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    Different Kinds of Joy

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    Different Kinds of Joy Angela Qiao The pursuit of happiness is a reoccurring theme in numerous novels. In the novel‚ Their Eye’s Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ what brings happiness differs to each character. To the main character Janie‚ happiness is found in love‚ but to her grandmother Nanny‚ happiness is found in security. At first‚ Janie does what Nanny wills her to. At the age of 16‚ Janie marries into security. She is safe‚ but unhappy. Still yearning for love‚ Janie runs away

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    A hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage‚ outstanding achievements or noble qualities. These heros put their best selves forward in service to help humanity. Heros take action on behalf of others that are in need. Andrew Carnegie was in fact was a hero. This subject can be controversial because of the fact that Carnegie gave away money after he died‚ and not while he was alive. Carnegie started off in a very poor family and eventually became very wealthy. This shows the world that

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    A Special Kind of Love

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    A Special Kind of Love When I was in seventh grade I clicked on a youtube video that made me cry. It changed me. It made me feel disgusted by myself‚ but empowered to change not only myself‚ but those around me. The video was of a speech given by Soeren Palumbo during his senior year at Palatine High School. His story will forever be etched in my mind: “I want to tell you a quick story before I start. I was walking through hallways‚ not minding my own business‚ listening to the conversations

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    Tone of "Her Kind"

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    Anne Sexton’s poem titled “Her Kind” is a popular poem filled with powerful imagery‚ diction‚ and syntax. Her particular use of these elements in different ways contributes to the robotic and non-human tone of the poem. Her use of syntax in the poem is done in a very clever manner. The lines of the poem are short and almost all contain commas. These commas are a part of the syntax because they contribute to the sentence structure. They split up each line into two halves‚ and it almost

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    “Two Kinds”‚ Conflicts “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan and it was first published in 1989. This short story tells the relationship between a mother and a daughter and the conflicts between them. The protagonist Jing Mei has both internal and external conflicts. The internal conflict is whether she wanted to be obedient. Her Conflict with her mother based on cultural difference is external. All these conflicts are expressed through setting and symbolism. The setting of the short story is in

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    Different Kinds of Birds

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    different kinds of birds and how many different species we have in the world. Birds adapt to different places. For example there are owls‚ bluebirds‚ parrots‚ canaries‚ red bird‚ woodpeckers‚ finch birds‚ toucans‚ chickens‚ roosters‚ ducks‚ pigeons‚ eagles‚ black birds‚ robins‚ ravens‚ egrets‚ pelicans‚ All these birds live through out the United States of America. Some are small or big. Each kind of bird has a process of making their own nest. If you want to find out about different kinds of birds

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    My Kind of Writing

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    Merola Page 1 of 2 Lyndsay Merola English 1100-05 My Kind of Writing There are many different types and styles of writing with their own purpose. I can express myself and others in all different kinds of ways. For example there is expository writing‚ descriptive writing‚ Narrative writing‚ persuasive writing and creative writing. Yes‚ they are all ways of writing but they each share their own purpose. Expository writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to inform‚ describe‚ or explain

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    Hero

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    Hero Deep in Southern California there once was a family‚ a single mother and her only son Kevin. They also had a dog which they loved very much as if it was another son for the mother. The life they were leading was like a fairytale because the whole family were very happy and delighted. However there was one day they lived and dreaded for there whole lives… One day Kevin was playing outside with his friends‚ the way he always did almost everyday of his wife. What he didn’t realise was that

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    MEDICAL THERMOMETER Medical thermometers are used for measuring human body temperature‚ with the tip of the thermometer being inserted either into the mouth under the tongue (oral or sub-lingual temperature)‚ under the armpit (axillary temperature)‚ or into the rectum via the anus (rectal temperature). CLASSIFICATION BY TECHNOLOGY Liquid-filled The traditional thermometer is a glass tube with a bulb at one end containing a liquid which expands in a uniform manner with temperature. The tube

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    Kinds of...n System.docx

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    SESSION II KINDS OF INFORMATION SYSTEM Transaction Processing System A TPS records and manages all the data collected or generated by an organization in its day to day operations. A TPS does not generate information. The data from a TPS is mostly used as input to other information systems. Examples: Orders‚ invoices‚ wages‚ employee records. Is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across several partitions on several hard disks. Is a system that

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