Alexie Saves Lives Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me” is about how Alexie changed his life‚ and the lives of others‚ by learning to read. “Sherman Alexie‚ a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian‚ grew up on a reservation surrounded by poverty‚ alcoholism‚ and disease. . .” (About Sherman Alexie)‚ though his family was poor‚ his father loved to read; and Alexie adopted that love of reading at an early age. Alexie soon started to see the world around him like paragraphs. He would read anything and everything
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The planet has no Plan-B for climate change Introduction Climate change is arguably the most discussed and talked about term from the fag-end of the 20th century till today. Since the initial knowledge on climate change was acquired in 1950s and since the first conference on climate change was held in 1979‚ numerous treaties and frameworks have been devised to curb and bring down emissions that cause the climate change. After several decades‚ in 2011‚ we have realised the bitter truth
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In this essay‚ I evaluate the validity of David Walker’s central argument introduced in Article II of his controversial pamphlet‚ Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. This argument‚ in which Walker contends that African Americans are complicit in their own domination‚ is clearly suggested in the rhetoric of the chapter title‚ Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance. Though he explicitly states that black American’s ignorance is the cause for their perilous subordination‚ Walker’s description
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Planet of the BlindStephen Kuusisto is a true poet. His tale of his journey through a darkened world‚ is told in words that are not just written‚ they are painted onto the canvas that is his book. I started off full of pity for Kuusisto. He made me sad for the life that he led. I found the image of him trying to read tragic. With his descriptions‚ I could just picture him leaning 2 inches above a book‚ with one eye pointing the wrong direction‚ and the other jiggling back and forth in its socket
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Taking Care of Your Money (Budgeting) Assignment # 1 Many people are confused when it comes to budgeting. Budgeting is about studying the past and planning for the future. In order to create a reasonable budget for the coming academic year‚ you should understand where your money comes from and where it’s being spent now. For the next two weeks ‚ record your income and spending and fill out weeks 1 & 2 in chart A. For the next two weeks (3&4)‚ try to estimate a realistic budget amount for
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There are an estimated 1.2 billion adolescents worldwide; it is reported that one in every five people in the world today is of the adolescent age. It is during adolescence that our bodies undergo major physical and psychological changes as well as changes in our social relationships. It is also during these years that adolescents acquire many bad habits such as drinking‚ smoking and drug abuse. During adolescence‚ young adults are under all kinds of pressure from their peers to partake in drugs
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Forbidden Planet Comparison to Shakespeare’s The Tempest On first glance‚ Forbidden Planet can easily be seen to parallel many other works relating to technology‚ nature‚ or both. One of the most obvious parallels is‚ of course‚ to Shakespeare’s The Tempest‚ the story of a man stranded on an island which he has single-handedly brought under his control through the use of magic. Indeed‚ the characters‚ plot‚ and lesson of Forbidden Planet mirror almost exactly those of The Tempest‚ with
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Spreading like a virus A recent media workshop on the issue of sex selection and female foeticide brought home the extent of the problem. Held in Agra in February‚ the workshop was organised by UNICEF‚ Business Community Foundation‚ and the Centre for Advocacy and Research. Doctors‚ social scientists‚ researchers‚ activists‚ bureaucrats‚ journalists told their stories of what they were doing to fight the problem. If the 1991 Census showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number
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DEPB Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme in short DEPB is an export incentive scheme. Notified on 1/4/1997‚ the DEPB Scheme consisted of (a) Post-export DEPB and (b) Pre-export DEPB. The pre-export DEPB scheme was abolished w.e.f. 1/4/2000. Under the post-export DEPB‚ which is issued after exports‚ the exporter is given a duty entitlement Pass Book Scheme at a pre-determined credit on the FOB value. The DEPB rates is allows import of any items except the items which are otherwise restricted for
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Flood-Fill Flood-fill • Used in interactive paint systems. • The user specify a seed by pointing to the interior of the region to initiate a flood operation Recursive Flood-Fill • Fill a image-space region with some intensity (color) value • How to define the region? • Fill Until vs. Fill While • 4-connectivity vs. 8-connectivity Flood-Fill from Seed • Start from the seed and floods the region until a boundary is met. A simple recursive algorithm can be used: void floodFill(int x‚ int
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