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    Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni is a well-known novelist. She is also a famous poet. Many of her through-provoking articles have been published in more than fifty magazines and are widely read. Her writings have been included in more than thirty anthologies. She was born in Calcutta, India and spend her childhood days there. One of her childhood memories is that of her grandfather who used to tell her many enchanting stories which occur in the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha the two great epics of…

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    to room. Check in wasn’t until 3 but of course I tried to make my family leave at the crack of dawn so I could get there in time to snag a top bunk. My Father, Mother, Bailey, and I all piled into our Toyota and started our tretuous hour drive to Dayton where my only worry in the world was if I packed my goggles or not. Once we were on Hidden Acres soil you better believe I tucked and rolled out of the car and sprinted to the Family Life Center door where checked in was held. I was ready to…

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    Intelligence is a function that has been employed by nations and governments since the start of their existence. “From the spies sent by Moses to ‘spy out the land of Canaan’ to the advice of Sun Tzu to be subtle and ‘use spies for every kind of business.’” According to Richard Hughbank and Don Githens, “Intelligence is information that is analyzed and converted into a product to support a particular customer. Intelligence is both a process and a product that has played an important role in…

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    “Custom Protection Officer” for a well know security group. I was very excited to try this new line of work despite not getting paid very well. After meeting with the area supervisor, he said that he had a perfect site for me to work at. It was the Dayton Metro Library. Yes, the library required a security guard. At first I thought it was joke, or maybe it was to enforce parking laws, maybe track down over due library books. Ending up the library was in a very bad part of the city and had…

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    adapted by Bert Coules and written by Daniel Keyes, where the protagonist Charlie was forced to embark an intellectual and emotional journey and his attitude and beliefs were challenged. Similarly, in the film ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, emotional and inner journey is ventured by the Hoover’ family and Frank and different challenges are faced during the journey. The journeys conveyed in the film, displays the improvement of relationships with one…

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    The 1920s were an eventful decade. While the ’20s may have seemed like a carefree, fun, creative time that made the '20s roar, many social and economic issues transpired during that time, which also made the '20s roar. After WWI, there was a widespread fear of immigrants, which was referred to as the Red Scare. Immigrants are getting blamed for many things out of their control, such as taking jobs from Americans and raising the unemployment rate. Americans started to equate anarchy and…

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    I am the first of my family to have attended college. While this prompted quite a bit of fear and anxiety when starting my college experience, it also allowed me to grow exponentially as a person. For the first time, I was without clear guidance, my parents and friends could not be there to hold my hand through the tougher decisions. As such, I had to force myself to learn to make decisions completely on my own initiative. For the first time, I allowed myself to learn and embrace topics, not…

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    The company was founded by George Draper in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was formerly known as “The Dayton Dry Goods Company”. Target has three main retail divisions consisting of Marshall Field’s, Mervyn’s and Target stores. Target has approximately 1,828 stores located in 47 states and it is globally present in India. it differs itself from competitors…

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    In this paper, I will reflect my experience of attending the Saint Paul City Council meeting. I will share on how awards and grants by Saint Paul City Councils approve projects, programs, and strategies to improve the capital in Saint Paul. In addition, I will go into details of the City of Saint Paul source of funding to provide awards and grants to proposals made by the City of Saint Paul residents. I then will discuss a proposal that was discussed by the proposer and the Saint Paul City…

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    Clare, trying to pass off as white people. The story starts off by Irene receiving a letter form Clare, a friend of hers that she wants no part of. From here the story goes into a flashback to Irene’s summer vacation, when she run into Clare in the Dayton, in Chicago. They are both in an all white restaurant, which they got in due to their light skinned color. After this interaction between the two long lost friends, Irene came to the conclusion that she want’s nothing to do with Clare and her…

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