There is more to life than just having everything What use is a sword if you use it to peel apples? What use is a boat if you sail in it in a swimming pool. And what use is a life you waste it chasing worldly illusions? History remembers those who do‚ not those who have. You can possess all the wealth in the world and yet be the poorest of all. For man’s identity stems from his emotions and his characters‚ not his mortal possessions. Of course‚ in today’s materialistic world‚ where success
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There is nothing worse than getting gum stuck on the bottom of your shoe because of some lazy arse scum that couldn’t even be bothered to walk half a yard to a bin. Just think you’re walking down the road to where ever you might be going and you start to realise your sticking to the floor‚ so you scrape your shoe across the floor thinking that will resolve it but does it? No that’s what I thought. You look at the bottom of your shoe and see a lump of spit filled gum holding on for dear life‚ yet laughing
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“Nothing Can Happen More Beautiful Than Death” In death‚ people will find that it is a ravishing‚ striking thing. “Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall” was written to show the beauty in death. People see how beautifully colored the leaves are‚ but they don’t seem to realize that the leaves are dying and that’s what makes them charming. The way that leaves change color is a process that most people usually won’t understand‚ but in order for them to turn colors‚ they have to die. Leaves are green
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developed from ancient Greece and Rome. Alien to northern Europe. Assignment Four: How were Pugin’s ideas on tradition expressed in the art and architecture of St Chad’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Birmingham? In what ways might these ideas be seen as dissenting? St Chad’s Cathedral was designed by Pugin and was completed during 1837 – 41. St Chad’s was the first Roman Catholic Church to be constructed in England following the reformation‚ a feat which was accomplished following The Roman Catholic
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strikingly beautiful‚ loyal but manipulative temptress‚ oozing femininity as she seduces the two most powerful men in Egypt‚ Marc Antony and Julius Caesar. A question this raises is‚ was she an insecure Queen who felt that she needed a more powerful man to help secure her place on the throne of her beloved Egypt‚ rather than lose it to one of them? As shown in the 2005 TV production ‘Rome’ Cleopatra is seen wanting to get pregnant by Caesar to secure her position‚ but in the end she didn’t have any qualms
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Nothing comes from nothing (Latin: ex nihilo nihil fit) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides. It is associated with ancient Greek cosmology‚ such as presented not just in the opus of Homer and Hesiod‚ but also in virtually every philosophical system – there is no time interval in which a world didn’t exist‚ since it couldn’t be created ex nihilo in the first place. Note that Greeks also believed that things cannot disappear into nothing‚ just as they can’t be created
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By: Tony Pancho villa Doroteo Aranga learned to hate aristocratic Dons‚ who worked he and many other Mexicans like slaves‚ Doroteo Aranga also known as Pancho villa hated aristocratic because he made them work like animals all day long with little to eat. Even more so‚ he hated ignorance within the Mexican people that allowed such injustices. At the young age of fifteen‚ Aranga came home to find his mother trying to prevent the rape of his sister. Aranga shot the man and fled to the Sierra Madre
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Stresses of Prom Preparation Proms in the Bahamas‚ despite their glamour‚ can be very stressful occasions. According to the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary‚ a prom is “a formal dance held by a high school or college class.” A prom was simply intended to be the end-of-school-year-dance for high school seniors. Instead‚ it has become a giant monster of extravagant spending‚ more-than-a-wedding-show-off-party. Prom can be one of the most important events in your high school experience‚
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Is Britain more Racist today than it was in the 1970s Big point: Comedy uses discrimination to highlight minority groups Little point: In 1970 comedy was often openly racist Two examples of how comedy used to be openly racist is when people from other countries started coming
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More Than a Carpenter The author of the book‚ “More Than a Carpenter”‚ Josh McDowell was once a very lost man. He ridiculed Christians. He had no knowledge of what he was attacking until one day his own search for happiness led him down a road he was not prepared for. When he took on this project more than 30 years ago‚ he did so with the idea of refuting Christianity. He was of the mindset that all Christians must be out of their minds. He found himself accepting a challenge to research the
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