Jewellery Thief cause Public Chase Screams from Jewellery shop owner‚ June Lai‚ sparks a public chase when a thief‚ Hong Kei Tung‚ tries to steal from her shop at Park Mall yesterday evening. Hong enter the shop‚ Goldheart‚ around 9.50pm and smash the two display cases with a hammer. He then proceeds to scoop a bunch of jewellery with his hands and run. After hearing June screamed‚ 8-10 people began pursuing the man around the mall. The posse grew in numbers during the chase. Hong was caught
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mythology is not a standardized‚ widespread component of education‚ and thus there is a gap in understanding of these references for many people. One book that sought to popularize Greek mythology amongst young students was Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief‚ which topped the children’s bestsellers lists just under ten years ago. Percy Jackson‚ a teenager living in New York City‚ is the protagonist in this novel and embodies the Greek hero Perseus in his relationship with his mother and the quest on which
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Precambrian time‚period of time that reaches out from around 4.6 billion years back to the start of the Cambrian Period‚ 541 million years prior. The Precambrian speaks to more than 80 percent of the aggregate geologic record. All life-structures were for quite some time expected to have begun in the Cambrian‚ and consequently all prior rocks were gathered together into the Precambrian. Albeit numerous fluctuated types of life developed and were safeguarded widely as fossil stays in Cambrian sedimentary
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you think. Carpe Diem. Seize the day while you still have a chance. Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief takes the reader back to Germany in World War Two to a little fictional town called Molching‚ right outside of Munich‚ Germany. Narrated by Death‚ the book follows the story of a little girl named Liesel Meminger. We meet little Liesel at the young age of nine years old. She was at a very bad time in her life‚ suffering from the death of her brother and the separation from her mother. She is
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The Ironical Aspects in Li Rui’s Electing A Thief “Electing a thief”‚ a short story written by Li Rui‚ is about a leader in the village who discovers the disappearance of a bag of grain from the storehouse and came up with the idea of “democracy” to get clues on finding the thief. (Li 321) The leader wants all the men from the village to vote for a thief but surprisingly‚ it turns out that the entire vote is unanimously against him. The head angrily quit his job and all the villagers are very excited
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characteristics that define you". Based on the setting or an environment‚ a person can be puzzled about their identity and what they have to offer. Through tone‚ theme‚ and character development‚ Markus Zusak‚ the writer of both I Am The Messenger and The Book Thief‚ utilizes the characters of both the story and movie to present the message that you are who you seek to be and that you can be the opposite of what society portrays you to be. Ed Kennedy‚ the protagonist
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Comfort women were women and girls forced into a prostitution corps created by the Empire of Japan.[1] The name "comfort women" is a translation of a Japanese name ianfu (慰安婦).[2][3] Ianfu is a euphemism for shōfu (娼婦) whose meaning is "prostitute(s)".[4] The earliest reporting on the issue in South Korea stated it was not a voluntary force‚[5] and since 1989 a number of women have come forward testifying they were kidnapped by Imperial Japanese soldiers. Historians such as Lee Yeong-Hun[6] and
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craftsman as an apprentice. There he received food‚ lodging (often sleeping under the counter in the shop itself)‚ clothes‚ and instruction in the craft. Apprentices‚ Journeymen‚ and Masters. The period of apprenticeship lasted for 2-7 years‚ after which time the apprentice became a journeyman. The term has nothing to do with traveling; it
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Markus Zusak demonstrates many themes in The Book Thief‚ however there are two exceedingly significant themes that are consistent throughout this novel. The purpose of this essay is to analyse and describe these central themes. The first is death and how it has been used as a foundation theme that connects characters and is even used as a narrator. The second is the power of words and how it also directly connects everyone‚ even under these dreadful circumstances. From the beginning of the book
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