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    How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife” by Manuel E. ArguillaSummary Baldo and his older brother Leon were both waiting for their visitor riding a carratela. When Baldo sa his older brother’s wife‚ who is Maria‚ he was amazed by her beauty as he narrates their journey to their home in Nagrebcan. Maria was felt a bit anxious because of meeting Leon and Baldo’s parents for the first time‚ but along their way home‚ she discovered the differences of the life of the people lived there and the life

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    Biography * Donald Trump received much of his business sense from his father‚ Fred Trump‚ who was forced by his father’s death to help support a large family. * His father succeeded in producing affordable housing. * Donald Trump was brought up assisting his father with his business ventures. * Donald set a goal to be involved in real estate in a larger scale than his father. * Trump started a billion dollar empire and is now also on his own hit TV show called the Apprentice

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    Summarizing Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist‚ the key ideas‚ the main points that are worth noting and remembering. Webster’s calls a summary the "general idea in brief form"; it’s the distillation‚ condensation‚ or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions. Paraphrasing is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words. Direct quotation A direct quotation is one in which you copy an author’s

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    ------------------------------------------------- Phloem In vascular plants‚ phloem is the living tissue that carries organic nutrients (known as photosynthate)‚ in particular‚ sucrose‚ a sugar‚ to all parts of the plant where needed. In trees‚ the phloem is the innermost layer of the bark‚ hence the name‚ derived from the Greek word φλόος (phloos) "bark". The phloem is concerned mainly with the transport of soluble organic material made during photosynthesis. This is called translocation.

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    How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife is a story written by Manuel Arguilla about a man who comes home to his province to introduce his wife from the city to his family. This short story won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940. >>ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manuel E. Arguilla was born on June 17‚ 1911 in Nagrebcan‚ Bauang‚ La Union to parents Crisanto Arguilla‚ a farmer‚ and Margarita Estabillo‚ a potter.Their mediocre living was not a hindrance for Manuel to attain his dreams

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    POLICE ETHICS AND INTEGRITY Milan Pagon Professor and Dean College of Police and Security Studies University of Maribor‚ Slovenia ABSTRACT The paper deals with the importance of police ethics and integrity in contemporary policing. It first describes the field of applied ethics in general. It explains the basis for the structure of professional moral obligations‚ briefly depicts the core imperatives of applied ethics and describes the process of moral reasoning. It then defines police ethics‚ discusses

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    Araullo University – PHINMA Education Network Basic Education Department Cabanatuan City Book Report in English I How My Brother Leon Brought a Wife Manuel Arguilla (1911 – 1944)was an Ilocano writer in English‚ patriot‚ and martyr. Submitted By: Patricia Nicole C. Collantes.

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    Introduction The story is about Leon returning to his hometown Nagrebcan with his wife‚ Maria who is willing to make sacrifices to go in a rural community for her to prove herself to her father-in-law that she is worthy to live in the province‚ and at last she will be introduced formally by her groom (Leon) to his family. Leon is the eldest among his siblings‚ and most traditional family looks forward to the eldest sibling to give the family a hope for a better living‚ most will give all their resources

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    How my brother leon brought a wife She stepped down from the carretela of Ca Celin with a quick‚ delicate grace. She was lovely. She was tall. She looked up to my brother with a smile‚ and her forehead was on a level with his mouth.  "You are Baldo‚" she said and placed her hand lightly on my shoulder. Her nails were long‚ but they were not painted. She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom. And a small dimple appeared momently high on her right cheek.  "And this is Labang of whom

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    How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife Title:How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife Author:Manuel E. Arguilla Characters: Characters: Baldo-Younger brother of Leon‚fetched Leon and Maria from the road to Nagrebcan Leon (Or Noel)-Older brother of Baldo who studied in Manila where he met his wife Maria-The beautiful and stunning wife of Leon from Manila Labang-The bull whom Baldo considers As his “pet” Urong and Celin-The two twins Setting: 1.Nagrebcan 2. the house of

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