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    Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! was published in the midst of the industrial revolution. She definitely attempted to make a radical statement by establishing the main character in her book as a strong female, with her book coming out during a time when gender roles were constantly being challenged, but there are quite a few hits and misses that Cather made if she tried to make Alexandra out to be the quintessential pioneer. To be a pioneer means to be the first to discover or explore a certain area,…

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    When I think of my school I think of family. Not the family that you live with, but your friends and teammates. At Pioneer Jr. Sr. High School everyone is a friend. There are many clubs you can sign up for and many sports to play. There are just so many extraordinary things to do. To begin, the sports that you can join are softball, baseball, football, and track. You can also join cross country. The only downside is the cross country and football cross over. Everyone on the teams are…

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    When Cather wrote O Pioneers, she spent some time analyzing the different viewpoints of readers. These viewpoints include the naturalistic view, the romantic view, and the realistic view. Quite similarly to other things, the three types of people tend to have conflicts. First, some people see something from a romantic perspective. This means that people see a lot of emotion behind an event. To illustrate, when Emil shot the bird in the sky, Marie said “They were having such a good time, and…

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    American Protestant Missionary in the 1800’s. Throughout Willa Cather’s book, O Pioneers, there are several themes and social issues that can be found. One of the most prominent of these social issues is that of self-sacrifice and the highs and lows that can come with it. Cather introduces and develops a number of characters in this book and self-sacrifice is a common theme in a lot of their lives. Being a pioneer in the early days of the United States, especially in…

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    In his pioneer model for dividend smoothing, Lintner (1956) proposed that firms in general have a long-run target payout ratio. The role of the managers is to gradually adjust firm payment of dividends toward the target. However, in this model adjustments are partial because they are not free and the firm has to incur a cost for the adjustment. The Lintner model for partial adjustment is given by: Dit – Dit-1 = ai + ci (D*it – Dit-1) + εit (1) where Dt and Dt-1 are dividend payments at…

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    Sprague – Street Railway Pioneer After serving as a naval ensign in the early 1880’s, Frank J. Sprague became a scientist at the Edison Laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Sprague made a name for himself at Edison’s labs by introducing mathematical procedures and methods for increasing…

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    Throughout the last century, great pioneers have shaped our modern world, society, and technology. Wilbur Wright was born in Millville, Indiana in 1867 to Milton Wright and Susan Koerner. He was the older brother of Orville Wright, who was born in 1871 in Dayton, Ohio, and invented the first airplane with. Wilbur was the third of seven in his family. According to The World Book Encyclopedia, “the boys attended high school. But neither received a diploma” (499). He moved a lot to state to state…

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    allow foreign Japanese to return home, or even prohibit the manufacture of ships suitable for maritime navigation, only with China, North Korea and Netherlands and other countries only in Nagasaki. It can be proved by C.T. Assendelft De Coningh’s A Pioneer in Yokohama. In this novel, it describes a Dutch merchant CT Assendelft de Coningh in Yokohama. He provided both an emerging eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic Military, and…

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    In the article, “Grace Murray Hopper – Programming Pioneer”, author V. Rajaraman summarizes the life and accomplishments of Grace Murray Hopper, a woman who is credited for several major computer and technology developments. Rajaraman goes into extensive detail about Hopper’s early life, such as how Hopper focused heavily on her education in order to receive a PhD in Mathematics at Yale University which soon lead her to become a math professor at Vassar College. Rajaraman also mentions how…

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    Melisa Redmond of Pioneer State Mutual Insurance Company referred this file for medical case management. Instructions were given to meet with Whitney Kononchuk and assist with coordination of appropriate and related medical care, and identify needs to facilitate recovery. INTERVIEW SETTING On 9/20/16 I met Ms. Kononchuk and her mother at Royal Oak Beaumont hospital. Ms. Kononchuk was in a hospital bed. Ms. Konochuk was alert and oriented. I provided her mother my consent to read and she…

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