TIMES STAFF WRITER AKPABUYO‚ Nigeria—Margaret Bassey Ene currently has one mission in life: gaining weight. The Nigerian teenager has spent every day since early June in a “fattening room” specially set aside in her father’s mudand-thatch house. Most of her waking hours are spent eating bowl after bowl of rice‚ yams‚ plantains‚ beans and gari‚ a porridge-like mixture of dried cassava and water. After three more months of starchy diet and forced inactivity‚ Margaret will be ready to reenter society
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A Beautiful Escape Everyone has a place where they want or dream to escape all the pressures and worries of life. For me‚ the beach is the ultimate cure to all my problems. So many things about the beach make it a claiming place. The most obvious things are the sights and sounds. The many sounds of the beach can be quite claiming. The sound of the waves hitting the shore give a blissful feeling. Some people find the sounds of the birds flying above them in the slight breeze very calming
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Once upon a time‚ under a sumac tree in Bingle Bog‚ a frog sang the night long‚ every night‚ in a horrendous voice. The forest animals were distraught and at their wits end. They tried stopping his crass ‘Minstrelling’ with sticks and stones‚ insults and bricks but to no avail. In sheer dismay they cried for divine intervention. To all this‚ the frog remained impassive and resolute‚ intent on airing his heart’s glad ‘elation.’ One night‚ when in the sky hung a pale moon‚ a nightingale perched on
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A Beautiful Mind By Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind detailed the dramatic rise and fall of John Forbes Nash‚ the celebrated Nobel Prize winner and mathematician‚ as he battled the debilitating effects of schizophrenia to eventually attain international acclaim. Schizophrenia is characterized by a broad range of unusual behaviors that cause profound disruption in the lives of people suffering from the condition‚ as well as in the lives of the people around them. Schizophrenia strikes without regard
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Monica Ruvalcaba 2/17/2015 Mr. Yarbrough ENGL 0301 English is one of the most important language and talk around the world. Such language is relevant to work‚ in the daily and social life in my country and various parts of the world’s trade. Learning English can access to better education no limited to universities. It is also important because it show other cultures‚ style life and different ways to think. It will give you this way to see yourself with other eyes‚ and perhaps discover it or aspects
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World Cities are cities that act as control or command centres‚ transport and communication hubs‚ and often the headquarters of trans-national companies. (senior geography 2). They can also be defined as a very large city that has outstripped its national urban network and become part of an international global system. The three dominant world cities are New York (United States)‚ London (England)‚ and Tokyo (Japan). Other categories of world cities include major and secondary. But they do not have
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interest. But the visit which has a lasting impression on my mind is the visit of Kashmir. It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. It is said to be the heaven on earth. It has the accolade of being “The Switzerland of India”. I was wonderstruck to see the ravishing beauty of Kashmir. With snow-clad mountains‚ tall-trees of Chinar‚ lush green plains and valleys‚ Kashmir is one of the most bewitching places on earth. It has been a great attraction for the tourists all across the country and
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A Beautiful Mind Pricillia F.Lumantoro Principle of Economy In this movie‚ the theory that I could notice is about equilibrium theory. It is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players and each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players and no player has anything to gain by changing only his own strategy. The theory is clearly seen in a scene when there are four men in a bar including Nash and a blond girl walks in with four other girls. Russel suggest
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A Beautiful Mind This paper discusses the movie “A Beautiful Mind” while it compares the movie with the true life happenings of a Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash‚ who had suffered from schizophrenia. In the movie‚ “A Beautiful Mind‚” John Nash displays classic positive symptoms of a schizophrenic. This movie does a great job in portraying the personality and daily suffering of someone who is affected by the disease‚ although it does not give a completely historically accurate account. In the
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The Botanical Gardens is definitely one interesting place that I would recommend to anyone who asks me for my advice. The beauty of it is somehow beyond description. Each flower‚ each plant has its own way of capturing your soul. Each blade of grass‚ each tree somehow knows how to coordinate with others to form a picturesque scenery that no architect or designer could ever copy. No best selling novelist or Nobel prize winner could possibly put its miraculous beauty into words. One actually has to
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