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    The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Strong Program Introduction The strong program is a particular kind of sociology science that was developed by Barry Barnes and David Bloor to describe scientific theories where similar explanations are used to describe opposite ideas (Mazzotti, 2012). The concept originated from Edinburgh school in the mid-1970s, where it was used as a reaction against earlier theories, which were considered weak (Brown, 2014). In most cases, failed theories are usually explained

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    The Junction

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    David Hutchison’s report of the Three Inner City of Toronto, the Junction is considered to be located in City 2, in which I agree with. In between the Bloor Street Village, one of Toronto’s top 10 communities, and Rockcliffe, an area considered to be part of City 3, the Junction acts as the transition zone and the data justifies

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    enduring ever since his family moved to Tangerine, Florida. The novel, Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor, describes how Paul Fisher sees the world through his thick-rimmed goggles due to his damaged eyesight from “staring at an eclipse.” Paul has to be circumspect around bullies and his older brother, Erik, who seems to have dissoluteness living inside of him. Throughout the novel, the author Edward Bloor uses literary devices such as similes to make the readers visualize the descriptive situations

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    Ttc's Subway System

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    INTRODUCTION This report uses operations research methods to prioritize the installation of transit accessibility upgrades on the Toronto Transit Commission subway system. The distance people with mobility challenges must travel to accessible stations was minimized during incremental system improvements using nonlinear programming with binary decision variables. The process was performed using Excel’s Solver feature, and based on TTC data and distance data scraped from Google Maps using the gmapsdistance

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    Symbolism In Tangerine

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    everything was perfect at home. Paul has an older brother named Erik who likes to bully and intimidate Paul. Paul had always been afraid of Erik, but he just can't quite remember why. The only thing he does know is to watch his back around Erik. Edward Bloor uses wonderful examples of characterization, and symbolism, to display the theme of growth and change in the story.

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    Architecture is the manifestation of many intangibles. The museums in Ontario such as the Royal Ontario Museum (the ROM) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (the AGO), both illustrate many intangible forces – the vision of the architects, the ambition and hope of the clients, as well as the resolve of the community, etc. These two representatives of Ontario’s public institutions have both gone through the transformation from the classic style to the contemporary one. The ROM is symbolized by its steel

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    these verifiably hands on territories, frequently the last bastions of urban assembling. Little Italy Business Improvement area is a district in Toronto, Ontario in College Street West. It is in west side of the Yonge Street and south side of the Bloor Street. The Little Italy is situated in College Street from the Bathurst Street on the east side to the Shaw Street on the west side. The College Promenade Business Improvement Area is situated at the west side of the Shaw Street and

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    A tangerine is not only a citrus fruit, but also a county in Florida that is home to Paul Fisher and his older brother Erik. In the novel titled Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul Fisher, the protagonist, is not only bullied at school, but also at home by his brother, while having to live in the house where his dad lives in the illusion of the “Erik Fisher Football Dream.” In this new county that Paul moves to, he constantly has to put up with natural disasters like muck fires and sinkholes. The move

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    In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the main character Paul is cowering in his brother Erik’s shadow at the beginning. Though toward the end of Tangerine Paul stops cowering in the shadows and emerges. And at the end Paul stops letting Erik hurt him and his friends. Overall the development of Paul by Eriks choices has made Paul grow stronger and more confident. PHARAGRAPH 1 The first thing the book says that tells you Erik is forcing Paul into submission is on page 263/264. Paul had a flashback

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    your life would be massively improved without any of your family members in your way due to the all the tremendous effects they have and the unbelievable stress they put on your life? In Tangerine, a marvelous novel released in 1997 by author Edward Bloor, the main character and protagonist of the book, Paul Fisher, has his already not ordinary affected to an enormous extent by his family members, especially his mother, father, and his athletic yet unlikable big brother, Erik Fisher. In the book this

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