What do you consider to be your greatest achievement thus far? Please share this with us in about 500 words. My greatest achievement would probably be my good academic results during my three years of polytechnic studies. How and Why those three years of studies end up as my greatest achievement thus far are probably due to my academic results between the time in secondary school and the time in polytechnic. I also believe that those three years in polytechnic change my mentality towards studying
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“The Great Gatsby is a story of infatuation and disenchantment”. How far and in what ways do you agree with this view of The Great Gatsby and one other novel you have read. The Great Gatsby is a novel that‚ superficially‚ seems like the tragic story of infatuation and misunderstanding. However‚ set in 1920s America‚ it can be read in a number of different ways. This post-war period was a time of economic boom and rapid change in technological advances led to fashionable‚ more affluent and carefree
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Jamarha Montgomery Mrs. Hill ENG _____ 6 March 2009 The Major Events and Breakthroughs of the Nineteen Seventies The nineteen seventies was a decade that experienced economic crisis‚ political struggle‚ feminism‚ and a rise of subcultures such as the hippies. These events reflected the rising power of baby boomers‚ which are babies who were born during the post WWII years‚ who have become adults and made up the majority of the population. Because of this‚ the decade became a reflection of baby
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within it. My favourite area of geophysics is tectonic movement. Whilst visiting the Himalayan mountain range in 2015 I had first-hand experience of a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the Gilgit area of Pakistan. This harrowing experience sparked my interest in the formation of the mountain range and the challenges of measuring tectonic movement using a variety of techniques‚ including GPS from satellites to track rock movements and seismometers to record seismic activity below the ground. My knowledge of
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articulated work of literature. The book presents a Victorian mode spiced up with spooky plot twists. Although the book presents a Victorian mode it is not entirely comprised of Romantic ideals. Atwood is a modern writer who was influenced by the major paradigms of both American and Canadian history. Since she was a child‚ she was fascinated by the true story of Grace Marks. Grace Marks was a teenage‚ Canadian domestic worker of the nineteenth century who was convicted upon the murder of her employer
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Outline the demographic and social impacts of one or more tectonic events. I will be outlining the demographic and social impacts of Mount St Helens and the Bam earthquake. Mount st Helens caused fifty seven deaths compared to the Bam earthquake which caused over 25‚000 deaths and 30‚000 injuries. The earthquake in Bam in 2003 was the worst earthquake in Iranian hisrory and was situated in an overpopulated poor city in Iran therefore more people lost their lives. The eruption of Mount
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and paraphrasing. Plagiarism in essay writing is cheating‚ and students who use someone else’s intellectual property without permission‚ or having someone else do their essay work are breaking the educational institution regulations. These practices of cheating create lack of creativity‚ inability to gain new knowledge and disrespect towards the professor and the original author. Copy and paste plagiarism is a common phenomenon occurring within universities and colleges. According to Lars R. Jones
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Chronology Of The History Of Slavery: 1619-1789 1619 The other crucial event that would play a role in the development of America was the arrival of Africans to Jamestown. A Dutch slave trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants‚ similar in legal position to many poor Englishmen who traded several years labor in exchange for passage to America. The popular conception of a racial-based slave system did not develop until the 1680 ’s. (A Brief History
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Volcanic activity can present a hazard to people and property in various ways and with varying degrees of severity. Whether or not these represent a significant danger to people is dependant on how well prepared the area surrounding the volcano is. The level of preparation is often linked to the overall wealth of the country which the hazard is in. This also impacts how effectively the volcanic even is managed before and after the eruption takes place. The timing of an eruption throughout the day
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I believe that anti-semitism wasn’t the main reason as to why hitlers fan base grew in Germany as there were many contributing factors towards this‚ the main reason being the economic crisis that Germany was going through during this period. The economic crises that Germany were going through led to a rise in unemployment‚ a serious banking crisis and it also put more pressure on small farmers who were deeply in debt to banks. The nazis used this as propaganda and were stating that they could rid
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