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    LA TROBE VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAM La Trobe University’s envisions itself as being one of the top 300 schools internationally. To do this, it needs to improve on some aspects of its business to get a higher score from international university ranking publishers. One of the most influential publishers is the British Quacquarelli Symonds, issuer of the QS World University Rankings. The university’s QS world rank is in a steady decline from its 205th rank in 2007 to its current rank which sits just…

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    How much architecture should be included in a museum? That is a question that not many visitors ask about a museum, however as an architect or designer it is a fundamental question to ask one’s self when it comes to describing a museum. It can become a debate, deciding whether the museum should or should not be a simple massing where art is displayed. If the answer is it should, then why not just design a white box where all the attention goes into the art on the inside? When it comes to museums…

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    no:U101113FBT003 Whitney, My love Judith McNaught WHITNEY, MY LOVE is a romance of misdirection that will leave any reader breathless until the final pages. The first successful novel by the Author Judith M’Naught in 1985.Being unaware of the rules that most of the romance books followed she had her unique way of introducing the characters into action. She tangle her readers with mixture of emotions. And with this book to set as an example. At the beginning of the novel Whitney has been…

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    Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765 and is best known for inventing the cotton gin (“Eli Whitney”, n.d.). Upon graduating from Yale College in 1792, Whitney intended to study law but instead traveled south and ended up on the farm of Mrs. Catherine Greene near Savannah, Georgia (“Cotton Gin and Eli Whitney”, 2010). While staying on Mrs. Greene’s farm, Eli Whitney learned about the difficulty that farmers had cleaning green-seed cotton. To thoroughly clean…

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    Eli Whitney Have you ever heard of the cotton gin? This might even be one of the greatest inventions in history. Not only is the cotton gin famous, the creator is too. Eli Whitney, a great inventor, revolutionized cotton production through the invention of the cotton gin. Eli Whitney December 0,8 1765 one of the greatest inventors was born.Eli whitney is the son of Eli and elizabeth whitney.” Eli's father died when he was only four years old.”( Dictionary of American Biography, Charles…

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    Eli Whitney is mostly remembered for inventing a machine called the cotton gin, which separates cotton seeds from the cotton fibers. That was not his only contributions, another was the interchangeable parts. He was credited with inventing the milling machine although many scientists think he was not the inventor. His inventions play an important role in the agricultural revolution. Eli Whitney was born in 1765 in Westborough Massachusetts. His dad was a farmer. Young man Whitney became a…

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    berries are the only decent thing on this island. He sees some coconuts in a tree and wonders if he could climb that narrow trunk and get some. He wonders how far Whitney is and if he catch up. He hums a tune and dozes off. He wakes up to wet. It must have rained he thought. He should eat again to get some strength before he sets off to find Whitney again. He tries to climb the palm tree to get some coconuts so he can get something to drink. He thought about how many miles did he go yesterday…

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    Colleen and Whitney Cerak with Mark Tabb is the story of two families whose daughters were involved in a terrible car accident. The Van Ryns, Don and Susie, whose daughter was Laura, also had another daughter named Lisa. The Ceraks, Newell and Colleen’s daughter was Whitney, who had a sister also, Carly. There were nine people involved in the crash while only four survived, including the Van Ryn’s daughter, Laura. The horrific crash happened on the evening of April 26, 2006. Both Laura and…

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    song to is the main character's sister, Whitney. Throughout the book, Whitney has an issue with her weight. Well really a clandestine with herself. Whitney is a model said to have the "perfect body." Soon after high school, Whitney became very popular in the modeling world, and moved to New York City. Around Whitney's second year in the city, she started to exercise excessively and eat very little. Whitney had been consumed by the disease anorexia. After Whitney was diagnosed, her family started…

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    Eli Whitney was born on December 8th, 1765 in Westbro Massachusetts. He grew up on a farm but had a great interest in designing and building machines. He realized early in life that he had a talent for this and during his youth he invented many things. One invention was a nail forge. Whitney went to Yale University and graduated in 1792. He became a lawyer.While on his way to a job opportunity he met Catherine Green on her Mulberry Grove plantation which is close to Savannah, Georgia. The…

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