1. What is the old man doing in the opening paragraph? In the opening paragraph‚ we can find out that the old man does three main activities: catching the homing pigeon‚ resting with the bird and looking at the granddaughter’s movement. In the first activity‚ we know he stands under the dovecote through the preposition ‘above’ in “Above the old man’s head was the dovecote” and the action of watching pigeons are described by a series of phrases such as “full of strutting (walk proudly with head
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In the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie‚ the narrator Zits says‚ “Yes‚ I am Irish and Indian‚ which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they’re not here and haven’t been for years‚ so I’m not really Irish and Indian. I’m a blank sky‚ a human solar eclipse” (Alexie 5). In my opinion this quote could mean‚ since his parents died or left there is no one to help him learn his background or his culture. He is a sky without clouds
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as the fight or flight response‚ we are able to better determine the reason behind our bodies and mind reacting to certain situations. Humans either fight against the dangers that comes towards them or they run away from it. Psychologist say that every person has the fight or flight response in them. It is an automatic reaction to certain situations and threats.Whether it is fighting or flighting‚ people would strive to survive no matter what. In the article The Fight or Flight Response it says
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INTRODUCTION REAL ESTATE IN INDIA CURRENT SCENARIO OF THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IN INDIA Commercial real estate sector is in boom in India. In the last fifteen years‚ post liberalization of the economy‚ Indian real estate business has taken an upturn and is expected to grow from the current USD 14 billion to a USD 102 billion in the next 10 years. This growth can be attributed to favorable demographics‚ increasing purchasing power‚ existence of customer friendly banks & housing finance
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school curriculum is just not enough to prepare students for the real world. Our schools have become too old-fashioned. Today‚ success in the real world is not about memorizing the periodic table or the quadratic equation. It’s not about studying for hours the night before a test to get a 100 percent‚ then forget it all the next week. School should be about how to apply these sciences and arts to the real world. In the real world‚ if you need to know something for your job‚ you look it up
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States. This primitive creature is one of the most controversial animals in the scientific community. Is it real or is it fake? I believe it is fake. However‚ the real question is why bigfoot is fake. There have been many claimed bigfoot sighting and many scientist and hunters have tried to study this cryptid. Although‚ there has never been any concrete evidence to prove that bigfoot is real. When there are recorded bigfoot sightings they just hear sounds or rustling‚ never any communication or yelling
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A real friend is one who stands by his friend in the hour of his need person deserts his friend at a time when he needs him the most‚ he cannot be called a real friend if two persons simply know each other‚ and they can call friends. The real test of friendship is‚ therefore‚ not mere acquaintance but the will to render timely help to a friend in distress. It is indeed very di to find a true friend in this world. Of course‚ there have been a few examples of true friendship in this Lord Krishna and
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Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A) The first hard drive‚ a magnetic information storage and retrieval device for computers and other electronic products‚ was developed by IBM engineers in 1956 in San Jose‚ California. This hard drive was the size of two side by side refrigerators and could store 5 MB of information. Incredible technological progress ensued‚ and by the early 1990’s‚ disk drives had decreased from their original bulky configuration to 2.5 square inches
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Do you believe in God? If so‚ at some point in time‚ someone convinced you that God does exist. They used one of the ten arguments listed herein. How solid are these arguments and how do they stand up to basic science and reason? Since the dawn of civilization there have been many arguments for the existence of God. Surprisingly‚ the vast majority of these arguments fall into the ten or so categories below. Not much has changed in the last 300+ years in terms of new claims or evidence. The same
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|Flight 5390 was a British Airways flight between Birmingham International Airport in England and Málaga‚ Spain. On June 10‚ 1990 there | |was an improperly installed windshield and failed in mid-flight. The plane had climbed to 17‚300 feet over Didcot‚ Oxfordshire‚ A few | |minutes later there was a loud bang‚ and the fuselage quickly filled with condensation. The left windscreen‚ on the captain’s side of | |the cockpit‚ had failed. Lancaster‚ the captain‚ was pulled out of his seat by the
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