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    This will give your shrubs room to grow over the years, as well as keeping them from touching the house. Woody shrubs that touch your house (or any structure really) could provide an entry point for a termite swarm. You should also avoid allowing ivy or vines to grow along your house for the same

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    dreams and how Akhaians thought to send message to be prepared for the war with the help of dreams to Agamemnon. “The troops were turning out now, thick as bees that issue from some crevice in a rock face, endlessly pouring forth, to make a cluster and swarm or blooms of summer here and there, glinting and droning, busy in bright air.” I like how the technique- imagery has been used in the quote, to show how the situation is and to give us a detail of what’s going on by using good comparisons and symbolism

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    The Wife's Lament

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    “The Wife’s Lament” by an anonymous Anglo –Saxon scop depicts personal exile and longing for lost love. The elegy focuses on grief, mourning, and longing. The speaker feels alone and afraid that her husband will never return. Though she is terrified, she reminisces about the former days. In the first section of the poem, the speaker tells us that she is going out on the ocean because she is “voyaging” (2). She is voyaging due to her sorrow and her “grief.” She is searching for something that she

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    need to reason with it and somehow please it, which makes it hard to stay in a tranquil state of mind. The brutally long stay of the depressive incarnation induces a feeling of sadness to overcome one’s self. In addition, it provokes thoughts to swarm in one’s brain leaving them demotivated and discouraged. In this stage, as one goes through all the hardships, the patience of their family and friends gets tested. Furthermore, it is in this stage when one will find out who their true friends are

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    Wikipedia is such a useful tool for students is because the information being presented on Wikipedia is constantly evolving. Unlike traditional encyclopedias, which are meticulously written and peer-reviewed by subject experts, Wikipedia relies on a swarm of volunteers to develop its articles, and as a result, Wikipedia articles usually are updated with the most recent and relevant information. In fact, there are on average “10 edits per second” across the Wikipedia platform (Wikipedia:Statistics).

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    technique is used for determining the face from an image. Face detection is one of the tedious job to achieve with very high accuracy. In this paper we proposed a method that combines two techniques that is Orthogonal Laplacianface (OLPP) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The formula for the OLPP relies on the Locality Preserving Projection (LPP) formula, which aims at finding a linear approximation to the Eigen functions of the astronomer Beltrami operator on the face manifold. However, LPP is non-orthogonal

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    In the opening of the novel Mr. Lockwood’s visit to Wuthering Heights highlights one scene where Bronte uses animals to portray the inhospitable nature of the characters in her novel, most notably, Mr. Heathcliff. Upon being surrounded “by a swarm of squealing puppies,” (p. 3) Mr. Lockwood’s first instinct was to caress the pups, which he soon regretted. The pups, “grim, shaggy sheepdogs,” (p. 3) reaction to attack Mr. Lockwood portrays the hostile environment that is Wuthering Heights, more

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    Room 101

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    This is an essay which will primarily discuss the items in my life and possibly your life which particularly annoy, aggravate, irritate, infuriate or events in life we just find completely maddening. This essay is almost based on the novel, called "Room 101". To commence my titanic sized list of items, I wish to place seagulls into room 101. This is the obvious choice for me. I'm sure my opinion on this matter will turn out to become unanimous. Let's be honest and say things as they are, the gulls

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    pointed directly at us and it started firing at the brush behind where we placed it. The sparks from the explosions started a small fire that quickly consumed the small field. The smell of burnt wood filled the air, causing a thick dark cloud of ash to swarm the trees above. We quickly grabbed the hoses from the backyard and turned the water on. Then while we were pumping water the hose had little tiny holes squirting water up like a sprinkler. The dogs had chewed through the hoses and left us

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    represented by S. Chapman. Procedural History: The Plaintiff, Kilts, recovered judgement in the Madison Common Pleas Justice Court. The defendant appealed against the decision to the Supreme Court of Judicature of New York. Statement of Facts: A swarm of bees owned by Kilts flew away and ended up in a tree that was located on the property of Lenox Iron Company. The plaintiff tracked the bees to the tree that they had been to and marked it. Two months after that the tree was cut down, the bees were

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