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    Madama Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San, when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon.” (Wikipedia, Un Bel Di Vedremo). It is an extraordinary soprano aria sung by Madama Butterfly in the moment act of Giacomo Puccini's appalling opera, Madama Butterfly. The lyrics was composed by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa and freely based on John…

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    MK Ultra Research Paper

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    meticulous on how much they released at each date. “In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings. Some surviving information about MKUltra was declassified in 2001”(Wikipedia). This leads one person to wonder what other information the government is keeping from it’s citizens. or us.or if the MK Ultra experiments were ever truly discontinued. The MK Ultra experiments were active from 1953–1964. The CIA…

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    For thousands of years, we have been living on the only planet known to have an environment, planet earth. As we are progressing through the 21st century, the world has changed in innovative ways that human activities have a big impact on the environment we live in. Some people believe that the earth is being harmed by human activities, while other people feel that human activities make the earth a better place to live in. In my opinion, I believe that the earth is being damaged by human…

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    The importance of being able to determine truth and accuracy in our personal and professional lives is essentially necessary because our morals and values help shape us to what we are looked upon as today. The writers are held accountable for a unreliable source, not the website they’ve used. The three rhetorical appeals logos, pathos, and ethos are important to our everyday life in writing. We used different types of essays to thoroughly bring it all into our research paper. My first example…

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    HIST 1200: Essay 2 Ancient leaders all over the world thought very highly of themselves and they wanted to portray themselves in the best light to the people. They often disguised the reality of their actions by making claims that could be classified as “half-truths”. These claims were not necessarily false, but they stated them in ways that made them look like positive rulers. It would not make sense for the ancient leaders to lie to their people in order to make themselves look better…

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    For this assignment I have chosen 2 artworks. The first artwork below is Christina’s World by Wyeth. In this painting the main subject is on the ground looking towards a barn and house that appear to be on a farmland in a field. The subject is in a lavender pink dress that is slightly faded. This is a major contrast to the farmland and buildings as these are various shades of grey-brown which is a complementary colour to the faded celeste blue. Concepts (Home, Loss or Longing) Concept 1 Home -…

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    Pasadena, CA, USA. Environmental challenges of the American auto industry Introduction The American auto industry is one of the largest auto industries in the world and has been servicing the global auto market for a long period of time. According to Wikipedia, The American auto industry began in 1890 and due to the large size of both the local and foreign market, the industry became the largest in the world only to be toppled by the Japanese auto industry in 1980 and subsequently by China in…

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    Melbourne Research Paper

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    The Daily Times VOLUME No. 5 ISSUE 12. THURSDAY MORNING MAY 8, 1887 Melbourne, now the second-largest city in the British Empire, is one of the largest cities in the world in terms of area. With a population of 280,000 in 1880, it is dubbed “Marvellous Melbourne” by amazed visitors. Citizens now strut the streets, bursting with pride and optimism as their city continues boom. “Marvellous Melbourne” showcases its strong economic growth through several active industries including…

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    overcame that depression as I progressed through my grade school education. However, I would have never have made it had I not been introduced to one who's struggle was even greater than my own. His name was James Eugene Redmond, or "Jim" Carrey.(Wikipedia) Jim Carrey's life inspired me whenever I needed help by comparing his hardships to mine and even…

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    Brian Jungen Analysis

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    Dunne-za First Nations ancestry. (Wikipedia) He was born in 1970 in British Columbia just north of Fort St. John on a family farm. In 1988, Jungen moved to Vancouver where he earned a Diploma of Visual Art from the Emily Carr Institute of Art. After moving around New York and Montreal, Jungen returned to Vancouver to refocus on his…

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