Competition The IEA is delighted to announce the results of this year’s Essay Competition for the Dorian Fisher Memorial Prize. The top prize of £1‚000 went to Daniel Sharp of Abingdon Boys School for an essay on the question “What does economic theory (such as that of Optimal Currency Areas) suggest about the causes of the crisis in the Eurozone and the possible ways forward?”. The three runner up prizes of £500 each went to Chiraag Patel (Merchant Taylors School)‚ Shane Mahen (Queen Elizabeth’s School Barnet)
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A Made World: Anthropocentricity in the Works of Auden and MacNeice In his 1941 poem “London Rain‚” Louis MacNeice writes “The world is what was given / The world is what we make.” In “London Rain” itself‚ MacNeice does not emphasize the latter sentiment‚ ultimately hinting at the difficulty of trying to “make” anything in his concluding description of his “wishes…come[ing] homeward / their gallopings in vain.” Yet for all the suggestions of impotence in “London Rain’s” final stanza‚ in MacNeice’s
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to make the world greener than to plant trees. Green Belt Movement communities are responsible for planting over fifty-one million trees in Kenya‚ making the land a more habitable environment. It is for this reason that Wangari Maathai deserves a memorial in recognition of what she did to ameliorate Kenya’s land in order
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Ledger is a story of a young peasant who has grown up on Cheap side‚ and goes on a journey of fulfilling his dream of becoming a Knight. ‘A Knight’s Tale’ was set in the 14th century which was based on a book called “The Canterbury Tales” written by Geoffrey Chaucer. He was serving William Thatcher to help William become a Knight.‘A Knight’s Tale’ shows the viewer that no matter the circumstances one can always change their stars;“To never give up and keep trying”. The film achieves this by examining
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people to Washington D.C and gave a speech on Abraham Lincoln’s memorial that was his famous speech “I have a dream.” He had to make all his speeches and say the speech to over 100‚000 people almost everyday (Ross). Martin Luther King Jr learned how to
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to the Chinese intervention of Tibet in 1950 under the label of liberation‚ the Dalai Lama is regarded as an enemy of China because he passively refuses to accept Chinese rule in Tibet and has spoken out about this‚ particularly during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. His desire to return to Tibet and continue with the traditional autonomous rule is‚ on the surface‚ the total opposite to the current Chinese political system of Communism. This is a good overview of the Chinese view‚ though as
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Mall is an area of National Mall and Memorial Parks‚ an official unit of national park system in downtown Washington D.C.” There I observed that out of the more than 100 Statues‚ Memorials‚ Museums‚ Monuments and Government Facility’s there was one that is moderately new. The statues eye-catching size of 30ft tall is accredited to an African American who spent his life to insure equal rights in the United States. You may have already guessed the/You Memorial of Martin Luther King Jr.‚ which attracts
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anthologized) “The Virgin”‚ won two first prizes: of the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards and of the Palanca Awards. In 1957‚ she edited an anthology for the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature‚ which English and Tagalog prize-winning short stories from 1951 to 1952. * Her short stories “The Trap” (1956)‚ “The Giants” (1959)‚ “The Tourists” (1960)‚ “The Sounds of Sunday” (1961) and “A Various Season” (1966) all won the first prize of the Palanca Awards. * In 1966‚ she
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Won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for her novel "Fire on the Mountain" and her children’s book "The Village by the Sea" (1982)‚ won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award. Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive portrayal of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of Anita Desai’s novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels‚ Anita Desai wrote on varied themes such as
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s University of---- Faculty of Arts and Humanities Stonehenge Seminar paper Mostar‚ January 2007. STONEHENGE [title] Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious and famous archaeological sites in the world. It was built on Salisbury Plain some time between 3050 and 2300 BC. How it was built? What is its purpose? -these are questions on which no one has a right answer. Stonehenge is probably the most important prehistoric monument in the Britain
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