as heart attacks‚ asthma‚ bronchitis or lung cancer. According to a recent report in Britain close to 3‚500 people are killed each year in road accidents and 120‚000 are killed by smoking. Furthermore‚ smoking costs governments millions of dollars because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking-related problems. Moreover‚ passive smoking is also a major concern today. Recent research shows that non-smokers can suffer from health problems if they spend long periods
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In the book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip‚ Le Ly was just one of many peasants trying to survive during war time. Survival meant having to make some hard decisions; decisions that may make peasants go against their roots. However‚ as we see Le Ly do throughout the book‚ peasants do not completely abandon their family traditions. Le Ly was very close to her father and kept everything he taught her in mind while she made some difficult choices. "My father taught me to love
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towards understanding the meaning of the world‚ such as a rose‚ which to some may symbolize the love and passion of a relationship‚ while to others it is a constant reminder of the danger of thorns living within the beauty of the flower. Because I could not stop for death- by Emily Dickinson is a narrative poem about a woman’s life passing by as she dies on Death’s carriage. During the narrator’s journey‚ she experiences her life passing through her eyes‚ but in the end she realizes that while life
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“Because I could not stop for Death” “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson was published in 1890 by her family members. The poem consists of twenty-four lines that are divided into six quatrains. In all stanzas except stanza four‚ the meter switches back and forth from an iambic tetrameter to an iambic trimeter. In stanza three‚ the meter goes from iambic trimeter to iambic tetrameter then to iambic trimeter. The rhyme scheme of the poem is a slant rhyme. There are internal rhymes
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Nespresso machine Contemporary objects are items that are of relevance to a particular time. Whether it is by the shape or the form‚ the product will give an insight into the time period in which it was made. The Nespresso machine is a modern object that explores the different ways in which technology and market desire has changed. Not only that‚ but it amplifies the differences of style from the then to the now. This product is aimed at all niches and plays on the buyer’s desire to purchase a
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What People Realize When They Stop Drinking According to statistics‚ 30 percent of the entire world population has some kind of a drinking problem. So what happens when alcoholics stop drinking? There life changes completely and greatly. Here are the changes that will happen when you stop consuming alcohol. • People will think that you are a different person You will become a better person‚ like a different man. You will realize this when you get completely sober and you will feel amazing. •
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Puzzle 1 Stephen was looking at a photo. Someone asked him‚ "Whose picture are you looking at?" He replied: "I don’t have any brother or sister‚ but this man’s father is my father’s son." So‚ whose picture was Stephen looking at? Puzzle 2 There was a robbery in which a lot of goods were stolen. The robber(s) left in a truck. It is known that : (1) Nobody else could have been involved other than A‚ B and C. (2) C never commits a crime without A’s participation. (3) B does not know how to drive
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Being Stereotype: Just because I’m Hispanic Stereotypes are generalizations or assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group‚ based on an image (often wrong) about what people in that group are like. What people think of others just because they look a certain way. There are stereotypes many kinds‚ about gender‚ age‚ and especially of races. A race stereotype of Americans is that they are generally considered to be friendly‚ generous‚ and tolerant
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For the post of Written Recruitment Test for the post of Postgraduate Assistants in Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service. Syllabus: English (Subject Code: P02) Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600) Poetry For Detailed Study Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Spenser : Faerie Queene - Book-I For Non-detailed Study Spenser : Prothalamion and Epithalamion Wyatt‚ Surrey: Selections in Peacock’s English verse‚ Vol-I Ballads : Peacock
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Dickinson’s most well-known poem with this theme is “Because I could not stop for Death.” Through Emily Dickinson’s clever style of writing‚ effective use of literary elements‚ and vivid imagery she successfully creates a poem that clearly expresses her views regarding death. “Because I could not stop for Death” is composed of six stanzas in which the narrator strikingly recalls her final passage to her grave. The speaker begins with: “Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped for me” (lines
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