Sometimes people see exactly what they expect to see. When the family meets the traveling Bible salesman named Manley Pointer in “Good Country People”‚ they see him as an honest young man trying to make a living. However‚ when he seduces the learned daughter‚ Hulga‚ she finds out his true nature. Instead of a religious man who wants to spread the Will of God‚ he is a cynical atheist who uses his salesman disguise to get what he wants. As literary critic Kathleen Feeley says‚ “That the salesman is
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2012 Rich vs. Poor Achievement Gap: Is Life Fair to Everyone? The American Dream‚ the idea that every citizen can be successful if they work hard‚ is believable to the degree that every student going to school has the same opportunity to learn the skills needed to succeed in society. But if the opportunity for students to attain a sufficient education is imbalanced‚ then the likelihood of success becomes very slim for some students. Today‚ inequality has become a serious problem among poor students
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The Rich Keep Getting Richer Robert B. Reich was born in 1946 and is a Professor‚ activist‚ politician‚ and an author. He graduated from Yale Law School‚ John F. Kennedy Government School‚ and was a Rhodes scholar studying at Oxford University. Reich served as secretary of labor in the first Clinton administration and has a reputation of being a "conciliator‚ who can see opposite sides" to every question and solve them (Jacobus‚ 287). He has written many books‚ such as the Next American Frontier
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REPUBLIC OF INDIA INTRODUCTION India‚ officially the Republic of India‚ is a country in South Asia‚ and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations‚ the World Trade Organization‚ the South Asian Regional Co-operation Organization and the United Nations. The name India is derived from the River Indus‚ the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. It is impossible not to be astonished by India. Nowhere on Earth does humanity
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of China and India for industries in developed countries. The emergence of China as the mass manufacturing pioneer in the world has lead to the concern that China will soon be competing with the industries in the developed nations. India‚ at the same time‚ is emerging as the centre of IT enabled services including software development‚ and poses significant threat to the developed countries in high-skill goods and services. Today‚ the main competitive threat that China and India pose to the developed
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A verbal--often preceded by the particle to--that can function as anoun‚ an adjective‚ or an adverb. Adjective: infinitival. Distinctions are usually made between to-infinitives and zero infinitives. EX> "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." GERUND A traditional grammatical term for a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. Adjective: gerundial. A gerund (also known as an -ing form) with its objects‚complements
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What Does it Mean to be Rich? The American Heritage Dictionary states that rich means possessing great material wealth. Also it says rich can mean having an abundant supply. I decided to go with the latter. I believe that all of us here in America are rich to some degree. I mean most of us have more than we could ever need in this lifetime. We come home‚ open the door and turn on the lights. There are people in other countries that don’t have that luxury. And while we are talking about
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What’s in a Name? The names in “Good Country People” are actually descriptive of the characters. One in particular is the character of Mrs. Hopewell. In short‚ she tends to be a very hopeful and well-to-do. She holds a hope in the goodness of the country people‚ and she uses cliches to help her explain and accept the vices of other people. Unfortunately‚ she holds a false reality and places her hope in those with less than honorable intentions for the most part. Mrs. Hopewell lives in her own
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globalization‚ but countries are making huge strides towards it. There is a premise that globalization makes rich countries richer and poor countries poorer. However‚ I do not agree with this. Firstly‚ it is true that the rich may very well get richer by globalization. It opens up new investment opportunities and new growth and if they are wise they can benefit financially. Take the recent boom in emerging markets. It is mainly the rich who have access to invest in these markets‚ and thus‚ the rich get richer
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Many developing countries are currently expanding their tourist industries Why is this the case? Is it a positive development? Nowadays‚ more and more countries are become hospitable to their visitors or aliens. Some places that were totally forbidden once upon a time‚ have become accessible to visitors. Those countries‚ particular some developing countries‚ feel obliged to invest more money in order to extend their tourist industries. But whether such expansion be positive or not is still
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