60 years ago‚ girls in high school were not told that they should aspire to become lawyers. Seldom were they pushed to attend college—secretarial trade schools were the highest education expected of them. Instead‚ adult figures encouraged the younger generations of girls to become wives and mothers. Women were taught how to be the perfect wife by cleaning‚ cooking‚ raising children and never over-stepping her husband. My grandmother‚ who raised her children in the 70s‚ represented this ideal. While
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Electricity Part II -Questions 1. Explain the two methods of connecting resistors in circuits with the help of circuit diagrams. 2. Write the formulae to calculate the effective resistances when resistors are connected (a) in series and (b) in parallel. 3. How is the total potential difference calculated across a combination of resistors in series? 4. Example 12.7 An electric lamp‚ whose resistance is 20 Ω‚ and a conductor of 4 Ω resistance are connected to a 6 V battery
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Christmas in the Philippines (Filipino: Pasko sa Pilipinas)‚ one of two predominantly Christian countries in Asia (the other one being East Timor)‚ is one of the biggest holidays in the archipelago. The country has earned the distinction of celebrating the world’s longest Christmas season‚[1] with Christmas carols heard as early as September and lasting variously until eitherEpiphany‚ the Feast of the Black Nazarene on 9 January‚ or the Feast of the Santo Niño de Cebú on the third Sunday of January
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Parental Figures in Human Development The importance of parental figures in human development throughout childhood and adolescence is fundamental; parents provide their children with a foundation on which to lead their lives. Parents are expected to provide their children with food‚ shelter and other necessities for survival along with love and kindness which helps to develop the child’s personality. In the novel Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley explores the roles in which a parental figure can affect
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Everyone has dreams they want to achieve‚ and don’t want to give up‚ no matter how much of a struggle it is. This is what “Hidden Figures” of Theodore Melfi conveys in a warm‚ lively‚ and funny way. The story of a team of African American women mathematicians who served an important role in NASA during the early years of the US space program. It is a story of brilliance‚ and struggle. Set in 1960s‚ Hampton‚ Virginia‚ during the space race. Katherine Johnson (Taraji Henson)‚ Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia
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the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips‚ and I hated the smell. At that age‚ I’d take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I’d calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I’d been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can’t remember the details‚ but basically the ad said every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might
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working and result in eating more junk food instead of cooking a healthy meal. Another major problem why young people lives unhealthy lifestyles is from things that they inhale such as smoke and some even result in taking drugs. I recently saw a figure that one quarter of fifteen year olds are regular smokers and one in three has tried drugs such as cannabis. Smoking and inhaling drugs at a young age cause major problems in adult life and can result in lung cancer and
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You have been invited to give a speech to the Australian Speaking Society on the topic ‘great speeches – the secret of success.’ Write the transcript for the speech including references to at least three speeches set for study. *** Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ an American essayist‚ lecturer and poet of the mid-19th century once said: “Speech is power: speech is to persuade‚ to convert‚ to compel‚” and how correct is he even today. Speeches are an essential form of communication in our society as it has
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Another frightening figure in Scandinavian folklore are the Mylingen (The Myling). In Sweden‚ infanticide was a fairly common crime amongst poor mothers. The reasoning behind it was either the family was not wealthy enough to afford feeding another child‚ or the mother had conceived the baby outside a marriage. Adultery was frowned upon and ruined many lives‚ and drove people to take extreme measures such as murdering their own infant. During this time‚ the most common places that Mylings were abandoned
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A heroic person is when someone serves the purpose of being a hero or doing incredible things. In the book there are ways that Odysseus serves to be a hero. He is a great example of a heroic person. In the book It states that Odysseus is very clever and one of the most important heros in the book. It says in the book “Odysseus is the cleverest of the Greek heros because he is guided by the Goddess of wisdom‚ Athena.” -Page 660. It states right out of the book that Odysseus is the cleverest out of
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