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    week on the holy day (Sunday). Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit onto the earliest followers of Jesus. In Acts 1 and the Gospel of Matthew 28‚ The Great Commission is given by Jesus Christ to the apostles. This is believed to be the beginning of the development of Christian communities. The Great Commission happened a few weeks after Jesus’ death and resurrection‚ as Jesus had followers before (the disciples)‚ but his resurrection brought faith to many others‚ and when the word

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    UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Signalman Charles Dickens 2. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3. How It Happened Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Samuel Beckett’s play‚ “Happy Days‚” portrays a woman‚ Winnie‚ buried in the ground‚ first up to her waist‚ then up to her neck‚ determined to live out her meaningful life. Although her situation is hopeless because she has no idea how she got there‚ Winnie trusts that her life is meaningful and truly believes that there is nothing she can do to change it. Consequently‚ Winnie focuses on trivial details to pass each day. Beckett definitely succeeds in making this character’s life dramatic by consuming

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    successful in class. He claims that reading fiction frustrates him because he forgets characters‚ plot‚ and it takes him a long time to read. To understand Student B as a reader‚ I have included a reader’s response to Gretchen Rubin’s TED Talk “The Five Half-Truths about Happiness‚” and his independent book assignment‚ which he selected based on his interest. Student B read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. As a reader‚ Student B’s instructional goals that align with Common Core State Standards include 1

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    O ’Neill 1 Warren O ’Neill Professor Scheckner CRWT 102-02 8 February 2013 Fighting Oppression in Immokalee‚ Florida: Days of Revolt Days of Destruction Days of Revolt was written by two war veterans‚ Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco. In this book‚ they basically describe and make readers feel like they are actually touring the most impoverished‚ physically and socially devastated areas in the United States. They offer very detailed and disturbing descriptions of life on the Pine Ridge Reservation

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    The Long Day By Dorothy Richardson After reading‚ “The Long Day” the manner of which people lived and survived during the depression has astounded me. Where she first boarded with Miss Jameson she didn’t have any sense of home and bliss. She had shared with her friend Miss Plympton and described her sense of home and bliss as living in country side. And when she later boarded with Miss Pringle she had felt a sense of home when she saw her stove little Lottie. After receiving kind words from Miss

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    Half-cast and island man In the half-cast poem by John starts he starts apologizing to the reader for being half-cast‚ which is very ironic because what he is trying to explain in his poem is how angry and frustrated with the term half-cast. He finds it very disrespectful and with nonsense when people uses this term to describe him. When he talks about “I half-caste human being
cast half-a-shadow
but yu must come back tomorrow
wid de whole of yu eye
an de whole of yu ear
an de whole of yu mind”

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    Time is a concept for some. For others it is a source of measurement. For those who detest it‚ it is the Eternal vanquisher and the Universal enemy of beauty. Here the poet puts forward the notion of Time as viewed by a child‚ immediately‚ through the childs’ actions and thoughts we are brought toward the main theme in the poem. Being‚ “innocence’ the poem is based on the basic thoughts of a child and how The child’s life is simplified into very organized and recognized actions‚ but actual time

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    every night I got a bed time story. IN order for that to happen I had to pick out a book‚ 10 minutes before I had to go to bed. When I was growing up this was the best book in the world to me. Each time I wanted a story read to me‚ I would pick this book up and ask my mother to read it to me. This book brought so much hope and wisdom to me‚ it made me think about everything I really liked‚ and things I didn’t like. The way the book was set up was a bunch of rhymes. One day my mom told me “I think that

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    Half yearly Mates revisions’ paper Isaac 1st class rolls 10 Archangles high school REV ---1 * Write the number names: 1. 358: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2. 270: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3. 409: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4. 117: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5. 236: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6. 521: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 7. 442: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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