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    powerful command. Then remove your table TOWNS‚ so that will remain in the recycle bin. Check that it is really there and what time was removed. 4. Restore your table TOWNS from recycle bin and describe it. Check what is in your recycle bin now. 5. Now remove table TOWNS so that does NOT remain in the recycle bin. Check that is really NOT there and then try to restore it. Explain what happened? 6. Create simple view called CAN_CITY_VU‚ based on table CITIES so that will contain only columns

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    Unit 2 Study Skills – Essay Writing. “Man is born free‚ but he is everywhere in chains” Explain what Rousseau means by this with reference to Rousseau’s accounts of freedom in the state of nature and in a civil society. Alexandra Strachan Word Count: 1260 Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712‚ although his works were written in French and he was deemed a French freethinker and philosopher heavily intellectually tied to the French Revolution. In 1762 he wrote ‘The Social Contract’

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    What would you do if one country’s dominance over your country changed your life for the worse? This is what was occurring to the lithuanians. During Stalin’s rule‚ There were many things he did to ensure soviet dominance. Stalin had a five year plan. This five year plan was to gain complete soviet dominance through the secret deportation of Lithuanians to siberia. The lithuanians faced many hardships not only in Siberia but on the way there as well. The first part of the plan was to deport them

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    The Louisiana Purchase took place in 1803‚ by President Thomas Jefferson. It was a huge land deal between France and The United States. In this purchase‚ the United States of America paid fifteen million dollars to get all the land west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. This historic event doubled the size of the U.S. by one simple signature. The Louisiana Purchase was the best purchase ever made by the United States. The purchase of this land increased the economic resources

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    Comp. of 1850: The significance of this compromise was that it‚ like a number of other actions‚ was an attempt to refuse the tensions that were leading to the Civil War. It is also significant to write that the Compromise failed to do this to any great extent. The Compromise of 1850 was meant to be like the Missouri Compromise. It was meant to calm sectional tensions. However‚ it was not able to do this. It failed to calm the tensions largely because of the inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Act

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    have paved the way to a better life for Mexican Americans is the chicano movement. The history of Mexicans date back to hundreds of years when conquistados first forced the Mexican folk into missions making them leave their cultures and beliefs of they would face death. This Chicano history and movement has begun from the great turning point is American history which was World War II to this present day. The history of these two significant Movements have paved the way for a better life for the following

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    The American Revolution was an extremely important event in history; social‚ political and economic aspects all helped develop a very strong revolutionary spirit within the colonists of America. It helped enlightenment philosophers like John Locke or Benjamin Franklin to step up and lead the revolution politically with great success. All these aspects made the American Revolution the historical landmark that it is today; it symbolizes the way that Americans came together to become independent and

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    Every piece of literature has something about it that makes unique‚ most of which has to do with the author. As a writer develops their style‚ they learn to incorporate this style in all of their writings. Kurt Vonnegut has developed a very unique style using irony and symbolism along with multiple other rhetorical devices to introduce all of his‚ somewhat related‚ themes throughout his novels. The novels Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five are exceptional examples of the consistency in Kurt Vonnegut’s

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    The goal of the Crusade was to win Jerusalem back from the Muslims. The Crusaders knew it would be impossible to control and take over the city surrounded by the Muslims who thought the city was sacred to them and belonged to them. “To conquer and have the power over Jerusalem‚ the Crusaders had to attack and control the surrounding territories in Syria‚ Lebanon‚ and Palestine‚ including the important cities‚ Edessa‚ Antioch and Acre”. At first‚ the crusaders were successful. They captured land around

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    Vonnegut prescribes laughter for all things‚ for without laughter life would seem a lot more painful. “Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be‚ to protect yourself‚” states Vonnegut (129.) To go on and live life you need to be able to laugh at your mistakes‚ just as to continue believing in a political system you need to be able to laugh at its faults. He also believes that at some point humor becomes less of a shield against the harsh truth of life and politics. He says‚ “Finally

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