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    Book Review Book Title: “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish” By - Rashmi Bansal Submitted By: Md Shahnawaz Ahmad Course: IX Batch Executive Programme in Management Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management Indian Institute Of Technology‚ Bombay [pic] [pic] One of the best book by Rashmi Bansal narrating a story of 25 successful entrepreneurs from IIM- Ahmedabad. The book inspire young graduates to

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    Izzy 7A St. Catherine of Bologna St. Catherine‚ virgin of the Church‚ was born as Catherine de’ Vigri on September 8‚ 1413 in Bologna‚ Italy. She grew up in a wealthy home and received a great education. Catherine loved and excelled at painting‚ Latin‚ and the viola. When Catherine was only 13 or 14 years old she had a calling for the religious life and joined the convent of Corpus Domini at Ferrara. These were devout women who followed the rule of the Third Order of St. Augustine. Four years

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    Catherine Freeman was born in Mackay in Queensland. She won her first gold medal at a school athletics championship when she was eight years old. Catherine Freeman’s stepfather‚ Bruce Barber‚ coached her until 1989. Catherine Freeman’s family did not have a lot of money and‚ like many Australian Aboriginals‚ suffered discrimination from white people. Catherine remembers winning one race at a primary school competition‚ when she had to watch on as the white girls she had beaten received trophies

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    A Presentation of the Personalities of Heathcliff and Murray Kempton once admitted‚ ‘No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.’ The human race continually focuses on characters who intentionally harm others and create damaging situations for their own benefit. Despite popular morals‚ characters who display an utter disregard for the natural order of human life are characters who are often deemed iconic and are thoroughly scrutinized. If only the characters of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

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    silhouette‚ I put many different things in her mind. An example of irony and symbolism was a bird in a cage labeled “trapped”. It is irony because Catherine wants to be free‚ but she keeps her birds in a cage. It affects the other literary elements of the book. One thing the irony and symbolism effects are the exaggeration. The symbolism and irony make Catherine say how she is trapped and lives with a beast. I included some conflict in her mind‚ like forced marriage. It affects the exaggeration also because

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    During World War I‚ it was the accepted social norm that women belonged in the kitchen. They took the back seat to men‚ specializing in cooking and cleaning. They were the caretaker of the home and the raiser of the children. Catherine Barkley is an impeccable example of this social norm in Ernest Hemingway’s‚ A Farewell to Arms. Her submissive nature is key to the existence of the story. So important‚ in fact‚ that the story may not be at all possible without it. She submits to Lieutenant

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    Katherine Mansfield close reading how to analyse prose fiction Close reading is the most important skill you need for any form of literary studies. It means paying especially close attention to what is printed on the page. It is a much more subtle and complex process than the term might suggest. Close reading means not only reading and understanding the meanings of the individual printed words; it also involves being sensitive to all the subtle uses of language in the hands of skilled writers.

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    World’s Worst Dictators There are many different dictators in the world‚ who have all done horrific and immoral things. They all have their worst points‚ and different people rank the “Worlds Worst Dictators” differently. I believe that Hu Jintao‚ from China‚ is the number one worst dictator‚ King Abdullah from‚ Saudi Arabia‚ is second‚ and Sayyid Ali Khamernei‚ from Iran‚ is third. Sayyid Ali Khamernei has been the dictator of Iran since 1989. Since then he has oppressed the rights of women

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    POWER AND ITS POWERS: The Supremacy of Power Frank Chodorov‚ an American writer and libertarian once said “The State acquires power and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.” When I was in my high school‚ I always dreamed for Utopia‚ a perfect state wherein there is no poverty and starvation. Power is delegated in every people and there’s equality‚ justice and freedom. Utopia sometime refers for World peace‚ this may sounds

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    Power is a drug more alluring than any other and few individuals given access to it are able to resist its intoxicating draw. It drives most who drink from it insane with the thirst for more and then even more. All caught in powers spell eventually succumb to it and become corrupted to the point of no return. This is true time and time again throughout the entirety of recorded human history. Up until their demise‚ monarchs of European countries turned their peoples against them in droves with high

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