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    Good morning to our principal‚ teachers and fellow students. Welcome to the new school term. I am Nuzul Fikrie Ahmad‚ the head prefect of SMK Raja Muda. This morning‚ I would like to refresh your memory about our school regulations especially regarding attire and conduct. Paragraph 1 – INTRODUCTION 1) Greet the audience. e.g: Good morning / afternoon / evening to boys and girls.. our principal‚ teachers and fellow students… (at an official school function) Mr Chairman‚ ladies and

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    The Divine Wind ‘The Divine Wind shows how difficult it is for communities to accept cultural difference.’ Discuss. The community of Broome before the advent of World War II in The Divine Wind at first appears to be an idyllic town in which Malays‚ Koepangers‚ Japanese‚ Manilamen and Australians all work in relative harmony in search of the elusive pearl. Hartley Penrose‚ the central narrator of the novel‚ seems to enjoy describing the tropical existence of Broome and its harmony: “mangoes and

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    Every time Christmas arrives‚ Santa Claus is on the minds of many children across the country. Their belief about a jolly old man in red called Santa Claus often results from the parents’ harmless lies of Santa’s existence. Once the kids are old enough to use logic and reason‚ they begin to question the inconsistencies of their childhood story and come to realize that Santa Clause doesn’t exist‚ thus altering their belief because the reality of Santa’s nonexistence has always been concealed. In Harper

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    exploded soon after.” This story of humility and sacrifice can be compared to literary and also non-fictional people and can be applied in many different ways. The first things that Eva and Winkelreid had in common was their acts of sacrifice. In The Wind is Free‚ Eva’s mother had told her to go to the baker’s wife and tell her‚ “The bread is sour.” She was opposed to her request‚ but put her own feeling aside to carry on with her job. In this world‚ most anyone nowadays presumably would not accomplish

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    Joan of Arc is a Roman Catholic Saint‚ and is considered a heroine for France. At the mere age of 13‚ Joan was spoken to by a voice‚ which is believed to be God‚ and is encouraged to join the French army to fight against England. In doing so‚ she won many battles for the French‚ but was soon met with a trial‚ in which she was essentially accused of being a mystic‚ and not performing in the proper way of a woman in relation to how she dressed. It is here that I must question‚ what exactly is performing

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    In any story‚ the repetition of a word‚ theme‚ or symbol typically marks that thing as important to the author and reader. It reflects the message of the piece as a whole. In Tom Whitecloud’s Blue Winds Dancing‚ the word in particular is “home.” It represents more than where he grew up; more than just a birthplace. “Home” means family. It means friends‚ love‚ comfort‚ and protection. “Home is where the heart is” so the saying goes‚ and for Whitecloud‚ this couldn’t be any truer. Home is the most

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    In the short story Ashes for the Wind‚ the protagonist Juan martinez is faced with conflict both external and internal. The story takes place in a village in Colombia that is going through political injustice and change. Juan and his family are told that they are being evicted from their house‚ and need to leave immediately. The first conflict was presented when Simon Arevalo’s son explained to Juan that he needs to clear out of his house. Although Arevalo and his parents had been friends with Juan

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     If I were Santa‚ I would think the reason why the Elves had neither the experience for‚ nor the interest in work like that is because they had never expressed interest in that type of work. I‚ Santa‚ had always taken care of all the big picture and operational work in the past from when the company had first started until now. There was a culture established long ago that I handled the operations and the procedures. If there was a better way of doing things then I would let the Elves know and

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    there is a belief that children are born bearing the weight of their parents sins. This idea is encompassed in the novel The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz Zafon about a young boy named Daniel‚ who encounters a book that changes his life. Enlisting the help of multiple people‚ Daniel is able to uncover many of mysteries surrounding the book‚ The Shadow of the Wind‚ and its arcane author‚ Julian Carax. On Daniel’s quest to uncover more about Julian Carax‚ he finds that both Julian Carax and the antagonist

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    5/3/2011 Joan Hinton – Atomic Bomb Topic Outline & Thesis Statement According to Joan Hinton‚ “As long as there is war‚ scientists will never be free‚ are we scientists going to spend our lives in slavery for madmen who want to destroy the world?” Joan Hinton wanted to use her gift as a mathematician to help people around the world; instead‚ she was deceitfully recruited to work on a project that would kill sixty – seventy thousand people and injure one hundred

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