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    "Nothing is impossible" – Perhaps everyone knows this famous statement‚ but not everyone believes that it is true. Looking back‚ I never thought that I could do the so-called "impossible"‚ but such things unfailingly happen in a lifetime and I cannot flee from them forever. Once I decided to confront impossibility in my studying and surmounted it‚ and most important‚ I would never have discovered my passion without that decision. Mathematics especially interests me - now I could confidently declare

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    It is a chilly October night in Bloomington Minnesota. Michael and Mia are walking home. There was a growl coming from the bushes. “ Did you ear that Michael?’’ Asked Mia‚ “ Yeah what do you think it is?’’ Michael replied “I don’t know maybe a bearcat‚’’ said Mia. “ A bearcat Mia there’s no such thing‚ who told you that? Said Michael “ No one I seen it wth my own two eyes it is super tall with big scary claws and three rows of teeth.’’ Replied Mia. Michael didn’t say anything back they just kept

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    $. Whats the cost per bag when you include shipping? The total purchase is 6 bags plus shipping‚ 6(8.95 $) + 6.90 $ = 60.60 $ Dividing by the number of bags gives 10.10 $ per bag. 7. Express the following with appropriate units and significant figures: (a) 1.0 m plus 1 mm‚ (b) 1.0 m times 1 mm‚ (c) 1.0 m minus 999 mm‚ (d) 1.0 m divided by 999 mm. a) To the least-precise decimal place‚ we have 1.0 m + 1 × 10−3 m = 1.0 m b) The least-precise factor‚ 1 m‚ has one

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    1. Abstract Language: Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things‚ people‚ or places. 2. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds‚ such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." 3. Allusion: A reference contained in a work 4. Ambiguity: an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. 5. Analogy: a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation

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    poet is going through. "When the sun is bright on the upland slopes‚ when the wind stirs soft through the springing grass" here the poet uses alliteration twice using the letters w and s. "And the river flows like a stream of glass" the poet uses a figure of speech which is a simile to compare the river with glass‚ the purpose of this simile is to enhance the beauty of river stream by comparing it with glass that is to say that both are calm and clear. "When the first bird sings and the first bud

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    Ballad of Birmingham In the poem Ballad of Birmingham‚ by Dudley Randall‚ written in 1969‚ Mr. Randall uses of irony to describes the events of the mothers decision‚ and also her concern for the welfare of her darling little child. It seems odd that this child would even know what a freedom march is‚ but this would be considered normal back in the early 1960’s‚ when Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. had rallies and freedom marches to free the African American people from discrimination and segregation

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    knowledge of rhetorical devices is indispensable‚ since there is often a considerable density of rhetorical figures and tropes which are important generators and qualifiers of meaning and effect. This is particularly the case in poetry. Especially the analysis of the use of imagery is important for any kind of literary text. (For further details see Analysing a Metaphor and Symbol). Figures of speech in classical rhetoric were defined as “a form of speech artfully varied from common usage” (Quintilian

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    A Method to Determine Reasonableness and Feasibility of Noise Abatement at Special Use Locations I. INTRODUCTION Most states have policies in place that determine whether noise abatement is necessary and reasonable/feasible for Type I projects. These policies mirror federal guidance and apply to various land uses near the proposed project. Special land use facilities such as parks‚ churches and schools are included in the policy as far as when abatement may be necessary (i.e. the Federal Highway

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    Literary Terms Allegory: Allegory is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters‚ figures and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story with a purpose of teaching an idea and a principle or explaining an idea or a principle. The objective of its use is to preach some kind of a moral lesson. Example: “Animal Farm”‚ written by George Orwell‚ is an allegory that uses animals on a farm to describe the overthrow of the last of the

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    tutorial 2 question 2. Present all values of an ‚ bn and pn in full precision‚ and values of f (pn ) and the relative error bounds to 4 significant figures. For questions 2 and 3‚ tabulate all your workings as in the answer to tutorial 2 question 3. Give the values of all fixed-point iterates to 8 decimal places‚ and values of |pn − pn−1 | to 4 significant figures. 2. Consider f (x) = x2 − 5 sin(x). (i) Sketch the graph of f (x) to locate the roots of f (x) = 0. Write down an interval [a‚ b]‚ with b −

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