Last night I was at the presentation of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize‚ at the National Portrait Gallery‚ where a young Angolan writer‚ José Eduardo Agualusa‚ was announced the 2007 winner for his novel The Book of Chameleons‚ translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. Set in contemporary Angola‚ the book is particularly notable for being narrated by a lizard. The judges this year were the poet David Constantine‚ writer and editor Jennie Erdal‚ Arts Council Literature officer Kate Griffin
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Facebook is to let you keep in touch with friends all over the world as long as they have a Facebook account. You can post anything on your friend’s electronic wall and put up a status about something as trivial as what shoes you wore that day. The highest age groups who uses Facebook are teenagers. Facebook are now an essential part of their lives. Most of the friends they accept on Facebook are people they know
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Foreign Dignitary response paper In the story “A Foreign Dignitary”‚ by MacLaverty‚ the people without human rights are young girls. One is a dancer who was used as a sex slave. The director of prison offers it to the civil servant after the end of the dancing “she is yours for the night” (Maclaverty‚ 142). The other is a prisoner in the confined box. The Director of this prison looks down on punishment and tells the Foreign Dignity that punishment is old and primitive. The Director sounds like
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Friends In the dictionary a friend means one attached to another by affection; a favor; one who is propitious; a favorite. To woman friends are different types of people and relationships. In the essay Friends‚ Good Friends and such Good Friends the author Judith Viorst describe a couple of the many different types of friendship women have. We as women form a type of bond with other woman very different than men do with other men. Viorst tells us that at one point she would have said a friend
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sustainable firm pursues three types of interests: 1. Economic interests. 2. Social interests. 3. Environmental interests. ; Matten and Moon (2008) By implicit CSR we refer to the corporations’ role within the wider formal and informal institutions for society’s interests and concerns. Implicit CSR normally consists of values‚ norms and rules which result in (mandatory and customary) requirements for corporations to address stakeholder issues and which define proper
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parents are said to be much more permissive than they were in the past. Surely it is true for long ago children weren’t allowed to speak with their parents like with their peers. Kids had a huge respect for elders. Parents were more their masters than friends. There were an enormous distance between young and adults what we can see in many old films and books. Gradually this attitude between them has undergone changes since than. But can we confirm that parents become too permissive? I believe that this
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I’ve often wondered how best to define education. I’d like to define education as the procurement of those preternatural skills which would enable a person to choose between what is right and what is not. Our Indian system of education since time immemorial has been sailing magnificently on the winds of hope‚ moral coherence and ethical values with the principal objective of making all of us good human beings as opposed to mere knowledge banks. As of today‚ ‘Indian Education’ is an immaculate mélange
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Real friends are better than Facebook friends It seems that having a Facebook account has become a social trend nowadays. It is very hard to meet a person without Facebook account. However‚ having a Facebook account certainly has its flaw. Many people‚ especially teenagers‚ tend to add people they never meet in real life as their friends. Claiming those people as their “friends”‚ they feel offended when their caretaker tells them it is inadvisable to continue this action. They protest that Facebook
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Sometimes we move with our friends so intimately that the intimacy lasts for a long time. There are lifelong friends who have a bearing on our personalities‚ and two friends‚ who are thick as thieves‚ do ‘ influence each other‚ and the two grow together. The relationship with a friend has not been properly realized by us. Some do not believe in nurturing friendship as they are by nature aloof and reserved. This nature is not desirable‚ for‚ it indicates the lack of sociability. Sometimes parents
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SAFETY MEASURES IN SCHOOL‚AT HOME AND ON THE ROAD Good morning to the principal‚ teachers‚ and fellow students. I am honoured to stand here to give a talk. My talk is entitled ¡°Safety Measures in School‚ at Home and on the Road.¡± In school‚ we must ensure that the visitors sign-in is not dangerous. This is a part of responsible to a school guard. So‚ he must to check carefully whether the visitor has brought the dangerous tool or not. Next‚ all the students must follow the laboratory rules
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