“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world”‚ said George Bernard Shaw. Respected teacher and my dear friends a very good morning to one and all. Today I stand before you all to say a few words on the topic ‘Importance of Cleanliness’. In simple words‚ cleanliness is the opposite of dirty. It has got high importance. People should learn to be hygienic to lead a healthy life. We need to brush our teeth daily with frequent hand wash before and after
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Knowledge comes‚ but wisdom lingers. Lord Tennyson Frailty‚ thy name is woman! Shakespeare In the end‚ everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin The best love affairs are those we never had. Norman Lindsay Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers Fortune favors the brave. Virgil I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal Great works are performed
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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Should laws and policies aim to maximize happiness? Laws and policies are described in many dictionaries and it is possible to find many descriptions and ideas of what is the true purpouse of laws and policies. Theodore Roosevelt has said‚ that „No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.” This means that it is an important issue we have to pay attention to. In this essay work I would like to go deeper in my own consciousness
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these early expectations. When the play opened in Scandinavia early in 1885‚ critics paid relatively little attention to it. The play soon traveled throughout the continent. While a few luminaries commended it notably the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke most early critics found the play incomprehensible and incoherent. Audiences‚ as well‚ showed little positive response to The Wild Duck. The Wild Duck Author Biography Ibsen was born in 1828 in a small town in Norway
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Treat others the way you want to be treated was the basic classroom rule we were all taught when we were younger. People often fail to realize that this rule still applies to us as we get older. A quote from George Bernard Shaw says” The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them‚ but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity”. Meaning‚ it is our heartlessness that allows us to feel indifference towards others; it steals the harmony in the world. Octavia Butler allows
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Anatole France “Reach high‚ for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep‚ for every dream precedes the goal.” - Pamela Vaull Starr “You see things; and you say‚ ’Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say‚ ’Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” - Thomas Alva Edison “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein “He is able who thinks he is able.” - Buddha “Recognition
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code 4328) Assignment on Essay Writing K to 12 Curriculum : A Change for the Better or for Worse? “Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”‚ is a quote from George Bernard Shaw that seems to support the implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum. K to 12 Curriculum was proposed last 2011 and implemented a year after. It seeks to develop 21st century skills among its learners that require 21st century skilled-teachers. In
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and illustrated by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw is set in two different places of the world. I choose this book because it was comparing and contrasting different places; America and India. The pen pals‚ Elliot and Kailash‚ write to each other about how they both love to climb trees‚ have pets‚ and ride a school bus. There world’s are different but they are very similar. It helps readers realize that not everyone is the same and we all have differences. “Kostecki-Shaw learned the saying ‘same‚ same but different’
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Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde‚ who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that‚ "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay‚ written as a Platonic dialogue‚ Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life’s imitative instinct‚ but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression‚ and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through
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