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    Only a handful of authors have been as successful as Margaret Atwood. She was born November 18‚ 1939 in Ottawa‚ Canada. As a poet and novelist she ’s won over 55 awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award‚ the Governor General ’s Award and the Booker Prize five times (“Margaret Atwood”). Though she ’s written over 40 novels and collections of poetry‚ her most notable works consist of The Handmaid ’s Tale‚ Oryx and Crake‚ The Edible Woman‚ The Blind Assassin‚ and The Year of the Flood. She writes

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    The Utopia Pericles Created A Golden Age is classified by peace‚ stability and prosperity during a specific period of time. The term “Golden Age” comes from the Greek Mythology‚ Chryson Genos‚ which is the first of the five Greek Ages of Man. The etymology shows that Golden Age‚ by definition‚ is a time of immense prosperity‚ harmony‚ and an abundance of different art and leisure forms. Following the Persian Wars‚ the Delian League was formed and an exceptional leader emerged. Pericles was born

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    The Highway to socio-economic development– the Golden Quadrilateral The Golden Quadrilateral is a network of highways connecting India’s top four metropolitan cities‚ namely Delhi‚ Mumbai‚ Chennai and Kolkata‚chennak thereby‚ forming a quadrilateral. The principal objective of India’s most vaunted highway project is to connect most of the major agricultural industrial and cultural centers of India. Some of the more important centers being (Karnataka)‚ Chennai (Tamil Nadu)‚ Visakhapatnam (Andhra

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    Movie: On Golden Pond

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    On Golden Pond Cassandra Mclean Central Carolina Community College I would have to admit that this was my first time ever hearing of this movie until this assignment but once I saw it I absolutely fell in love with all the characters and the different dynamics of family. It begins with Norman and Ethel Thayer moving back to their lake house in Maine for the summer. Norman and Ethel have been married a long time and will be celebrating Norman’s eightieth birthday and welcoming back their daughter

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    King Arthur Radley Extract

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    scene occurs at the end of the book in chapter 31‚ when Scout is walking Arthur Radley back to his house. After Arthur was able to easily come out and help Jem and Scout‚ when they were being attacked by Bob Ewell‚ Scout wondered why he had never interacted in person with them before. This dialogue shows how Scout is growing up and how she is stepping into Arthur’s shoes to fully understand things she never did before. My dialogue adds on to two majors themes in the book. Also‚ it adds an explanation

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    Summary of Extracts on Organ Donation The following is a summary of information regarding organ donation found in the extracts of articles by Boyle (2006) and Wilkinson (2008). It highlights the critical need for donors‚ the positive impact donation can have on a recipient’s quality of life‚ and the need for clearer guidelines in regards to the process. Organ donation is a highly emotive subject that polarises opinion. For every person who makes the decision to donate their organs to save another

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    The Golden Age Of Flying

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    The Golden Age of Flying It is easy for a modern day flyer to look back at photos of people flying in the 50’s and 60’s and to wish that flying were the same today. Unlike pictures of people flying today‚ which illustrate casually dressed‚ grumpy passengers‚ packed into a stark-white cabin‚ pictures from 60 years ago illustrate formally dressed‚ smiling passengers‚ eating steak and lobster off of fine china. The presumably superior flying experience throughout the 50’s and 60’s is commonly

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    Clara Chung-wai Shih was born in Hong Kong in 11th f January 1982. Shih and her family immigrated to the United States when she was 4 years old. Her father was a math professor in Hong Kong but in the US he became an electrical engineer. Her mother used to be an art teacher in Hong Kong and in the US she went back to school and became a special-education teacher. In Chicago an elementary school Clara Shih attended she was placed in special class for students with speech impediments because school

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    The process of growing may be challenging and painful for some individuals‚ especially when they experience alienation as a form of protecting their innocence and contempt towards the perceived phoniness of the adult world. The opening extract from J.D Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ (1951) is very significant in relation of the novel. This novel‚ renowned for its didactic nature also voices the opinions and struggles of many young American teens in the post – modern World War II period. Salinger

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    Golden Age of Piracy

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    one[i]. With wisps of smoke billowing around his face‚ Blackbeard‚ the most treacherous pirate in history‚ emerges from his cabin to join the fight. In the golden age of piracy‚ Captain Edward Teach‚ more commonly known as Blackbeard‚ stands out as the fiercest and most important figure. Blackbeard and his crew successfully controlled commerce along the North Carolina and Virginia coast from 1717-1718. Blackbeard influenced government in Bath‚ North Carolina‚ ultimately controlling the governor during

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