family. Jacob’s son Joseph is forced to begin a new life in his early years because he is traded by his brothers. After they begin their new lives and have their goals in mind‚ they are betrayed and forced to find a different approach. These behaviors are looked at from modern readers as being both humanistic and non

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    In Marc Jacobs Responds to Critics Amid Social Media Firestorm About Dreadlocks on the Runway‚ by Rachel Strugatz explains the anarchy that went down when Jacobs 2017 line hit the New York Fashion Week runways. The line included models with dramatic colored dreadlocks attached to their heads. As Marc Jacobs was inspired by the culture and incorporated it in his spring line the internet broke out in chatter criticizing Jacobs and accusing him of culture appropriation for his models hair choice. The

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    legally changed his name to Jacob Parker. He is about 6’2 with large biceps and slick dark brown hair. Jacob finally found his true potential with his powers such as flight‚ speed‚ heat and cold resistance‚ strength‚ and an incredible brain. He has just graduated with ease from Harvard and plans to live a normal life in a nice house in Chicago meanwhile‚ Test#131 had begun causing destruction at the Golden Gate Bridge by breaking the support beams. This alarmed Jacob‚ the president the government

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    biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe from the nineteenth century. What is this pilgrimage we speak of? Pilgrimage itself has a long history in Christianity as well as in other

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    Contribution of Emily Dickinson in American Literature It is said that maturation of American letters first took place during the era of American Romanticism‚ which is also called the American Renaissance era. As stated by Woodlief‚ during this era‚ “excitement over human possibilities‚ and a high regard for individual ego.” It was the time when the natural goodness of man was the primary belief of American people. They were of the notions that natural goodness comes in natural environment and

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    Throughout literature‚ feminism and racism have played crucial roles in the lives of the characters and plotlines in stories and novels. Audiences are captivated by the drama a character must face in order to succeed in life or society. This struggle to overcome personal discrimination and adversity has transcended centuries and genres of literature. African American literature is no exception. Authors of African American literature would base the events that were taking place in the world around

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    course of America’s lifetime‚ literary movements have helped define the ever changing thoughts‚ values‚ and ideas the country has held throughout the years. American literature is a timepiece that will live on the shelves of libraries across the world‚ permanently preserving America’s story for many more centuries to come. Records of the American Gothic featuring Poe’s darkly extravagant poems‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dizzying stories of the Jazz Age‚ Steinbeck’s tales of America’s Dust Bowl‚ and Jack

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    Jane Jacobs starts off her introduction in “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by introducing new principles in city planning. Jacob talks about the sacking of cities that have been built with the first several billion dollars provided There is a myth if there was enough money to spend‚ all the slums would be vanished in ten years. Coming from an area where there are quite a few low-income projects‚ I disagree with this myth. I don’t believe that there will ever be enough money in this

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