HISTORY 212-2 Primary Source Analysis #2 Significant Lines for Discussion Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age‚ 1870-1890 Thorstein Veblen‚ Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) * “By a further refinement‚ wealth acquired passively by transmission from ancestors or other antecedents presently becomes even more honorific than wealth acquired by the possessor’s own effort.” Luther Standing Bear‚ excerpt from My People the Sioux (1928) * “These people cared nothing for
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In the Encomium of Helen‚ Gorgias takes up as his task the exoneration Helen of Troy as the cause of the Trojan War. He does this by proposing the potential causes of the will of the gods‚ the force of others‚ persuasion through words‚ and love. He starts by pointing to the will of the gods. He asserts that “god’s predetermination cannot be hindered by human premeditation” (40). This implies that Helen was merely a pawn of the gods and Fate‚ so she cannot be blamed for the role she was destined
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coaches and angry teammates. Sometimes these fears came true. During my second game‚ my position at post led me to play in the games on many times throughout the season. On those times‚ I often made mistakes. Most of the time the mistakes were not significant; they rarely changed the outcome of a play. Yet I received a thorough long lecture at practice for the mistakes I had made. These occurrences only intensified my fears of playing. However‚ I did not always make mistakes. Sometimes I made great plays
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Cultural Immersion Program One of the most significant experience I have ever had occurred when I was in grade 9th at Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary School. According to the signed annual cultural immersion program between the two schools‚ the North View Secondary School group(NVSS)‚ consisting of 5 teachers and 30 students‚ will travel to Vietnam to communicate with Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary School in September and the Nguyen Gia Thieu Junior High School team will travel to Singapore
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I once had a significant misunderstanding‚ and it ended a relationship I didn’t want to end‚ but some of me thinks it was suppose to happen. So most people at my age have a Myspace profiles‚ so like them I do have a Myspace. Myspace is place where I can chat with friends and write some of my poems. But EVERY person’s Myspace has a password‚ that no one else knows. But someone knew mine‚ when I didn’t know they knew it. My relationship was going up and down a hill these days. Somehow I knew it
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AFTER THE EVENT Love our Heritage event has ended at 4 pm and we together had tidy the place where the event has been held. All the equipment that we have borrowed from Pusat Adat dan Warisan (PADAT) are arranged nicely inside car as it is to be returned on the next day. Although we feel so tired to handle this event‚ but overall we are extremely glad because our mission and objectives of the event was successfully achieved. The mission that we want to achieve is‚ with this kind of event it can
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Group 1 Events Management Group members: Gelyn Gudes Charmaine dela Peña Mara Joanne Angeles Rodilyn Bengado Bahan Golda May Descargar Jelie Ruth Villahermosa Daphne Ofilas Aloha Grace Supatan Jerome Carabeo Clejever Cabreros Section: BH802E Submitted by: Mrs. Berodita Prestoza EVENT MANAGEMENT Aims & Scope Event Management‚ an International Journal‚ intends to meet the research and analytic needs of a rapidly growing profession focused on events. This field
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Mutually Exclusive Events Two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot occur at the same time. Another word that means mutually exclusive is disjoint. If two events are disjoint‚ then the probability of them both occurring at the same time is 0. Disjoint: P (A and B) = 0 If two events are mutually exclusive‚ then the probability of either occurring is the sum of the probabilities of each occurring. Specific Addition Rule Only valid when the events are mutually exclusive
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Significant figures are essential to science because they make the answer more precise when the tools require us to use estimation. Significant figures are the digits that contribute to the value of a number. Throughout the lab we were given instructions to measure different objects using different tools with the objective of figuring out how the amount significant figures affect the accuracy of the measurement. Firstly‚ it is important to know and understand significant figures because they make
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Notes on significant figures When we use an equipment to take measurement‚ it is important to be honest when reporting a measurement‚ so that it does not appear to be more accurate than the equipment used to make the measurement allows. To achieve this‚ we can control the number of significant figures used to report the measurement. When we look at a number‚ its first significant figure is the first digit from the left‚ other than 0. E.g. - in the number 539 the first significant figure
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