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    Ender Wiggin Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, is a novel about a six year old boy named Ender who lives in a time after alien “buggers” attacked Earth and were driven back by a great general called Mazer Rackham. Ender is an extremely bright child chosen to go to battle school, a school in space, to fight in the next bugger war. Ender flies through the ranks and becomes the greatest commander in the school. He graduates early and is brought to command school on a dwarf planet in the asteroid…

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    that the occurrences of September 11 were the starting points for the launching of the second version of the New World Order. By doing so America secured its dominant internal power and has secured a prestige rank in the world’s market. According to Petra the United States had been waiting for an event like 9/11 in order to justify their defiance to domestic restraints. He writes, “The use of ‘anti-terrorist’ to justify massive state terrorism would fit nicely with… empire building strategy”.…

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    Middle East Research Paper

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    Another Look at the Middle East The Middle East is not a desert and are not full of wars like what many people think, maybe because the news just focuses in the negative areas. The Middle East now has many interesting places, they will captivate you about the Middle East. Such as the tallest tower in the world and the world’s most visited shopping and entertainment destination mall, and many other interesting places, they could be your next vacation too. I believe that the Middle East is a…

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    Nutritious Foods

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    Works Cited Bowman, Shanthy. "Low Economic Status Is Associated With Suboptimal Intakes Of Nutritious Foods By Adults In The National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2002." Nutrition Research 27.9 (2007): 515-523. Academic Search Complete. Web. 21 July 2015. This article describes the factors that relate to how low economic status is associated with suboptimal intakes of nutritious foods by adults. The main statement of this author is to show how a study was made to promote…

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    The novel I decided to read and analyze was “Two Boys Kissing” by David Levithan. Throughout the novel Levithan describes the day to day lives of seven different teenage boys and the struggles they face because they identify as gay. I will be examining the concepts of constructing gender, being transgender, and the correlation of compulsory heterosexuality and discrimination against LGBT people. Gender is constructed at a very young age. An individual’s gender construction begins the second…

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    “We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness”, stated by the philanthropist and model Petra Nemcova. It has only been 11 years, since hurricane Katrina transformed, killed, and hurt over a thousand people along the Gulf Region, and especially New Orleans (CNN, 2016). Within a matter of days thousands of children and adults had nowhere to call home, because home was no longer there.…

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    will react in a situation or respond to a negative feeling. The body and brain will signal each other how to move according to the three effects of social psychology. In the article “Acta Facultatis Educationis Physicae Universitatis Comenianae” by Petra Kurkova and Nanci A. Scheetz, it states how students with communication disorder are in physical education compare to students that aren’t. ASL stands for American Sign Language and HH stands for Hard of Hearing. Students with ALS and HH are…

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    In 2004, Reggaetón entered the mainstream music world, quickly spreading to all areas of the world. Reggaetón originated from the underground scene of Puerto Rico’s urban life, combining Puerto Rican hip hop with Jamaican dancehall. In Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s, book Remixing Reggaetón Rivera-Rideau discusses the cultural politics of race in Puerto Rico, focusing on Reggaetón as a critique of Puerto Rico’s “racial democracy.” At the start of this book, Rivera-Rideau focuses on Puerto Rico’s…

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    DISCUSSION Various studies all over the world have been conducted on the estimation of stature from the human skeleton by applying variable methods for the estimation but the easiest and the most reliable method is by regression analysis. In the present study the correlation of body height with both foot lengths and knee height along with a consideration of the age factor varying between 19years to 54 years. The right foot length from 20.7cms to 29.6 cms and the left foot length from 20.5 cms to…

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    Big Data In Healthcare

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    Big Data in healthcare is used to predict about epidemics, cure disease, improve quality of life and how to avoid preventable deaths (Magoulas, Roger; Lorica, Ben, 2009) .Marr (2015 )states “If you want to find out how Big Data is helping to make the world a better place, there’s no better example off course than the uses being found for it in healthcare “No doubt says Crag (2013) The Big Data opportunity is the opportunity which is one of the most tangible in the healthcare industry. Body The…

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