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    QUOTATION FOR PIPE BURGLARY PROOF FOR 3 BED ROOM FLAT S/NO ITEMS QTY RATE AMOUNT 1. 5ft x 4ft Window 7 6‚500 ₦45‚500 2. 4ft x 4ft Window 3 5‚500 ₦16‚500 3. 4ft x 3ft Window 1 5‚000 ₦5‚000 4. 3ft x 2ft Window 1 4‚500 ₦4‚500 5. 2ft x 2ft Window 3 3‚500 ₦10‚500 6. Workmanship ₦38‚000 7. Transportation ₦3‚000 8. Total ₦123‚000 QUOTATION FOR THE IRON DOORS S/NO ITEMS QTY RATE AMOUNT 1. 4ft x 7ft Entrance Door 1 75‚000 ₦75‚000 2. 3ft x 7ft Kitchen Door

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    The two reading that inspire me the most is “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes and “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” by Emily Dickinson. However‚ each author has different point of view. I think Hughes’ work is a great piece; the author emphasizes his view by saying that one can’t just sit and wait for nature to take its course. Similarly‚ I think the author’s view can relate to a current social topic: bullying in high school and through social media. In this day and age‚ bullying has become

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    As early as in Act 1‚ Hamlet’s soliloquy is portraying his apparent madness towards the remarriage of her mother with Claudius “O‚ that this too too solid flesh would melt/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!/ Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d/ His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!” (Act1. Sc2 lines 132-136).

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    Amanda Mushinski History 1301 Donald Knox October 16‚ 2013 The Review of Representing the Mad King George Beau Brummel and The Madness of King George are carefully examined movies in “Representing the Mad King: George III in Cinema”. Chandler considers the significance of early images of King George III‚ as well as focusing on the Kings illness itself‚ and portrays the importance each film had to illustrating events in its particular era. Chandler summarizes the impact that the King’s illness and

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    7.2 The varying experiences of the Stolen Generations Dreamtime: the time of the creation of the earth‚ living things and the beginning of knowledge‚ from which emerged the laws‚ values and symbols important to Aboriginal society. Stolen Generations: term used to describe the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who‚ while children‚ Australian state and federal governments forcibly removed from their families. The term usually refers to those taken during the period from about 1910 to around 1970

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    novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ there are many recurrences of the theme of reason vs. madness. An all too familiar scene is when the mad Tim Johnson is seen "moseyin’" down the road by Jem and Scout and is put out of his misery by Atticus‚ who at first is reluctant to take the shot. This scene not only strengthens Atticus’ character‚ but sets a prime example of how reason takes on the madness of the situation. This same theme is repeated in different forms throughout the novel and is very

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    by William Faulkner‚ an American author‚ in 1930. The story is based on the town’s knowledge and opinion about Miss Emily Grierson’s life. Critics like Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren from “Understanding Fiction” believe that Emily’s madness is derived from “her pride and her refusal to submit to ordinary standards of behavior” (400)‚ which consequently lead to the story’s ultimate gruesome ending. In Brooks and Warren’s analysis‚ they made two key points that direct them to this belief

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    Ambiguities of Madness: Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw Henry James developed a polemical novella when he penned The Turn of the Screw in 1898. His twelve installments for Collier’s Weekly permitted extensive access of this ambiguous text to more citizens. This coupled with the magazine’s affordability‚ prompted discussion amongst its readers who debated the twists and turns of the developing tale. As James eloquently unfolded his pot-boiler‚ he literally turned the screw by allowing his readers

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    Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the narrative of a woman’s slow descent into madness. Ironically‚ Jane’s descent into hysteria is a symptom of the treatments presumed to cure her “nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 1392). Jane’s husband John is a physician and the prescriber of Jane’s treatments; even though‚ he originally does not believe she is unwell. The first treatment given to Jane is removing her from society and bringing her to the country‚ a common remedy during

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    reasons so that the beliefs are true. The hyperbolic doubt is used as a cover up to what Descartes says to be true. 2. Why does Descartes use the hypothesis of an evil genius? Is it not enough to say that we could be dreaming? What can be doubted on this new hypothesis and what cannot? - Descartes uses the hypothesis of an “evil genius” meaning he himself exist as a thinking thing. He wants to get out that there are things out

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