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    Valley and London, institutional sexism rears its ugly head when men who look and fit the “part” are entrusted with millions of dollars while women have to bend over backwards to prove that they can manage a checkbook, won’t get pregnant during the launch of a company and will work long hours and stick with an idea long after the first round of funding hits the

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    I was so tired, even attempting to keep my eyes open was a struggle. My whole body was drunk with fatigue after a hard day’s work, constantly staring at a computer screen and typing away as if in a solemn trance. My bony white hands, their blood frozen by the bitter winter frost were clutching to the steering wheel like a helpless man gripping the edge of a cliff, desperately holding on picturing his fate. My brain wanted to give in, to remain in the lapses of sleep that I kept drifting in and out

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    accounts, you can always share your thoughts and feelings. For some, this is so far one of the best inventions ever made, but then again, what does this really do to the human body? Since smartphones and social media basically make the world go round for a lot of people, especially millennials, more and more people are actually suffering from different types of illnesses. Just like how children and teenagers’ eyesight nowadays are simply getting worse because of spending too much time staring at

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    Isis, Wife of Osiris, holding their son, Horus is an Egyptian statuette depicting the goddess Isis cradling infant Horus on her lap as she breastfeeds him. Isis is wearing a large, elaborate headpiece on top of her and her clothing falls into the typical Egyptian canon of tight-fitting dresses that females statues are shown wearing. This bronze statuette which dates back to 750 BC is about 7.5 inches. Its country of origin is Egypt. Seated Woman Nursing Child is a Greek terracotta statuette of a

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    pieces are both sculptures, Violet Persian Set with Red Lip Wraps by Dale Chihuly and Nefertiti by Wendall Castle. The theme of the exhibition will be about the reimagining of the exotic female form through abstract sculpture—specifically, in-the-round, free-standing sculptures. Both Chihuly’s piece as well as Castle’s fit this theme as they depict abstract forms that can be interpreted as feminine. However, the pieces look radically different from one another and are fairly abstract. One sculpture

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    quest, he shows his superior and superhuman strength to overcome the suitors. Unknowing that the beggar in disguise is actually her husband Odysseus, Penelope says that any man who can bend and string a bow, then shoot that bow through 10 axes can be her husband once and for all. Odysseus, disguised a poor old pauper, bends the bow with ease. “Not one of us had the strength to string that powerful weapon, all of us fell far short of what it took....great Odysseus strung his bow with ease and shot through

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    Gyroscopes Comparison

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    courage; the only mismatch is that one was lacking courage, and one was full of courage. In the story, the king of the massy may state "Halt!" they cried after him. Stop, or we'll shoot!" But Walt only yelled the harder at the dogs and dashed round the bend with a couple of revolver bullets singing after

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    To inspect what the problem is, he utilizes some inert rounds (dummy) in order to check the feeding. As he is working with this weapon, a shell falls out from the bottom while pumping the shotgun. Immediately he suspects he cartridge stop being the culprit. On the underside where you load the shells, he shows

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    its own from the time of Cyrus's Persia to contemporay Asymmetrical Warfare.History of All war has the simple objective of making the enemy bend to one's own will. All losses inflicted upon the enemy, all injuries imposed, and all ammunition expended serve the purpose of changing the enemy's mind. When leaders can change an enemy's mind without firing a round, they secure victory while preserving lives and resources on both sides. Psychological warfare has been practiced to this end since the earliest

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    Loyalty In Macbeth

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    A theme that is seen developing in Act 1 is that your loyalty to someone else or yourself, can hide your true intentions. This is shown in the characters of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in their attitudes towards their friends and family. During Scene 7, Lady Macbeth says that she will do anything for her husband including, “while its was smiling in my face, have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done this,” (Shakespeare, I.vii.55-58). She

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