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    Geneva Convention prisoners only had to give their name‚ rank‚ and serial number. German camps were usually rows of barracks enclosed by a barbed fence‚ lined with guard towers. These towers contained guards that would shoot any escaping prisoner. POWs were given two meals a day consisting of soup and bread‚ though this was not enough‚ and most had to coop with hunger. Sometimes the Red Cross would bring items such as butter‚ chocolate‚ or condensed milk. Only some of men had to work while the

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    Pow 6 Linear Nim Analysis

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    Taylor Gray 1/31/11 POW 6: linear nim For this game of Linear Nim you draw 10 line marks on a piece of paper and two players take turns crossing off   only 1‚ 2‚ or 3 marks per turn.   The person who crosses off the last mark is the winner. Firstly what I did was play a few games with my Mom and what I realized right away was that if you stopped just before the last four dashes in the game then you would always win. Since you aren’t always guaranteed of being the one who can put these dashes

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    Aser Louissaint Ms. Curran Pre-Calculus November 29‚ 2013 High Low Difference POW Problem Statement: The POW starts off with the random 3-digit number 473 and number the problem says to arrange the digits from largest to smallest‚ which is 743. Then arrange the digits from smallest to largest‚ which is 347. The arrangement of the digits from least to greatest is subtracted from the arrangement of those same digits from greatest to least. The problem we ultimately end up doing is 473-347 and

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    What Goes Around Comes Around You have heard the term ’What goes around comes around.’‚ right? Also known as karma? Alternately‚ should something be said about the term karma? Most individuals are acquainted with the notion of karma‚ but there are a couple of key focuses that should be discussed. According to Encyclopedia Britannica‚ karma is a widespread law in which great or consequential activities figure out the perspective modes of a person (Encyclopedia Britannica). It is said to be one

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    Good morning‚ Year12 of Wyndham College. My name is Bazil and I am here to briefly discuss the play "The Shoe-Horn Sonata" by John Misto in relation to the use of dramatic techniques used. The Shoe-horn Sonata is concerned with the incarceration of two women held captive in a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) camp. Misto uses the play to demonstrate the devastation of war and the human spirit and will to survive‚ both prevalent themes throughout the play. Such themes are exemplified to the audience

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    tleThe US army lost the Battle of the Little Big Horn because of the mistake made by General George Custer The battle of little big horn took place on 25th June 1876. All 210 soldiers in General Custer’s force were killed by Indians led by sitting bull. The Battle began because the white settlers and the Native American’s lived in peace but the American’s started to abuse their trust with the Native American’s as they started to dig for gold‚ as the gold was discovered in the Rocky mountain and

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    When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the battlefield as winners. When stories are told‚ or when the media dares to tamper with history‚ it is usually the American Indians who are looked upon as the

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    distinctively visual? People and their experiences in their life are based throughout the challenges and difficulties they face. They may either experience friendship‚ war‚ love or even death. These ideas are shown visually within John Misto’s “The Shoe Horn Sonata” and Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War”. Both texts depict the experiences evident through people‚ places and communities worldwide. Through the portrayal of friendship‚ Sheila and Bridie show a strong connection through support and commitment. In

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    into something completely different. Essentially‚ history was passed down like the childhood game “telephone.” The flaws become evident when talking about the Battle of Big Horn‚ one of the largest military defeats in U.S. history. Much controversy surrounds

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    Pow 8 Just Count the Pegs

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    Shortest says she has the best formula in which you make any polygon on the geoboard and tell her both the number of pegs in the interior and the number of pegs on the boundary and her formula will give you the area immediately. Your goal in this POW is to find Frashy’s super formula but tou might want to begin with her friends formulas. 1 Begin with Freddy’s formula a. Find a formula for the area of polygons with no pegs in the interior. The number of boundaries is the In and the Out is the

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