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    Like Move by Zulueta

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    Filipinos. “Forever spilled in the great name of freedom.” and “Forever oblate on the altar of the free?” means sacrificing for freedom like what Jose Rizal did. Meaning: the Philippines needs young people’s blood like Rizal so we can have the courage to fight for the country and we can have true freedom Stanza 3: Stanza 3 is about the how we should be strong like the Molave tree. “Not you alone‚ Rizal.” means Rizal is not alone in the fight for freedom. “O souls and spirits of the martyred brave

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    Summary of Michael Davis’ "Thinking like an Engineer" January 31‚ 2005 By: Harley Christensen © 2005 www.harleyc.com Engineers have long considered themselves to be “professionals”‚ made possible by their near general adoption and use‚ formal affiliations aside‚ of a code of ethics. Varying code of ethics drafts are effective only through the actions of the engineers who abide by them. In his essay “Thinking like an Engineer”‚ Michael Davis gives examples of ethical challenges facing engineers ‚

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    Like Two Ships

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    Every author has their own style of writing‚ they each express them self with different elements. For instance many authors use literary elements to show the theme or tone. In short story “like two ships” Chris Macy uses literary elements to provide disheartening tone. He uses setting‚ characterization which turn out insecurities that cause a missed opportunity. As the reader we know that they both are interested in each other ‚but the characters do not know. Setting is used to place them in

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    Some Like It Hot

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    Some Like It Hot In “Some Like It Hot” by Lawrence Lessig‚ he talks about piracy and what piracy is. It talks about the different types of items that people use piracy for. Piracy is when someone makes their own copy of a product that has its own copyright. I think that piracy is wrong for a many reasons. Including: it brings down the economy‚ the artists that create the piece are not getting paid for it‚ and piracy is also considered stealing. First‚ I am going to discuss how piracy brings

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    My Likes and Dislikes

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    The subject calls upon me to make an open confession. Let me take courage and confess what I like and what I dislike. My likes and dislikes arc rather limited. The first thing I positively dislike is the nerve racking discipline imposed upon the youngers by the elders or by those in authority. Why should anybody bother my life with do’s and don’ts? Why should I not be left entirely to myself to choose my own ways ? Why should a father‚ who himself smokes‚ call upon his child to refrain from smoking

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    Life is like a Menu

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    LIFE ISLIKE A MENU Life is like a huge Menu---Full of choices at each stage to choose from. So many different items and so many choices to make and so much confusion.The Only difference is that the choices are not listed out systematically as in a menu card. We get what we order. Whenever we go to a restaurant‚ we order meals of our preference and avoid what we dislike and so relish the meal. Life is the same. If we choose what we like to do‚ we will enjoy our life . Sometimes we may be influenced

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    Soto Like Mexicans

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    Like Mexicans Gary Soto (1952 -) My grandmother gave me bad advice and good advice when I was in my early teens. For the bad advice‚ she said that I should become a barber because they made good money and listened to the radio all day. “Honey‚ they don’t work como burros‚” she would say every time I visited her. She made the sound of donkeys braying. “Like that‚ honey!” For the good advice‚ she said that I should marry a Mexican girl. “No Okies‚ hijo”—she would say— “Look‚ my son. He marry one

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    Just Like Heaven

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    Just Like Heaven Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) is a work-alcoholic San Francisco doctor with no time for a life and David Abbott is a grieving widow. One fateful night will change both of their lives forever. Dr. Masterson’s older sister‚ has set her up on yet another blind dinner date at her house and has ordered her younger sister to join. Running late and excited about a recent promotion‚ Elizabeth doesn’t see the semi-truck coming at her head on before its too late. David Abbott

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    Like Water for Chocolate

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    The film‚ Like Water for Chocolate‚ represents a story through incorporating the idea of food as feelings and expressing the woman’s roles during the Mexican Revolution. The film is a romantic-comedy showing many joking ways of hard times and soft issues and the way of life. The most striking and theme seems to be how women seem to be in charge rather then males; during this time period‚ I thought that men were more likely to be the head of the household and in charge. Throughout the film‚

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    Bubbles Like Sex

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    coordinate the vertical movements of the fore and hind quarters to produce these inverted pendulum-like movements. We collected kinematic and ground reaction force data from dogs walking over a range of speeds. We found that the fore and hind quarters of dogs behaved like two independent bipeds‚ each vaulting up and over its respective support limb. The center of mass moved up and down twice per stride‚ like a single walking biped‚ and up to 70% of the mechanical energy required to lift and accelerate

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