INTRODUCTION A total of 559 candidates obtained the A+ highest grade in all the subjects they sat for in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination last year‚ up from the 403 for the year 2010‚ it was announced today. Director-General of Education Datuk Seri Abd Ghafar Mahmud said 506 of the candidates were from national secondary schools and 53 from other schools compared to 363 and 40‚ respectively‚ for 2010. "The overall SPM achievement for 2011 improved from the year before‚ with the
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In Wake Up‚ Arcade Fire discusses about bottling up one’s emotions as they grow up instead of confronting one’s issue‚ which can lead to pain and suffrage. The song is told through the artists reflecting back on their past and teaching youth to not repress their emotion‚ like the artists had. Arcade Fire’s opening stanza represents how individuals tend to bury their issues deep within themselves. Arcade Fire talks about “something [filling] up [one’s] heart with nothing‚ [and] someone [telling them]
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Stephen Abbott Satterlund Soc 111 May 12‚ 2012 Deviance Deviance is the social concept that behaviors which violate the norms are wrong‚ or shameful in some way. The movie Cruel Intentions is full of social concepts like role‚ deviance‚ class conflict‚ and gender theories. I have chosen to write about deviance because it seemed to be the overwhelming cause behind all the other social themes that occurred. Deviance is shown throughout the movie in many forms and based on perceptions of varying
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Melody is the key component of any song. In my opinion the melody is the identity of a song. I believe music could not exist without melody: It is like having a body but not the brain to help the body function. I think the rhythm controls the melody and‚ paired correctly‚ the harmony adds a little sparkle to the piece. I think the most important thing about the melody is that it is a way for the musician to convey a message to the listeners. When we hear the song “Wrecking Ball” the melody resonates
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When navigating between one’s own mental security and one’s familial pressures‚ sacrificing often becomes a disheartening reality. In August Wilson’s Fences‚ a play revolving around an African-American family living in the 1950s‚ the balance between sacrifice and personal well-being becomes a challenge in the marriage between Troy and Rose Maxon. Troy Maxon‚ a former baseball player‚ has devoted himself to taking care of his family for eighteen years‚ but he finds himself giving that up in order
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Antony loved Caesar and was completely against his murder‚ so he used rhetorical strategies to persuade the Romans to be against the perpetrators. For example when Antony says “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious‚ and Brutus is an honorable man” he is using the mix of sarcasm and logos. Antony repeats this same thing over and over again until the Romans start questioning if Brutus truly is an honorable man
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of close family members and many friendships. In his poems and other pieces of work he uses many literary devices to convey this. Edgar Allen Poe uses rhyme‚ repetition‚ and symbolism to show his different emotions and produce poems with themes of sorrow and regret. Poe’s use of structure emphasizes the way he uses repetition and rhyme in his poems and creates a mood of sorrow. For example‚ in the poem “To My Mother‚ it says‚ “Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—/You who are more
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such as Creon and Haeman speak in shifted tones of tension that prevail conflict. Another element of Ancient Greek drama is dramatic irony and this is the failure of a character to see or understand what has been obvious to the audience. Oedipus for example was unaware early of what the audience knew: that he killed his father then married his mother‚ Jucasia. Chorus is another element and are bystandards in a play who present oaes on the action. The chorus‚ in the plays of Sophocles had the job of explaining
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Case Study: Mobile Device Security and Other Threats Yvonne Mitchell Strayer University Spring 2015 Professor Emmanuel Nyeanchi Theories of Security Management May 2015 MOBILE DEVICE SECURITY AND OTHER THREATS Introduction There are various security threats for the various mobile devices that we all use on a daily basis. Smartphones are outselling PCs and the lack of adequate security for these devices and other mobile devices leave them vulnerable targets for hackers and other cyber criminals
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Johan Swift wrote a “modest proposal" to acknowledge the fact the rich people of Ireland were living comfortable while the poor were struggling and had to beg in the streets and so on to surive. Swift takes a jab at the rich by stating how they should feed the poor children to the rich. Now he speaking of this in a comical way to get people to acknowledge the suffering of the poor and how it divides the people in Ireland. The article I found revolves around todays campaign for president. My article
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