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    Danielle Sorrentino Research Paper Are Tattoos Still Taboo in the Workplace? This is a topic that has been marinating in my mind for quite some time. I myself love the sense of having freedom to express myself. As I currently stand‚ I work as a Systems Engineer for the Government and one of my biggest pet peeves is conformity. I understand that there are dress codes and I follow them but in ways that still allow me to be myself‚ after all I’m not a gray suit type of gal. In fact‚ I myself

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    Comparison between Crito and Apology For these two articles that we read in Crito and Apology by Plato‚ we could know Socrates is an enduring person with imagination‚ because he presents us with a mass of contradictions: Most eloquent men‚ yet he never wrote a word; ugliest yet most profoundly attractive; ignorant yet wise; wrongfully convicted‚ yet unwilling to avoid his unjust execution. Behind these conundrums is a contradiction less often explored: Socrates is at once the most Athenian‚ most

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    A Princess from Two Worlds “Sayaw sa Kasingkil”‚ or commonly known as “Singkil” is a famous Philippine Folk Dance that expresses hierarchies of royalty and power. Belong in the “Moro Suite” of Philippine Folk Dance‚ Singkil originates from the north Mindinao region of the Philippines and is derived from Muslim culture. There are two known versions of Singkil-- the classical version and the modern Indarapatra version. Both version deliver very similar performances of choreography. Both versions

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    Passage Analysis Analysing the passage on page 179: Nonsense The passage which is going to be analysed is from A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers by Xiaolu Guo. The main character of the book is Z. Z is a young Chinese woman who is sent to England by her parents‚ to take English classes. By sending Z to London‚ her poor parents hoped to give their daughter a better future than that they had. While Z is in London‚ she’s very lonely and experiences a culture shock. After a while of

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    A Comparative Study of English Translations of Tu Fu’s “Chūn Wàng” As Francis K. H. So says‚ “[w]hether or not a student of Chinese literature likes pathetic style‚ he has to know Tu Fu‚ whose seven-syllable verse perhaps reaches the acme of its kind in the golden age of poetry‚” 1 translations of Tu Fu’s poetry could be more precise than others due to its popularity. Therefore‚ his five-character eight-line regulated verse “Chūn Wàng” would be discussed in the essay. There are four

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    will be comparing and contrasting the 2 artworks that I have chosen in terms of how they look and how they convey messages. ‘Headlong’ is a collage in which lots of elements are used to show viewers it is conveying an important message. Whereas in comparison‚ the ‘Untitled’ is the art form of photography‚ however the message is just as important. In ‘Headlong’‚ we see a long cursive ‘E’ shape right in the middle of the artwork. The ‘E’ shape looks like it’s been printed out from the computer with the

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    Online Dating is No Longer Taboo Imagine this…..Its 2013; you are a busy but lonely adult trying to find love. You have tried the bar scene for months now and feel like it’s just a waste of time. Why not try online dating? In the past online dating was considered Taboo or unsafe but now that everything is done online it’s more convenient to talk to people through text or emails. There are dating sites out now for every type of person. Some you have to pay to be on and some are free to join. I am

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    The New World was colonized by three main Nations. Those three main nations were the Spanish‚ French‚ and English. Their ways of colonization varied in their government‚ settlement locations‚ and settlement methods which includes relations with the Natives. Communication across an entire ocean was difficult‚ especially for government. Each Spain‚ France‚ and England had different ways of governing their colonies. Spanish colonies were governed by crown appointed governors‚ or what they called them

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    China’s religions are obviously going to be different from the religions in Japan but there are quite a few similarities. Many people follow a certain belief system because of what they were taught as a child and by the things they have come to know as adults. Even with the many differences the one thing that japan and china have in common is the importance of religion in their everyday life. Taoism‚ Confucianism‚ Buddhism‚ Islam‚ Christianity‚ Dongba and Protestant are a few of China’s major religions

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    COMPARISON The two given texts share the theme water and the perception thereof. Predominantly‚ the discussion ensuing the reading of the two quite polar articles concerns first and third world problems. The first text is an article written for ‘the Observer Food Monthly’ in 2003 by William Leith and has the title ‘Give me an Eau’. The second is an information sheet adapted from UNICEF‚ written in the same year. The article written by Mr Leith has many compelling factors‚ the first being

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