In the story “TSA and Cinnamon Buns” by Ruhani Chhabra‚ the author’s writing shows how insecurity and shameful humiliation about one’s religion can change how one acts. The author uses the perspective of her 12-year-old self through the lens of her current 16-year-old perspective. She uses this to set the mindset she had at that age‚ how she interprets it at her current age‚ and how outward influences had an effect so we can better understand why she acted the way she did. She describes her younger
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The Scarlet Letter: Tales of Sin and Confession By: Zack Phillips "The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent!" This quote from Jean Baptiste Racin summarizes The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne in one sentence. The novel’s main focus is on three main characters and how the sins they commit affect their lives in the strict Puritan town of Boston around the year 1642. Hawthorne was very knowledgeable of his Puritan ancestry and shows it by incorporating some important thoughts
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The life of a slave woman is far more complex than that of a slave man‚ although understandably equal in hardships‚ the experience for a woman is incredibly different. The oppression that women have faced throughout their lives in the struggle to even be considered equal to men is more than evident in slavery‚ not only because they were thought of as lesser but in some ways many women actually believed it to be true. The experiences that Linda Brent‚ pseudonym for the author Harriet A. Jacobs‚
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the largest opium-producing country in the world produces 94% of the world’s opiates and thus has 920‚000 illicit drug users. Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and many other major organizations such as International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)‚ UNODC and Colombo Plan aim to eliminate opium and illicit drugs’ cultivation‚ production‚ trafficking and addiction in Afghanistan through different programs. As an example‚ INL has taken actions to decrease drug demand by establishing treatment
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Hephaestus‚ the Greek god of fire‚ is most revered for his master craftsmanship. In works of art he is usually depicted as a middle-aged smith working in his forge‚ often making a thunderbolt for Zeus. Born of Hera alone‚ he was cast down as a baby from Olympus by his mother for his defective ugliness and fell for a whole day before he hit the ground. Nine years after he was thrown from the heavens‚ he returned to Olympus and became one of the twelve Olympian Gods. With Zeus’s favor‚ he was able
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In the short story‚ “Hills like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway‚ it tells the tale of a couple traveling from Barcelona to Madrid. The man is an American and his girlfriend‚ Jig‚ has an unspecified nationality. The story proceeds forward‚ and we pick up very quickly that there is some kind of unspoken tension between the two characters that neither of them care to discuss. During the back and forth dialogue‚ it is safe to assume that the two are expecting a child. We can read between the
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stated above were required to not only protect abused children residing overseas‚ but to prove that the Australian Government is in touch with the community values within Australian cities. The amendments made to the law were needed because of the shameful amount of Australians indulging in sex practices with minors in countries other than Australia. Before the law was amended the general feeling among those involved in the process was that the Child Sex Tourism Act would have to carry severe penalties
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in the universe. Additionally‚ you don’t even know what Marcus did when he was back at Olynthus. How do you know if he is more trustworthy man than Cadmas? Lucius: Well I heard Cadmas and also all the Athenians rapes boys for fun. How filthy and shameful is that! I cannot trust any word from Athenians! Cleon: Did you just say that we are filthy? Now I know why our honourable Athens worriers defeat Olynthus. I believe those fools never read the famous “Dissoi Logoi”
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been able to escape with this shameful menace. The problem of child labour is a global phenomenon. Even today it is not confined to the third world countries. It is more or less prevalent everywhere in the world‚ the difference‚ if any is only of degree of kind. It is saddening to note that India is the largest employer of child labour in the world and has earned a dubious destruction of exploiting this human resource. We have yet been able to escape with this shameful menace. It is a simple approach
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The era of residential schools in Canada is one of the most shameful times in Canadian history‚ acting as a “cultural genocide” of the indigenous people. Cultural genocide is the systematic eradication of the traditions‚ language‚ and other elements of a unique group of people. The government of Canada sought to accomplish this eradication through the mandatory attendance at a residential school for all indigenous children. Without the guidance of their parents at such a young age‚ the adults in
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