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    suckers and saplings. The creek is wider and flatter where Ellie and her friends are‚ “…but the water is freezing cold.” The first reason why the setting is significant to the text is because Ellie and her friends were peacefully in ‘Hell’ when their hometown Wirrawee was invaded. The weekend of Commemoration Day Ellie and her six friends decided to camp out in ‘Hell’. Little did they know their

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    witness to the unimaginable journey of Saroo from India to Australia and back again‚ but it also accomplishes the mission of describing the narrow escape of Saroo from getting lost into salvation while at the same time helping him to acknowledge his hometown culture and understand how pivotal childhood memory is when he reaches adulthood. In A Long Way Home‚ Saroo’s upbringing in India is cemented to utter penury of Indian slums’ culture‚ which is not entirely brought on when forgetting to mention

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    because she is of a higher class. Jody won’t let her sit and talk with the people in the front of the store because he believes that they are “trash” compared to her (54) After Janie comes back from her life with Tea Cake‚ a poor younger man‚ to her hometown‚ Janie is still criticized by the townspeople for being of a higher class. They gossip about her running off with Tea Cake; despite this‚ Janie is only ever pleasant to them (1-3). She is never able to escape her elevated relations with the common

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    students start to worry about their future career after graduation‚ especially those suffering from the severe pressure of unemployment and economic downturn in their hometown. Although they have gained the experience of studying and living abroad‚ most overseas students with more job opportunities than their contemporaries in their hometown are still bedeviled by problems like what is the best future career plan and how to find a good position with a high salary. What is worse‚ the number of students

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    It is critical that people take responsibility for solving problems that affect their community so that everyone will have a better world to live in. It is lucid through several examples from literature such as 1984 and historical figures such as Rosa Parks and Peter Benenson that people must take responsibility to solve problems in their communities. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell‚ the main character‚ Winston‚ takes the responsibility of fighting against the oppressive government under which

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    but I was offered the Entrepreneurship (Commerce) course for my second intake at UMK so I packed my bags and started my journey to Kelantan. I also felt very anxious and nervous when I first came to Kelantan and live here as it was far away from my hometown which is situated in Bentong‚ Pahang. Furthermore‚ i haven’t travel to other states before plus i have to start a new life in a place that is unfamiliar to me. But I have put all my courage together to come to Kelantan to pursue my higher studies

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    contributing to modern theater‚ and contributing many of his works to modern English. William Shakespeare has greatly impacted the course of world history. William Shakespeare was believed to be born on April 23‚1564‚ in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon‚ and died April 23‚1616 in his hometown

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    Research Report Leisure activities Abstract Leisure activities play a significant role in daily life of overseas students who have heavy burden of study. The purpose of this study was dissect the attitude of international students for leisure activities and examined the reason why they changed their leisure activities after coming to Australia. A questionnaire was designed collectively and distributed to fifty students from the UWS College. The findings indicated that majority of international

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    How did the male gender roles of American society during the 1960s shape the approach for recruiting soldiers into the Vietnam War? “The Things They Carried”‚ by Tim O’Brien includes an assortment of fictional war stories‚ providing a moral insight into the Vietnam War for those that were privileged enough to escape its grasp or miss it altogether. What is particularly fascinating about O’Brien’s novel is his incorporation of context regarding the different gender roles existent within American

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    There is quote by Martin Luther King Jr that says “ Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable‚ every step toward that goal of justice requires sacrifice‚suffering and struggle ‚ the timeless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. So‚ the path to justice will always be a challenge as it is inevitable‚ injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Along the line of justice ‚ we may face challenges and must learn to face it head on in order to overcome this obstacle

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