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    Shaker High School and Hudson Valley Community College are very similar and difference. There are three main differences and similarities that include lack of freedom, schedule, and writing assistance. In this paper I will discuss the difference Between Shaker High School versus Hudson Valley Community College. By comparing and contrasting Shaker High School and Hudson Valley Community College incoming freshmen will be more informed about what to expect in college. First, comparing Shaker High…

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    league baseball. Just avoiding the cutoff date by a week, I would be one of the few thirteen year olds to take the field. It would also be my first year of making the all – star team, a goal I had since I had first entered the major league division of Shaker Valley Little League three years prior. As a starting pitcher, I was pretty confident that I would finally get the chance to show the the league that I had deserved to make the roster. After a season of playing fairly well, I had earned my…

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    Reflection On Shakerism

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    this different lifestyle made me reflect on my own and I am grateful for that. These and many others reasons is why I am grateful for the opportunity to study at Shaker village. On the first day at the village, I expected the shakers to be very formal and serious. My predictions were quickly proven wrong as I realized what the Shakers were like in reality. Brother Arnold was fun to be around, not just as a teacher but more like a friend. I never expected to be making jokes while learning…

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    of Boston. The two segments I reviewed were Movers and Shakers and Home Sweet Home. Movers & Shakers: Movers & Shakers is home to America's up-and-coming business class: a wealthy suburban world of dual-income couples who are highly educated, typically between the ages of 35 and 54 and often with children. Given its high percentage of executives and white-collar professionals, there's a decided business bent to this segment: Movers & Shakers rank first for owning a small business and having a…

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    Androgyny is defined “in its most basic form, as the male and female in one body or entity” (Thurman, 58). Shaker theology is grounded on the fact that the spirit encompasses both, male and female, aspects, which in turn places male and female believers on equal playing fields. Both sexes have equal access to the gospel and equal opportunities to spread the word. Shakers also believe that the most defining difference between the sexes is reproduction. By removing this expectation of women, men…

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    was known as the Shakers. Founded by Ann Lee the Shakers are a Christian Protestant religious sect their name is derived from the movements of the members while dancing. Ann Lee to me was a very religious woman. She stood by her beliefs and promoted them. I like the fact that Ann Lee believed in gender equality and was an outspoken woman. Members of the Shaker communities held all their possessions in common and lived in a self-supporting, prosperous, inventive community. The shakers were…

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    be employed to set the shaker drive signal to proper spectrum shape and level. The best approach would be to arrange the machine to watch and control the amount instantly. The three functional limitations to the performance of electrodynamic shaker are displacement, velocity and acceleration. Shaker is operated by displacement at the lowest frequency. On the other hand, acceleration limit the performance of shaker at highest frequency. For velocity limit performance of shaker in a band between…

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    The Word Shaker explains to the audience how Hitler had risen to power and that word shakers were people who understood the true power of words. The story displays how a little girl that was a word shaker planted a tree and it grew in size very rapidly because her words kept on growing. Hitler attempted to destroy the tree with an ax, but it failed. The word shaker stayed in the tree and refused to leave, but eventually an important comrade…

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    Themes In The Book Thief

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    character’s feelings known, or to break down what is happening around the characters into a more metaphorical form. The stories convey feelings, such as in Max vandenburg’s stories that he illustrated for Liesel, “The Standover Man” and “The Word Shaker”. The Max’s stories also reflect both the political and historical scene of Germany at the time (and some in some cases, give a broad message that is able to be applied anywhere). In Max Vandenburg’s first story, “The Standover Man”, he briefly…

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    Max Vandeburg, a Jew, writes a book for Liesel as a gift, called The Word Shaker. The Word Shaker taught Liesel about the immense power of words and how they provide the power to fight back evil ideas. The book was about a girl that nurtured a small seed born of the word 'friendship' which eventually grew into a tree of peaceful words…

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