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    a good movie has to be an action‚ comedy‚ or horror movie for me. Second‚ the movie itself has to contain a plot worth watching. To further elaborate on the subject‚ here are my favorite 5 movies. Which of course is The Matrix‚ Fight Club‚ Saw 2‚ Half Baked‚ and Snatch. The Matrix is a movie about a computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life. But to his intelligence he thinks is in the year 1999‚ that is until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into

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    I had a difficult time with all of these stories‚ especially the first two. I’m not sure if it completely had to do with the dialect‚ as it reminded me of one of my favorite books‚ A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing‚ which is written in fragments of heavy Irish dialect. I found nothing particularly intriguing. The stories seemed to begin out of nowhere and then end without any resolution or concrete statement. Ambiguous endings are very powerful in certain cases‚ but not so much if the story doesn’t offer

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    original English text :- “Look’ee here‚ Pip. I’m your second father. You’re my son—more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money‚ only for you to spend. When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut‚ not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half-forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like‚ I see yourn. . . . I see you there a many times plain as ever I see you on them misty marshes. ‘Lord strike me dead!’ I says each time—and I goes out in the open air to say it under the open heavens—‘but

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    “During the first half of the nineteenth century‚ the Cherokee legislature enacted a series of laws regulating sex and marriage that reveal the efforts of Cherokee authorities to modify conceptions of gender and race in the Nation.” –Fay Yarbrough‚ Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the 19th Century‚ 385 Yarbrough’s statement illustrates how Cherokee officials were redefining Cherokees racially and sought to control the marital behavior of Cherokee women because they had the

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    HALF OF A YELLOW SUN BY CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE CHARACTER SKETCHES OF SUSAN AND THE OZOBIAS BY KRYSTAL CHINDORI-CHININGA AND NYASHA CHINOGUREI LITERATURE MS.MARKS UPPERSIXTH FORM FEBRUARY 2014 THE OZOBIAS Who were they? The Ozobia’s are Kainene and Olanna’s parents. They represent the NOUVEAU RICHE - “Chief Ozobia owns half of Lagos but there is something terribly nouveau riche about him. He doesn’t have much of a formal education‚ you see‚ and neither does his wife. I suppose

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    went home and saw her future mother-in-law. Cuiqiao was forced to marry an older man in order to have enough money to bury her mother as well as provide her brother with future endowment money for his wedding. In Jessica Fulton’s article‚ “Holding up Half the Heavens: The Effect of Communist Rule on China’s Women‚” she explains that during the worst famines in Chinese history when peasants had to eat bark and leaves in order to live‚ the peasants would choose to let their daughter starve to save their

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    Time is a concept for some. For others it is a source of measurement. For those who detest it‚ it is the Eternal vanquisher and the Universal enemy of beauty. Here the poet puts forward the notion of Time as viewed by a child‚ immediately‚ through the childs’ actions and thoughts we are brought toward the main theme in the poem. Being‚ “innocence’ the poem is based on the basic thoughts of a child and how The child’s life is simplified into very organized and recognized actions‚ but actual time

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    Economics Half-Yearly Notes PRELIMINARY TOPIC ONE: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS The Nature of Economics * Economic problem: wants‚ resources‚ scarcity Relatively unlimited wants Relatively limited resources Scarcity → need for choice Economic systems: * traditional * command * market * mixed Three basic economic problems: WHAT/ HOW MUCH g + s should be produced? HOW should the g + s be produced? FOR WHOM should g + s be produced? * Economic problem: how

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    This article by Jacob A. Riis‚ has many defying parts that one might not notice at first glance. He really put things into prospective by going into great detail on what he was trying to address. With all the intriguing details that he put into writing it seems as though he was trying to get the attention of any health leaders such as the OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and/or the WHO (World Health Organization) to help improve tenements of the deplorable living conditions in

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    4. How do you think this event fulfilled the great commission & began the development of Christian Communities? The men that were gathered from every nation when the disciples spoke in tongues were then convinced of the workings of God as they became witnesses to the miracles that they had heard about. They were then able to go back to their nations and minister the words of God themselves with faith. 6. See v22-24: Peter now tells the crowd the message about Jesus death and resurrection (this

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