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    Ursula K. Le Guin’s Those Who Walk Away from Omelas encourages students to face the dark side of modern civilization and utilitarianism. It tells of a nearly perfect city‚ where most everyone is happy. They lead cultured‚ complex‚ fulfilling lives. The reader is told to imagine it as they wish; let it have whatever amount of technology they want‚ to add in things they think would make the city better‚ and generally make the city as good as is believable to the reader. The one flaw of the city is

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    The Grass is Al My shoulders blazed from the beating sun and my palms were sweaty. I walked confidently toward the green as the other athletes were waiting on me. I was playing toward what looked like an amateur’s ideal score‚ a 45. It was the first home golf match of the year‚ and I could not afford to score any higher than my goal. I had to make sure my mind didn’t mess up more shots than my body. The smell of my sweaty glove was filling the air around me. My tee shot off of hole number five

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    The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas   "Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your fancy bids‚ assuming it will rise to the occasion‚ for certainly I cannot suit you all." This is an open invitation for you‚ the reader‚ in the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." Ursula K. Le Guin is simply inviting you to become her main character. How might you accept or deny this malicious request? It is quite simple‚ really. To accept it is to read on‚ and to deny it is to disembark

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    At home but not at home Nicole Constable The main aim of the article is showing that in case of migrants (specifically Filipinas in Honk Kong) the concept of home is not as simple and unambiguous as it may seem. Constable presents different conceptualizations of the notions “space”‚ “place” and “home”. He follows the conception of Ackbar Abbas‚ who writes‚ "We think of a place in terms of definable physical characteristics and situatedness‚ at most as a symbolic structure. A space by contrast

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    Extended School Services Extended school services include Breakfast clubs‚ Afterschool Clubs and holiday clubs which offer activities‚ classes and support to the pupils between the hours of 8am and 6pm. They are designed to provide families with support to help balance work and other commitments. The children benefit by being given the opportunity to experience a broader range of activities which may inlcude: •Study support •Play and recreation •Sport and fitness classes •Drama •Music

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    many other forms of discrimination. Their treatment was very poor and unwelcoming to say the least. The moment they stepped off the ships from Ireland‚ they were segregated into the poorest areas to seek shelter in slums and attempted to fit their entire families into rooms no bigger than today’s average bedroom. As a group‚ the Irish were shunned and turned away from many job opportunities being confronted by signs which stated "Irish need not apply". In the early 1800s life in Ireland was not easy

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    understand that some homeless people aren’t always their fault.People can not choose where they came from because maybe their parents couldn’t afford to put them through school to get education. Some of the homeless people that you might see on the street are war veterans coming home from war they might not have the best financial support after coming home from war.these tiny house should first go to the homeless war veterans because they served this country to let us be free. Although tiny houses

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    Kierra Bazilio 9/15/13 My First Trip Back Home to California (rough draft) “Ring! Ring! Ring!” went the tune playing from my cell phone to wake me up at five thirty in the morning. It was a gloomy Monday morning when I woke up for school that day. I knew staying up socializing with my brother leondre was a bad idea‚ but I did it anyways. I was awake‚ but my bed didn’t want me to get up. I laid there for ten more minutes until I realized I really had to get up before I was late for school

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    Home Depot STRENGTHS - Strong market position - Higher returns than competitors - Balanced brand mix - WEAKNESSES Sub optimal capital structure - Product recall OPPORTUNITIES - International presence - Growing popularity of power tools - Increasing online sales THREATS - Intense competition - Slowdown in US housing market - Rising labor wages in the US |The Home Depot Inc. (HD)

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    A Soldier’s Home: Elements of Fiction The short story‚ A Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway‚ is mainly about a veteran of World War 2‚ who has recently returned home to Oklahoma after spending time in the Rhine. This veteran‚ Krebs‚ is characterized both directly and indirectly in the text of the story. There are direct statements about his character. There are also scenes that make the reader infer about the character of Krebs. He is a dynamic character‚ because of his change of attitude

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