Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates to consider becoming organ donors after death. Thesis: Becoming an organ donor after death is not only an important decision for yourself‚ but it is also an important decision for the life that you may have the power to save.
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Alexandra George Dr. Goldberg 4 February 2013 WWII Extra Credit The Forgotten 500 by Gregory Freeman is an untold story of a rescue undertaken by a group of men (the OSS- eventually the CIA)‚ using aircraft to rescue five hundred and twelve downed airmen from the mountains in Nazi occupied Yugoslavia. The airmen had to avoid capture while awaiting a rescue‚ some for months others for a year or more. With the aid of the Serbian people and General Mihailovich‚ who loved Americans and resisted
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employee is not protected under public policy and since she cannot perform her duties‚ she should be fired. The second exception to the will is an implied contract‚ which is a verbal agreement between the two parties. 1. Describe what THE LAW IS AND REQUIRES AND THE LEGAL steps you would take to address the following scenario involving skills‚ competence‚ and abilities: The first step that needs to take place in order for her to be productive is to counsel her on the work assignments
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The Importance of Being Ernest – Act 1 Task 1 How are the characters of Algernon and Jack/Ernest created for the audience? They are presented to within a high class of society‚ with a lack of consideration or care for the lower classes. Both are bored by their high society lives and “stiff” lunches/meetings that they must attend‚ so have created alter egos which they use to have fun in a different place. Algernon has invented a sick friend called Bunbury‚ who he sometimes must spend long lengths
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A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Oscar Wilde mocked his audience while he entertained them. Perhaps his most loved and well-known work‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ satirises the manners and affections of the upper-class Victorian society. Satire is a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness‚ usually with the intent of changing or correcting the subject of the satirical attack. The play focuses on the elite‚ while making fun of the ludicrousness and extremity
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a play that trivializes many things: the Victorian society‚ the nature of marriage and especially the concept of human identity. While identity is typically considered to be something concrete‚ the characters within the play are constantly in flux. This is especially evident in Jack‚ whose forms his identities as he goes through life. He transforms from a nameless baby in a handbag‚ to Jack the thriving member of the countryside bourgeois‚ then further on to become
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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest The Novel The Importance of Being Earnest was more enjoyable to me than the film. The reason for this was‚ while my imagination pictured the story and the visuals of the people and the settings quite similar to the on-screen portrayal‚ my mind’s images were more enjoyable. The differences portrayed on film were distinctive in the characters‚ scenery‚ and mostly the soundtrack I had not envisioned while reading the play. While they absolutely worked
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Taming your Tongue When words are many‚ sin is not absent‚ but he who holds his tongue is wise. – Proverbs 10:19 Tongue (your words): 1) Is a dangerous and powerful tool Encourage: Proverbs 15:23 …How good is a timely word! Ephesians 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths‚ but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs‚ that it may benefit those who listen. Destroy: Proverbs 12:18 The words of the reckless pierce like swords
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reversed. In her thesis‚ Meijers says‚ “Throughout the Victorian period‚ there was a strict separation between the public and the private sphere. Men were to handle public affairs and women were to take charge of domestic life” (Meijers 7). In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde employs a reversal of gender roles‚ including a shift in power that predates this movement‚ effectively challenging traditional Victorian views. He does so by giving his female cast‚ notably Lady Bracknell‚ Cecily Cardew
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