Example 4-3: If the time today is 1PM‚ what was the time 7 hours ago? Solution: First‚ we need to consider that 1PM has passed 12 o’clock. Therefore‚ we need to add 1 hour to 12 hours. This means that 1PM is actually 13 hours. Second‚ we also need to subtract 7 from 13. As such13-7=6. But six has not reached 12 o’clock‚ thus it is still in the morning. Hence‚ the time is 6 in the morning or 6AM. The aforementioned examples illustrate time-of-the-day arithmetic. Similarly‚ we can also apply the same
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After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire‚ Europe was divided into ‘Barbarian’ Kingdoms such as Francia‚ Visigoths‚ Lombardia and others‚ this meant that the way in which the people of Europe at the time were governed was to change dramatically‚ and between AD476 and the rise of Charlemagne in Francia‚ there was a vacuum in the system of governance across Europe. The terms ‘Knighthood’ and ‘Chivalry’ originally comes from the idea that an army should be comprised of both professional soldiers
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“To what extent was Hitler responsible for the Second World War?” ‘From the first day that he "seized power‚" January 30‚ 1933‚ Hitler knew that only sudden death awaited him if he failed to restore pride and empire to post-Versailles Germany.’[1] The Second World War was the deadliest battle in History. Figures estimate that over 59 million people were killed during its conflict. German leadership was under Adolf Hitler‚ a ruthless dictator who was the chancellor of Germany during the majority
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Porfirio Diaz 1. What did Hidalgo do on September 16‚ 1810 that was equated to the First Crusade? a. Called to arms 2. Jose Morelos called for the Congress of Chilpacingo in 1813 that accomplished what? a. Declared Mexican independence‚ decreed slavery should be abolished‚ and announce Catholicism as state religion. 3. What is the Army of Three Guarantees? a. Mexican independence‚ Catholicism as state religion‚ and distinction between Creole‚ mestizo‚ and Indian
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Notes for Hamlet Presentation First production of Hamlet brought by The Globe to Russia The Moscow Art Theatre Partnership of directors Build up to World War I Stanislavski’s illness CLICK: According to The British Council records‚ the first production of Hamlet was taken to Russia by The Globe. It was one of the first of Shakespeare’s plays to be performed in Russian theatres in the mid 19th century. I could find no information about this performance and in many cases‚ articles would claim that
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received seventy-three electoral votes for presidency. The decision for breaking the tie was up to the congress. After hours of deliberating‚ the position for presidency was awarded to Jefferson. Burr‚ on the other hand‚ became Jefferson’s Vice President. This election was one of the most important elections that had ever taken place. There were a lot of changes happening during this time regarding the way voting was set up. The Inauguration ceremony is a ceremony for the president to swear in to office
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war‚ it soon fell into another crisis‚ and that crisis was the tension between the confederacies and union both having different views and political ideas on how this country should be ran. Some believed it should retain its current state and nothing should be changed‚ while the other‚ being the union‚ believed that equal rights should be a liberty everyone deserves regardless of who they are and what they did. With this being a border between the two parties‚ the confederation believed they should
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from the desire of people to be protected‚ whether it be from external or internal conflicts. With the formation of governments‚ a hierarchy formed between the common people and government workers. As Lock and Hobbes put it‚ a “social contract” was established between the two. By Locke and Hobbes’ standards‚ a social contract is the agreement between individuals and governments‚ in which both agree to make compromises to avoid the consequences of living in the state of nature‚ or life without the
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Abstract Thoughts The mentality behind the Cubist painter was to reject the work of artists who made what society wanted to view as art. Instead of painting for the basics of conventional art‚ Cubist painters used shapes and formed movement from placing objects in different angles to create a completely new artistic perspective. Gertrude Stein‚ a modernist writer of the 20th century‚ rejected the expectations of a society that required writing to represent the speech of language. Just as the cubist
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Confidence intervals and prediction intervals from simple linear regression The managers of an outdoor coffee stand in Coast City are examining the relationship between coffee sales and daily temperature. They have bivariate data detailing the stand ’s coffee sales (denoted by [pic]‚ in dollars) and the maximum temperature (denoted by [pic]‚ in degrees Fahrenheit) for each of [pic] randomly selected days during the past year. The least-squares regression equation computed from their data
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