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    Act 1 Act1 Scene1 King Lear wants to divide up his land between his three daughters He wants to know which one of his daughters loves him the most so that he can give that one the largest share of his land. Goneril and Regan take the approach to flatter there father thinking he will believe that they love him the most. But Cordelia (the youngest daughter) takes a different approach and refuses to go on about how much she loves her father Cordelia says she loves her father as much as

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    Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies and Soft Drink Joaquin Angles BUS 508 The Business Enterprise 04/23/2010 The company produces specialty pies and sells them in local supermarkets and select family restaurants. In each of the first six months‚ Shelly and three part time employees sold 2‚000 pies for $4.50 each‚ netting a profit of $1.50 per pie. The pies were quite successful and Shelly could not keep up with demand. The company ’s success results from a quality product and productive employees who

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    The author of A Thousand Sisters‚ Lisa Shannon‚ is such an inspiring writer. She had a normal‚ perfect life until she watched an episode on Oprah Winfrey’s show about the women of Congo. Congo women often get raped and their husbands and children killed. I find it very difficult to compare the Congolese women to our society or anyone. However‚ I can empathize with the Congolese women because I have also experienced a loss of dignity through sexual violence and other abuse. Lisa Shannon as a human

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    unfathomable? Have you been caught in the darkest time of despair‚ and received no help from anyone else? Have you ever struggled through a life altering hardship‚ and only have yourself to fall back on? The women of Afghanistan as pictured in A Thousand Splendid Suns have. This novel written by Khaled Hosseini carries a theme of contrasting companionship throughout. Hosseini focuses on the beautiful and evil sides of companionship‚ and contrasts the admirable with the atrocious. These women presented

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    I think that the NASW code of ethics is adequate in explaining what is expected of a social worker in their career. There is plenty of information on how to behave‚ what is to be expected of a social worker‚ why a social worker must behave ethically and morally correct‚ and who the social worker is here to help. However I do not think that the code has enough information on what will happen to a social worker if they are caught behaving unethically‚ or immorally. In my opinion there could be a little

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    History of Thousand Oaks‚ CA Thousand Oaks is found in the United States of America‚ in the State of California‚ Ventura County. It is located in the southern part of the county and it is an affluent city. It was named Thousand Oaks after the many oak trees within the area. The initial people who resided in the area were the Chumash community. In 1542‚ a Spanish explorer‚ Juan Rodriguez Cebrillo arrived at Point Mugu. He declared the land to be Spanish land and it eventually was part of Rancho El

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    Summary: Mariam lived her entire childhood in a small shack with Nana and was constantly visited by her father‚ Jalil‚ whom she adores and looks up to. When Mariam asks jalil to let her see a film in his cinema with her siblings‚ he agrees‚ but does not come to greet her and sends his chauffeur to drive Mariam back to her shack where she finds Nana hanged. Due to Jalil’s pride‚ he refuses to take her under his care due to the fact that she is an illegitimate child and marries her off to a shoemaker

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    The painting Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand by Albrecht Durer was made in 1508. It was commissioned for the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg‚ Germany. It is Oil on panel transferred to a canvas. What I found interesting is the amount of detail and how everywhere you look there’s something happening. The painting uses a pyramid layout to get a sense of balance. A color in the painting that only appears in one location is black which can be interpreted as death. It also shows men being led to their

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    The purpose of this people is examining a single story in one gospel (Mark 6 30-44‚ Luke 9: 12-17). In the New Testament there are several passages where Jesus is feeding a multitude of people John 6:1-14 which records the Feeding of the Five Thousand. is also known as the” Miracle of the five loaves and two fish” Gospel of John reports that five barley loaves and two small fish supplied by a boy were used by Jesus to feed a multitude. This story‚ which only appears in the Gospels of Mark and

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    second action-packed novel called A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini‚ the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ wrote this story to let us readers experience the discourteous and rancorous effects that happened in Afghanistan during the mid-20th century to the early 21st century. This story reveals how the Afghanistan population survived and suffered because of their rambunctious laws and men. In the following review of Khaled Hosseini’s work‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ I will summarize the books

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