The Blue Boy Summary: In Gary Stephen Ross’ excerpt‚ “The Blue Boy‚” he describes Vancouver through the eyes of the main character. The character recounts a story of his travels that he would take with his father and brother from Toronto to Vancouver. The character highlights the ongoing transformation of the city and describes how it has evolved over time. In the beginning of the excerpt‚ he describes what he saw Vancouver to be in the 60s: a small city with little to offer. Contrastingly
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Reading a book is perhaps the greatest source of pleasure to a cultured person. Reading broadens his outlook‚ drives away his narrow prejudices and lightens up his mind with truth and knowledge. Books are our best friends. They never deceive or desert us in our hour of need like so many of our human friends‚ and the advantages once received from the reading of books remain with us throughout our lives. It is a great pleasure for us to read the books of the master minds of the past that have brightened
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Reading has many benefits. What are they? Introduction Most of us have been exposed to reading since we were young but not many of us have the habit of reading for leisure. - read only because they have to study for their examinations but reading is not only limited to study materials - fun to read storybooks‚ novels‚ magazines‚ comics‚ newspapers and any other reading material that is of interest to us Main body a) Reading enhances our general knowledge. - learn about various and cultures
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BOOKS AND READING Topical Vocabulary 1. Categorisation: Children’s and adult’s books; travel books and biography; romantic and historical novels; thrillers; detective stories; science fiction/fantasy; non-fiction; pulp fiction. absorbing; adult; amusing; controversial; dense; depressing; delightful; dirty; disturbing; dull; fascinating; gripping; moralistic; obscene; outrageous; profound; whimsical; unputdownable
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The Cricket Boy (A Chinese Tale) A long time ago‚ cricket fighting caught on inthe imperial court‚ withthe emperor leading the fad. A local magistrate in Huayin‚ who wanted to winthe favor of the monarch‚ tried in every way to gethim the best fightingcrickets. He had a strategy for doing so: He managed to geta cricket thatwas very good at fighting. He then made his subordinates go to theheads of each village and force them to send in a constant supply of fightingcrickets.He would send to the
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Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with
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The Importance of Reading Imagine walking in for a job interview; the supervisor hands you an application to fill out and after sitting down and staring at it blankly for a couple minutes the humiliation gets to you and you finally admit that you cannot read. The supervisor then politely thanks you for coming in‚ but says there is no way he can hire anybody who cannot read. Reading is more important than ever in today’s society. If you cannot read well than you will find it hard to have a successful
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9/28/13 Racism is worldwide‚ and has been going on for a long period of time. Kaffir boy helped me understand the racial discrimination that he went through easily. I honestly didn’t expect for racism to have gone that far. This book made me realize a variety of things‚ and what the word brave actually meant. Finding out that his father was taken away must have been devastating and acting strong was another competition. “My father had been arrested that morning in the bus stop for being unemployed
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest country in Africa‚ and it’s located slightly above the equator. The DRC is bordered by Angola‚ the Central African Republic‚ Burundi‚ Rwanda‚ Sudan‚ Tanzania‚ Uganda‚ and Zambia. They are the poorest country in Africa‚ yet it is considered by many to be the richest country because of its natural resources (Rural Poverty Portal). Located in the DRC is many valuable resources such as tin‚ tantalum‚ and tungsten.There are seventy-five million people
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”The Whipping Boy” written by Richard Gibney One of the most important events in the history of the United States of America is the Civil War from 1861-65. The war started because of the issue of slavery. It was a war where only America participated; it was a war between the Northern states‚ called the Union‚ and the Southern slave states‚ the Confederate States of America. The Union wanted to get rid of slavery in the USA‚ but the Confederacy did not want this‚ mostly because a lot of them owned
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