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    Long ago, people tried to censor books with ideas or beliefs that were not considered ‘traditional’. Censors banned these books because, they were trying to keep people from seeing one word or multiple sections that suggested offensive manner. Many people believe that the novel the Catcher in the Rye written in 1951 by J.D Salinger deserves to be banned from the public eye because of the intensity and impureness of the situations the characters of this book go through. The Catcher in the Rye is…

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    Throughout the years, many books and articles have been written about leadership. Although we do not think about it, we are all leaders, whether at work, while we practice a sport, at home with family and in our daily lives. In short, you do not need to be famous, powerful or have an important position in a company to be a leader. We lead through our beliefs, our confidences or else think of the times you were first to ask questions in class, to express your opinion even if it was unpopular or…

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    Dining Philosopher

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    Abstract: In this paper we focus mainly on obtaining deadlock free solution to the dining – philosopher problem. The solution mainly imposes the restriction that a philosopher may pick up her chopsticks only if both of them are available. RUST and GO system programming language are used in the coding part. In this paper we also try to justify why Go is widely used than Rust by providing the values for following details program source code details , Cpu Secs, Elapsed secs, Memory KB Code B…

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    Australians have had many causes for the marginalisation, this includes; being invaded and evicted from their land and homes when western culture first came to Australia, their underrepresentation on society and the stolen generation from 1910 until 1970 (Pike, 2011). The close the gap 2017 report reveals the successes achieved by the government, individuals, organisations and communities across the country. The aim of this report it to close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous…

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    Abigail Andrews Narrative

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    She sighed softly "Yes, I'll get right on that Ms. Andrews," the strawberry petite blonde girl spoke in an almost uneasy tone. It wasn't that she didn't want to go out, well it was. Though it was also that her brother was interviewing at the company she worked for, why they would need a journalist? She didn't quite understand that, but she didn't understand a lot of things that happened there. She had learned over the last four years too not ask questions. "Also, Mr. Parkson will be returning…

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    Discourse communities exist all around us. From being involved in a Japanese biker gang to being a high school cheerleader, all of these groups are a perfect example of a discourse community. Almost every single person has been involved in this type of community whether they know it or not. A discourse community is a group of people who share a common goal and communicate about a specific topic. According to John Swales, he characterizes a discourse community as a group of individuals who…

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    Human intelligence is the intellectual abilities of humans, marked by high cognition, motivation, and self-awareness (Tirri & Nokelainen, 2011). Intelligence allows humans to apply cognitive abilities to many different functions such as learning, communicating, reasoning and it also enables humans to experience and think (Solomon et al., 2015). Humans have relatively large brains, approximately three times larger than those of their closest primate relatives, and possess cognitive skills not…

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    Treaty Of Versailles Essay

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    The Role of the Rumors of the ‘Pacte de Famine’ on the Women’s March to Versailles and how it could have led to the fall of the French Monarchy. Abstract The Pact de Famine was a rumour that spread like wildfire among the citizens of the third estate in the 18th century. The rumour stated that the flour that was meant to be distributed in the Parisian markets was being purposely withheld from the peasants by the monarchy to save it for those of the higher classes. The Women’s March on…

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    Ahmet Cevher Sancaktutar Arthur Easlon World History date George Donner was born in North Carolina in March 7th 1784.George Donner had three brothers and three sisters altogether He lived in Kentucky. Later he moved to Sangamon County, Illinois. In hopes of a new life, Donner wanted to move to California. In April, 1846 Donner , Tamsen (his third wife) and his five daughters, later, his brother, Jacob Donner, Elizabeth ( Jacob Donner’s wife) and their seven child also joined. James Reed was the…

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    Alexander’s army relied heavily on lightly- armored phalanx formations with long pikes, called sarsissas, that were up to 20 feet long, special “wedge” formations to increase the volume of troops in order to be more effective in combat, and a strong cavalry that consisted of two different units, including a unit that fought with Alexander…

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