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    What if the Internet were the only source of information The Internet is the most important source of information in the modern world. You can do a lot of different things: watch funny videos about kittens‚ read actual news from all over the world‚ connect you with your friends‚ or something like that. You also have an access to a big free encyclopedia named ‘Wikipedia’. There you can look after things you have never heard about‚ but also after some useful things‚ like a definition of some

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    Taylor Mali’s “The The Impotence of Proofreading” is a poem that catches the eye of the reader immediately from the title. Mali writes about the importance of proofreading in a very humorous way. He says even though you may have a spell-checker‚ proofreading is not to be forgotten. A spell-checker can fail to catch missing words‚ fail to catch wrong words that are spelled correctly‚ fail to catch words that are written more than once in succession‚ and a spell-checker might even replace a misspelled

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    experiences yield knowledge and this knowledge is used to guide and improve the lives of others. Great leaders not only reflect on what they have learned for themselves‚ but also they are eager to learn and impart new ideas and information into others. Therefore‚ great leaders are not born; they develop knowledge and wisdom through experience. Leaders are both born and made. People are born with certain qualities and characteristics which help them to be more geared toward leadership. Such features

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    too easy for young people today. They lack challenges and don’t have to fight for anything’ Write an article for a magazine of your choice which persuades your readers that this statement is either right or wrong. (24 marks) I’m a fifteen year old boy living in London. So I guess I fit in the category of ‘young people’. I have been hearing the statement ‘Life is too easy for young people today. They lack challenges and don’t have to fight for anything’. But recently it has been said a lot more

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    Stress in the life of young people today Stress can sometimes be good but if it lasts for a long time it can have negative effects on us‚ like lack of concentration‚ tiredness and headaches. The sources of stress are different for everyone but among young people‚ there are still some main causes that affect almost everyone. To begin with‚ one of the main sources of stress among adolescents is school. Not only homework‚ tests and exams cause stress but also the pressure of being successful and

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    ignored against the aboriginal people. One of the worst crimes that has stained Australia’s history would be the “Stolen generation” this disgraceful event caused many social and physical problems for the children who were kidnapped. The policy of assimilation introduced in the 1950’s encouraged aboriginal people to ‘act white‚ think white and even look white’. They used genocide during this time as the white society wanted nothing to do with the aboriginal people and saw them as foreign creatures

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    Running Head: ONLY DEPRESSED PEOPLE COMMIT SUICIDE‚ OR? Only Depressed People Commit Suicide‚ or Are There Other Reasons? Assignment Two Only Depressed People Commit Suicide‚ or Are There Other Reasons? I conclude there are plenty of other reasons associated with suicide. Suicide has been prevalent amongst human kind ever since the intelligent humans. Suicide is not necessarily a bad thing in some cultures‚ at least throughout the past. Many suicide were

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    American citizens with disabilities began to join forces in the 1960’s. They all saw the same problem; disabled people were not treated equally. Disabled and non-disabled people nationwide began to band together for the common cause demanding equal treatment‚ equal access‚ and equal opportunity for all. Although this movement began in the 1960’s‚ nothing happened until 1990. In 1990‚ the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) expanded the freedoms and hopes of individuals with impairments through

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    audiences. The values‚ morals and beliefs of society have greatly changed in the past centuries. Although many changes have been made the study of Shakespeare and all of his plays are still appreciated and heavily used today. There are also many people who can relate to the power of love and violence that is expressed by the two young lovers. The use of Shakespeare’s many themes has also helped to shape the play and give a deeper meaning to the story line. The themes love and violence have a huge effect

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    strengths and weaknesses‚ specifically involving how they cope with the struggle between what they want and what is expected of them. In Women of the Silk‚ there is great significance placed on expectations of women‚ specifically in China circa 1920’s‚ including pressures to live a certain lifestyle and behave in an appropriate manner at all times. The differences between how women react to these pressures is first depicted by the contrast between Pei and her older sister Li. While from my modern

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