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    The movie accurately portrays cruelty because in the movie Solomon was forced to whip Patsey, slaves were being raped, and punishments for not following instructions were very cruel. Colonel Lloyd would beat his slaves with a whip and a cowskin. He would whip his slave until the blood ran fast down their backs. In the movie Patsey was forced to be whipped by Solomon because she wanted to take a bath. His master said whip her until her skin was split and red with lashes. During slavery many…

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    I wanted to include in my multiple regression. I included strikeouts per nine innings (K9), walks per 9 innings (W9), if the pitcher through a complete game (CG), hits per nine innings (H9), and WHIP. WHIP is a statistical measure to determine how many runners get on base versus a pitcher, a lower WHIP is good. The variable complete games, is being used as a dummy variable, either a pitcher pitched a complete game in the season or they did not. I ran a multiple regression on ERA using the…

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    with a 1.79 ERA, 0.73 WHIP, and an impressive 9 walks in 121 innings played. If Kershaw can return with similar numbers, he will definitely be the front runner for the NL Cy Young Award and possibly the NL MVP. Kershaw won the 2014 MVP and Cy Young with a 1.77 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, and 31 walks, so if he continue on the path he…

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    houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, after each election the party with the most representatives is considered the majority party. The other party is then considered the minority party, either way they both have their leader, and their whip, although the majority also gets the Speaker of the House. Usually the same party is the majority in both houses like right now, in both Houses, Republicans are the majority party, and the Democrats are the minority party. Anyways, all the…

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    There are three inferences that can be made about my photo. I presume that the job of the boy in the photo was to punish the younger boys if they didn’t work in the coal mine. I can tell he worked in a coal mine because he’s dirty, and he has a whip which tells me that he must have been using it on something. Another thing I assume is that the photo is posed because the boy is looking right at the camera and he isn’t moving. For my final inference, I can tell that the object on his head is a…

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    Should we change the way members vote? Hypothesis? The research project will set out to answer a few questions. Is the current voting system fit for purpose? Would a few small tweaks improve the system? Or is a complete overhaul of the voting system required? Background The House of Commons has used a division for voting since the rebuilding of Parliament after the great fire of 1834. The process and procedure has changed very little since then, the main difference being the time of the…

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    Bradford's career record is 36-28 with a 3.23 ERA, an opponents batting average of .265 and a WHIP of 1.28. His best season was in 2003, with Oakland, when he had a 7-4 record, with a 3.04 ERA, an opponents batting average of .236 and a WHIP of 1.26. This season, Bradford is 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA with 15 hits, two runs (both earned) in 7.0 innings of work this season. His opponents batting average is .417 and a WHIP of 2.14. Bradford, 34, has played for the White Sox, A's, Red Sox, Mets, Orioles…

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    her adamantium fingernail claws. Whips Whips have been used by humans for quite some times. There are many different types of whips and they have thousands of different uses. Today they are mostly used in animals training, which isn’t that nice. Whips, in general, aren’t really used for much else now because they have some pretty bad stigma attached to them. They are also pretty hard to get good at. When training with a whip you will definitely accidently whip yourself more than not. They…

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    between the characters of both the novel and film. Characters such as Atiq from Swallows and Assef from Kite Runner share a significant connection when it comes to authority. Furthermore the exploration of symbols between the novel and film such as the whip and sling shot may carry distinct meanings in regards to power. In the case of characters in Swallows they abuse their authority significantly. Many characters in The Swallows of Kabul are very…

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    The article is about NFL player Adrian Peterson, indicted by a Texas grand jury for negligent injury to his four-year-old son, when he used a switch to whip his four-year-old son and left welts on some of his body parts. A psychological examination was done in 1968 by Grier and Cobbs, who are two black psychiatrists and they found that blacks that beat their children stems from the root of slavery. Blacks feel that, if they had to suffer beatings, so should their children Black believers like…

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