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    Delayed Hypersensitivity Reaction to Poison Ivy Kaitlynn Webb AP2630 Dr. Romig Strongsville When a person comes into contact with poison ivy‚ they are almost guaranteed to break out into an itchy and annoying rash. This rash is a product of the body’s response from the reaction of the immune system called a delayed hypersensitivity reaction. This type of reaction generally takes between several to seventy-two hours to show symptoms. Symptoms of a hypersensitivity reaction include rash‚ pus around

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    Neocolonialism in Africa

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    of its elites. Colonialism was common before the Second World War when the European nations established their colonies in Asia‚ Africa and America since after the Second World War decolonization took place. After the decolonization‚ colonialism has taken a new form. ‘Neo Colonialism’ is a term used for new Colonialism. It is a relationship between two nations in which one nation exercises strategic‚ economic and cultural domination over the‚ despite the legal independence of the other. Neocolonialism

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    Running head: SOLID STATE DRIVE VERSUS HARD DISK DRIVE Solid State Drive versus Hard Disk Drive Information Erntzo Jean-Gilles Western International University Abstract Technology is advancing at an unstoppably fast and furious pace. The IT world has known changes in a lightning fast velocity that it is hard to predict its future. Things that could only be thought of ten years ago become out-of-date technology today. To responds to the need for speed‚ Solid State Drive that were slow to be

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    Independence of India

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    Independence of India ¤ Sailing of San Gabriel To India When the San Gabriel sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to finally dock at Calicut‚ a prosperous port and an independent principality on the Malabar Coast in May‚ 1498‚ half a century of the Portuguese tentative to find a sea route to India was finally crowned with success. The man behind the quest was Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) – a devout Roman Catholic whose nightlong vigil in a Lisbon chapel before commending himself to the unsure

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    A Passage to Africa

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    A Passage to Africa‚ George Alagiah Synopsis As a five-year-old‚ George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. A Passage to Africa is Alagiah’s shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope‚ insight and outrage. In vivid and evocative prose and with a fine eye for detail Alagiah’s viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of the young George on his arrival in Ghana‚ the

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    "The Declaration of Independence" was written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson to declare the colonies free and independent from Great Britain. Jefferson used deductive reasoning in the form of a syllogism to argue his claim that because the colonist’s "unalienable rights" (612) were being denied by Great Britain‚ the colonies were breaking free from Great Britain’s rule to form their own free and independent states. Jefferson gave evidence of the king’s tyranny against the colonies to effectively support

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    Contemporary Africa

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    Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) P.O. Box 3001 Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia Tel. 251-1-515410/ (DL) 443197 Fax: 251-1-515410 Email: dpmf@uneca.org Website: http://www.dpmf.org All views expressed in the Occasional Papers are those of the authors and not necessarily those of DPMF. African Conflicts: Their Causes and Their Political and Social Environment Abdalla Bujra∗ 1. Introduction During the four decades between the 1960s and the 1990s‚ there have been about 80 violent changes of

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    Electrical Machines and Drives

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    and Drives This Page Intentionally Left Blank Electric Motors and Drives Fundamentals‚ Types and Applications Third edition Austin Hughes Senior Fellow‚ School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering‚ University of Leeds AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Newnes is an imprint of Elsevier Newnes is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House‚ Jordan Hill‚ Oxford OX2 8DP 30 Corporate Drive‚ Suite

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    Road To Independence

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    Road To Independence Reaction to the return of the British Change in mindsets – After British lost‚ British powers lost their prestige and destroyed myth that British were “superior and unbeatable”.  Diminished fear and awe of Europeans  no longer felt helpless.  reminded of the British’s failure to protect them in times of need. Hence they harboured negative feelings towards British remaining in Singapore Rise of Nationalism – Political awakening: Colonial powers will never place a colony

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    Drive by Simon Tay

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    Drive Yuppies became a term in the early 1980’s‚ made out of the words; young urban professional + “ies”. We know the type from Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities” or Brett Easton Ellis’ “American Psycho”‚ these young upper middleclass/upper class types with a taste for cultural attractions‚ a good image and high social status. Originally an American term‚ but as we can see in the story “Drive” written by Singaporean author Simon Tay also spotted elsewhere in the world. In “Drive” we follow

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