The men roared and raised their swords as well in honor of their king. In front of them creatures of the dark was gathering. They looked like a thick, black line in the horizon, moving quicker and quicker towards them. The earth was shaking and the air was roaring from the heavy steps of the big trolls. Silence blew into the cracks between the humans that was shaking with fear. Serikon's dark army was greater then ever before. The march of the heavy trolls stopped and silence entered the air
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Contents HFT 2 Market Microstructure Review 4 Types of Equity Markets 4 Dark Pool 5 News 5 HFT High frequency trading – grown to account for 20-30% of the volume on the exchanges. Low – latency hardware strategically placed as close as possible to exchange data centers. HFT – defined by trading where speed matters. Subset of HFT by TMX program – ELP (electronic liquidity provider) Today, typical high frequency systems are interpreting and reacting to market data in microseconds
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reality by being grabbed by one of my other best friends who is in that class, Shea Monroe. There is Me (Mackenzie Sholt), Alice Springs, Shea Monroe, and Kya Heigh. The Blonde, the Scholar, the Rebel, and the Sexual innuendo comedian. You get to know us more as our friendship progresses. You know who to run to in any situation, who will help the most, what to tell who. "Ok did you get any of the shit that he just spewed?!" Shea whisper screams, earning more stares by our peers. I smile apologetically
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snow, our parents are our first mentors and teachers of life. They influence most of our actions growing up. Some have to face the harsh reality of a brutal life early due to the lack of shielding from parents, slowly our canvases are tainted into dark colors. The life of those unfortunate teens mold them, every aspect of them. Without realizing malice is being nurtured in the darkest corner of their thoughts, inevitably teens like this that go on without help will likely turn to crimes. Some of
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did excessively, dramatically and emotionally. The biggest influence to him was the good and evil side of human nature which he used frequently as his subject matter throughout numerous artworks. He shed a new light on 18th and 19th century Romanticism, paving way for impressionists and expressionists. In every one of his pieces, he would give it his personal touch by leaving a part of himself, helping us to truly understand the man behind the art. He went through a major transition in his life which
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Yoga Class Critique I went to a Vinyasa flow yoga class up in . When I got there, there was a sign on the door telling us to take our shoes off. I took off my shoes and went inside the class and there were mirrors on both sides of the room, it was dark, everyone was chatting, and there were candles all over the room. It was a very relaxing environment for me. While I was setting up my yoga mat the instructor was very friendly, asking if I had done yoga before, and just generally chatting. When
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Television sets across the country are beginning to go dark as primetime begins to fill with reality programs and game show and late night has become a place to catch up on past current events. No, it is not the end of the world, but it is the result of the Writers Guild of America or the WGA. The WGA is a labor union that combines WGAEast and WGAWest, who represent just about every writer in movies, television, and even radio. Every three years the WGA has to negotiate a new contract with the
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phrase 'unstirred by harbingers of sunbreak' tells us (harbinger meaning a sign or announcer). A pair of vultures are sitting together on the branch of a tree. Achebe uses both alliteration and metaphor in describing the branch as a 'broken bone', and the tree is dead. This reinforces the bleakness of the scene and reminds us that vultures are in the habit of feeding on dead creatures. The first suggestion of gentleness comes when Achebe tells us that the male vulture is 'nestled close to his mate'
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is a peaceful form of death in a bed, (“blanket” [25], “pillow” [28]); while the other is losing life in a car crash (“ burning car” [25], “tarmac” [27]). A profound simile can be found in line 4: “or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll”, urging us to find comfort in, and accept the inevitable sadness. In “A Sad Child”, Ondaatje uses imagery as well in the first 5 lines stanza 3. He suggests that his daughter will always have support in her life, “swimming beside [her] ship”, and should listen
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President Thomas Jefferson commissioned us on a fact finding mission across the Louisiana territory. We were to inform the Native Americans that the United States now controls this land. We also collected information about plants, animals, landscapes, and surroundings. We left in May of 1804 and returned in September of 1806 and were gone for two years, four months. I first witnessed Tower Rock on July 16, 1805. It was very tall and steep with dark black cliffs. We stumbled along the landscape
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