READTHEORY Name________________ Date________________ • Reading Comprehension 1 Level 12 Directions: Read the passage. Then answer the questions below. The word euthanasia is of Greek origin and literally means “a good death.” The American Heritage Dictionary defines it as “the act of killing a person painlessly for reasons of mercy.” Such killing can be done through active means‚ such as administering a lethal injection‚ or by passive means‚ such as withholding medical care or food and water.
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Discursive Essay Size zero In our society‚ image is everything. We strive for what is considered to be the “ideal appearance”. For the modern generation‚ fashion is uppermost. For some girls our ambition is to become “size zero”. We want or need to show we are following the latest fashion trends. However‚ recent news reports indicate that size zero models are obsessed with their size that they become anorexic. Being fascinated by the fashion industry myself‚ it is important to explore the
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Description The Obelisk of Axum is 1700 year-old‚ 24-meters (78-feet) tall and weighs 180 tonnes. It started in 1936 when the Italia’s series of triumphs concurring Ethiopia and some other countries‚ after seven months campaign the Italians lost. This loss was unexpected for the world especially for Italians. Mussolini heard about the pieces of an obelisk laying on the ground in Axum then he immediately ordered to bring it to Rome as revenge. The obelisk that was set up between 100-300 A.D in Axum
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Write a thing happened between your parent and you. As the saying goes ‚ blood is thicker than water . Parents are always the closest people in our lives . Ironically ‚ because of this ‚ we always take everything for granted from them instead of treating those things as blessings . I can never forget that time ‚ what I have done to my father . It was a wintry morning . The sky was still dark when I woke up at 6:30 . And the first thing I did after waking up was shouting to my dad : “Why you woke
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Women at Point Zero is a novel written by Nawal El Saasawi‚ which was published in 1975 in Arabic then translated in 1983‚ this novel accounts the first person view of Firdaus’s‚ who is locked up in a Cairo prison cell‚ where she reveals how the beginning of her life and how she ended up on death row. The purpose of the author’s work is to engage the audience into Firdaus’s life and relationships she makes while living in a patriarchal society. The scene that set the purpose and impacted me‚ was
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How are women presented in the novel and what effect did this have on your understanding of the text? In Nawal El Saadawi’s novel‚ “Women at Point Zero” women are portrayed as living in a struggling society where they are not aloud to raise their voice or fight for their rights. The only place women are meant to be is in the kitchen fulfilling their husband’s every command. This novel shows that Egyptian women are being put down by men in their everyday lives and Firdaus is trying to change that
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BA in English Language and Literature School of Foreign Languages and Cultures Southwest University of Science and Technology Selective Reading of British and American Newspapers (2012) Aims of This Course This course has been a traditional course in the curriculum for English majors in China. One of the underpinning ideas for its enduring presence in the curriculum is the belief that putting learners into touch with “original” news texts found in Western newspapers would (A) enrich language
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John as always you have some very important facts that surround the ethical use of back ground checks for potential employees. You bring to light a very valid point when you discuss how it is necessary for employers to investigate what a candidates character is based on the information that is available through back ground searches. To this end back ground checks can easily find errors in applications such as embellished responsibilities‚ breaks in employment history as well as criminal history that
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that readers approach the work in ways that can be viewed as aesthetic or efferent. The question is why the reader is reading and what the reader aims to get out of the reading. Is the site established primarily to help readers gain information with as little reading possible‚ or is the site established in order to create an aesthetic experience? * Efferent reading: reading to "take away" particular bits of information. Here‚ the reader is not interested in the rhythms of the language or the
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Myne Owne Ground The 17th century was an important time period as the New World continued to develop into a society run by English settlers. The book‚ Myne Owne Ground‚ by Timothy Breen‚ focuses on the colonial history of the 1600’s. However‚ what is discussed in the book does not detail what was accomplished in this time period. Rather‚ Breen pinpoints the classes of people such as slaves‚ indentured servants‚ and free blacks; how they came to become part of those groups and when racism first started
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