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    Data Commentary

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    Queenie 1097300104 E5B Data Analysis First Part Personal information: including the participants’ gender‚ age‚ educational background‚ marital status and monthly income. Gender As Figure 1 showed‚ there were 45% of female participants and 55% of male. The numbers of the participants of each gender were very close. Age The respondents were all my friends on Facebook; as the result‚ the majority (73%) of their age was in the range of 16-20‚ as seen in Figure 2. Figure 1: Gender

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    Commentary Essay

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    HIV became known in 1983‚ it was then that scientist and the government became interested in knowing where this epidemic originated from and how. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a lot like other viruses‚ including those that cause the common cold‚ but it is important to know that over time‚ your immune system will become weak as the severity of HIV increases. What HIV does is attack your T cells‚ which help your body fight infections‚ it them takes over them to make its own. A person will only

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    Commentary On Kindred

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    If different people started transporting between the past and the present which raise would mostly like be able to survive easier? Kindred was an interesting book about a black woman‚ named Dana that started transporting between the past and present periods. She would always transport to the past to help a white boy named Rufus before he did something that would kill him. Each time she would transport to help Rufus he would be a few years older and she would be there for a longer period of time

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    In “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua AchebeAchebe demonstrates how family brings the Ibo culture together and how it causes it to fall apart. Achebe uses point of view to develop and support how family can bring Ibo culture together but just as easily tear it apart. The purpose of this novel was to show the impact family has in Ibo culture in order to demonstrate the effects to western cultures. Things Fall Apart Is a novel about a man Okonkwo and his village. From a very young age Okonkwo was known

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    truth when it comes to the Imperialist stereotypes which are placed upon Africa. Stereotypes label Africa as an uncivilized continent. However‚ Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart‚ illustrates the civilization in Umuofia as an advanced society. Achebe contradicts the stereotypes of Africa through the presence of Igbo culture‚ religion and judicial system. Achebe portrays the Igbo culture’s appreciation and respect for their values through their traditions. There are many traditions that the Igbo tribe

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    There is a huge struggle between tradition and change. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe we see this struggle happen with the main character‚ Okonkwo. He is a man who has gained respect with his people by hard work throughout his life without having a role model father who eventually died while in debt. Okonkwo’s identity is challenged by the cultural collision because it endangered his role within his people‚ changed his people’s ways and views toward him‚ and caused his family to break apart

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    Othello commentary

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    English 122 Mrs. Ayer Suin Kim November‚ 26th.2013 Emilia Speaks Her Mind One of Shakespeare’s famous plays ‘Othello’ is about a black man who marries a white woman‚ and then murders his wife because of unfounded jealousy. The play also contains another dysfunctional marriage between Iago and Emilia‚ which also ends with the husband murdering his wife. Emilia‚ Iago’s wife‚ has never received love from her husband. In Act 4‚ Scene 3 line 95-115‚ Emilia’s speech is structured as if she experienced

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    1604 commentary

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    1604 Document After reading the document from the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre‚ please consider the following question: How is the setting of Othello significant‚ and how would a Jacobean audience feel about this play? Make references to Act 1 as well‚ if you feel you can incorporate some lines from the play to substantiate your claim. If you quote do cite correctly (I.i.24-73). Consider how Shakespeare begins the play – time‚ setting‚ who gets the first words‚ how Othello is developed

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    Things Fall Apart Essay     In the book Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe has a lot of hidden stories and explanations to certain things.  The allegory‚ The Tortoise and the Feast in the Sky helps decipher the direct meaning‚ the cultural meaning and the readers meaning.  All three of these help relate to the novel’s meaning itself.   Direct meaning can also mean the representation of the characters.  When Okonkwo kills the white man‚ his tribe doesn’t do anything to help or back him up.  An

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    A Man of the People By Chinua Achebe (Term paper) Rod Daniel P. Antonio II-11 BSE Major in English Ruth A. Alido Professor in Afro-Asian Literature “It didn`t matter what you knew but who you knew.” (Page 17) How far would someone go to eradicate corruption in politics? Oftentimes‚ due to ignorance we tend to believe the things that are presented to us‚ as true and valid without any hesitation whatsoever. What would be the criteria to get or to be called “A man of the people”? Is

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