In antiquity‚ geometric constructions of figures and lengths were restricted to the use of only a straightedge and compass (or in Plato’s case‚ a compass only; a technique now called a Mascheroni construction). Although the term "ruler" is sometimes used instead of "straightedge‚" the Greek prescription prohibited markings that could be used to make measurements. Furthermore‚ the "compass" could not even be used to mark off distances by setting it and then "walking" it along‚ so the compass had to
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For nearly two years I had a brick in my life‚ but somehow I couldn ’t tell that he was holding me back. Eventually‚ I realized what I needed to do. I felt like I was at the bottom of the ocean. So‚ I cut the brick loose and swam back up for fresh air. To everyone Alex was just an average person. He looked like every fifteen year old boy: scraggly‚ scrawny‚ and chicken legged. He had curly‚ dark brown hair and eyes like emeralds. He had a big nose‚ but it was cute in a strange way‚ and bushy
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Health Line Chocolate and Heart Disease: Some Good News. The First Solid Chocolate became an available in The United States in 18th century. The First Chocolate bar appeared around 1910. In 1998 we consumed 3.3 billion pounds of chocolate or more than 12 pounds per persons (Leslie Chelsy‚ 2002). Since chocolate was valued for it stimulating effect‚ it became standard issue for the U.S. armed farces during word war II. Today‚ giving fine chocolates as an expression of love is a long standing tradition
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Sophia Abdelsalam Mrs.Kratz‚ Period 8 AP English 11 16‚ November‚ 2009 Fault lines Analysis By understanding a country’s language‚ you usually attain a connection and comprehension of that place. However‚ with the diction of “odd shards‚” it is clear that only painful barriers remain within Alexander. A “shattered” feeling is frequently expressed due to a lack of belonging to a single place. The many languages and cultures clouding her mind make it difficult to piece the bits of her
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Critical Time Line The critical time line is a sequence of moves i.e. actions and reactions performed by the company and its rivals within the time continuum. It helps us in understanding the expected pattern of sequence in t+1. While constructing the critical time for the action-reaction sequence between Sony and Microsoft‚ the time period considered is between 2000 and 2017. The events considered are the generally the product announcements and their release‚ the initial pricing and the price adjustment
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knowledge of the subject - conveying information‚ presenting ideas‚ facts and statistics to adequately inform the audience about the subject * Confirmation - Confirm and repeat the key points * Conclusion - Try to end with a memorable punch line or positive statement By a show of hands‚ who in here has been bullied? Who in here has been a bully? Did you know that throughout the past years‚ bullying has become so severe that for every one two three four five six seven eight nine; a student
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that they accept their inferiority. In a patriarch society that facilitates female inferiority it seems that unification of women is the only way to achieve liberation. In Cherrie Moraga’s Loving in the War Years‚ the chapter entitled “From a Long Line of Vendidas” teaches that patriarch society negatively influences the way women feel about themselves‚ thus influencing the way women relate to each other. This cultural environment perpetuates gender hierarchy by both ruining the self-image of women
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Production-Line Approach to Service The service sector of the economy is growing in size but shrinking in quality. So say a lot of people. Purveyors of service‚ for their part‚ think that they and their problems are fundamentally different from other businesses and their problems. They feel that service is people-intensive‚ while the rest of the economy is capital-intensive. But these distinctions are largely spurious. There are no such things as service industries. There are only industries whose
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Waiting in the Dark : The Suspense in “Wait until Dark” - Aditi Bose "The blinds moving up and down…the squeaking shoes…and then the knife whistling past her ear." This slogan from one of the posters of the film “Wait Until dark”‚ establishes the element of suspense in the film. It released in 1967 with explicit instructions to all theatres to switch off all the lights for the last 8 minutes of the film so that the climax unfolds in complete darkness. There is no doubt that the film
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The purpose of this lab was to observe the spectral lines of different light sources (Iodine‚ hydrogen‚ helium‚ krypton‚ mercury‚ neon‚ and argon) and to find the wavelength‚ frequency‚ and energy of the emissions of vaporized metallic ions. First‚ we took spectroscopes to look at each light source. The iodine light source seemed coral to the naked eye. When observed with a spectroscope‚ it was clear that there were many red spectral lines followed by relatively similar quantities of orange‚ yellow
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