Assignment B: imaginative writing “No Mans Land” A cold wind blew across the barren landscape. shrapnel and rifle magazines were discarded among the wreckage. The survivors of the onslaught looked more dead than alive‚ their pale green-grey flesh almost rotting. Blisters bubbled like lava‚ their crimson spots cracked and flaking. The atmosphere was cold and distant. Not a sound could be heard‚ not even the morning bird song. No mans land was like a corpse. Not a sign of life could be found‚ not
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SHOULD WE GO BEYOND THE LAW? FACTS OF THE CASE Nathan Rosillo * A key product developer at Chem-Tech Corporation * He and his team developed a new lubricant product that can produce the new product at a significant cost savings due to recent changes in environmental regulations. * Spent his entire life in the community where Chem-Tech plant is also located. He has sentimental attachment to the Dutch Valley River that he used to enjoy when he was young. * Has a chance of losing his job
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"The Odyssey" The Land of the Dead Oddyseus started to seak to the spirits of the promising to sacrifice his best cow before she had her calve. Then he promised to sacrifice a black lamb whick was the finest in his heard. After promising to sacrifice the animals he did it. The spirits started to gather at the edge of Erebus‚ the place where the dead reside. The spirits included those of the young and the old; male and female. There were also many warriors who were still in possesion of their
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the British Empire in 1763 was controlling land speculators in both Europe and the British colonies whose activities often led to frontier conflicts.[2] Many Native American peoples—primarily in the Great Lakes region—had a long and close relationship with France‚ and were dismayed to find that they were now under British sovereignty. Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763–66) was an unsuccessful effort by Native Americans to prevent Great Britain from occupying the land previously claimed by France. The Proclamation
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From all the various themes the book My Promised Land by Ari Shavit introduced in just the first sections‚ it invoked my memory of past lectures‚ personal experiences‚ and thoughts on the matters surrounding the State of Israel and its inception. Reading through these pages I found myself dancing around Ari’s combination of words that described scenes of devastation and of a humiliated Palestinian population after or depiction from his grandfather about of the disease and despair found in the faces
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Fragmentation and Coherence in The Waste Land T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an intricate poem that is intentionally difficult to understand; it contains a myriad of allusions to other texts‚ it has a fragmented narrative structure‚ speaks in various languages and utilizes surreal imagery. These features‚ amongst others‚ contribute to the poem’s complexity. I wish to examine‚ in detail‚ how these features create or suppress meaning. In The Waste Land the reader is presented with a series of stanza’s
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Aboriginals have always had a strong link between them and the land with the belief of the Dreamtime and the art‚ symbols‚ rituals and totems that came with it. After the white settlement‚ the way in which aboriginals lived their everyday life took a dramatic turn. It had affected their culture for many generations with a disconnection with the land to them. Captain cook arrived to Australia in 1770 and it was believed that there was at least 750 000 Aborigines living in 600 different tribes in
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The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 was probably one of the most prominent of the land runs. Although there were seven land runs in Oklahoma altogether‚ with the 1983 Cherokee Strip Land Run being the largest land run in the history of the United States. In 1889 Congress amended the Indian Appropriations Bill that would authorize President Harrison to proclaim two-million acres of land open for settlement‚ called the “Unassigned Lands.” This was land previous promised
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its history to answer the following in COMPLETE SENTENCES: 1) What’s the name of the game and has it changed over the years or had any other name? Candy Land‚ also known as Candyland‚ is a two to four player board game where the players race to the finish line‚ striving to be first. 2) When and where did the game originate? Candy Land was invented by Eleanor R. Abbott around 1948 as a means of entertainment for children recuperating from polio. Abbott created this game herself while she was
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The following essay will be focusing on how we can use izithakazelo as sources in historical research. When I researched about izithakazelo‚ concepts such as ‘praise names’‚ ‘clan praises’‚ and ‘family praises’ came up. The word ‘coward’ can absolutely not go together with the word izithakazelo‚ as izithakazelo has such high appraisal. Izithakazelo is connected to the Zulu culture‚ and when they are praised‚ they start with the surname and then clan name whereas amaXhosa start with the clan name
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