pirate ship flying in. Everyone in the village sees the sailing galleon‚ mouths wide in wonder. But it soon turns to horror at finding dragons sitting nearby on their hunches‚ smoke churning from their nostrils‚ eyes flashing fearsome grit. “Captain Barrabus wants to know if you want him to get the cannons ready?” asks Red Cloud. “Tell him to stand by.” says the Queen. She turns to the children. Wrinkling up her nose‚ she takes a sharp breath‚ “The boy is here somewhere. I can smell him.”
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These men are Captains of Industry‚ because they have helped our society by donating lots of their money to different charities and organizations. For Carnegie‚ he has‚“Donated more than $350 million to further public education‚ build over 2‚500 libraries.” (Website) Now that people can get a better education‚ they can get a better job and then support their family. Plus‚ poor people can check out books and get a free education‚ because there are more libraries. That way‚ they can get a job‚ support
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Captain James Cook‚ FRS‚ RN (7 November 1728[NB 1] – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer‚ navigator‚ cartographer‚ and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean‚ during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands‚ and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy
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Evaluate the career of Captain Arthur Phillip in his role as the first Governor. Captain Arthur Phillip’s role as first Governor of the colony of New South Wales proved to be efficient and successful despite the difficulties. Difficulties included‚ limited supplies and the soils around Sydney were of poor quality making cultivation difficult. Tools were scarce and the Marines were unsupportive and not at all interested in instilling the discipline the convicts required. Along with these chaotic
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How does Duffy present the theme of time in ’The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team’? In the poem‚ ’The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team’ by Carol Ann Duffy‚ many themes are frequently explored‚ time is a huge theme presented throughout‚ there are many relations and connections to time and how it changes people‚ affects our behaviour etc‚ this theme if explored by Duffy using a variety of techniques including structure‚ language‚ dramatic techniques and imagery used. Firstly time
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willingness to do what is right even when no one is looking. It is the "moral compass" the inner voice. . A person of integrity possesses moral courage and does what is right even if the personal cost is high. The drama; A Few Good Men and the poem; O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman are two different genres with the same theme of integrity and loyalty. Loyalty is primarily a function of trust‚ and that trust is usually given if integrity is perceived in the object of one’s trust. Although they have the same
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of my first season of cheer took place. We had practiced and practiced to make this one incredible. This pep rally was the most exasperating thing I have ever done‚ but I knew what to do so I just went out there and tried my best. My cheer squad had been anticipating this day for months‚ our first pep rally. That was the first day we got to wear our cheerleading uniforms to school. When I walked into the office doors that morning‚ Mrs. Smith ran in there to see my cheer uniform. As the day
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job getting across the point that although Captain MacWhirr’s character may seem to be nothing but an ordinary‚ uninteresting man‚ in reality‚ there is much more to his character than meets the eye. In lines 17-19 the speaker says “Yet the uninteresting lives of men so entirely given o the actuality of the bare existence have their mysterious side.” In this case‚ Captain MacWhirr’s “mysterious side” is his natural ability as a seaman. At home‚ Captain MacWhirr was seen only as a “perfectly satisfactory
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not cross the many minds of those living in the today’s world is the fear of the world simply coming to an end. Years of religion and science have not led anyone to feel that the end of the world is fast coming. In the article by Ira Chernus called “Cheer up‚ it’s just the end of the world” she goes into great detail about just how much the end of the world lacks fear. After expressing the downward slope that the world made in the sense of fearing their last minutes on earth‚ Chernus goes on to tell
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I am a coin of one rupee born in the year 1970. But very sad to say ‚ I can’t celebrate my birthday. Because I don’t have any birth certificate so‚ nobody knows the exact date. The year is only known to me as it’s engraved on my body. After I was born I was kept in a locker along with my other brothers and sisters Then‚ one day a shopkeeper involved me in a transaction As a balance amount‚ to a mother I was given. The mother’s boy wasn’t fascinated by my cute body Without hesitation
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