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    any paper he wanted” (Jackson, 1948, p. 269). Tessie Hutchinson believes that the lottery has many disparities, especially since her family has been chosen to participate. Tessie Hutchinson, however, only really started to address the unfair system once her family was chosen for the stoning. When Tessie Hutchinson arrives at the square, she kicks off their conversation by joking around with Mrs. Delacroix by saying “Clean forgot what day it was,” (Jackson, 1948, p. 266) and then they both…

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    States. In the election of 1948, the Republicans tried to control over the presidency, especially, they did well in the congress election of 1946 and 1947. So, the Republicans chose Thomas E. Dewey, who was the governor of New York, as their candidate against the Democratic candidate Harry Truman. The Republicans thought that Thomas E. Dewey would win because he had earned 46 percent in the election of 1944 against Roosevelt. However, Truman won in the election of 1948. There were reasons for…

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    a popular writer in her time, and her work has received increased attention from literary critics in recent years. She influenced Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.[1] She is best known for the short story "The Lottery" (1948), which reveals a secret, sinister underside to a bucolic America village, and for The Haunting of Hill House (1959), which is widely considered to be one of the…

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    Causes Of The Six-Day War

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    began on June 5, 1967, was the third Arab-Israeli war in the long line of conflicts between these two entities. The Arab-Israeli conflict is between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist (now Israeli) that began in 1948 and continues to this day. The conflict began over the occupation of land and since 1948 the Middle Eastern territories have been massively reorganized. Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Minister of Defense, initiated the war by attacking Egypt’s air force in the morning of June 5, 1967 which begins…

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    Hypothesis: Our reagent, Malonate, is an inhibitor of the mitochondrial enzyme Succinate Dehydrogenase (SDH) that will bind to the active site of the enzyme and result in a decrease of enzyme activity. Justification: Any agent that interferes with enzyme activity is an inhibitor. Inhibitors can affect the catalysis and/or the binding of enzymes to substrate. Malonate is an inhibitor of SDH primarily because of its shape and function, as the shape is similar to that of succinate (Clark, 2009).…

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    Compared with the Violin Concerto no. 1 op. 77 (1948), and Quartet no. 4 op. 83 (1948), the oratorio Song of the Forests op. 81 is seemingly foreign due to the optimistic atmosphere of the oratorio, the simple melody, the modes, and the original text of the song no. 7 that praises Stalin as a gardener. Therefore, the oratorio Song of the Forests op. 81 has a widely accepted staple as a proof of Shostakovich’s ultimate submission to the regime. The analysis shows that the oratorio also has…

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    Graham 1 In the novella 1984 by George Orwell there can be plenty of “shocking” relevance and connection of information that we can find in our world today. The reaction I get from this novella is that the way Orwell persuades how the world is in 1948, is still happening today in our nation. The information Orwell provides in 1984 is astonishingly related to what is occurring in the world today. We still have issues with privacy, freedom, government control, language, and much more. “They kept…

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    Russia during the end of Stalin’s life. From Jewish Folk Poetry was first composed in 1948 for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and piano, and then later orchestrated in 1963. In 1948, not only was Shostakovich aware of Stalin’s efforts to destroy Jewish culture which was deemed as a threat to Soviet society, Shostakovich knew the horrors of Nazism and the Holocaust’s attempt to annihilate European Jewry. 1948 was also a significant year because…

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    Soviet controlled, and the rest divided amongst the others.Four-power provisional government, called the Allied Control Council, was installed in Berlin. In 1948,the Western Powers (The U.S.,France,and Great Britain)planned to rebuild Germany differed from the Soviet Union's plan.The first heightening of Cold War tensions occurred in 1948 when the Soviets imposed a partial blockade of Berlin in April, and then a full blockade in June.In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West…

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    the lead character, believes that the tradition of the lottery “isn’t fair, it isn’t right” (Jackson, 1948, p.62). Although stating her dismay with the “lottery”, the townsfolk share a feeling on conformity and continue to press on with the events. A character, Old Man Warner, even states that “There has always been a lottery” (Jackson, 1948, p.59) and “nothing but trouble in that” (Jackson, 1948, p.59), referring to trying to abolishing the lottery. Unfortunately for Tessie, her effects were…

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