What is the short term significance of Agricola in Roman Britain? The understanding of the short term significance of Agricola in Roman Britain is heavily dependent on historical texts and what they tell us. According to these historical texts there is no denying that Agricola was of short term significance in military and cultural terms‚ but the degree of his significance comes into question according to each individual historian opinion. Most of the knowledge we have on Agricola comes from his
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Statistical Significance Eric G Peppers HCS/438 Statistical Applications October 8‚ 2012 Gerald Rintala Statistical Significance Identification of a statistic as being significant is more difficult than the novice statistician may at first understand. At the most rudimentary definition‚ a significant finding simply means the statistic is reliable. This term states how convinced you are that a relationship or difference may exist. Bennett‚ et al states‚ “we determine statistical
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Samantha Wilson Molinaro‚ R HUM-2211-01Z 10 February 2014 Water: What’s the big Deal? The most important nutrient for the human body is water. Many people fail to understand that water makes up “more than 85%” of the body and the need to to replenish it frequently is undeniably critical (Altman 7). A mere drop of 1% below the normal water balance in your body will leave you thirsty‚ and a drop of 12% will have you close to death (Altman 12). While commonly misused and wasted in modern society
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Today‚ India is one of the most powerful forces of the developing world‚ it is part of the BRIC nations that are predicted to be super powers by 2050 and holds an influential position in world politics. Therefore‚ it is no wonder that the government felt it was time that the rupee join the elite club of US dollar‚ British pound-sterling‚ Euro and Japanese yen that have their own symbols. In 2009‚ the government announced a competition to design the new rupee symbol. The finance ministry wanted the symbol to
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In The Great Gatsby you will see a lot of references to colors. Some of the colors include green‚white and yellow. All the colors have special meaning behind them. The novel‚ The Great Gatsby ‚ is like a mystery behind a painters palette. F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the color green to represent hope throughout The Great Gatsby. “Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light‚ minute and far way‚ that might have been the end of a dock.” In this quote the color
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Essay Outline: I. Introduction: A. Background Information. In the past 10 years the usage of nuclear energy has become one of the most polarizing issues of the world. Especially in the Middle East when a country reveals information about its nuclear program‚ the west considers this country as a threat and tries all possible ways to stop this program. B. Thesis Statement. Nuclear energy is a double edged sword. It is every country’s right to own nuclear weapons as a defence mechanism against any
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Former president John F. Kennedy once said that “change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” This statement is very true because some people that never move on from something sad tend to be depressed. There are also other people that do not believe that the past is gone‚ and think that things never changed. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Jay Gatsby resembles the second kind of person as Gatsby fails his dream of being with
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A woman once said‚ “There is no life without color.” This is just the case with the main character of “The Life of Pi”‚ Pi Patel. Pi is a cast away on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger‚ an orangutan‚ a hyena and a zebra. There is one color that was mentioned multiple times throughout the story‚ the color orange. In the novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel‚ this color is used as a symbol for hope and survival. To hope means to wish for something with expectations of its
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Barack Obama once said; “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” In this statement he spoke to the national pride of every American. Nationalism is an ideology which asserts that an individual’s allegiance to the nation state surpasses other segregational differences such as race‚ religion‚ gender or sexuality. It provides a collective identity for people whose single greatest commonality is their belief in the strength
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The Great Significance of Studies of Stylistics and Rhetoric LIYao Abstract: Stylistics is a scientific study of style. It is a new branch of linguistics. Rhetoric is the art or science of the communication in words. In general‚ stylistics is a discipline that studies the ways in which language is used; it is a discipline that studies the styles of language in use. However‚ rhetoric is the scientific study of how language could be employed expressively and effectively in modern times. Studying
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