“But they have dreams to use more modern equipments. This is the market! You can’t ignore this.” Mr. Ranganathan reacted strongly to his colleague. “The Dream! Where government still not reached‚ the companies reached that places much before.” Mr. Ranganathan took a long sip from the glass and put few potato chips in his mouth. “You may not find electricity in a remote village but you will find a packet of potato chips.” He raised his hand with a potato chips as evidence. “We all know everyone can’t
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In the book Walk Two Moons‚ I chose the character Phoebe to represent my geometric shape. Phoebe in the book is very stubborn and stuck on not accepting Sal’s opinion. This event happens when Sal disagrees that her mom left and will not be coming back. Phoebe gets upset to hear that because then she says that her mother was kidnapped. In the book‚ it says‚ “My mother didn’t ‘take off’. Someone kidnapped her. She is undergoing tremendous sacrifice” (Creech 154). I think this quote explains Phoebe’s
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Should the hereditary peers in the House of Lords be removed? For a long time there has been a debate on whether or not The House of Lords should be democratically elected. Since the government was formed the Upper House consists of hereditary peers and life peers‚ among others‚ though the number of hereditary peers has decreased. These people do not have to worry about politics and electioneering‚ and therefore they often revise and debate problems. No matter what they say they will not risk losing
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In Alice Hoffman’s novel‚ Turtle Moon‚ a main character is Julian Cash‚ a police officer who is withdrawn from his small town‚ Verity. The initial impression the author gives about Julian is his cold and brutal characteristics. The author then develops him throughout the novel into a sociable‚ and warmhearted character. This is important as the character’s development further illustrates the novel’s message‚ that love can be found anywhere‚ even in Verity. In the beginning of the novel‚ his lack
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The Man on the Moon: Andy Kaufman by Marcos Gonzalez You sit down in Carnegie Hall. The theatre is packed‚ not a single seat is open. Your excitement begins to build as you reach the edge of your seat waiting for the performer to show his face. The curtains open and out comes a skinny‚ sweaty‚ hairy man in a brown suit and light-blue‚ collared shirt. He looks disheveled‚ pulls up a stool and begins to read The Great Gatsby. About an hour in‚ the crowd begins to filter out‚ but he continues
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This affects the rest of the story because it causes these further events. Lena loses control and stops time all together‚ but Amma being a caster herself would be able to help Lena get Ethan back to life. They do a trade with The Book Of Moons. Ethan’s life for someone else’s. Lena starts to believe that it hadn’t worked and starts crying uncontrollably but then soon after Ethan wakes up and comforts her and she starts to wonder who’s life was sacrificed‚ then is destroyed by the pain she
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Under the same moon tells the parallel stories of nine-year old Carlitos and his mother‚ Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son‚ Rosario works illegally in the U.S while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way‚ mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again. The purpose of this
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The House of Mapuhi‚ Jack London Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines‚ the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze‚ and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water‚ a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide‚ twenty miles in circumference‚ and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell‚ and from the deck of the schooner‚ across the slender
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Why do people spend time worrying about things in the past‚ when they have so much future ahead of them? In the award winning novel‚ Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech‚ a mysterious note is dropped off on the Winterbottom’s front porch: “In the course of a lifetime‚ what does is matter?” Through this metaphor‚ this message is trying to reveal to people that they should not fret the things in life that won’t matter in a few days‚ months‚ or the course of a lifetime. Even thinking about events that occurred
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The American Dream The American Dream is a phenomenon‚ an idea being very important for the very patriotic country of the United States of America. James Truslow Adams defined the idea in 1931: “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone‚ with opportunity for each (…) regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” James T.A.’s quote spelled out is very much a gathering of ideals in which freedom involves the opportunity
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