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    “Desiree’s Baby” is a literal fiction short story by Kate Chopin that takes place in Antebellum Louisiana. A young girl by the name of Desiree is abandoned who was discovered. Armand Aubigny was the one who found desiree and after that they fell in love and had a baby. The people sense that the baby is different time goes by, they realize the baby skin color is of African descent. Armand thinks Desiree is part black, but she doesn’t accept the statement. Desiree takes the baby and leaves to the…

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    Shirota Case Study

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    1. Brief history of the company/factory ? In 1930, Dr. Minoru Shirota, who was conducting research in a microbiology lab at the Medical Faculty of Kyoto University in Japan. He succeed in culturing a strain of lactic acid bacteria beneficial to human health. This bacterium was named "Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain. It took Dr. Shirota another 5 years of research to find the right food medium for the Lactobacillus casei Shirota bacteria. In 1935 the first bottle of Yakult, a fermented…

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    One mathematician that I discovered is Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia was born in C.355CE and lived in Alexandria. Hypatia lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history, she was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of the mathematics and is daughter of Theon. She was also killed by a fanatical Christian sect. What did Hypatia teach? Hypatia was the earliest female mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher and was also the first woman to…

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    Vladimir Lenin was a large figure in the revolution of the USSR and the future of Russia. Vladimir Lenin was born April 22nd, 1870 in Simbirsk, Russian Empire as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Владимир Ильич Ульянов). Some days later, he was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. He took on the alias Lenin in 1901 while doing underground party work. (http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-lenin-9379007#early-years). He was born into a wealthy middle-class family, third of six children, along…

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    Testimonial for St. Frances Cabrini St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was a perfect example of the Catholic faith, beginning her lifelong service as a little girl, following in the the steps of one of her primary role models: me, Rosa, her sister and teacher. Although our uncle and I guided her initially on her spiritual journey, Frances was an independent and self-sufficient young lady, securing a teaching license with the highest honors from the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. With her new license…

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    affairs” (French 1). We have learned from Steinbeck that literature can have a huge effect on society and can change people’s perspective on the issues in the world. He believed that his work could truly help people. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize he states, “I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature” (“John Steinbeck” 2). As can be seen he ingrained his mark on the American voice and left…

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    Nelson Mandela Hero

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    Throughout the ages there are men and woman who make a difference in the lives of various people. Whether it is a hundred, thousands, or even millions. One of the most influential people whoever lived and changed the face of not a country but a continent, would be, Nelson Mandela. Displaying courage, bravery, intellect, and a fight for the rights of millions, Nelson Mandela proves to be a quintessential modern day hero. Despite the fact that he had recently passed away, his legacy will live on…

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    faithful and respecting God. The cruelty of the concentration camps changed Elie’s faith in God. While in the concentration camps, Elie begins to question God and his faith soon diminishes. After being released from the camps, Elie presents his Nobel Prize Speech in 1986. Throughout the thirty year time span, Elie is able to regain his thought and able to process what happened in The Holocaust. By processing what occurred, Elie is able to regain faith in God. Throughout the memoir Night, Elie…

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    I first heard of Malala Yousafzai while watching my favorite show, The Daily Show. As Jon Stewart said, it was “humbling to hear her speak” (The Daily Show). I had a tears form in my eyes just listening to her. She was my age and she was so intelligent and doing so much for her country and girls around the world while I was sitting in my pjs watching One Direction videos on Youtube. After watching her interview I began seeing her all over Tumblr and I could not complain. I became obsessed with…

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    “I Am Malala” is about the nobel prize winning, shooting survivor,women rights activist Malala Yousafzai. Malala has been standing up for women and children’s education since she started school in her home country, Pakistan. Malala uses so much rhetorical devices in her book. She includes ethos, pathos, logos and imagery etc. Her book is a world wind of her experiences, her beliefs and her feelings. Malala is a influential person, not only in her country but in the world. The most rhetorical…

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