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    James Dyson

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    The famous designer that I have chosen to focus my study on is James Dyson. His Dual Core Hoover range includes many innovative products that have revolutionalise the field of vacuuming. James Dyson created the DC (dual cyclone) range which is what I would like to focus on. His DC01 contains many useful features to enhance the users experience whilst using the product and also when they’re not‚ the idea of making products easily storable has played a huge part in the designing and manufacture in

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    Despite the North having more production and population‚ the South could have won the Civil War with a few adjustments. Notice how the South’s largest production is cotton‚ compared to the North. The North had a balance of different types of production‚ which enabled the soldiers to be easily equipped with materials and accumulate wealth. One of the major reasons why the South lost was that it spent more on cotton production instead of increasing the other types of production. If it spent more on

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    Child Soldiers in India

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    The military use of young children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers)‚ or they can be used in support roles such as porters‚ spies‚ messengers‚ look outs‚ and sexual slaves; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda. Throughout history and in many cultures‚ children have been extensively involved in military campaigns even when such practices were supposedly against cultural morals. Since the 1970s

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    everyone must face in due time. In his poem‚ “The Soldier of Mictlán‚” Rigoberto Gonzalez describes the life of a soldier in the afterlife in a place called Mictlán‚ where most of the dead come according to Aztec mythology. His poetic techniques portray the fervent desire of an exhausted soldier to experience life again and leave behind the emptiness of the underworld. In the poem the rhyme is constant and in it is narrated as a true soldier asks for “bread for his hand‚” “a piece of cheese”

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    James Salter

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    In “Once Upon a Time‚ Literature. Now What?” published writer James Salter discusses the end of literature in today’s society. He says that’s literature is losing it value and art and language are no longer appreciated. The new pop culture is taking over and the new movies and music no longer have any real meaning to them‚ it’s just about success and making money. Value is something has been cast aside. There is no value in the word value anymore. The most important task in the world according to

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    The day i went into labor

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    The day I went into labor I opened my eyes. My mind was racing‚ but I immediately panicked and thought to myself‚ “where is my son?” I turned and saw my Mom sitting on the couch next to me still asleep and remembered that she must be exhausted; she was up all night with me. While she was softly snoring‚ I pressed the button on my bedside and within a few minutes a nurse responded. I asked‚ “Can I see my son now?” While on my way to work the day before‚ my water broke. I quickly rushed to my

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    They were her favorite places when she was a child. In one of her soliloquies‚ she said that “there is no image of my childhood that I carry with me more clearly than that” (Lawson‚ 4). Kate recalled the first time she went to the ponds. “ I was so small he had to carry me on his shoulders-through the woods with their luxuriant growth of poison ivy‚ along the tracks‚ past the dusty boxcars lined up to receive their loads of sugar beets‚ down the steep sandy path to the

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    Luke Jankoski 4/4/16 Ruff/Shea Whistle Child Soldiers in the U.K. Around the world children are being used as weapons of war. They are either being enticed by propaganda or being forced to go to battle‚ and fight for something that they don’t even understand. Child soldiers are not a recent issue; they have been used for centuries around the world. Child soldiers can be traced back to the eighteenth century France‚ when times were tough and parents were unable to take care of their children

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    James Thom

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    In James Thom’s extraordinary piece “The Perfect Picture” he writes about situations he was in at a one point of his life. He explains an experience he was in as a young police reporter and driving to a seen‚ where the grandfather back over this granddaughter. When he drives up he sees all the media and the police gather around the grandfather. The grandfather couldn’t even grasp the concept of what happened yet‚ before news reporters and photographers are invading his property‚ life and time

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    During the Vietnam War‚ the United States became involved with Vietnam because America was worried about communism spreading around the world and wanted to contain communism. President Truman decided to support France since he thought French troops would make the French economy more stable. For this reason‚ Truman gave the French some money to help their economy. When President Eisenhower became President‚ he believed in what was named the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory is the belief that if one

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