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    When it comes to the Suez Crisis and Canada‚ Lester B. Pearson played a key role in resolving the crisis through his efforts to control the situation without upsetting anyone‚ which eventually led to the creation of the United Nations Emergency Force. This event marked a turning point in the Canadian foreign policy and Pearson later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement. It’s fascinating how individuals can make such a big impact on the world stage‚ isn’t it? Although Egypt Nationalized

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    Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? The perception of beauty is subjective. Beauty is for each individual to see‚ not what society sees as a whole. It’s natural for us to consider our values and opinions when looking at works of art. If you see a work of art that interests you or you take pleasure in it‚ it will be deemed as beautiful. What you perceive as beautiful may not be beautiful to someone else and that is why beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is truly in the “eye” and

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    The poem opens with an offering: “Glory be to God for dappled things.” In the next five lines‚ Hopkins elaborates with examples of what things he means to include under this rubric of “dappled.” He includes the mottled white and blue colors of the sky‚ the “brinded” (brindled or streaked) hide of a cow‚ and the patches of contrasting color on a trout. The chestnuts offer a slightly more complex image: When they fall they open to reveal the meaty interior normally concealed by the hard shell; they

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    Home Reading Report Name: Reil Duhaylungsod Yr/Section: III-St.Claire of Assisi The Haunted School R.L. Stine I. Setting a. Time The time settings were two. The one is late 1940s and the one is at the present which is in the late 2000s. b. Place It was mainly in school‚ the “Bell Valley Middle School” there was two sides of the school the old one or the abandoned and the one is the newly constructed one. The old one is somewhat like mysterious because there was a classroom where the

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    ENGLISH FINAL PROJECT TITLE: Can the beauty magazine be held responsible for anorexia? NAME: KATIA TAKKOY Can the beauty magazine industry be held responsible for anorexia? “Security”‚ “mental strength”‚ “self confidence”‚ “identity”‚ “care”‚ all these words having a common source‚ starvation. (Ogden‚ 2010‚ p.220). And although it may make no sense to most of us it surely holds a lot of meaning to an anorexic patient. But who is responsible for the link between starvation and all those

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    Beauty of the 21st Century Japanese In Japan‚ women with petite general figures are considered more attractive. The paler their skin‚ the more beautiful they are considered to be. Every facial feature including lips‚ ears‚ nose and mouth must be small. The only facial feature that they prefer to be bigger is the eyes. They tend to admire bigger eyes and also creased eyelids called ‘double eyelids’. They also consider small‚ oval faces to be more feminine. Body hair is mostly unwanted especially

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    American Psycho: Analysis This extract of ‘American Psycho’ conveys most of the wider themes of the text‚ with similar stylistic techniques that are seen throughout the novel. Ellis uses a peculiar chapter title with ‘End of the 1980’s’ for this extract and throughout the rest of the book. These titles usually relate to the theme of the chapter or the events within it. This extract is named ‘End of the 1980’s’ which is very significant to the wider text. The entire novel is a dark‚ satirical

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    “2.5 million girls participate in beauty pageants‚ and 6% of these girls suffer from depression”(Demographic Partitions). This is just one of the many problems that come with young girls participating in beauty pageants. A few more are sexualization‚ mental health problems along with self-esteem issues. This along with many other reasons should make people alarmed and not want to enter young girls into beauty pageants. The sexualization of girls is one of the many problems that young girls face

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    The “American Dream” can be best described as happiness and living in the lap of luxury‚ but the “American Dream” is fictitious. Winter Dreams and The Swimmer both have characters‚ who try to achieve their own perception of the American Dream‚ but in the end‚ fail. The “American Dream” comes with a great cost. F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts that in his short story Winter Dreams. The Swimmer by John Cheever depicts the “American Dream” as something already achieve but then‚ it is lost. The “American Dream”

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    Essence of true beauty In American society‚ women have been objectified to sell a product or an image for a long time. The true standard or measure of beauty is often relative to who is painting the picture‚ often times being control by the media. Everyday women put strain on themselves by trying to live up to the unattainable level of beauty portrayed by models and actresses‚ as a result many women chronically feel insecure about themselves. Women can attest to the false beauty that is portrayed

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