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    Carl Sandburg makes a profuse amount of points about his city in his poem‚ “Chicago”. He shows that although his city is known for being a rough city‚ there are still positive aspects of Chicago. He brings to mind the murders‚ and prostitution‚ and poverty of the city‚ but he also reminds his readers of the arts and the sports and how strong his city is. Carl Sandburg’s city is “alive and coarse and strong and cunning” (line 10). Carl Sandburg shows different aspects about his city and he uses literary

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    what i hate the most

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    Horror movies or series may be the most convenient and easy way to experience the horror. Many of my friends love watching horror movie. A good horror movie brought viewer an unusual psychological experience. It filled with indescribable fear and surprises. I hate watching any horror movies because I am scared and couldn’t sleep well in the following couple weeks. I don’t understand why a lot of people enjoyed watching it when in fact that is what I hate the most. After watching this movie‚ I was

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    Votive Figures

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    Votive Statues o Where: Eshnunna ( modern Tell Asmar‚ Iraq); The Square Temple. o When: c. 2900-2600 BCE. o Votive figures were made as an act of worship to the gods and placed in a shrine before the image of the god. o Writing on the back or bottom state who the statue represents and what they are praying for‚ although a common phrase found on them states "One who offers prayers". o Made of limestone‚ alabaster‚ and gypsum. o Cuneiform text show

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    Figure Ground

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    Priming on Ambiguous Figure Perception Misa Tsuruta‚ M.A.1 Abstract ~ Figure-ground organization is a kind of perceptual organization that has been studied in Gestalt psychology. Ambiguous/reversible figures can evoke two different percepts. When we see ambiguous figures‚ sooner or later our perceptual system determines one side that stands out as the figure‚ while the other side forms the ground and becomes shapeless. Subjects were subliminally trained with the half-figures of the target 1: Department

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    Economics and Figure

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    worker is ________ units. | |B) |22.5 | Use the following to answer question 4: Figure: Total Product [pic] |4. |(Figure: Total Product) As units of labor are hired between quantities L1 and L2‚ ________ is ________ and ________ is ________.| |A) |total product; rising; marginal product; positive

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    Figure Skating

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    Title: Figure skating General Purpose: To inform my audience about figure skating. Specific Purpose: To teach audience the fundamental parts of figure skating Central Idea: In order to do all fantastic figure skating perform‚ you have to learn the most basic parts of figure skating: to lace skates‚ fall and get up on skates‚ skate forward on ice. Introduction I. Attention step: Everyone may has seen on TV the classic "scratch spin" in figure skating‚ where the skater draws her arms

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    Searching for What Matters Most in Life The quotation‚ “Who looks outside‚ dreams. Who looks inside‚ awakes” (Jung)‚ summarizes both main characters’ journeys; Lily in the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and Sarah in the novel Left Neglected by Lisa Genova. Both novels show the difficult times in both main characters’ lives. Lily and Sarah begin the novels dreaming‚ looking and hoping for what could be until a life changing event leads them to a realization of what matters most and to see

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    Significant Figures

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    Significant figures are essential to science because they make the answer more precise when the tools require us to use estimation. Significant figures are the digits that contribute to the value of a number. Throughout the lab we were given instructions to measure different objects using different tools with the objective of figuring out how the amount significant figures affect the accuracy of the measurement. Firstly‚ it is important to know and understand significant figures because they make

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    Lissajous Figures

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    Lissajous figures are patterns generated by the junction of a pair of sinusoidal waves with axes that are perpendicular to one another. Jules-Antione Lissajous studied these figures by producing sounds of different frequencies which were used to vibrate a mirror. A beam of light was then reflected from the mirror to produce trace patterns which were dependent on the frequencies. This setup used by Lissajous is similar to what is used today to project laser light shows. Today‚ Lissajous figures are generated

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    Public Figure

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    A public figure will always be judged no matter what they do. If they do good public will think highly and good of them but if they do something that is immoral or bad they will be condemned. When a public figure often does charity work and help other people‚ some might think that they are giving back to the community whereas some might think that they are trying to get famous. Nobody should be judged on what they do‚ sometimes its all just circumstances that we cant avoid. Private life and

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