Saving Face Saving Face In Shooting an Elephant by George Orwells‚ the author narrates an incident when he was an unhappy British police officer in Burma faced with the predicament to shoot an elephant and safe face‚ or not shoot it and loose face. Making decisions to meet others expectations‚ to avoid humiliation and embarrassment‚ or to maintain ones dignity can have repercussions in ones life. Orwells final act of killing the elephant to please a crowd and look like a powerful sahib‚ in
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Face in the Crowd In the mall you sit in the middle of the courtyard. There is a big crowd of people just hanging out‚ or conversing with each other‚ or waiting for transportation. In this courtyard there are some small potted trees and bushes; these plants are beginning to turn brown since the winter is drawing near. As you sit on that stone bench you notice the different cliques of people. There are the high schoolers‚ the “cool kids”‚ the parents and their children‚ and the young couples.
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prefer texting nowadays so so face to face communication is really starting to lack in society. Texting is constantly changing our language. The use of abbreviations‚ digits and the general absence of any vowels has changed the way we can communicate with people and how we use the written word by mobile phone. The short talk we have over the phone has affected the way we talk to a person face to face. Due to the rapid expansion of technology‚
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strikingly similar would be the Greek story of the first human woman‚ created by the gods and goddesses‚ with the Judeo-Christian story of Eve - their first woman. Pandora and Eve were both the first women to be created‚ they both damned mankind‚ and they were both considered to be a gift to mankind at the beginning of their existence. Although Pandora and Eve were different‚ they were both created to be some sort of companion to their male counterparts - Epimetheus and Adam‚ as well being the first
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! Online Training V Face to Face Training. ! ! ! ! ! ! Our first mistake could be thinking that one is better than the other. Or that one exists without the other. However‚ progress comes from adapting to the environment in which we find ourselves and training like everything else in our lives is going “online". So anyone who wants to make a difference in vocational education can now raise their sights to master the “classroom on the cloud”.! ! So what do we want to bring with us‚ from the old
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The Face of War There are many different forms of artwork that can depict moments in my life. Many musical compositions‚ sculptures‚ and architecture‚ that express the trials and tribulations that I have endured in my lifetime. There is one piece of artwork that I find to be a complete expression of my entire life. Although "The Face of War" by Salvador Dali was influenced by tragedy in times of war; I have a different view on the painting. The painting itself shows a head that was severed
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World War II started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii‚ December 8‚ 1941 then the Philippines followed on the same day. The traditional simbang gabi or misa de gallo was suspended in year 1941. President Manuel Quezon and Gen. Douglas MacArthur said that they will return when they flee because of the war. The last province surrendered to the Japanese forces is Bataan that launched the heinous Death March that killed many Filipino supporters. The government then is controlled by the Japanese
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Face validity refers to how a test ‘looks’ as it measure what it is meant to measure. For listening test‚ it is expected that the questions and test subject will require takers to listen to audio recordings. Face validity also includes other factors such as the setting of the examination and the equipment used (Hughes‚ 2007). Finally‚ criterion validity refers to the criteria wherein the results of the examination will be compared to (Hughes‚ 2007. The criteria used to evaluate the skills of students
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paper we want to describe about the beauty of our country. Now Eve teasing is one of the main threats for Bangladesh because it is destroying the social balance. Eve teasing might seem harmless ’fun’ to some‚ but gets the nerve of the victims. The severe impact of eve teasing is taking away the lives of young girls as Bangladesh has witnessed recently. Based on empirical study (2008) the Hunger Project has identified some impacts of eve teasing in the society of rural Bangladesh. These are: a) Curtailed
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Thoughts of Eve in Book 8 Adam shares how he loves Eve and that he thinks she is beautiful. As Raphael explains that Eve has been created as Adam’s inferior. This alone shows the way that Milton felt about women. He felt that women should be and were intellectually inferior to men but not a huge difference. Eve also is not as close to God as Adam is and he notices this. He tells Raphael that he noticed Eve’s beauty and her difference first and this is what made him love her. He is afraid that
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