I always wondered why my mother told us we all need to be educated and how important it is in order to survive. She always told us‚ her children‚ how this will benefit our children and our grand children. My mother is a professional nurse. Out of 10 children that my grandmother had‚ only three are educated. The rest decided not to finish school‚ some were lucky to be employed and some are not working at all and they depend on anything that is being donated to them by the family. I never understood
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Why read Charlie and the chocolate factory A lot of people dreams and ideologies are shaped by books and movies and their stories when they come across as children and teens. These stories are not only giving a flight to fantasy‚ bit it shapes their ambitions and what they see as to be the possible and impossible. As we grow up to be adults‚ while many of these notions are long gone‚ a few stay and turn into inspirations for future adventures. Roald Dahl is one of the authors who has perhaps been
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all people. Why is this? Why do people read the poems and plays even if they can’t understand them? We all get confused sometimes‚ but William Shakespeare didn’t write his plays just for fun. He wrote them for a reason. So what are those reasons? Why does he not leave a key on the inside of the book to what the words really mean? Maybe we are thinking too hard; however‚ we don’t know if we are thinking hard enough either. Shakespeare had many different themes to his plays and poems. So why do we still
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The Effects of New Technology in Human Lives New technology impacts our daily lives in every field‚ from the cars we drive‚ cell phones we use‚ computers and networks we access and power we consume! In fact humans have always been greatly affected with the developments in new technology. However‚ nowadays new information technology is a bit more complex with cloud computing‚ new methods of security and data encryption! It’s a universal fact that new information technology not only benefits programmers
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are for and against the use of marijuana in medicine have been heated and in recent years‚ referendums have been brought up in at least three states to make it available for medical treatment. Personally‚ I think that marijuana has the power to be a significant help with certain aliments‚ however‚ I think that more research is needed to prove its medical potential. The first people to introduce the healing properties of marijuana‚ were the Chinese. About five thousand years ago‚ the people of
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he expected Gini to take over that task---after all‚ he couldn’t wear wrinkled clothes to his new job‚ could he? Poking fun at the responsibilities involved in marriage is similar to the attitude presented in Judy Brady’s 1971 essay‚ "Why I Want a Wife." In "Why I Want a Wife‚" Brady offers hypothetical criteria for an ideal wife in a satirical commentary on how the work of wives is often taken for granted. The humor of the essay lies in its structure: on the surface it seems to accept the criteria
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The Dodo Bird The dodo was a medium-large sized flightless bird that was discovered on the Island of Mauritius in the 1590s and was declared extinct less than a century later‚ in 1681. Because the dodo had a turkey-sized body‚ it is thought to have been most closely related to smaller birds such as doves and pigeons. The dodo inhabited the tropical forests on the tiny island of Mauritius that is situated in the Indian Ocean. Like the neighbouring island of Madagascar‚ Mauritius broke away from
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1. Ducks are birds that are also called "waterfowls" because they are normally found in places with water like marshes‚ oceans‚ rivers‚ ponds‚ and lakes. This is because ducks love the water. Ducks can live from 2-12 years‚ depending on species. 2. Some species of ducks migrate or travel longs distances every year to breed. Usually they travel to warmer areas or where the water does not freeze so that they can rest and raise their young. The distance may be thousands of miles away.
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always be thoughts that float through my imagination. These thoughts cannot be spoken through any language that I am fluent in. The only way that I can remove this bundle of emotions without outside intervention is through the passing of a written thought. Although‚ as I travel through life my feelings will always be written on my face‚ fortunately for me‚ a mere facial expression can only give outsiders a taste of the many flavors that I am feeling at time of their glance. The power of writing is like
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Goan Birds 1 orange-headed thrush The orange-headed thrush is 205–235 milliimetres (8.1–9.25 in) long[7] and weighs 47–60 grammes (1.7–2.1 oz). The adult male of the nominate subspecies of this small thrush has an entirely orange head and underparts‚ uniformly grey upperparts and wings‚ and white median and undertail coverts. It has a slate-coloured bill and the legs and feet have brown fronts and pink or yellowish rears.[3] The female resembles the male but has browner or more olive upperparts
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