What Patriotism means to me!.. I wave the Pakistani flag! I am so patriotic! My heart is content and the world sees my gleaming teeth‚ I show pride. Following the regular way of life is our nature and endorsing it our second nature. Is waving a flag‚ standing up for an inherited national anthem our sense of patriotism? It barely takes a moment to realize how superficial we are. What do we usually do on Independence Day and Republic Day? Most of us sit at home and enjoy our holiday. Just because
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WHAT DO THE TERMS RACE & ETHNICITY MEAN TO ME? The terms race and ethnicity to me are two very different things. Race is said to be determined by your physical appearance. I believe that we are what we are. So many different things in society today have had a label put on them. If you fill out a survey they ask for your race. If you apply for a job‚ they ask for your race. I cannot seem to understand the point in all of this. Everything is said to be “equal opportunity”‚ yet every time you
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My tattoo embodies my life… Everything on this page means something that’s genuinely important to me. In the centre is an outline of Mufasa from The Lion King. The reason why I chose the quote "Remember who you are" is because I feel like I occasionally forget what my purpose in life is‚ especially at the moment I go through things that I just dislike that I wish I could never go through. Close to the quote is also a cross to show that I believe in Christianity and there are flowers on the cross
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The New Dress: Come With Me Mabel Waring‚ an insecure and painfully self conscious girl‚ is consumed with feelings of inadequacy and inferiority when she enters a party wearing a dress that she feels is not quite appropriate for the occasion. She torments herself with obsessive thoughts of her foolishness and poor quality appearance in Virginia Woolf’s short story‚ The New Dress. Woolf uses the character Mabel Waring to underscore the discomfort that shy or socially unskilled individuals would
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Curley’s wife wasn’t always mean. She was a sweet innocent girl named Emma‚ but one day her childhood was scarred. Emma was born somewhere in Salinas into a poor family‚ struggling to survive twenty years before the great depression. Her mother was fair and beautiful. She was well educated and in her late twenties when she gave birth to Emma. Her father was an alcoholic who always came home intoxicated after his 9-5 job. To go along with his heavy drinking‚ her father was also abusive and occasionally
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The Monkey’s Paw If you were given the opportunity to change your fate at the expense of others‚ would you have the courage to risk it? In the story‚ “The Monkey’s Paw”‚ the author shows how the characters take a leap of faith without knowing what the consequences may be. The White’s family is made up of three‚ Mr. and Mrs. White along with their son Herbert. They live in a safe and comfortable house with everything they need‚ but it’s also separate from the outside world. Through a mixture of gruesome
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This character was used to give an example of how some people want to give everyone something priceless‚ like it is their right to have it. When in reality‚ if an object is common‚ it no longer holds its original worth. Master Ichabod Pigsnort‚ the third character introduced‚ was a merchant who was so caught up in the value of the gem‚ focused only on the
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median and mean we found out the average BP student were not ideally proportioned according to Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. In my opinion‚ think most of the BP students are not ideally proportioned because our class are teenagers and some of their body parts grow quicker than the other. Another reason the BP students are not ‘ideally proportioned’ could be that body shapes and sizes had changed from when Da Vinci created the Vitruvian Man. The height to arm-span was 1cm different for the mean but as for
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undetected (Kroeber 13). I don’t think the term wild Indian should be used‚ especially in 1961. He decided to live in the woods‚ and it doesn’t mean that Ishi doesn’t know how to act according‚ as the term wild implies. Many people get attached to an area. It’s a comfort thing‚ and it’s familiar‚ to be attached to something. In a familiar surroundings‚ people know what to expect. The amount of different languages in California tell us that many tribes have been settled there for a while. They’ve been there
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him) Adam‚([victor] his amazing eden like childhood)([monster]created by victor) Satan‚ ([victor] goes beyond what he should )([Monster]fiend‚ demon who tries to destroy) -the creature gets to see the face of his god ‚ and he gets to say what he wants
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