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    pollutions e.g. air pollution‚ land pollution‚ water pollution mainly caused by mismanagement of waste-predominantly household and industrial waste)‚ Unemployment‚ Air-borne and Water-borne Diseases etc. Our main purpose is to employ those people (beggars‚ unemployed youth‚ street dwellers‚ homeless people) who are being neglected by the society and considered a burden for the society and who live their lives depending on the sympathy and charity of others. They will be employed in the jobs of cleaning

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    Victorian Era Education

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    Victorian Era Education    In the novel ​ Great Expectations​  by Charles Dickens‚ the protagonist Pip says‚ “I took the  opportunity of being alone in the court­yard‚ to look at my coarse hands and my common  boots‚”(Dickens‚ 85)​ .​  Born from a lower class‚ Pip had sense of lack inferiority regarding his  social class and opportunities for education. Although schools have always been around it wasn’t  until the Victorian era that education was improved considerably and available for all children 

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    Dulce Et Decorum Est

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    narrative poem using similes and verbal irony to get its tragic and some what ironic meaning across to readers. The poem begins with a very vivid image of similes. "Bent double‚ like old beggars under sacks‚ Knock-kneed‚ coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge" (1163). It portrays the soldiers as beggars and hags. The men who are supposed to be war heroes‚ compared to some of the people American think of as the lowest on the food chain in society. It’s showing how little respect these men are

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    Canterbury Tales Theme

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    gives penance to those who are able to pay. He is disdainful towards those who are poor and therefore cannot afford penance. He sees little use for beggars considering them scum. “It was not fitting with the dignity Of his position‚ dealing with a scum Of wretched lepers; nothing good can come.” (Chaucer p.27) He however‚ is himself a form of beggar which is why it is extremely hypocritical of the Friar to be scornful towards the poor. Chaucer’s description of the Friar shows that he has negative

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    Act I‚ Scene I Quote: "Unhappy that I am‚ I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less. Speaker: Cordelia is speaking to her father‚ King Lear. Analysis: King Lear is demanding that Cordelia and the rest of his daughters to tell him how much they love him for him to split up the kingdom for them. The other two daughters‚ Goneril and Regan‚ reply to The King the way he wants them too. Cordelia decides to reply more honestly she tells him that

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    Lazarillo De Tormes

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    view on Jews(ironically this would give him away as many Jews were born in Tormes). There are those such as David Rowland and A.Deyermond who may have us believe that Lazarillo ’s first name can be associated with the biblical story of Lazarus the beggar‚ who lay at the rich man ’s gates‚ and that he may have been Christian‚ but the way in which Lazarillo relates God with fortune‚ rather than any religious or Christianic sense‚ gives us the idea that he was not exactly a devout church goer and therefore

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    The great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger". To this day‚ his statement holds true and is the basis for many common inspirational sayings. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear‚ Lear’s second daughter suggests a similar idea and implies that suffering is a good teacher: "O‚ sir‚ to wilful men‚ / The injuries that they themselves procure / Must be their schoolmasters" (2.4.328-330). Base on the events that occur in the play‚ it is safe

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    Value of Happiness

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    Value of Happiness! Subjective well-being (SWB) which is defines as a scientific name for how people evaluate their lives depends on some indicators such as gender‚ race and wealth. It has been researched for centuries whether there is a correlation between money and happiness. Although there are some researchers against this idea as a result of some hypothesis such as Easterlin Paradox‚ the common view among them is that income has not a significant effect on subjective well-being in long-term

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    Origin of Pinky Promise

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    The Origin of Pinky Promise by Carmela O. Ello‚ HRD 21 Once upon a time‚ there was huge kingdom in the place of Argentina. There live a king and a queen who where blessed by a fairy with a very beautiful daughter‚ who was named Rhianna. She was very known for her stunning beauty and great intelligence. Because of these characteristics of her‚ princes from different kingdoms would come to visit their palace to propose to her. Rhianna had a hard time to choose among the princes

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    by Wilfred Owen is that the reality of war is brutal and scary. This is shown with the language technique of a simile. An example being “Bent double‚ like old beggars under sacks” The use of the simile shows the reader that the soldiers have become tired and worn down so much that they can hardly move by comparing them to old beggars who are hunched over and in really awful shape. This shows that war takes healthy young men’s bodies and makes them drained and exhausted. The idea that the reality

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