Pauketat by setting the scene for how big cahokia really was. Most of the pyramids at Cahokia were within a five mile radius‚ which were designed in reference to the “four sacred directions and the upper and lower worlds”. (2) Roughly ten thousand people lived in the main five square mile zone‚ with another twenty to thirty thousand living in farming settlements and towns for fifty miles in every direction. Cahokia could be referred to as a capital city‚ due to it being a major settlement in the eleventh
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car burns 5 gallons for every 100 miles. Assuming that the amount of gasoline in the tank decreases linearly‚ a) write a linear function that relates the number of gallons G left in the tank after a journey of x miles. b) What is the value and meaning of the slope of the graph of G? c) What is the value and meaning of the x intercept? Solution to Problem 8: a) If 5 gallons are burnt for 100 miles then (5 / 100) gallons are burnt for 1 mile. Hence for x miles‚ x * (5 / 100) gallons are burnt
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lane on the way to Cebu when he noticed in the radar that another ship was in the same lane. Bermejo said he tried to contact the other ship through channel 16 but there was no answer. At the time‚ Thomas Aquinas was traveling at 15 knots and was a mile away from the Sulpicio Express. Minutes before the collision‚ Sulpicio Express was still not responding. Bermejo said it was already too late to slow down the Thomas Aquinas as it takes around eight minutes to completely halt the propeller of the
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Homework 1 (Ch. 1-2) 1. Make five qualitative and five quantitative observations about the room in which you now sit. a. Quantitative i. Have 1 desk ii. Have 2 monitors iii. Have 6 pillows on my bed iv. Dresser has 5 drawers v. Have 1 TV b. Qualitative i. Desk is steel and sturdy glass ii. Monitors are black and made manufactured by Dell iii. Pillows are filled with cotton or goose features iv. Dresser is made of a dark wood v. TV was purchased at Best Buy and was manufactured by Samsung 2. Describe
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The Green Mile One of King’s purposes in writing The Green Mile is to kindle the reader’s outrage at the inhumanity and capriciousness of the death penalty. The death penalty is one of the worst things that take place in today’s society. Many people are against the death penalty for various reasons. Some are against it because it violates Gods commandments‚ it costs a lot of money and just because it’s such a cruel punishment. Although it’s been around for as
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I’m a big fan of rap and hip-hop music‚ so one of my favorite movies is ‘8 Mile’. It is a semi-autobiographic film about Eminem’s life. Starring well-known artists in the movie industry‚ such as Brittany Murphy‚ Mekhi Phifer‚ Omar Benson‚ Kim Basinger‚ and Eminem himself‚ ‘8 Mile’ became one of the most successful movies about musicians ever made. Set in Detroit‚ 1995‚ the story revolves around a white boy named Jimmy ‘B-Rabbit’ Smith‚ an inspiring rapper‚ trying to succeed in a music style most
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In The Green Mile by Stephen King‚ there happens to be two men who like to have total control over the situation. The men that can take control‚ Brutus Howell and Paul Edgecombe‚ do an extremely good job‚ but Edgecombe has more of the F personality which becomes handy when dealing with his situation. Brutus Howell‚ also called Brutal‚ can be forceful when needed. Howell’s size helps when he needs to be forceful when handling difficult prisoners. Brutal obtains a few essential authoritarian traits
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when he was in prison and the story of the movie is related to his own life. The main character of the movie is Miles Montego played by Jeff "Ja Rule" Atkins‚ he is a gangster and a drug dealer‚ and the other one is Vanessa Leon played by Adrienne Bailon as the girlfriend of Miles and lately she became his wife. Vanessa is a very religious girl and has a strong devotion to God. Miles first saw Vanessa when he is driving but he does not has a chance to talk to her. Fortunately‚ in the next day when
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Daniel Clavin 9/28/12 McGrath/D’Abramo 42 mile run The 42 mile run is from Buna to Gleivitz and it takes place during the Holocaust. It seems impossible especially since they are prisoners and they are skin and bon literally. They had accomplished it by being almost like a machine‚ also having a large pack of people contributed a large amount. The most important contribution was if you had family‚ if you had family you can use that as motivation like Elie Wiesel the
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Madison Dedman A2 Book Review: Ten Mile River Ray and Jose are the result of the foster system and have long ago deserted it. The style of writing is very creative while Paul Griffin uses a dialogue that demonstrates a different type of jargon of young teen age boys. They share a brotherly love‚ however many homophobic jokes establish that they love each other in a family sense. In Paul Griffin’s “Ten Mile River” (published 2009)‚ Ray is the brains‚ and on the other hand‚ Jose is the brawn. Despite
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