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    life that involve the uses of probability and it is apparent that it is used in everyone’s life today including myself. While people think math is irrelevant after graduation‚ statistics is heavily used especially in regards to probability. While people do many things‚ some of mine that deal with probability are playing a game of pool‚ as well as the probability of how many games our football team has a chance of winning‚ and another example would be the probability of me running in a week. When

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    Even today‚ we still see some hints of gender inequality and discrimination. However‚ this has slowly been improving. In both of the poems “We are Seven” and “The Thorn” the reader is able to see how women were judged based on society’s definition of them. Throughout the yearswe have seen women being discriminated and compared to men. It really opens up my eyes to see how far women have come to stand up for their rights and use their voice to speak what they believe in. In the work “We are Seven

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    Shall We Walk

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    Shall We Walk? by Pura Santillan-Castrence This essay was written during the Japanese Occupation but it is as relevant today as it was then. I wrote an article some years ago on the benefits of walking. My automobiled friends praised the article politely enough‚ they liked it (at least they said so); the points were well taken; people should really walk more; it took someone like me to show in such graphic terms what could have been clear to everyone before… then they went on their morning-till-night

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    information‚ as well as review ways in which memory can be improved. There are number of theories and experiments that have focused on determining why we forget the information we were at one point or another able to recount. The following section will focus on highlighting a range of medical conditions as well as theories that provide reasons for why we forget. The loss of memory is commonly referred to as amnesia. Amnesia causes an individual to be unable to learn to new information. It is caused

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    Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love? “You love each other but can’t manage to communicate without arguing‚ fighting and ending up exhausted‚ each one in his corner‚ trying to lick his wounds and thinking of how to protect oneself against a new attack. And in spite of that..you love each other?” (Westt‚ James) Lorraine Hansberry’s acclaimed play A Raisin in the Sun‚ tells the story of the Youngers‚ a poor African American family in the 1950s. There are four of them‚ all living in a cramped and tiny apartment

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    “In the face of the plague‚ the characters’ beliefs disintegrate.” Discuss. In Year of Wonders‚ Geraldine Brooks focuses on the effects of the plague on the English village of Eyam in 1665. The village is introduced as a spiritual community; there are various religious and moral codes that the people live by. As the plague hits‚ these strong beliefs are put to the test. Brooks’s narrative asserts the notion that disaster and catastrophe‚ as widespread in form as the bubonic plague‚ is capable

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    Life as we knew it is a book about a girl named Miranda who lives in Pennsylvania with her older brother Matt‚ her younger brother Jonny‚ and her mother Laura. Things haven’t been the same around them anymore when suddenly an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it out of orbit. Closer to the Earth. This is causing there to be massive tidal waves and tsunamis that took out the power and the phone lines. Miranda’s mother over reacts and stocks up on everything like canned foods and toiletries. As Miranda

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    And Still We Rise Miles Corwin’s And Still We Rise is a memoir that follows the lives of intelligent students that live in the crime ridden area of South-Central Los Angeles. Corwin spent an entire year with twelve seniors that attend Crenshaw‚ South-Central’s gifted magnet program. He focused on the AP English Literature and Composition class because he felt the seniors would be free to express themselves. The book is centered on Affirmative Action‚ which students that attend Crenshaw fully rely

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    SO GREAT Why do we think we are so great? When all we have to do‚ Is stand upon a mountainside‚ Which dwarfs both me and you! Just take the time to really see‚ That cascading waterfall A snow clad range of mountains‚ A flower‚ a bird‚ a tree Take the time to smell the earth When a shower has washed it clean‚ The sweetest scent is new mown hay‚ Or newly cut grass‚ velvet and green Watch the new born lambs at play‚ Or‚ see an eagle rise and soar‚ Hear the whales resounding song‚ Or‚ listen

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    Why We Sleep

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    WHY WE SLEEP The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals J.A. Horne Published by Oxford University Press 1988 Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.1 Early Sleep Theories 1.2 Daily Sleep and Wakefulness 1.3 Measuring Sleep References CHAPTER 2 Sleep Deprivation 2.1 Problems with Animal Experiments 2.2 Recent Animal Experiments 2.3 Some Problems with Human Experiments 2.4 1896 - The First Real Sleep Deprivation Experiment on Humans 2.5 The Longest Study - 264 hours

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