OREGONIAN (Portland‚ Ore.) June 6‚ 1993‚ pp. A1+ "Copyright (c) 1993 Oregonian Publishing Company." HISPANIC GANGS: AN EXPANDING MENACE by George Rede of The Oregonian staff - Outreach workers‚ the police and community members worry that LA-style gang violence will increasingly rack the metro area As twilight falls across the park‚ a father gently pushes his daughter on a tire swing. A little girl climbs on the jungle gym. Two boys go one-on-one in hoops. Around the corner‚ two
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Rhetorical Analysis of the Essay "Richer and Poorer" In the essay "Richer and Poorer" which was written by Mrs. Jill Lepore and published on March 16‚ 2015 at The New Yorker‚ which is the Kairos used. In the article "Richer and Poorer" Mrs. Jill Lepore explains how the Gini index is used to calculate the inequality among nations‚ America‚ so called the greatest nation‚ has the highest rate of inequality of all times. Inequalities segregate power and authority between the affluent and the destitute
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Sleep disorder are on the rise and the affects millions of people in America. People need sleep to function effectively at work to balance emotional responses. Unfortunately‚ despite expanding knowledge of the negative effects of sleep lost on our physical and mental well-being‚ the health care profession has not kept pace with the growing incidence of chronic sleep deprivation. This research review will investigate the effects of sleep deprivation in healthcare worker. Several studies have been
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Comparison of Optimized Backpropagation Algorithms W. Schiffmann‚ M. Joost‚ R. Werner University of Koblenz Institute of Physics Rheinau 3–4 W-5400 Koblenz e-mail: evol@infko.uni-koblenz.de Presented at ESANN 93‚ Br¨ ssel u Abstract Backpropagation is one of the most famous training algorithms for multilayer perceptrons. Unfortunately it can be very slow for practical applications. Over the last years many improvement strategies have been developed to speed up backpropagation. It’s
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Tourists Return to Paradise Isle a Year After War’s End By Amantha Perera COLOMBO‚ May 17‚ 2010 (IPS) - A year since Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war ended on May 18 last year‚ tourists are returning in huge numbers to a popular beach destination located over 300 kilometres from where the last battles were fought. Nowhere is the relief at the end of fighting more tangible than on the beautiful beaches of Hikkaduwa‚ south of the capital Colombo. The war against the secessionist Liberation
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enculturation. In “Color-Blind Racism‚” Bonilla-Silva maps out four key frames to rationalize his perception of racism. To clarify these four points‚ Bonilla-Silva uses interview data from two main projects: the 1997 Survey of College Students and the 1998 Detroit Area Study. One of his central ideas‚ Naturalization‚ suggests that Whites often use this frame to justify actions that Machado 2 would be perceived as racially motivated. Bonilla-Silva stated‚ “The word ‘natural’ or the phrase ‘That’s
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see her questioning what she already knows is when she is having a conversation with Silva‚ saying‚ “I don’t believe it. Those stories couldn’t happen now.” Though she plainly states that she does not believe these stories‚ it seems as though this time‚ she is trying to convince herself as well as him. Later in the story‚ we see that the Yellow Woman chooses myth over reality when she decides to stay with Silva for a day even though he is not keeping her there. This is shown in the story when she
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George Perrot Wrongly Convicted by One Hair Suspect not identified George Perrot George Perrot spent 30 years in jail after being convicted of the burglary and rape of a 68 year old woman in massachusetts‚ despite forensic evidence and the victim stating that the 17 year old Perrot looked nothing like her suspect. He was convicted merely because a single hair of his was found on the bed sheets. After being in jail for 30 years‚ Perrot was released when the case was revisited for three prosecution
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born circa June 6 1599 in Seville‚ Spain (Biography.com). Due to the fact that he was born in 16 century Spain‚ he was born into the Habsburg time period if Spain (enforex.com). His parents were well do citizens of the town‚ and his father could claim noble descent by the Silva family (Troutman 7). He is regarded by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as‚ “the most admired—perhaps the greatest—European painter who ever lived.” He is most known for “capturing the
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with three relatives. I left them when they were very young. I was escaping from your Aunt’s father who went mad and tried to kill me. Thereupon‚ I grew afraid of him since I knew if I stayed by his side he would kill me and my children” (Emelina Silva). By this act‚ my grandmother had to sacrifice them‚ in order to live and provide them a prosperous future elsewhere. She decided to leave to Mexico‚ due to the short distance. In Mexico she planned to work hard‚ save money and bring her children one
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