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    Greatest Love Of All" (Whiney Houston) I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of pride to make it easier Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be Only a mentally deranged builder would cut corners with the foundation and pillars of a mansion he plans to live in. A parallel could be drawn between the pertinence of the foundation of a mansion or sky-scraper and that of the

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    word‚ it might not be the nicest name‚ but it works most of the time. Likewise‚ soldiers have names for everyone that they have war with. The language of war is something everyone does. In his essay “From Ancient Greece to Iraq the power of Words in Wartime‚” Robin Tolmach Lakoff says‚ “Human beings are social animals‚ genetically hardwired to feel compassion towards others. Under normal conditions‚ most people find it very difficult to kill.” ( Lakoff 7). The subject of war and there are mass killings

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    dreams of graduating from high school‚ attending prom and then going off to college but she may never achieve these dreams because her family doesn’t have the money to pay for them. They are not homeless but with only little over $100 a month and many children to feed‚ they are forced to go to food banks and charities for help. Meanwhile‚ Alicia is relaxing beside her pool‚ the only thing on her mind being her vacation wardrobe. To her‚ college is just another place where you make friends and learn useless

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    Children of the Holocaust Children were the most vulnerable people during the holocaust era. The Nazis had it set in their minds that they killed them because of a racial struggle or as a measure of security. The Germans and their collaborators killed them for both those reasons and also in retaliation towards the partisan attacks. 1.5 million children were brutally murdered by both the Germans and their collaborators. Amongst these children about one million Jewish children were killed. The

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    in “Midnight’s Children” which involves magical reality‚ history and political issues. The oral narrative used by Saleem Sinai is the advanced technique‚ where he narrates his story of life to his beloved‚ called Padma. It is a story of two nations. Midnight’s Children is described as a national allegory. Neil ten Kortenaar argues that Saleem’s narrative is a narrative of India’s national Independence and it is for this reason that the story of Saleem Sinai in Midnight’s Children has been described

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    ARGUMENT/SYNTHESIS PRE-WRITE 1. What is your topic? Arming Pilots. 2. What is your claim? Pilots should not be armed. 3. What is your thesis sentence? Supporters of arming pilots argue that it a better solution than equipping airplanes with sky marshals and that it would considerably enhance the security of airplanes. However‚ crucial constraints‚ such as the risk of crash that can be caused by a bullet hole in the airplane‚ the fact that pilots can’t be blindly trusted to carry guns‚

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    Polygamy and Children

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    POLYGAMY Imagine a young girl of twelve marrying a man of forty whom she has never seen before and being forced to produce children until her body is physically unable to perform a safe pregnancy. Imagine the girl being brainwashed and beaten for contradicting with a belief held by another man and forced to stay in her community for her entire life without knowing anything of the outside world. This scary world exists not just in imagination‚ but in the form of marriage known as polygamy. Found

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    Paper on “Superman is about the visit the relocation centers’ & the Limits of Wartime Liberalism” In “‘Superman is about the visit the relocation centers’ & the Limits of Wartime Liberalism” Gordon Chang clearly explains that‚ “Japs were frequent and predictably portrayed as villains” (Chang 38)‚ and as a consequence of the powerful media used to show that‚ it “highly influenced” the public opinion on them. In the comic strip‚ they are described as “cruel-faced” and “sinister-looking” which make

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    Ch 22‚ Q3: How did progressive ideals fare during wartime? The progressive ideals did not fare well during wartime; the only ideals that gained a victory were woman suffrage and prohibition. Women had made great progressive during the Progressive era and the war brought new opportunities for women. Over 25‚000 women served in France during the war (Roark 725). The biggest advancement in woman suffrage was when Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919‚ which granted women the right to vote

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    Missing Children

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    abundance of missing children/ children abduction cases. A statistic released by police of Malaysia‚ stated that a total of 3223 children below 18 went missing between 2008 and April last year (2012). Of this figure‚ only about 1000 cases were solved. From the statistic‚ it’s clearly shown that‚ over 3223 cases reported 2223 cases still unsolved. The questions are‚ how does it happen? Who should be blamed? What the impact of this scenario? And what are the best ways to prevent children from missing?

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