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    fallout. Yolanda and her family prayed for world peace. Winter came‚ and the days grew shorter and the weather colder. One day as Yolanda sat at her desk by the window; she saw spots in the air like the ones on the chalkboard. She screamed “Bomb!” and some of the girls began to cry. Sister Zoe just laughed and explained that it was only snow. Yolanda watched the snow that she had heard so much about but never had seen before‚ as Sister Zoe explained that each flake was unique and

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    Qualities of an Educated Person Introduction: Human being is considered the best creation of God. But we have to possess some good qualities to become a really good human being. These qualities are a person’s precious resources which will never be exhausted and only give benefit in our daily life. There are many good qualities that one can possess. Here we will be discussing some of those qualities but not in order of importance. These qualities are more or less important and necessary in different

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    Susan Hill’s Strange Meeting is a modern novel written in 1971‚ a novel names after one of Wilfred Owen’s poems. It concentrates on a realistic representation of relationships between young men in the trenches of World War One and the reality of war and the impacts it has on individuals‚ similar to Pat Barkers Regeneration. Hill is a female author which is significant because the whole novel is based on a women’s point of view. As a reader we can see this because of the devices Hill uses throughout

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    Romanticism and Modernism as Strange Bedfellows: A Fresh Look of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive‚ But to be young was very Heaven! O time In which the meagre‚ stale‚ forbidding ways Of custom‚ law and statute‚ took at once The attraction of a Country in Romance! The Prelude—William Wordsworth (Come in under the shadow of this rock)‚ And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening

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    LITERATURE REVIEW: TRADE FACILITATION AS AN IMPERATIVE FOR THE EAC CUSTOMS UNION Abstract The global economy has made considerable progress in the last two decades in easing border restrictions on merchandise trade‚ by addressing trade-protective measures of non-tariff barriers and high tariffs‚ through the implementation of structural reform programmes as well as commitments undertaken under the multilateral framework of the GATT/WTO. With the passage of such ‘first generation’ trade policy

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    org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/StateLibQld_1_140295_Portrait_of_a_wedding_party‚_1930-1940.jpg/640px-StateLibQld_1_140295_Portrait_of_a_wedding_party‚_1930-1940.jpg Title: Age-Old Wedding Practices with Very Strange Beginnings Getting married and living together may already bring some strange discoveries in itself. But here are some marriage practices‚ which many might think normal but in fact had odd histories. Diamonds Are Forever There was a time when diamond engagement rings weren’t common.

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    DEFINITIONS OF MANAGEMENT BY VARIOUS MANAGEMENT AUTHORS Like most modern disciplines‚ contemporary management thought is an evolution of the dynamic process of human communications‚ experience and learning to which many eminent management authors have contributed. One such author‚ Henry Fayol (1841 – 1925)‚ known as the father of modern management‚ was Europe’s most distinguished management author and the first to develop a general theory of management. He maintained that management is “to forecast

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    1. Gargi Gargi‚ the wise and learned daughter of Rishi (sage) Vachaknu‚ was known as Brahmavadini because of her having the knowledge of Brahma-vidya. She participated in a debate with the knower of Brahma‚ Yajnavalkya in the Yajnasala ( place for sacrifices ) of King Janaka. We get in the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad a dialogue between Gargi and Yajnavalkya. Thus it is evident that in ancient India‚ women used to obtain knowledge of many sciences and disciplines. They also used to participate in public

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    Christopher Knight parked his brand new 1985 Subaru Brat car and he walked away from the rest of society. For nearly 30 years‚ Knight lived in the North Pond forest in Central Maine‚ in isolation and seclusion from the rest of society. In Finkel’s “The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit‚” through a Hindu perspective‚ one can see that by excluding himself from society‚ Christopher Thomas Knight is able to focus on his self through isolation. By living by himself in the forest‚ he is able to gain

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    What are Some Disadvantages to Getting Married Too Young? There are plenty of great marriages that began when people were very young‚ many of which last for 60 or even 70 years. Some young people will make marriage work and others won’t. In fact from a statistical standpoint‚ divorce rate is highest among couples who married too young. The rate goes down when people marry in their late 20s and early 30s and then goes back up when people marry past the age of 40. So perhaps one of the greatest disadvantages

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