India prevail over Pakistan in a nail biter The 3rd and the last one-day international between India and Pakistan played on 6th January‚ 2013 in New Delhi finally gave the Indian supporters a reason to celebrate. In a low scoring game‚ India(167 all out) beat Pakistan(157 all out) by 10 runs to prevent a white wash in the 3 match series. Pakistan defeated India in the previous two ODIs and were all set to clean sweep the series. India won the toss and decided to bat first but the poor batting
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International Oratory Programme in Brunei Darussalam Our trip started on 20th of April 2013‚ fun fact - the day of universal appreciation of marijuana (not that I’m trying to encourage you students out there). We went straight away to Bintulu with a total of 14-hour long road trip and a few pit stops to catch a breath from the humid air and cramped space in bus for which we stayed a night at SM Teknik Bintulu with a great given hospitality. Next day‚ we were told to wake up earlier than 5:00
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What a perfect time to return home in Camelot. Even though i do not have a permanent residence in which i can call my home‚ King Arthur’s castle is the one place i can rely to be welcomed and treated as family. I refuse to complain‚ however after spending much of the year surveying the kingdom‚ i have grown quite tired. Only after arriving at the gigantic stone walls protecting the closest family i have‚ do i realize how much i missed being here. Upon entering‚ i am greeted with yells and shouts
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Dear diary‚ Sorry I haven’t been writing lately‚ it’s just that I haven’t been able to think properly ever since Denny died. I just came back from finding the body and mum and dad haven’t even noticed that I left. Maybe it should have been me and not Denny. He was the better son. He did everything that dad wanted him to do‚ and he was cool about it. He played football and joined the army. Girls were always around him. God‚ why did he have to go! It should have been me!! There are so many things
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Slave to Connection That nagging urge we have to constantly check our computer‚ phone‚ i-Pad‚ whatever technological device we have in our possession is due to our need to connect. Sherry Turkle‚ in her article “The Flight From Conversation”‚ makes the following observation on this issue: “We expect more from technology and less from one another”. The increased emphasis on connection rather than conversation has caused a sense of dependency on the technology that connects us. In the words of Turkle
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The Forty Thieves Retold by Andrew Lang In a town in Persia there dwelt two brothers‚ one named Cassim‚ the other Ali Baba. Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty‚ while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town. One day‚ when Ali Baba was in the forest‚ he saw a troop of men on horseback‚ coming toward him in a cloud of dust. He was afraid they were robbers‚ and climbed into a tree for safety. When they
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(Franiuk and Scherr 19). The female characters in The Vampire Diaries are magically enamored to the vampires‚ due to their stereotypical masculine portrayal. The beginning of the human/vampire relationship is connected to masculine depictions by the male vampires. Stefan‚ for example‚ demonstrates his skills on the football pitch before Elena and he get together (20). Elena is a down to earth girl with brunette hair and although she is popular at school and has some admirer‚ she does not present
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As an 11-year old boy entering his first year of middle school‚ Gregory Heffley in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid finds himself in the transition between childhood and adulthood. Unsure of his role in his friendships‚ school‚ and his family‚ Greg develops significantly in the film. In Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development‚ an 11 year old likely is still largely in the concrete operational stage while slowly developing into the formal operational stage. In this stage‚ children become more logical‚
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Anne Frank: Diary of a young Girl “The Diary of a young girl” is an autobiographical novel written Anne Frank which details her experiences during the time of Nazi revolution. The book was conceived right after Anne received a diary as a birthday gift from her father‚ Otto Frank. Being the main character‚ Anne displays a spirit of endurance which is exemplified throughout the text. In deed endurance serves as a unique human spirit as characterized by Anne Frank‚ whereby she is able to endure
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a plan of action. In that connection Helen Simpson wrote the short story “Diary of an Interesting Year” for the American magazine The New Yorker. “Diary of an Interesting Year” is a humorous post-apocalyptic story that begins in February 2040 from where it extends over nearly one year where the reader gains an insight into a world that has sustained the severe consequences of the global warming. Through her diary we follow the narrator who is a thirty-year-old woman living in a small town
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