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    Gone‚ Ambulance Girl‚ Gone Alright‚ this is going to be a blog post like no other. Usually you will not find me sharing details about my life because I am a very private person. I’m just leading a very quiet and simple life so there is not that much to share if I feel that I just must put this out there. I’m writing a book. Well actually I am writing two – one about my experiences as a paramedic and the other is fictional but I’m referring to the first one here. The working title is Ambulance Girl

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    Minimum Spanning Trees

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    Minimum Spanning Trees Computers are based on one basic element and that is data. All computers make use of different data sets and information for processing the same and giving the required results and output. Data need to be arranged in certain ways and forms to make sure that the same can be used in the best possible way. There are numerous ways in which the data can be arranged or formed depending on their usage. One such methodology or data structure is the minimum spanning tree. Minimum spanning

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    Gone but Not Forgotten

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    "God’s promises are like stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine” -David Nicholas It was a beautiful morning in the year of 2010‚ the beautiful sight of the morning dew glistening in the summer green fields of Nuevo Leon‚ Mexico. We were driving with the windows rolled down and you could smell the freshly made breakfast as we drove through some of the towns. It was a shame I was traveling four hours to see my grandmother lying in her final rest spot. The truck was silent; the only sounds

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    2012 Applying The Forest and the Trees In Allan Johnson’s book‚ The Forest and the Trees‚ Johnson explains the importance of culture and structure in society and how it influences the way we live. Johnson’s ideas are clearly shown in the film Far from Heaven. The Forest and The Trees also helps a question I had at the beginning of this semester‚ “What makes me act the way I do and what has influenced my behavior?” In Allan Johnson’s The Forest and the Trees‚ Johnson (2008:38-62) defines culture

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    Trees at the Arctic Circle

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    Trees at the Arctic Circle. In the poem “Trees at the Arctic circle”‚ the author Al Purdy provides a description of dwarf plants that manage to grow above the tree line on Baffin Island‚ a Canadian territory. The topics of this poem are very mundane as he uses different types of trees to illustrate truths about the human condition‚ and in particular about life in the Arctic. However‚ Purdy ’s true goal is to remind the reader that humans are judgmental creatures and that it is only once you

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    Jay Johnson Essay

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    Firstly‚ one interesting fact I found was that his birth name was actually James Louis Johnson‚ but that he was often referred to as Jay Jay Johnson. Secondly‚ I learned that Jay Jay is considered one of the first trombone players to embrace bebop music and one of the leading trombonists of the post-swing era‚ thus having a great influence on other jazz musicians. Thirdly‚ I also found it interesting how trombone

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    In the story Song of the Trees by Mildred T. Taylor‚ there is a girl and her family who strongly believe that the trees shouldn’t be cut down by white men. The white men of course don’t care that it isn’t their land‚ or that it is her family’s land. Everyone should stand for what they believe. People may not listen until someone fights. “”I won’t let him cut them‚” I threatened. “I won’t let him! The trees are my friends and ain’t no mean ole white man gonna touch my trees….”” (Taylor 35) When Cassie

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    : The Lexus and The Olive Tree Summary: Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old. “ The trouble spread to one continent after another like a virus.” USA Today On December 8‚ 1997‚ the government of Thailand shut down 56 of their countries finance houses. These finance houses borrowed heavily in U.S. dollars and lent those dollars out to Thai businesses for the building of hotels‚ office blocks‚ luxury apartments and factories. Almost overnight‚ these private banks had

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    Is Jay Gatsby Tragic?

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    Tragic Jay Gatsby Many characters in novels may be considered to be tragic. These characters are considered tragic because of one character trait they possess that leads to their eventual demise. Jay Gatsby is a tragic character in a unique way. That is‚ he has many negative traits‚ but only one of these traits leads to his eventual downfall. Of all the character traits that Jay Gatsby possessed‚ his excessiveness in everything he did was what led him to his ultimate downfall. Jay Gatsby

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    Jay Cooke Crisis

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    On September eighteenth in 1873‚ Jay Cooke and Company officially declared bankruptcy‚ and in doing so set off a series of financial crises that plunged the western world into an economic depression that lasted six long years. The collapse of American economic structure had been brewing for a long while‚ as in Europe the crash came early in May of that year. Surging to export into the Eastern economic vacuum‚ American businesses overstretched themselves and wound up in the same state as the Europeans

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