Ahmed Al-Nabhani Mr. L Modern Middle East A-block September‚ 2014 Is Oil a Blessing or a Course? 1908 was a turning point for the Middle East‚ due to the discovery of oil in Persia and in 1938 in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Arabian Gulf. Due to this blessed discovery of oil‚ the Middle East has been rapidly developing and become more developed over the years. This development could only happen of the oil money is put into good use and not taken by the corrupt and greedy members of the government
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create one. Lets take weapons and nuclear bomb as an example. Nuclear bombs and guns are used to kill. Even if you did survive a bomb attack‚ you would still infected with the gases‚ and cause mutations. I would say that technology is neither a curse or a blessing‚ but both. Sometimes its good for some things and at other times its not. We can’t really blame the object‚ because its doing what its programed to do. People should blame the ones who invented it. Also every good inventions such as a
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TECHNOLOGY BLESSING OR CURSE? ’Technology’ the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. ’ - Max Frisch‚ Homo Faber We live in the age of technology. We commute by automobiles and airplanes and communicate by emails and mobiles. The media and the Internet provide us the latest information from all over the world. Movies filled with hi-tech special effects entertain us. Air conditioners and room heaters keep our life comfortable despite climatic inconveniences ’¥.The
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SH** This word is one of the oldest of the current curse words that we use today. Its use can be found over 1‚000 years ago. It was first seen in the English language as scitte and was soon after known as scittan. This word was used to describe when cattle had diarrhea. It was also known as shite until the 1700s. Since then‚ we have used the current spelling of the word. A** / A**HOLE Since the 11th century‚ the word arse has been used to describe the buttocks of an animal. In the 14th
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society that exists today. This theme of a sense of estrangement from one’s surroundings‚ oneself‚ and other people‚ appears to be as old as history itself. Depicted in a new verse translation of “Beowulf”‚ by Seamus Heaney‚ as a man’s fight in a hostile world‚ much like an alien spirit‚ engaged in a battle which he cannot win. The comparison between the time gone by‚ examples from Beowulf’s time; The age of heroes‚ to the time that we live in today; the age of humanity‚ can be made by discussing three
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COMPUTERS – A BOON OR CURSE Computer - a Boon or curse ? In my opinion computer is a boon to the mankind. Dear friends can you imagine the world without computers. It would be like the life a 100 years back. Would you accept that life? Today we enjoy such a comfortable life‚ don’t we owe this to computers. Look at the way the computers have a role to play in our life. Today when we get up in the morning and want to read the newspaper‚ internet permits us to read the latest news of
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‘The Internet- a curse‚ not a blessing.’ Beyond a shadow of a doubt‚ the invention of the Internet is one of man’s greatest and most spectacular endeavours. For‚ it has truly revolutionalized the world in regards to how we engage in business‚ recreate‚ socialize‚ educate ourselves and communicate with each other. The Internet eliminated all impediments of conventional methods of operations. Through its construction‚ the world economies have flourished. Therefore‚ it can be said in a nut shell
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Perceived restraints on the seed treatment market: * In any event‚ the benefits of seed treatment are most likely to be realized under certain circumstances and are subjective like: * Crops planted in mid-April to early-May‚ especially no-till or minimum till with abundant crop residue. * Narrow spectrum seed treatments are effective against specific genera of fungi that cause damping-off‚ such as Pythium‚ above. * Fields with a history of post-planting problems (minor soil crusting
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The Titan’s Curse is a fantasy-adventure novel by Rick Riordan that is based on Greek mythology. It’s the third book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Percy Jackson‚ Annabeth Chase‚ and Thalia Grace receive a ride from Sally Jackson‚ Percy’s mother‚ to Westover Hall‚ which was a boarding school located in Bar Harbor‚ Maine‚ to find two half blood siblings named Bianca and Nico di Angelo that Grover Underwood has found. They are attacked by a Manticore named Dr. Thorn. Although Artemis
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inadequate. In specific this portrayal of justice has developed overtime throughout media and literature due to many outside influences from either new government policies to newly adopted ethics some of the best examples of these would be the brave hero Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon written book as well as his 20th century contrast in Batman the motion picture‚ as for vigilantes the classic book Dracula based out of Victorian England comfortably plays that role and also has a 20th century counterpart in the
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