Ten Things I Hate About You and its Relevance to a Modern Audience Although the movie Ten Things I Hate About You is based on a Shakespearian play‚ it was released in 1999 so it was essential that the director Gil Junger made it both relevant and appealing to a modern audience. He does this primarily through alterations to the setting and the characters‚ with few changes to the basic plot. The target audience is teenagers‚ and all the major characters are also teenagers and are all in high school
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RUSSIA & THE SOVIET UNION 1917-1941 TIMELINE 1917 -‐ Bolshevik or ‘October’ Revolution 1917 -‐ Treaty of Brest-‐Litovsk signed 1918 -‐ Start of the Civil War. ‘War Communism’ introduced 1919 -‐ Formation of ‘Comintern’ 1921 -‐ End of Civil War. Kronstadt uprising. Introduction of the ‘NEP’.
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In order to complete this assignment‚ I reviewed the textbook used in my eleventh grade Modern American History class. The title of the book is United States History: Modern America. Printed by Prentice Hall‚ it was published in 2008 and is now in its fifth year of usage for my class. I used the Fry Readability Graph to determine the readability of the book. Additionally‚ I selected three passages‚ one from the beginning‚ middle and end of the book‚ in order to assure accurate results. The
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THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW Vol. 86‚ No. 6 2011 pp. 2075–2098 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/accr-10134 Judging the Relevance of Fair Value for Financial Instruments Lisa Koonce The University of Texas at Austin Karen K. Nelson Rice University Catherine M. Shakespeare University of Michigan ABSTRACT: We conduct three experiments to test if investors’ views about fair value are contingent on whether the financial instrument in question is an asset or liability‚ whether
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Warfare During the Renaissance Warfare did not get invented during the Renaissance‚ but there were some significant innovations. Feudal cavalry lost its strength of the battlefield‚ infantry gained in stature‚ states learned how to field large armies for long periods of time. Most important of all‚ however‚ was the use of gunpowder. The chief result of these innovations was that warfare once and for all was taken out of the hands of private individuals (the nobility) and was taken over by the
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History and Modern Applications of X-Rays We see X-Rays all the time in television‚ science fiction novels‚ and comic book superheroes‚ but what is fact and what is fiction? By examining their makeup‚ history‚ modern applications‚ dangers‚ protection‚ and even possible future developments we can understand these scientific marvels far better and more accurately than watching an episode of Star Trek or reading a Superman comic. First and most important is to analyze why an X-ray works and what
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FUTURE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE INTRODUCTION Background 1. Chemical Warfare is a method of warfare in which toxic or incapacitating chemicals agents are used to further the goals of the combatants. The concept of Chemical Warfare is as old as warfare itself. Until the 20th century such warfare was primarily limited to starting fires‚ poisoning wells‚ distributing smallpox-infected articles‚ and using smoke to confuse the enemy. The most extensive and large-scale use of Chemical Weapons was witnessed
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Other reasons have also been given as to the cause. Some reason are; anti-communism‚ the treaty of Versailles and the propaganda used by the Nazis. Regardless of the cause‚ World War II was “the most expensive‚ extensive and Deadliest of conflict in history.” It is difficult to pinpoint the single most crucial cause of the conflict‚ and is more complicated by the number of countries involved. World War II lasted from 1939 until 1945 and involved the majority of countries in the world. Germany’s part
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A History of Modern Psychology PSY/310 The creation of psychology didn’t just happen out of nowhere. The development of psychology has taken place over the past several centuries‚ resulting in the creation of great psychologists‚ philosophers‚ and students of science. The behavioral process and the scientific study of the mind are known as psychology. Curios minds always wondered how to study and theorize human behavior‚ but it took psychologists and philosophers to study‚ analyze‚ and
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THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S ROLES 1 The History of Women’s Roles in the United States Military ITT Technical Institute THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S ROLES 2 Abstract Women’s contributions in the United States military began with tasks‚ such as providing medical aid to soldiers during the Revolutionary War to serving right beside their male counterparts in Afghanistan 238 years later. The woman’s role over this period of time
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