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    Jackie Nichols Week 19 Rewrite‚ Prompt 3 The frontier was mainly a wild place until men went looking for gold and land‚ justifying their radical and violent attempts to gain land by what they believed to be Manifest Destiny. What whites discovered as they moved west were tribes of Indians settled on what they claimed as “their” land. This want for land was driven by the second Industrial Revolution‚ prompting the removal of Indians and war to commence. The second Industrial Revolution pioneered

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    a story of difficulty and desperation in love and then belt it all out in a breakup song that has the audience reeling from the sadness. But in these cases‚ what’s really doing the thinking‚ our hearts or our minds? From the countless stories of hardship

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    The Decline of the West

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    The Decline of the West A. Write an essay in which you analyse and interpret Hanif Kureishi’s short story “The Decline of the West”. Part of your essay must focus on the short story’s point of view and on the title. The western world keeps becoming richer and more focused on materialistic improvement. This happens at the expense of gratitude and respect for fellow human beings‚ and maybe particularly at the expense of a happy family life. In “The Decline of the West”‚ Hanif Kureishi gives an example

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    Indigenous Settler Relations: A Defining Theme for Canada Canada is known to be a very diverse and welcoming country. The country offers several benefits such as free medical care‚ open education‚ and many job opportunities. These perks attract immigrants from all over the world. However‚ Canada didn’t always have welcoming arms to immigrants. Decades ago‚ the Canadian government was extremely racist against cultures that differed from the Canadian culture. With their power‚ they did

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    NFA with epsilon moves   Definition and example of a NFA with epsilon transitions. Finite Automata with Epsilon Transitions   We can extend an NFA by introducing a "feature" that allows us to make a transition on ‚ the empty string. All the transition lets us do is spontaneously make a transition‚ without receiving an input symbol. This is another mechanism that allows our NFA to be in multiple states at once. Whenever we take an edge‚ we must fork off a new "thread" for the

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    Face of War

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    The Face of War There are many different forms of artwork that can depict moments in my life. Many musical compositions‚ sculptures‚ and architecture‚ that express the trials and tribulations that I have endured in my lifetime. There is one piece of artwork that I find to be a complete expression of my entire life. Although "The Face of War" by Salvador Dali was influenced by tragedy in times of war; I have a different view on the painting. The painting itself shows a head that was severed

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    The extent that virtual learning environments (VLEs) enhance traditional face to face teaching in higher education is in itself a very complex issue‚ since most of the universities across the world intend to upgrade their teaching facilities to be more state of the art. The Joint Information Systems Committee JISC (2007‚ citied in Maltby & Mackie 2009:49) defines a VLE as a set of components in which learners and tutors participate in ‘online’ interactions of various kinds‚ including online learning

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    What Challenges did George Washington Face as President? Washington was popular and was rich. George Washington never ran for President. He was unanimously elected and got 67 votes. At Mt. Vernon he had a large plantation and he loved it. In 1789 he was elected President when he was 56 years old. New York was the capital when he was in office. What problems did George Washington face while in office? The three problems he faced was the feud between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton over

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    the middle pieces don’t move. Go ahead‚ try and move them. They rotate‚ but they never move in relation to each other‚ which means that each face will always be that face. Also‚ a common mistake when people first approach an unsolved cube is to think they have to solve 54 stickers. This is wrong‚ as there are only 20 pieces that actually move around - 8 corner pieces and 12 edge pieces.  Throughout this website‚ it will be assumed that the first face is the white face. Every single time you do

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    The theme of hardship is presented in the novel Of Mice and Men _by John Steinbeck._ Hardship is a theme most people can relate to‚ as there are many types of hardships in people’s lives. For example‚ George and Lennie have trouble keeping a job‚ don’t own anything‚ get into unwanted trouble‚ and have personal hardships in the novel. The writer uses the conventions of setting‚ conflict and characterisation to get the theme across to the readers. Setting is used to establish the time‚ place and mood

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