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    Childhood Obesity

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    1 Childhood Obesity Childhood Obesity is an important issue because of the staggering proportions that this disease has reached in the past few years. Certain genetic factors that are paired with changing the lifestyles and culture has produced kids (and some adults) who are generally not as healthy as people were just a few decades ago. Widespread obesity has been the extreme result of these changes. I chose this topic because I have been working with children for the past two years

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    Explore the way in which power and authority shape spoken language‚ considering it in the light of your own classroom experience. The English language contains many aspects and tools used to gain power and authority when speaking. In a political broadcast interview gaining information and turn-taking is expected. Therefore when Jeremy Paxman‚ the interviewer‚ speaks in a blunt and outspoken way to George Galloway‚ a politician who has just won an election to become a Member of Parliament beating

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    Case-1 Aaron Feuerstein-A Socially Responsible Owner The evening of December 11‚ 1995‚ was a special time for Aaron Feuerstein‚ CEO of Malden Mills. A small surprise 70th birthday party quietly was held in his honor at a local Boston restaurant. But Feuerstein’s life took a dramatic turn that evening for a different reason: A boiler at his company’s plant exploded‚ setting off a fire that injured 33employees and destroyed three of the factory’s century-old buildings. Malden Mills was a privately

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    “Empty as sky‚ with every other sound No ceasing‚ calls there ghosts from their abode” Discuss ways in which Thomas presents memory in ‘Aspens’. In your answer‚ explore the effects of language‚ imagery and verse form‚ and consider how this poem relates to other poems by Thomas that you have studied. Memory is presented as either a way of life or a community of change‚ as demonstrated in ‘Aspens’‚ ‘Old Man’‚ ‘Aldestrop’. He does this through the variety of techniques such as change in form

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    Compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about place. You must include detailed critical discussion of at least two poems by Larkin in your response. In timed conditions Gemma N Larkin and Abse both write about places in a very different‚ very unique style. One the one hand Larkin talks about the places of his past and how they are no longer accessible; the changing of a beautiful‚ unspoilt place to something short of an eyesore; a pace he is in but does not feel he belongs and even

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    Discuss the ways in which the settings contribute to the dramatic foci of the play. The settings contribute towards the three main foci of the play‚ that being racial prejudice of Othello being black and the view of people of colour being lesser‚ sexism faced by the female characters with a similar stigma to people of colour yet still favoured over them and the jealousy and manipulation shown by Othello and Iago due to their submission to love of women and power. Sexism is first shown through

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    Trauma In Childhood

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    The author intends to study trauma in childhood and how it influences internal and external behaviors. Internal factors are behaviors that result from negative emotions that are focused inward‚ such as social withdrawal‚ low- self- esteem‚ or self-harm on coping with the emotions. Conversely‚ external factors are behaviors that are displayed on the outside of oneself‚ such as physical aggression‚ refusing to follow the rules or impulsive behaviors. They direct their emotions outward onto others

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    Discuss ways in which Yeats presents the significance in‚ ’The Fisherman’ In your answer explore the effects of language‚ imagery and verse form‚ and consider how this poem relates to other poems you have studied by Yeats. Yeats aspired to compose poetry for the Irish elite‚ whom he considered would venerate his literature. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case- Yeats expresses his frustration on how the public means have become materialistic‚ and one-dimensional. How the pureness of Ireland is being

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    Our identity is constructed by‚ for example‚ the clothes we wear. Discuss the idea of a construction of identity within postmodernism using recommended texts. During the postmodernist era there was great emphasis on the movement of philosophy and social science as well as new influential styles of architecture‚ design and fashion. It was the development of the modernist era‚ which in the late 1950’s received criticism for being standardized and no longer suiting peoples lifestyles. The Machine

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    The Nazi Who Said Sorry

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    Albert Speer Albert Speer was born in March 19‚ 1905 and was first known as an Architect although later becoming Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich during World War II. Speer is now commonly known as ‘the Nazi who said sorry’. Speer grew up in the German town of Heidelberg. Speer started his architectural studies at the University of Karlsruhe in 1923 this university was not the most reputable for architecture so Speer transferred to the more renowned Technical University

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