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    Ancient Roman Technology

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    inventions. Ancient Rome left a mark on the modern world today. Two of Rome’s famed and longest lasting legacies are language, including many of the Latin root words in Romance languages, and in engineering which established the revolutionary idea of paved roads and aqueducts that we still use today. The legacy of Latin is seen today because many of the root words, prefixes, and suffixes are included in the English language. Ancient Romans used Latin as their…

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    William Byrd Essay

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    There were many composers of the English Renaissance and one of them was William Byrd. Byrd lived from the year 1539 to July 4, 1623. He developed the English Madrigal and was a student of Composer Thomas Tallis. As their partnership grew in 1575, Queen Elizabeth the first granted them a joint monopoly for importing, printing, publishing, and sale of music. Byrd mainly wrote music for the virginal and organ. He also composed a great deal of church music to English words, most of which has…

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    that moving to Singapore is a big opportunity, as they are extremely advanced in education. I do not remember exactly how I felt about this information, to be honest, but something about what my mom told me says that I really was excited. Her exact words were, “Oh! You were excited! You started packing all your dolls, you know, the essentials, especially after finding out that there was going to be a swimming pool at the house we are going to move into.” So here we were in Singapore, clean and…

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    Pilbara Strike Summary

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    Pilbara Strike Summary • Started May 1st 1946 and ended in 1949 • Hundreds of Aboriginal pastoral workers left their work for better pay and conditions • This caused sheep stations to stop production • Strike was organised with no phones or radios • Longest strike in Australian Hisotry • 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers from 27 stations in Western Australia walked away from their job • Predates the Wave Hill strike in NT by 20 years • Sometimes referred to as “Blackfellas’ Eureka” • Wanted the…

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    For the longest time, I carried the words of Ms. Chobot, my English teacher at Fulton Elementary School, in my head and heart. According to her, I was poor in English, lacked basic courtesies, was a disturbance in class and never participated in anything. She eventually dismissed me as a hopeless case with no chance of doing well in life. She had made a judgment – I would not have a bright future. And all this, when the other teachers in the same school approved of my behavior in their class and…

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    The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in world history. It is usually held to have begun around 3000 BC, when the lower Nile Valley became unified under a single ruler. By this date the only other people in the world to have a literate, urban civilization were the Sumerians, in Mesopotamia. Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. The civilization of…

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    attention. Some of the things I leaned that relate to chemistry are that antimony pentaflouride mixed with hydrofluoric acid produces a super acid that is 100,000 billion billion billion times more potent than stomach acid. I learned what the longest word in the English language is. It’s also known as “titan” and is the name of a protein. The book went over every possible aspect that the periodic table could be used for. The book discusses the ancient uses of antimony, and how they can be used…

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    The choice of words, syntax and pronunciation; within this conversation are not formal using terms like “man” seen in line 5; “kinda,” “cause,” seen in line 11; “b.s.,” seen in line 12 are evidence of an informal conversation. A conversation in which one has with friends or siblings, not a conversation one would have with a professor, boss, parents or clients. In formal conversations one doesn’t use slang, abbreviations, or even words which can be mistaken for profanity like the term “b.s.” seen…

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    thinking about it. I came to the United States when I still believed in fairy tales and Santa Claus; everything to me about the United States was different and new; I went to school not knowing English, I didn’t have any friends and most of all, I struggled trying to comprehend my teachers. I was eager to learn English and to be able to write. Before I came to this foreign country my dad would travel to Nicaragua which, is where I’m from he’d bring toys that would prepare us to learn this new…

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    Workplace Observation

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    The baseline tests a cross-word puzzle with ten words to be put into the puzzle. The next base line test was a grammar test of English sentences that had 5 sentences and they were asked to choose which words were spelled wrong. And the last base line test was a math test that had 10 questions of variation of different questions in math. While the results from…

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