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    Ragging

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    advantages? Is it important to a freshmen student? Well‚ these are the questions to which the Sri Lankan society is looking the answers for. What is ragging? Ragging means causing‚ inducing‚ compelling or forcing a student‚ whether by way of a practical joke or otherwise‚ to do any act which detracts from human dignity or isolates his person or exposes him to ridicule or to forbear from doing any lawful act‚ by intimidating‚ wrongfully restraining‚ confining or injuring him or by using criminal force to

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    Despite originating in early 1990‚ the term political correctness did not gain notable traction until more recent years. Today the term political correctness is aimlessly thrown about in the political arena from both sides of the aisle-but what does the term truly mean? Does it achieve its purpose? To fully understand the complexities surrounding this ideology‚ one must first examine the raw intention and foundation of the term. Political correctness is wildly accepted as the avoidance of expressions

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    Santiago‚ at first‚ seems hopeless; he is the joke around town and has not caught a fish in eighty-four days. However‚ Santiago continues to go out to sea everyday in hopes of catching a fish. With the old man’s determination and his pride on the line‚ Santiago caughts the biggest fish that anyone has seen‚ but is then eaten by sharks. Therefore‚ Santiago’s commitment in killing this big fish‚ eventually leads to his downfall. Going months on end without catching a fish‚ Santiago becomes the laughingstock

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    He demonstrated in the book how cruel the reaction of humor is because it is a reaction that is unrelated to the reality observed by the person who laughs. He didn’t demonstrate it that clearly of course‚ but I’m telling you the vision he gave me. Freud talked a lot about the pleasure the human being obtains from immoral fantasies that make him laugh and he talked a lot about jokes with sex themes. I mentioned his work because this was the first time I studied

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    Bullying has been quite a growing problem in today’s society. Bullying is defined as any repeated negative activity or aggression intended to harm or bother someone who is perceived by peers as being less physically or psychologically powerful than the aggressor. The particular concern with the frequent bullying of children is that it will have an adverse impact on victims scholastic achievement‚ desire to attend school‚ and self-esteem (Olweus D.‚ Rigby K). Bullies are people. Bullies want power

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    always have the same ending and you wouldn’t believe they are true anymore. Then you come a feeling that suddenly what you believe in so deep before is actually a fake story. Why? Because that is why we call it “fairy tales”‚ they never uncover the cruel and the reality and all they did is to make you soak into this gorgeous imagination and fantasy. “ What goes around comes around” isn’t always true‚ just like those fairy tales; you never know when will the evil beats the goodness‚ but there is

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    Wonwoo: A Short Story

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    "Yo‚ Wonwoo! Going to Dongho’s party tonight?" One of his friends yelled a few metres away from where he sat. The raven-haired male responded with a gesture before continuing to keep the papers he had sprawled on the cafe’s table‚ successfully completing an assignment before the next class. As he stood up‚ he was met with a couple of other people he knew‚ greeting him and asking to have lunch together the following day. "Sure. I think I’ll be free." Wonwoo replied and the three figures that

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    "Hitcher" By Simon Armitage‚ "Education For Leisure" By Carol Anne Duffy‚ "My Last Duchess" and "The Lab" by Robert Browning are all poems that deal with violence or the prospect of violence. ‘The Laboratory’ is a dramatic monologue about a woman who has discovered her husband is having an affair with two other women. She is plotting to poison both of the mistresses. My Last Duchess’ is also a dramatic monologue in which the Duke is telling his new bride father’s representative about a portrait of

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    • How does the prosecution and defense each represent the truth? • Values and attitudes of the participants? • Robertson’s values and representation of the truth? Truth can be represented in differing ways according to the values and attitudes of the persona whose representation of truth is being expressed. Throughout Geoffrey Robertson’s The Justice Game the responder is convinced to accept the composer’s representation of truth through the use of composing techniques such as the short story

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    Marxism in Of Mice and Men

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    “John Steinbeck: Marxist Supporter?” Since the beginning of time‚ the world has been infected with human greed and hunger for power. However‚ only a lucky few are able to truly appease this desire and get to the peak of the economic hierarchy‚ while the majority of citizens scrambles at the bottom‚ hoping and praying for alleviation from the cruelties of the never-ending oppression in their lives. However‚ in the mid 1800’s‚ a man named Karl Marx decided that this perpetual cycle of difference

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