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    To make connections between the audience and its circumstance, Herblock portrays an oversized man on the Moon, which is in its waxing crescent phase. The oversized man who is overly-focused to a television on the Moon is an implication of the current situation of the society in 1969: men were more privileged than women; in addition, the waxing crescent phase of the Moon, which is the phase that precedes a new moon, implies that a new beginning for the society is inevitably approaching…

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    but even sometimes during the day too. The moon rotates once on its axis each time it orbits earth. The moon appearance changes from earth, these changes are called lunar phases. There are 8 lunar phases, it starts with new moon that waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, and waning crescent. Those are the 8 lunar phases and they all happen at least once in every month. An eclipse is an event when one object in space casts a shadow onto another,…

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    Similes In The Iliad

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    In his epic poem, The Iliad, Homer uses many similes that compare things from his war stories to things occurring in nature, like agriculture and oceans and great forest fires. He compares things like the shouting and eagerness of Greek troops to violently crashing waves (2.394-401) and throngs of troops to swarms of bees (2.87-94). By doing this, Homer uses detailed imagery and draws his readers/ listeners away from the brutality of the war and depicts scenes that are less transcendental and…

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    the birthday of Lord Ganesha! This holiday can fall anytime between August and September and the festival itself is known as Vinayaka Chaturthi. The date varies only because the start of the celebration begins on the fourth day of the waxing moon period. The waxing moon is important because this is when the moon begins to grow into the full moon, bringing a time for new beginnings, positive change, and good luck! It is important to remember not to look at the moon on the night of Ganesha…

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    Description of Vincent van Gogh Pair of Shoes The painting presented is painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1886. The painting seems to be comprised of neutral colors like brown, black, beige. At the center of the painting is the pair of shoes, which has more fabric that will bend downward to the ankle. The shoe that is on the left, but could be a right shoe, has the part that should cover the ankle folded down. Also the shoe lace does not even go through each eyelet. The eyelet is a hole that is…

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    renaissance versus the new kid on the block with the fastest growing religion on earth. As far as I can tell, they fought once. It was so important no one even knows where, exactly. Abbasids had just become an empire (like less than a year after waxing the floor with the Umayyads). The Tang would stop expanding westward and this is by far the further the Abbasids got. Wait, that doesn’t really matter… What happened that makes this AP-worthy?!?…

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    Audit Summary

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    need of school sites. If any of the school’s principal needs anything related to maintenance, he/she contacts Jimmy. Jimmy said that he makes sure that maintenance workers are properly trained. Jimmy said that he orders the supplies (chemicals for waxing the floor, cleaning supplies etc.)…

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    “How do we get there?” or “What time is it?” are questions that are taken for granted this day in age. Today, one instinctively looks at a watch or enters a destination into a phone or GPS. But from where did this technology derive from? How did the first navigators find their way? By using the Sun, Moon, and stars, early civilizations have paved the way to these modern devices used daily in today’s society. The effective use of astronomy enables the calculation of which day it is, the time of…

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    "Emancipation: A life Fable" and Boy's Life share some of the same themes but they also have different themes. For example, some themes that they have in common are hesitation, escape, decision making, and pressure. In both texts the characters are hesitant, in Boy's Life the boy is hesitant on weather he should spend his summer righting the story for the contest or not enter the contest and let his teacher down. In "Emancipation: A Life Fable'' the animal is hesitant to leave the cage where he…

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    intend to flip a car but that is exactly what I did. It was a regular school day. I only had two classes at school so I always came late and left early. On this particular day I had a waxing appointment about thirty minutes after I go out of school. I was headed out the school doors ready to get the first waxing ever in my life. My boyfriend at the time, Kace, also got out school early, but had one class left when I was leaving. He insisted on coming with me so I let him come. We had a lot of…

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