The Eagles are the most successful American rock band of the 1970s‚ formed in Los Angeles in 1971. The members that have played in the band are Randy Meisner‚ Glenn Frey‚ Don Henley‚ and Bernie Leadon. They have successfully made ten albums and are still a band today. Hotel California was the Eagles fifth album and was their best selling album (despite The Eagles Greatest Hits). The album was made on Asylum (a recording company) in late 1976. This is their first album without one of their founding
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The 1970s saw the birth of two new guerrilla organizations‚ The Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP) and the Organization of the People in Arms (ORPA)‚ who began and intensified by the end of the seventies‚ guerrilla attacks that included urban and rural guerrilla warfare‚ mainly against the military and some of the civilian supporters of the army. In 1979‚ the U.S. president‚ Jimmy Carter‚ ordered a ban on all military aid to the Guatemalan Army because of the widespread and systematic abuse of human
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The goal of academic writing is to inform an audience about a particular topic in a very professional manner. Effective academic journal writing does involve clearly stating your purpose and presenting your information in a manner that is simplistic enough for others to read and understand while still having the tone of an academic piece. Academic writing should be concise‚ without being completely stripped of the necessary facts that are needed to support your topic. Purpose identifies the
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The cold war is over – and Japan won. ‘ (US presidential candidate campaign slogan‚ 1992)’. Why was the ‘Japanese model’ of economic growth so respected/feared in the 1980’s and why did this respect fade in the course of the 1990’s? In the 1980’s ‘the Japanese model’ of economic growth had two particular aspects that were unique and had not been cultivate by the western world. Firstly the Japanese had an incredible work ethic and secondly they were able to blend the free market with state direction
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PARAGRAPH BY ANALOGY A paragraph by analogy compares two different things on the basis of their similarities in certain aspects. This kind of paragraph development premises its explanation on the familiar or known‚ so that the logical order (from the familiar to the unfamiliar) is presumed to be the best paragraph order.\ PARAGRAPH OF ANALOGY A.FALLING IN LOVE AND SKYDIVING Falling in love is like skydiving. Skydiving is a risk because you are never 100% certain that you will survive the fall
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family‚ and role models for their children. They are also considerate like the one who transmits the traditions of their ancestors in order to carry them on. “Fiesta‚ 1980” is a short story written by Junot Dìaz taken from his short story collection‚ Drown‚ (1996). “Killings” is also a short story taken from‚ Finding a Girl in America (1980)‚ written by Andre Dubus. Both of these stories are dealing with the family’s subject and provide us different perspectives of it. In Dìaz’s story we can see the
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Emerson begins his second paragraph with “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string‚” (as cited in Langan‚ 2014) What does he mean by this? Why do you think he placed the quote this early in the essay? Explain (1)I feel that Emerson’s quote “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to its own string‚” Is implying‚ whatever you set your mind too you can accomplish. “Every heart vibrates to its own Iron string‚” Is implying that everyone is different; we go about doing things in different
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ECO1ISB Introductory Statistics for Business Assignment 2: Inferential Statistics |Hand out: |Week 7 | |Hand in : |Week 11 | 1. [8 marks] What are parameters and statistics (or estimates)? List two of the parameters and their corresponding statistics that were covered
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In the 1980s‚ the words “AIDS” and “HIV” were not on the radar for most of American society. The words were just something people might occasionally hear when someone passed away‚ but these the deaths almost never occurred close to home. America would quickly become confronted with the threat of AIDS as a very serious health epidemic. If one were to ask someone during the 1980s their thoughts‚ they might reply with a vague response that AIDS was just a marginal disease affecting a remote section
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carefully selected details. Each of the five paragraphs below responds‚ in its own way‚ to the guidelines in How to Write a Descriptive Paragraph. The writers (three of them students‚ two of them professional authors) have selected a belonging or a place that holds special meaning to them‚ identified that subject in a clear topic sentence‚ and then described it in detail while explaining its personal significance. In the following paragraph‚ observe how the writer moves clearly from a description
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