High bride price and low intellectual capabilities Girls are a source of instant wealth‚ therefore‚ are retained at home for bride price. Research confirms that parents value most of their young girls like gold‚ coffee and other commodities to be traded at the immediate market value. They are only few and scarce that their value has soared recently. This is even worse around Ialibu area and some parts of Central Province. Some young girls can cost around K20 000. Women are used as the medium
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film directed by Tim Burton. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures‚ one of Hollywood’s “Big Six” film studios‚ and film stars including Johnny Depp‚ Mia Wasikowska‚ Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. The movie is based on a nineteen year old girl named Alice going onto an audacious adventure. Alice has been confronted by an unwanted marriage proposal to a man‚ not knowing of how to reply‚ Alice gets overwhelmed and runs away following a rabbit in a blue waistcoat‚ and accidentally falls into
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5. Explain how literary techniques‚ including foreshadowing and flashback‚ are used to shape the plot of a literary text. So far I have read a fourth of the book. The book is very good with its uses of outstanding descriptions of the setting and the excitement of adventure. So far the book has been a page turner. The book uses literary techniques such as flashback. The book is manly about a young man that is fresh out of college and gives everything he has to charity then hits hicks all the way
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difference between the rich upper class society and the poor lower class society. - Positive: gives the parents utmost control over family matters and members. They would decide on someone‚ who is the best for their son/daughter. - Negative: boy and the girl do not know each other. get married without knowing and understanding each other - Not ahigh chance of liking eachother and hence no mutual level of understanding and subjected to a life of compromise. - Such a system favours familial and societal
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December 7‚ 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii; also attack the Philippines‚ Wake Island‚ Guam‚ Malaya‚ Thailand‚ Shanghai and Midway. December 8‚ 1941 - U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand. December 9‚ 1941 - China declares war on Japan. December 11‚ 1941 - Japanese invade Burma. December 15‚ 1941 - First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a U.S. submarine. December 23‚ 1941 - General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to
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Popular girls "Popular girls" is a short story from 2001 by Karen Shephard. She is born and raised in New York and her work has been published in several papers. The short-story sets in the early 80 ’s where we get some insight in the life of five rich and popular girls. They are self-centered and don ’t have the slightest interest in other people. Their entire life is about maintaining their image as a group. The setting is New York‚ which is the riches city in the US. The city is also known as
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their Chinese identity and belonging and this brings a positive change in both o f them. Initially‚ Leah’s unwillingness t o travel to China is shown in her attitude towards her mother and China. This is mainly due to the resentment she feels towards her mother for taking her to China so quickly after her father’s death. However‚ as the two travel together they begin to understand more about themselves‚ their relationship with each other and their sense o f belonging t o an extended family in
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Kino‚ the novella’s protagonist‚ is a young Mexican-Indian pearl diver married to Juana; they have a baby named Coyotito. Their lives seem rather peaceful‚ but their tranquility is threatened when a scorpion bites Coyotito. Juana tells Kino to go to town and get the doctor‚ but Kino and their neighbors tell Juana that the doctor will never come to where they live‚ so Juana decides to take matters into her own hands and sets off with Coyotito to the doctor. Kino accompanies Juana‚ and many members
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An Unknown Girl In the poem ‘An Unknown Girl’‚ Moniza Alvi uses poetic techniques such as metaphors‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ repetition and similes in order to depict her struggles in rediscovering her cultural identity. Along with references to India and the scenery surrounding the narrator‚
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Ancient Greece primarily consisted of chiton‚ peplos‚ himation and chlamys. Clothes were mainly home made and often served many purpose. Archimedes’ father was an astronomer Phidias and he was probably related to Hieron II‚ the king of Syracuse. Belonging to a Greek family young Archimedes was always encouraged to get education and be knowledgeable. Besides math and science his other major interests included: poetry‚ politics‚ astronomy‚ music‚ art and military tactics. Archimedes received his formal
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