No Longer at Ease From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo (also spelled Ibo) man‚ Obi Okonkwo‚ who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service‚ but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the sequel to Achebe ’s Things Fall Apart‚ which concerned the struggle of Obi Okonkwo ’s grandfather Okonkwo against the changes
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Our Troops Should Come Home There is much controversy surrounding the war in Iraq‚ both in terms of its legality‚ its practicality and its current course. Within all of these elements there are arguments to be found that suggest that the troops currently in Iraq should indeed come home. The main argument for bringing home the troops is that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place‚ as no weapons of mass destruction were found‚ and they are now doing virtually nothing to help the situation
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‘Life is too easy for young people today. They lack challenges and don’t have to fight for anything’ Write an article for a magazine of your choice which persuades your readers that this statement is either right or wrong. (24 marks) I’m a fifteen year old boy living in London. So I guess I fit in the category of ‘young people’. I have been hearing the statement ‘Life is too easy for young people today. They lack challenges and don’t have to fight for anything’. But recently it has been said
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of Interactive Technology History and Workings of Interactive Technology Within Communications Devices How many times do you check your phone or PDA everyday? Every hour? Half hour? Ten minutes? Most people can’t even go one whole day without their communications devices at the ready. Have you ever stopped and wondered how we even got to this point in the first place? The answer is growing interactive technology within our communications devices. From gaming‚ to movies‚ to buying online
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Families today are no longer able to adequately meet the needs of their members. In my opinion‚ some families today are no longer able to adequately meet the needs of their members. In today’s society‚ there are many instances where women‚ youths and children are in a horrible state of living. They are being abuse and maltreated by their own irresponsible parents or spouse. Not meeting their basic needs is considered as neglecting them. Neglect is a type of abuse where individuals fail to meet
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MNEMONIC DEVICE Individuals who use mnemonic devices have a greater ability to process information rather than those who do not. Using symbolic and auditory messages can help everyone to signal their memory recall process. Many people do not use mnemonic devices as a memorization tool and those are disadvantaged to the people who do. If everyone started to make an effort to use mnemonic devices‚ people could recall stored information much more efficiently throughout daily life. The first
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surge in weight gain. People are eating more pre-prepared meals than ever before (both of the boxed variety found in supermarkets and at restaurants and fast food locations)‚ and engaging in lifestyles that are increasingly sedentary‚ both due to changes in the job market that have more of us sitting at desks for eight to 12 hours a day and because of changes in how we spend our leisure time. But a 2007 Statistics Canada study brought in a related factor and uncovered many things that were quite
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‘Life is too easy for young people today’; something often said by members of older generations‚ particularly those of the baby boomer generation that followed the Second World War and are now in retirement. Were as some may read this and nod their heads in agreement‚ the world is a different place to what it used to be. Young people may seem to have it easy‚ but in many ways‚ they have it much harder then anyone could imagine. In the times of old‚ a teenager could leave school and go straight
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Kathryn Williams Gloria Crabtree English 101 13 September 2014 Too Many People Indeed In America higher education has become an expectation of high school teachers‚ advisors‚ and parents for students to obtain a successful life and prosper in their field of study‚ no matter the conditions‚ after graduating high school. In this article‚ “Are Too Many People Going to College‚” written by Charles Murray‚ he feels that not everyone is meant to earn a college degree‚ even though society thinks
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2013 Why people continue to smoke despite the known health risks In 2010 the CDC stated they replied to around fifteen thousand people’s questions‚ all concerning tobacco and its use (Tobacco). That is not even including the around six million people who simply viewed their “Smoking and Tobacco Use Web site” (Tobacco). With the amount of information that is readily available‚ and the large number of people viewing the information about known health risks‚ it seems people would not
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