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    1. Introduction Automatic Street Light Control System is a simple and powerful concept‚ which uses transistor as a switch to switch ON and OFF the street light automatically. By using this system manual works are removed. It automatically switches ON lights when the sunlight goes below the visible region of our eyes. It automatically switches OFF lights under illumination by sunlight. This is done by a sensor called Light Dependant Resistor (LDR) which senses the

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    Obstacles comes on any occasion‚ and finding a way out is challenging for anyone. Mexican American girl Esperanza moved to the house on the Mango Street the center of Latino neighborhood in Chicago. The neighborhood held numerous challenge for Esperanza‚ but she never abandon the dream she has. And that dream and hope allow her to write. Writing helps her continue when she experiences painful events like the death of her relatives‚ and even rape. Through critical and hopeful tone and uses of symbolism

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    The effects of the Wall Street Crash were felt all around America as people starved‚ businesses became bankrupt and unemployment rose. This era was known as the Great Depression and would last for another ten to twenty years. In the short term‚ rich investors lost great deals of money. Whilst‚ poorer investors‚ who had borrowed ‘on the margin’‚ could not repay their loans and thus became bankrupt. After a while‚ these incidents began to affect the American public. Firstly‚ unemployment rose as

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    Walnut Street Annual Report

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    JEREMY J. ABIG‚ CPA 2100 Walnut Street‚ Apartment 15-A Philadelphia‚ PA 19103 (215) 864-0641 jeremy.abig.wg03@wharton.upenn.edu EDUCATION THE WHARTON SCHOOL‚ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MBA Candidate‚ Finance & Marketing Major • Fall 2001 & Spring 2002 Director’s Lists‚ First Year Honor’s List‚ Marketing Club Treasurer • Volunteer Income Tax Assistance‚ Christmas in April‚ Admissions Volunteer‚ XPO Project Team • Member of Finance‚ Investment Management‚ Sales & Trading and Marketing Clubs THE UNIVERSITY

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    Esperanza: the Person Behind the Print In The House on Mango Street‚ by Sandra Cisneros‚ a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally‚ but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive‚ alert‚ and rich literature. She is the protagonist in the novel and is used to depict a female’s life growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Cisneros creates the illusion that Esperanza is a real human being to communicate

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    My Day as a Street Vendor

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    day as a street vendor. “Yo soy Rafael y vento raspados y elotes.”(I am Rafael and I sell shave ice and corn) I start early in the morning‚ as the sun’s ray penetrated through my window. I make sure that the syrups are loaded. Making sure they are not spoiled; I make sure it is not bubbly or fluffy signs that they are not safe to sell. I would start from where I live a long road with tagging in all the walls I can lay my eyes on. I cover the area inside Washington and Alvarado Street. I work all

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    “The Street Of Purple Cloth” By Karen Conally. This poem is about a woman that went on a journey ‚ and found herself in the process . In the first couple of stanzas is where she starts her journey and gets lost but then she finds herself and that she found out where home is‚ home is where you make it. In the saying of “She has lost her way in the street”‚ means that she is lost‚ then this saying “For the first time‚ She understands the words means that she found herself and home. There are

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    Goodman Ethel Goodman‚ Les’s wife Man Two Figure One Figure Two 136 Maple Street ACT ONE (Fade in on a shot of the night sky. The various heavenly bodies stand out in sharp‚ sparkling relief. The camera moves slowly across the heavens until it passes the horizon and stops on a sign that reads “Maple Street.” It is daytime. Then we see the street below. It is a quiet‚ tree-lined‚ small-town Ameri can street. The houses have front porches on which people sit and swing on gliders‚ talking

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    A Home in the Heart is Not One to Depart* In the novel‚ The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros’s narrator‚ Esperanza‚ gradually learns there is no real correlation between a physical structure and a home; rather a home is made from things such as love‚ family‚ culture‚ tradition‚ and memories‚ not bricks and mortar. The opening vignette of Cisneros’s novel‚ introduces the reader to Esperanza’s intense feeling of displacement. Throughout the book‚ she feels as though she has no place to

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    Streets Paper‚ Due Monday‚ 2/18 Topic: While Bella Spewack’s Streets is one woman’s memoir‚ it also tells us more generally about European immigrants’ experiences in urban America at the turn-of-the twentieth century. For this essay‚ you will explain what this one memoir can tell us about immigrant life. Is it effective in capturing the lives of turn-of-the-century immigrants? In what ways does it alert us to the problems that immigrants faced? In what ways does it display the triumphs and

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