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    The Characteristics of Hemingway’s Works Ernest Hemingway‚ who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1954‚ occupies an outstanding position in the American literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Hemingway is famous for his distinct writing style and his “Code Hero.” In addition‚ his many great works are based on his experiences of war. Hemingway’s writing style is arguably the most distinctive characteristic

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    The ideals of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mills utilitarianism can easily be compatible with the ideology of other political institutions; communism is one that I think relates to this theory on an international level. utilitarianism is a form of social philosophy meaning the valued principle and ethics only have the power because we consciously give the ideals jurisdiction. Utilitarianism is a means to support and claims pleasure for majority of the population‚ even if the general population

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    $1.4 (from taxing the drug) in revenue for California (Wolff). Additionally our country as a whole spends $68 Billion a year on its prisoner’s one third of which are imprisoned for non-violent drug crimes. According to an article written by Madeline Wolff in the Daily Sundial about half of these criminals are in Jail for Marijuana related crimes. This means legalizing the drug would mean spending less then $11.3 billion less on prisons (Wolff). Legalizing Marijuana would mean generating this lost

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    I am going to evaluate tanning where it came from‚ who invented it‚ where‚ and why. Last but not least were going to be looking at the positive and the negative aspects of tanning too. The history of tanning beds begins with Friedrich Wolff. Friedrich Wolff was a German scientist who invented the tanning bed in 1978. Friedrich invented this on accident. He did this when he was doing a study on the positive side effects of ultraviolet light on athletes. Then he noticed a side effect about the

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    Impairment in People With Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology‚ 103-114. doi: 10.1044/1058-0360(2012/11-0082). Fromkin‚ V.‚ Hyams‚ N.‚ Rodman‚ R. (2011). An Introduction to Language (9th ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Kaur‚ R. and Wolff‚ M. (2012). Aphasia Treatment Program. Retrieved from http://class.csueastbay.edu/commsci/ McCaffrey‚ P. (2009).Cerebral Lobes‚ Cerebral Cortex‚ and Brodmann ’s Areas. Retrieved from http://www.csuchico.edu/~pmccaffrey//syllabi/ National Institute

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    Doe John was documented to have Wolff-Parkinson-White. If the patient is not having tachycardia at the time of the exam‚ the results may be normal.2 This is the case with John Doe‚ he was not having tachycardia at the time of the examination. An exam done during before or after a tachycardia episode‚ the blood pressure will be normal or low in most cases. This is why it would have been reasonable to ask Doe to back for another test to make sure that it was not the Wolff-Parkinson-White that was causing

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    the Soldier to a variety of possible experiences that may or may not occur in combat. For instance‚ in 2010‚ 184 Soldiers lost their lives to privately owned vehicle accidents; 2011‚ 176 lost their lives‚ and the numbers remained the same in 2012 (Wolff‚ 2012). As a result of this and many other programs‚ the Army designed training to revolve around keeping the Soldier alive at home. There were new rollover drills‚ virtual “driving-while-impaired” training programs‚ etc. All of this has resulted in

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    The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography

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    problem‚ and a potentially catastrophic one. If we take a look at this problem with a Consequentialism framework‚ we will see that continuing down this path of destruction will not ultimately bring about the greatest good for the greatest number. Brian Wolff frames consequentialism‚ or utilitarianism as “acts that promote the greatest good are morally right”. He says that the most traditional form of

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    descriptions of what mathematics anxiety truly is‚ and each victim may have his or her own interpretation of how math anxiety makes them feel. Tobias and Weissbrod (1980) describe mathematics anxiety as‚ “the pains‚ helplessness‚ paralysis‚ and mental disorganization that arises among some people when they are required to solve a mathematical problem”. Tobias (1978)‚ who wrote Overcoming Math Anxiety‚ is referred to as a pioneer in the study of mathematics anxiety. Richardson and Suinn (1972)‚ made

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