Can you ever imagine not having homework again and actually having a life away from school in your own environment? The point i’m trying to get to is i believe that students should get a lot less homework‚ or infact no homework overall. Did you know that roughly 30% of students in the US reportedly spend 2 or more hours on homework each night? Why should we have to slave away in school for 7 straight hours which is 240 minutes or 25‚200 seconds and then get another 2 hours of homework. Don’t lie
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Explain why a scene‚ chapter‚ sequence or speech has been added or omitted from one or more screen variations. Act Three‚ Scene Three of Shakespeare’s Henry V was omitted from the first film adaptation‚ which was directed by Lawrence Olivier in 1944. The language in the hypotext is extremely hostile and the scene itself is controversial. Shakespeare’s use of lexis such as ’shrill‚ shrieking ’ and murdering the old and putting them ’on pikes’ Henry V is set during a wartime period and the first
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Napoleon Bonaparte Speech - Farewell to the Old Guard Napoleon Bonaparte - Farewell to the Old Guard (1814) following the failed invasion of Russia and defeat by the Allies Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory. In these latter times‚ as in the days of our prosperity‚ you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity. With men such as you our cause could not be lost; but the war would have been interminable;
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Conquerors by Henry Treece 1933 ‘Conquerors’ written in 1933 by Henry Treece is a poem about the horrors of the aftermath of war in the point of view of a victorious soldier. Throughout the text the persona is a soldier as there is a sense a teamwork shown by the author’s use of “we” or “not one amongst us” eliminating one’s individuality. Also the last sentence implies that they are away from home as they are thinking about it rather than looking at it. By saying “No one told us victory was like
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INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH MOTHER’S LOVE Ladies and Gentleman: It’s an honor to be given an opportunity to speak about a very important and lovable person in our lives today‚ a Mother. While I was surfing the internet‚ there is one quotation that catches my attention and I want it to share it with you. It goes this way: A mother’s love‚ how sweet the name‚ What is a mother’s love? A noble‚ pure and tender flame Enkindled from above To bless a heart of earthly mould The warmest love that
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Henry Rankin is working for Reflex Systems‚ as a team leader in charge of implementing a new customer relationship management (CRM) software. The company sells exercise equipment to high schools and colleges and small to midsize business for recreation centers. The team is divided in Chicago and Los Angeles and given a ten weeks deadline to install and train. One of the member of the Chicago’s team‚ Sally Phillips‚ has leave the team before the end of the project because of a lack of “quality of
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A WALK BY MOONLIGHT BY HENRY DEROSIO Derozio’s A Walk by Moonlight Poetry is the awakening of our conscience. In ‘A Walk by Moonlight’ Derozio illustrates how‚ on a casual walk‚ he is “allied to all the bliss‚ which other worlds we’re told afford”. The walk and observation makes him question life and introspect as well. The poem starts with pleasant memories of the previous night. Derozio feels blessed with a gift. In the future‚ when his mind is in turmoil and anxiety‚ he can ponder and contemplate
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Depression. With the election of President Harding‚ a return to normalcy was desired among the nation‚ yet many still wanted to move forward. The character of America during this age was strongly reflected through one of its leading figures‚ at the time‚ Henry Ford. Ford’s invention of the Model T automobile and his progressive steps towards the future demonstrated his wants to move forward‚ yet his many other actions showed how he was also afraid to let go of the past. In his early life‚ Ford grew up
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Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that focused on discovering the truth about life and man through nature. Therefore‚ transcendentalists pondered the answer to a life worth living. Henry David Thoreau attempts to answer this question in Walden by the following quote: “Simplify‚ simplify. Instead of three meals a day‚ if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes‚ five; and reduce other things in proportion”. His statement emphasizes the idea that “our life is frittered
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The great author Henry David Thoreau once wrote‚ "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Thoreau’s quote is trying to express that in life we sometimes try so hard to accomplish things and gain status that we tend to forget what we are really after is happiness. People often believe that certain things will bring them happiness such as money‚ jobs‚ and material possessions. However‚ after they acquire these things instead of feeling contentment
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