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    Although he was highly critical of the post-independence Congress party establishment‚ he was more sympathetic to the right-wing Hindu nationalist movement in India. He refused to criticise the destruction of mosques: "“Muslims do not have the slightest right to complain about the desecration of one mosque in Ayodhya. From 1000 AD every temple from Kathiawar to Bihar‚ from the Himalayas to the Vindhyas has been sacked and ruined. Not one temple was left standing all over northern India. They escaped

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    Through elementary school‚ Donald impressed classmates with his athleticism‚ and crazy personality. He attended a military academy for behavioral purposes in high school and got taller and tougher. Having a broomstick in a fight‚ he tried to push a cadet out a second-floor window‚ however was stopped by his friends. He was Trump in a miniature‚ who has dominated the presidential election‚ more than a dozen of his childhood friends‚ and neighbors said in interviews. Even Trump has noticed the

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    The poem "The Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike dramatizes the conflict between dreams and reality in the case of Flick Webb. Flick shows such promise in his teenage years‚ but he ends up in the pathetic reality of helping out at a garage and playing pinball in a luncheonette. The poem begins with the description of "Pearl Avenue" which "bends with the trolley tracks‚ and stops‚ cut off / Before it has a chance to go two blocks..." Pearl Avenue presents a ticket name connoting a clean‚ freshness

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    Standing shivering on the wet tile edge of the pool‚ aware to his white skin‚ his father telling him to jump; There is blue –green water all around him he can’t breath he is sinking. One event‚ small or big‚ bad or good‚ is enough to shape and change one life. There is one event for Harold the main character of “trust me” that changed and influenced his life. Besides not being able to swim after almost drowning in the swimming pool‚ it seems that Harold also had had emotionally scars

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    The key to Papa John’s success was not just the quality of its pizza‚ but from the entrepreneurial lessons that was learned by John Schnatter. John Schnatter learned early in his business that hiring the best people doesn’t necessarily mean hiring the most experience people. He believed that you looked for people that are positive and have integrity (Clifford‚ 2014). In an interview with Entrepreneur Magazine‚ Mr. Schnatter explained that there are three things that is need to grow a blockbuster

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    Writing Styles In Health And Social Care There are three different styles of writing in health and social care; journalistic‚ Scientific and reflective. Each is different in terms of style‚ presentation‚ format‚ language and structure. Journalistic writing is in the style of formal writing and is descriptive as it is describing what has happened so the audience can understand fully. It is often in the format of paragraphs of the relevant sections and includes headlines and subheadings which could

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    tragedy and personal conflicts. Within his pieces of literature he uses his creative writing style abilities by making readers feel emotional effects such as horror and sorrow. With all of his past conflicts‚ I believe it made him a lot better at connecting to readers in other ways certain authors couldn’t. Poe’s style is characterized by his use of sound imagery‚ irony‚ and repeated elements. In Poe’s style of writing he uses sound imagery to help make emotional effects. In “The Raven” Poe uses the

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    Summer by David Updike King Solomon wrote wisely‚ and later was wisely paraphrased by the folk band “The Byrds”‚ “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven...” (Ecclesiastes 3:1‚8). Seasons often represent the periods of a person’s life; birth‚ youth‚ age and death. In the short story “Summer” by David Updike‚ the lake provides an eternal and unchanging witness to Homer’s transition from season to season and from boy to man. In the beginning we find the family and

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    ASSINGMENT Fill in the blanks 1.Characters talking about themselves in the third person is a convention that often people who are new to Shakespeare. 2.Character talking about themselves is a way of speaking that can make the occasion and the character . 3.Another confusing convention is that a ruler being referred to by the name of his . 4.This convention is important because it tells the of the king

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    a writer develops their style‚ they learn to incorporate this style in all of their writings. Kurt Vonnegut has developed a very unique style using irony and symbolism along with multiple other rhetorical devices to introduce all of his‚ somewhat related‚ themes throughout his novels. The novels Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five are exceptional examples of the consistency in Kurt Vonnegut’s writing. He leaves a mark on all of the texts he uses by using his unique style of black humor to get his

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