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    Kristin Combs is a public school teacher at Penn Treaty High School and also a union member. Kristin combs is the only candidate running for City Council who pledged to take workers wage and introduce legislation or a $15 minimum wage in Philadelphia. She has vowed to take teacher’s salary if elected and donate the rest of her salary to organizations to commit to helping public schools. Another piece of her pledging is spreading awareness and strongly teaching everyone about the kind of well-rounded education that all of the students deserve and need. Kristin Combs knows test scores are not the true measurement of a student’s intellectual ability. Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2016 election with a famous slogan of his saying, “Make America Great Again.” He stated that he supports traditional marriage, and the same sex marriage but that should be taking up with the Supreme Court because instead he’s all about jobs, He wants to eliminate taxes on corporations and reduce taxation on U.S. workers and business to support reduced business regulations and Donald Trump disregards global warming because he states that global warming is a hoax that was created by the Chinese in order to make U.S. Manufacturing non-competitive, feeling as though windmills are destroying every country they touch while producing unreliable energy. Another topic that Donald Trump feels as though to make America great again is Illegal immigration and…

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    population of the entire metro area (Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue) in Washington State is 3,439,809 based on the 2010 Census track data (See attached table). The most visible characteristics of the population category in the Census tract is median age. Both male and female who live in the block and the City significantly order than the metro area's median age. For example, male median ages in the Census tract and the City are 41 and…

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    Well I have! My best friends Jada and Bobbi. Though Bobbi lives in Washington D.C. We spend all the time I’m there together, we spend so much time together we look alike and everyone asks us if we 're twins. We always say yes. She’s my other half. We have known each other for 10 years. I don 't know what I would do without her. Don 't even get me started on Jada. She lives in Charlotte, where I used to live before I moved. We went to school together. She has always had my back. We look nothing…

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    People do not seem interested in speaking to one another. The seating pattern reinforces the desire, as passengers sit alone or keep a distance from each other when the metro is empty. However, when the metro is full, they still do not seem to interact despite the close physical proximity. The majority of people use their cellphones instead of talking with each other. Also, unlike on a bus where passengers can interact with the bus driver, the metro driver is withdrawn from the passengers.…

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    This map of population density map of Washington D.C. allows us to directly see the areas of the city that are more populated, in the core, and the areas that are less populated, along the periphery. Unlike the most common maps of the city of Washington D.C., we can see more than just town names and highways. From the map we can see where people are living, and the roads and highways all lead to this centered dense population. This paper will not only describe this map of Washington D.C. and…

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    In two major instances states or cities have banned handguns in an effort to alleviate violence, and were challenged by United States citizens in a Supreme Court of Law. In the case Washington D.C. vs. Heller, the firearms control regulations act of 1975 banned handguns within Washington D.C., a Federal Enclave, because in the 1970’s the city was the murder capital of the United States. Handguns were not to be sold or possessed within the D.C. area, until in 2008 when Heller challenged the law…

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    An Exercise in Embarrassment A few years ago, over Spring break I went on a week-long vacation to Washington DC with my family. This included, my mother, father, sister and my mother’s sister and brother along with their respective families. Over a period of four days we walked over sixty miles and I got to visit some of the most extraordinary places I could ever imagine. Standing at the proverbial head of the table was the Lincoln Memorial, a magnificent cross section of history and reverence…

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    2. Analysis 2.1 Politeness 2.1.1 Polite Ending and Confirmation Questions Generally to say about the background about the video, speaker M is a famous singer and speaker F is a famous actress. The conversation was started when they met at the first time. They were unknown each other before; so, the relationship looks like unfamiliar and unfriendly. However, after they had honest talk more and more, they started to be turned in favor of each other and be familiar. By communicating, I can find…

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    'To Autumn ' consists of three eleven-line stanzas, each containing the sights, smells and sounds of an Autumn scene. Each stanza has a different subject matter, following a chronological sequence. The poem is written in rather strict iambic pentameter, with only four lines in the poem breaking this structure. There are generally five iambs to each line. This methodical meter is effective as it gives the poem a lyrical, relaxed tone. Although the poem 's scene is bursting with life, it is…

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    The Victims Poem Summary

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    The Victims by Sharon Olds centers the question of who the real victims of divorce are. On the surface, it may appear a certain way, but upon further inspection, the answers may be something very different. The Victims can be split into two parts according to tone and tense. The first half of the poem is from the “child’s” point of view, and the second half, in the “adults” view. The first half of the poem (lines 1-17) is in the past tense and it appears as if the speaker is a young child…

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