Who do you first approach when you are down? Your friends? Is it really impossible to live without them? Is it necessary to make friends in the first place?Firstly‚ friends can help you develop character. With their company‚ they are able to influence you to become similar like them. For example‚ a teenager hangs around with good friends that are interested in studying. When the teenager is having problems in studies‚ his friends are able to help with places he is in doubt. Friends are also able
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The paper is about the book titled The Bronze Horseman‚ written by Paullina Simons (2002). The book focuses on a young adolescent girl named Tatiana and her time living in Leningrad‚ Russia when Hitler begins his invasion. She is 16 when the book first begins. She faces many trials and tribulations‚ many situations in which she has to grow up rather quickly‚ face things as an adult would have to as she becomes of age‚ and even a love interest‚ which doesn’t completely over power the story of her
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“On balance the league of nations proved to be a failure in the 1920’s.” How far do you agree with this statement? Explain. 10 marks. The League of Nations was the brainchild of USA’s president‚ Woodrow Wilson‚ and was one of his suggested 14 points that followed the Treaty of Versailles. The League was based on a covenant‚ a set of 26 articles‚ which all the members had to follow. The main structure of the League was set in the form of The Assembly and the Council‚ of which there were four permanent
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easier to borrow money. There was also the “Stop-Go” approach. This approach was to try and solve the main two problems of maintaining economic growth which were keeping inflation low and making sure there was a healthy balance of payments. But this policy was not coherent. The budgets were used to buy votes and it also caused mixed success. One result was “Stagflation” (Stagnation and Inflation). It was a failure to invest in the long term R & D (Research and Development). Britain also started to lag
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Do you agree that the first cause argument proves that God exists? The first cause argument takes the existence of the universe to entail the existence of a being that created it. It does so based on the fact that the universe had a beginning. There must‚ the first cause argument says‚ be something that caused that beginning‚ a first cause of the universe. I do believe that the first cause argument proves God’s existence. This is because the universe consists of a series of events stretched across
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the letter from Macbeth‚ she was ambitious for Macbeth‚ her husband‚ to become everything that he can be‚ while she was also aware of the "illness" that should attend ambition. "Glamis thou art‚ and Cawdor‚ and shalt be What thou art promised; yet I do fear thy nature‚ It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness... Hie thee hither‚ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valour of my tongue..." This can appear as ruthless and evil‚ yet it also shows Lady Macbeth’s loyalty
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The story "A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce was written about the American civil war from 1861 to 1865. “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty was written about the Irish civil war from 1922 to 1923. The country in A Horseman in the Sky is the United States of America‚ where a civil war was fought between the Union Army and Confederate States of America. The country in The Sniper is the Ireland‚ where a civil war was fought between Republicans and Irish nationalists from 1922 to 1923 over the
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By the end of the novel fowler is a greatly changed man. Do you agree? In the novel “The Quiet American”‚ which is written by Graham “Vintage” Green‚ follows a man called Thomas Fowler‚ who is a British journalist currently travelling in Vietnam. Thomas Fowler is aged in his fifties or so and his work has been covering the French war in Vietnam. Throughout the book Fowler becomes a greatly changed man‚ through meeting characters and becoming twisted in events. Fowler at the start of the book has
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Commercial hospitality is just extension of hospitality in the home. Do you agree? Hospitality is a difficult concept to define; numerous authors suggest it is both a social and commercial activity (Lugosi 2008). Nevertheless it’s important to highlight a dominant theme in accepted definitions of hospitality. Brotherton (1999) defined hospitality as “a contemporaneous human exchange‚ which is voluntarily entered into‚ and designed to enhance the mutual well-being of the parties concerned through
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Question: Othello offers nothing of value to the modern audience. Do you agree? Complex themes of jealousy‚ rejection and revenge are universal due to their ability to relate and remain relevant to audiences. Such themes are explored through William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello where characters are all confronted and invariably challenged with such universal themes that essentially form the ingredients to this tragedy. Throughout the play‚ issues regarding sexism and racism come to light by examining
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