For those of you somehow unfamiliar with the tale‚ here are the Spark Notes: Dorothy is a small-town Kansas girl who dreamed of life somewhere over the rainbow. She gets swept up in a tornado and dropped into a strange yet wonderful land called Oz. How did the author come up with the name Oz anyway? Baum said it came to him one day when he was staring – probably asking that question Ian shared concerning the ending time of class – at a set of filing drawers labeled A-G‚ H-N and O-Z. As a result
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The abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II brought light to ideologies that were present in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Sentiment towards that Tsar was negative as the USSR was ruled by a small nobility with a population that was composed of mainly peasants. The main groups trying to cause revolution in the USSR were the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Both groups had ideologies that were based on Marxism‚ and they were anti-Tsar with the Mensheviks having a longer-term plan and the
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ENGINE PERFORMANCE & CAPACITY ENGINE SPECIFICATIONS Engine used :- TVS fiero F2 Bore * stroke :- 57mm*57.8mm Engine type :- Single Cylinder‚ 4-Stroke‚ Air cooled OHC Arrangement :- Vertical cylinder engine Displacement :- 147.55cc (Otto cycle based SI engine) Maximum power :- 12bhp(8.95KW)@8500RPM Maximum Torque :- 10.5NM@6500rpm Compression Ratio :- 9.4:1 Method Of Ignition :- Coil Ignition System Transmission :- 4speed Fuel Supply :- Carburettor Type
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Welcome Ladies and gentlemen‚ we’re here today not only to pay our respects‚ but also to remember and celebrate a life that was full and lived albeit far too short‚ and Colin‚ or Colin Walker to give him his Sunday name‚ was a family man‚ a golf addict‚ yes‚ but a family man first. Luckily all his family played golf too‚ so that wasn’t going to be a problem. Colin was a man people just warmed to‚ he had many many friends through work‚ socially‚ and the different golf clubs he has been a member
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Kids around the world wake up every Christmas morning hoping to find a stack of presents under the tree‚ having no doubt that Santa is real. But‚ once their parents confess the truth about Santa Claus‚ they are devastated. It looks like parents want their children to be wounded for all the rest of their Christmas’. Instead of destroying one of the significances of Christmas‚ being truthful and kind to each one and all‚ parents should rethink before talking their children into believing the Santa
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The statement says that Nicholas Carr thinks that technology’s power is alienation. His words are “the toll can be practically high with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and turn numb the most intimate‚ the most human‚ of our natural capacities – those for reasons‚ perception‚ memory‚ emotion. (Carr‚ 211) He says that by using tech so much we eventually go numb to everything around us‚ is that the truth? Well at this point in time all there was‚ was the ability to observe
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Creative Spark Talk Analysis February 16‚ 2015 Myra Stilwell Lance M. Principe‚ University of Phoenix Tales of creativity and play by Tim Brown from 2008 took a look at the relationship between creative thinking as adults and playing as a child using three specific techniques. Tim Brown is the CEO of the design firm IDEO. IDEO came up with “design thinking” by fusing design‚ business and social studies into ideas. (TED Speaker‚ 2008) Tim Brown talked about the use of three techniques to
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who gave Americans their first detailed information about the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas. In his History of New York‚ published in 1809 under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker‚ Irving described the arrival of the saint on horseback (unaccompanied by Black Peter) each Eve of Saint Nicholas. This Dutch-American Saint Nick achieved his fully Americanized form in 1823 in the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas by writer Clement Clarke Moore. Moore
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it can move. In the vast expanse of universal antiquities‚ the Earth is as young as it’s sciences. In a revolution of time and space‚ it takes a concern of Earth’s spinning axis to enlighten an entire scientific undertaking of what lies beyond it. Nicholas Copernicus was not apart of the Ptolemaic Theory that the world was geocentric‚ he was the man who put his word against it. As a man of God‚ Copernicus wraps up the world in a “just another planet” nature‚ by calculating with mathematics the Earth
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T was the night before Christmas‚ when all through the house Not a creature was stirring‚ not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care‚ In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds‚ While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her ’kerchief‚ and I in my cap‚ Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap‚ When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter‚ I sprang from the bed to see what was the
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