Irrational use of water resources - Water is the most important element of any creature’s life. A person can survive weeks without any food‚ but none can survive 3 days without any water. People waste water in their homes without even realizing it. We have become so accustomed to have a 24 hour supply of water to meet all of our needs from cooking‚ to cleaning‚ to drinking‚ that we sometimes forget that we do not have an infinite supply of water. Everyday water is wasted through leaky taps
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A Message to All Earthlings from Your Friend Tudor the Just People of Earth‚ warmest and friendliest greetings! I am Tudor the Just and I come from Neptune‚ as you know if you have been watching the news. By the way‚ I want to congratulate all of your TV networks on their coverage of my landing. They did a galaxy-class job. It made me think about how much your reporters deserve the chance to cover real news—like the explosion in Cluster H356pi or the rebellion on Altair 7. The truth is‚ all
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1 Introduction “Road rage” is a potentially dangerous phenomenon that‚ given our individual proximity to driving or riding in automobiles‚ has broad ranging personal and societal impacts. As such‚ road rage has recently been the subject of significant public and media attention‚ and sensational stories about “road rage” fill the newspapers (Carter‚ 2007; Eckinger‚ 2007; Fumento‚ 1998; Richmond‚ 2007; Thompson‚ 2007)‚ magazines (Best & Furedi‚ 2001; A. Ferguson‚ 1998; Jenson‚ 2007; Liu‚ 2006)
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It was a cold friday afternoon as I sat at the bus stop waiting to get home. I had just got out of an intense Friday lecture from the Northampton local Mosque. The Imam was furious and obviously disgusted at the behavior of our generation. "How do we live with ourselves" Imam Aseem Ibrahim had said. "Most of us have enough to feed ourselves and our family‚ even buy the latest gadgets just because we can but do we feed the poor? Do we clothed them?" He said in anger as he chocked on the words. The
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FREEDOM‚ A CAUSE for CHANGE Throughout history‚ the restless struggle for freedom has never ceased to be. This is a particularly sensitive issue‚ and we can’t deny that certain nations are ignoring it at a high level. It strikes us‚ nowadays‚ how we can still spot news headlines of public figures getting arrested because they are conceived as a threat to their country. The actual so-called threat is that those people were brave enough to express certain political opinions. Nevertheless‚ today
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Road to Redemption “There is a way to be good again” (2) is not only a relapsed statement in Khaled Hosseini’s first novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ but also a reoccurring theme in his second novel‚ A Thousand Splendid Suns. Through the comparison of his two novels‚ the characters ultimately struggle to find their personal road to redemption. The protagonist of The Kite Runner‚ Amir returns to Afghanistan to redeem himself of a memory that has been haunting him for the past twenty-six years by saving his
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Queens’s day incident in Apeldoorn in the year of 2009 Queen’s day also known as Koninginnedag is a national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This holiday is reserved to celebrate the birthday of the Queen. Though Queen Beatrix was born on 31 January‚ the holiday is observed on 30 April as it was the birthday of her mother and predecessor‚ Juliana. Many of the traditional activities are held outside‚ and observing the holiday in April makes suitable weather more likely. On this national
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For centuries the Silk Road has served as a connector between empires‚ countries‚ and cities all over the world. The outposts and cities along the Silk Road became the melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European
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Fake Violence Creates Real Violence A man gets into a violent fight in 1914. In the midst of the brawl‚ he receives a deep cut in his upper cheek. This is before the invention of penicillin and sulfa drugs (Encyclopaedia Brittanica). He has never heard of such a thing as antibiotics. The cut becomes infected‚ and develops a severe fever. His eye is lost to sepsis. He comes close to losing his life…from a cut. In the same situation a hundred years later‚ losing the eye would be unimaginable…much
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BBC Learning English How to… Tell someone about a serious incident Neil: Hello‚ welcome to ‘How to…’ with me‚ Neil Edgeller. In this programme we’ll take a look at how to tell friends‚ or people you know quite well‚ about serious things which have happened to you. Perhaps you’ve been unlucky enough to have been attacked‚ or maybe you’ve seen something frightening‚ like a road accident. How do you introduce the topic to your friends? How do you tell the story‚ and how do you finish it
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