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    Text Response – Good Vs. Evil Good vs. evil is a widely explored theme in Isobelle Carmody’s novel ’The Gathering’. It is most evident in the battle between the Chain and the Kraken‚ however the more sinister‚ subtler acts of evil occur when he attempts to make each member vulnerable by breaching their weaknesses. While the physical examples such as the final battle‚ the murder of The Tod and the violent acts by Buddha and his gang could certainly be classified as evil‚ it is my belief that the

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    Meche March 3‚ 2009 Family Gathering: Roll Call It’s a warm summer day and a caravan of vehicles is pulling up for the main event. The sounds of music playing in addition to Frisbees flying and kites swaying in the same wind that’s delivering the sweet aroma of the BBQ ribs is what sets the stage. Familial hugs accompanied by conversation and laugher take place while anticipating the feature presentation; the family gathering. When thinking about a family gathering it’s like thinking about a stage

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    Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Syaman Rapongan’s Old Men of the Sea Impacted by Western cultures‚ Native American’s traditions gradually disappear. Similar to Native American‚ The Tao (達悟 Dawu) traditions are threatened by Han influences. To preserve indigenous customs‚ native writers either portray how dominant cultures impact aborigines or portray how native traditions do good for their lives. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Syaman Rapongan’s Old Men of the Sea (老海人 Laohairen)1‚ both indigenous

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    The Significance of Llewelyn Moss McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is a story about survival that focuses on themes of morals‚ morality‚ and luck. In many ways‚ this is a story about how people deal with death. Llewelyn Moss‚ one of the most significant characters in the novel‚ emphasizes the underlining theme which is that death comes for us all. Characters in No Country for Old Men are western in the sense they use words sparingly. They are all: tough‚ modest‚ and patient‚ living by the saying

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    Information Gathering Techniques Effective information gathering is the most basic perspective-widening tool an effective leader requires. Good quality information marks out the context in which the leader operates‚ creates the information patterns from which ideas emerge‚ and provides the criteria by which ideas are screened and assessed. When you successfully gather information and assess questions or problems‚ you will increase your first-level resolutions. As you perfect your assessment skills

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    Degradation of Today’s Society in No Country for Old Men Society today has become certainly different from the old‚ laid-back peaceful traditional days. Traditional qualities like honesty‚ respect‚ and discipline are slowly phasing out as time progresses. Cormac McCarthy supports this claim in No Country for Old Men by explaining how today’s society has taken a turn for the worse and how a new wave of evil has swept over the land‚ washing away the old values. McCarthy utilizes Sheriff Bell to represent

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    There were many inequalities in the novel Gathering Blue. Inequalities that were not necessary and could have been fixed. Many of the problems were due to people being selfish and not wanting everybody to be equal. Kira‚ the main character‚ was subjected to most of the inequalities. She was deemed imperfect by everyone and it changed her life. In the novel Gathering Blue‚ not all people have the same rights; Mainly the physically imperfect people‚ the talented and the poor people. Kira is just

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    justice; he “appears to believe that such ultimate questions . . . haunt us for the simple reason that we cannot answer them with anything like the complete confidence necessary to set them at rest” (Robinson 87). In his 2005 novel‚ No Country for Old Men‚ McCarthy investigates the notion of determinism and the ways in which it coincides and sometimes diverges‚ with free will‚ and

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    writing and performed through acting. The combination of these factors give each film its own original style. Three films that distinctively create a unique style due to the directing‚ writing and acting are Psycho‚ Breathless and No Country for Old Men. Psycho deviates from a typical movie in the sense that the main character dies relatively early in and then the film switch focuses entirely. Also the unexpected twist at the end was the first of its kind. These elements are all part of the creative

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    Every Research Report requires information as the basis for analysis. Information sources can be categorised as either primary or secondary data. There is no requirement for you to collect primary data within your Research Report; it is wholly acceptable to undertake your Research Report using only secondary data. The difference between primary and secondary data is identified below. Primary data is original data that has been collected by a researcher by whatever means appropriate in the answer

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