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    To begin with, in the Greek tragedy Agamemnon by Aeschylus, the two women with the most prominent roles as female characters are Clytemnestra and Cassandra. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, is left alone ruling Argos while her husband has left to fight in the Trojan War for a decade. Cassandra is a prisoner of Agamemnon’s as well as Apollo’s mistress. A common theme arises as both women are involved in acts of adultery. Clytemnestra has an affair with her lover Aegistus, whereas Cassandra, as…

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    This house believes that high stakes testing in English schools is detrimental to students, teachers and schools and does not help develop truly educated people. High stake testing is tests which establish and/or identify a student’s future education, additionally presenting consequences if a ‘good’ grade is or is not achieved. Therefore by the use of high stake testing students are being sent the message that tests are more important, than actual learning and that if something is not on a test,…

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    Persuasive Essay On Lgbtq

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    In the community, some people who are against to and some people who support to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ). In Church, School, Job places, and other places who are accepted to have LGBTQ and others don't. Why? People, we're afraid that LGBTQ has AIDS or HIV from sex and drug spread. The government makes the law for LGBTQ to keep having safe sex and to have equality for all LGBT. Other hands some people don't believe in them same-sex because some people believe in…

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    Refraction Lab Report

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    The speed of light is the ultimate speed limit in the universe. Which travels at 3.0 x 108 m/s in a vacuum and always moves in a straight line. When light travels to a new medium its speed and direction will change, this is called refraction. Materials have different optical density so light rays travel at different velocities. Refractive index is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in a medium. Calculated by the velocity of light in vacuum divided by velocity in a…

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    A self-defeating behavior I experience on a daily basis is the fear of rejection. This mostly takes place in social settings, such as university, events, or places with peers close to my age. My fear of others’ negative opinions of me occurs daily and greatly limits me. This behavior has existed for as long as I remember. I suffer from social anxiety and have low self-esteem and thus have a hard time being around others without feeling judged or evaluated. I am extremely critical of myself and…

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    anguish, without somehow connecting it to his fixation on Picasso’s Guernica (Guernica, Picasso). In Picasso’s work, he drew the eyes of the people, twisted and elongated so as to mimic Massacre of the Innocents by Guido Reni (Reni). Asher saw this distortion of the eyes in…

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    (U) The actual full utilization of aerial reconnaissance using heavier than air platforms occurred during World War I. The use of this new technology aided field commanders, and gave strategic planners unprecedented insights into enemy dispositions, capabilities and extrapolated battlefield intentions. The British employment of aerial reconnaissance was mainly tactical during World War I and was used to map out the battlefield by cartographically plotting out the Forward Edge of the Battlefield…

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    Suicide Self Evaluation

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    Summary This theme revealed that almost every practitioner experiences a phase of self evaluation and feeling of responsibility for the client after suicide. It was revealed that they all reassess their work with the client and that there is a considerable level of anxiety which is shared by all when a client takes their own life. The use of terms such as; judgement call”; anxiety provoking; feeling of failure and responsibility strongly supports the theory of countertransference hatred which…

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    knows in attempt to rebel against the false truths the Party advocates. He cannot accept that he alone cannot preserve the facts; yet, he uses these facts he remembers in an effort to deal with the reality of the Party’s manipulative control and distortion of…

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    Historical Field Essay

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    being perceived. Yet where other historians had come to the conclusion that the war was started by the Germans and that the Holocaust was a definitive fact. He stated that “Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.” (Barnes, 1953, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace.) This quote shows that Barnes was reviewing the worldview and using the paradigm shift idea presented by Kuhn in order to present a new idea on…

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