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    Compare the statue of Haremhab with the statue of Queen Hatshepsut These two statues are famous to the Egyptian art era. They represent the woman’s position and the man’s position at that day and age. Traditionally‚ the rulers of Egypt were male. So‚ when Hatshepsut‚ Dynasty 18‚ ca. 1473-1458 B.C.‚ assumed the titles and functions of king she was portrayed in royal male costumes. Such representations were more for a political statement‚ rather than a reflection of the way she actually looked

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    Mark scheme June 2002 GCE Biology B Unit BYB4 Copyright © 2002 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales 3644723 and a registered charity number 1073334 Registered address: Addleshaw Booth & Co.‚ Sovereign House‚ PO Box 8‚ Sovereign Street‚ Leeds LS1 1HQ Kathleen Tattersall: Director General klm SECTION A Question 1 (a) GCE: Biology B – BYB4 June 2002 X = grana/lamellae/thylakoid

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    a person comes from. Many things have happened up to today because of people not accepting the fact that the world was not made for one kind of race to live above the others. This brief fact is both seen the drama play of Lorraine Hansberry written in the time of the 1950’s called “A Raisin in the Sun” and it is also seen in the movie of “Remember the Titans”. Both have very good examples of racial tensions between black and white communities and also portray a true-life meaning to what people sufferer

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    Natural resources are all the things on Earth that support life. Plants‚ animals‚ air‚ and water are natural resources. Natural resources are also things that people use to make life easier. Your life is easier because you can ride in a bus powered by gasoline. You can cook your dinner in a microwave oven powered by electricity. People use natural resources to make gasoline and electricity. People use many natural resources to make their lives easier. There are different kinds of natural resources

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    own personal life into these short stories. Tim O’Brien is an American author who has shared his experiences of the Vietnam War through many of his famous works such as “If I Die in a Combat zone‚ Box Me Up and Ship Me Home”‚ “Going After Cacciato”‚ and the work studied here “The Things They Carried”. Author Tim O’Brien was thrown in the middle of the Vietnam War when he was drafted. During his tour of duty he experienced very gruesome and lonely things. O’Brien told the reader the things that these

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    of not knowing who the person really is and how they feel can be hard. This emotion was described in the story “Mirror Image” by Lena Coakley. This short story had a girl named Alice who had to go through a brain transplant. This changed her whole life. Because of this brain transplant‚ she sometimes felt that she was not really herself but felt that she was Gail‚ who was the body of the person she was in. This is also an allusion to another Alice in the fantasy world but that book was written by

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    incorporated into the Senecas‚ she became very close to her Seneca sisters. Mary refused the opportunity to return home‚ finding life in Indian society more rewarding‚ then going back to the British colonial culture. These two women had very similar interpretations of the Indians and how they treated them. Mary Rowlandson’s view of the Indians that captured her‚ is harsher compared to Mrs. Jemison’s. Mrs. Rowlandson saw them burn and destroy homes‚ knock people on the head‚ and kill the ones she loved and

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    The text‚ ‘The Things They Carried’‚ is an excellent example which reveals how individuals are changed for the worse through their first hand experience of war. Following the lives of the men both during and after the war in a series of short stories‚ the impact of the war is accurately portrayed‚ and provides a rare insight into the guilt stricken minds of soldiers. ‘The Things They Carried’ shows the impact of the war in its many forms: the suicide of an ex-soldier upon his return home; the lessening

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    The Thing in the Forest Containing all the well-known signs of a fairy tale from the beginning‚ The Thing in the Forest is expected to include the fantasy aspect of a fairy tale. Unlike most fairy tales however‚ The Think in the Forest quickly turns into a very real occurrence that happened to children all over that particular region during that particular time period. Once the girls come within earshot‚ and then sight of “The Thing”‚ it takes on many figurative meanings. These meanings include

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    Chelsea Troyer L204 Paper 1 Lee Anne Bache 7 June 2013 In A.S. Byatt’s The Thing in the Forest‚ it seems as though Primrose has moved on from the childhood trauma to which she and Penny were exposed. The two girls grow up in very dissimilar ways: Penny finding ways to mask her trauma‚ and Primrose extroverting herself to cope with it. The text suggests that extroversion is a healthier coping method than masking. Byatt’s characters Penny and Primrose have many similarities‚ yet their differences

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