incredibly unique places to go and visit. Australians are friendly‚ great land marks to see like Great Barrier Reef‚ Uluru‚ Sydney Opera House‚ Sydney Harbour Bridge‚ Fraser Island and many more. Paragraph Two: Australia Day is celebrates on the 25th of January‚ Australia Day marks the anniversary of the
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The Day of the Locust tells the story of people who have come to California in search of the American Dream. They travel west hoping to escape less than perfect lives and pursue success in Hollywood. The characters in this novel dream of a life of luxury‚ having lots of money‚ and living happily ever after. They eventually come to the realization that the seemingly picture perfect life that California represents is not as easy to attain as they once thought. The characters in The Day of the
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stray to find products and solutions they want. Apple has sold more than 3m video downloads since it began offering them through its iTunes Music Store some 55 days ago‚ the company revealed yesterday.That translates into over 54‚545 downloads a day‚ a 3.6 per cent gain on the 52‚632 downloads a day average Apple established during the 19 days from 12 October it took to serve up ITMS’ first 1m downloads. At the end of October‚ Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company’s "next challenge" is to widen the
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A memorial day is something that is a memory that you will remember for the rest of your life. A memory that is never going to be forgotten. Most of us can’t enjoy our memories because of age. You lose your memory as you get older. Your mind starts to forget the best things that’s ever happened. Now‚ a memory doesn’t have to be a good thing. Sometime a memory can haunt you. I could destroy you inside forever. Sometimes you regret tings in the past that is not even relevant anymore only because that
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The Life of a Veteran with Combat PTSD Heather Hindall COM/156 June 22nd‚ 2014 Jason Blair The Life of a Veteran with Combat PTSD Battling war is something a Veteran knows all too well‚ but battling the demons in their mind after the war is something that they have to learn how to cope with. One of the most mentioned issues that Veterans face today is a disorder called combat post-traumatic stress disorder. Combat PTSD can easily be defined as a disorder that affects the mental state
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"An Astrologer’s Day" has a deceptively simple plot‚ although the full significance of the story becomes evident only after a second or even third reading. Part of the difficulty arises from the fact that the author deliberately avoids markers that would benefit the reader: there is no clear indication where the story occurs or when it does‚ although it is possible to make an educated guess about both. The story begins almost in medias res (in the middle) and concludes on what appears to be an ambiguous
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How were benchmark standards established? In 1993‚ the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) conducted the National VA Surgical Risk Study (NVASRS)‚ with the aim of developing and validating risk-adjustment models for the prediction of surgical outcome and the comparative assessment of the quality of surgical care among multiple facilities. On the basis of data from 87‚078 major surgical procedures‚ risk-adjustment models for 30-day mortality and morbidity rates were developed for all non-cardiac
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With Columbus Day rapidly approaching us‚ a day celebrated by millions upon millions of people who dearly believe that he is a hero‚ you begin to wonder. Do these people know what they are celebrating? While yes‚ he “discovered” the New World‚ however people fail to acknowledge that Columbus was in fact a mass murderer. In all likelihood‚ he brought to life “the worst case of genocide imposed on one nation of human beings by another”. Instantly you may have asked yourself why I placed quotation
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But the Fourth of July‚ Independence Day‚ is something more than just another holiday. It is the birthday of a great idea-not merely the idea of independence‚ not merely the idea of the rights of humankind‚ but also the birthday of a profoundly idealistic and profoundly influential charter of liberty. The revolution signaled by the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4‚ 1776‚ laid down the principles which have been the foundation stones of human progress ever since-the
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An Astrologer’s Day is a story of an astrologer who conducts his business near a court. He starts his work almost at midday . He spreads his professional equipment‚ which consist of a dozen cowrie shells ‚ a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it‚ a notebook and a bundle of Palmyra writing . He’s a fine get-up of an astrologer‚ with his forehead shinning with sacred ash and vermilion. He has dark whiskers and sparkling eyes. To crown the effect‚ he wears a saffron-colored turban
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