after house on the twilight streets‚ under the immense oaks and elms‚ on shady porches‚ people would begin to appear‚ like those figures who tell good or bad weather in rain-or-shine clocks” (K. Flachmann and M. Flachmann 63). Suddenly‚ Lin beams up beside me. Lin asks‚ “Are you happy? Is your life the way you always wanted?” “Yes!” I answered. “I will have to get used to some of the changes‚ but I love my life in the future.” All of a sudden‚ I lift into the air like a ghost. I start flying out of
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In modern society‚ much like any before it‚ there always exist a duality when it comes to the constructs and events of human civilization as a whole. This is especially true of knowledge and technology. Its very understanding and creation can be perceived as a challenge to the current ’status quo’. It presents the opportunity for evolution and possibly‚ even revolution. So just as there would be as many to embrace it‚ there would an an equal force to deter it. This can even be seen in generational
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CASE: THO YOW PEW & ANOR V CHUA KOOI HEAN MATERIAL FACT: The plaintiffs in this case were the elder and younger brother of Dr. Tho Yow Cheong (the deceased) who died testate on 5 December 1996. They were the executors and trustees of the will executed by the deceased which dated on 20 October 1995. On 16 June 1997‚ the plaintiffs applied to the High Court of Kuala Lumpur by way of petition for a grant of probate of the said will. The defendant who was the wife of the deceased however then
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The Opium War The Opium War‚ directed by Jin Xie‚ paints a rather impartial account of the Opium War‚ starting with the appointment of Lin Zexu to end the opium trade in China to the signing of the Treaty of Nanking. This film seemed to fairly depict the faults of both the Chinese and the British during the 1830’s and up to 1842. That said‚ The Opium War illustrated two important factors that both helped to promote the conflict and eventual military confrontation between China and Britain.
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The Donkey Cart by S.T. Hwang "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." Trust‚ just a five letter word which has a very deep and vast meaning. It teaches people how to care for it‚ for it is very hard to gain and to deal with. Also‚ being trustworthy is one of the most important trait a person must possess for it is the process of being able to place confidence in another person. The narrative tells us about the journey of a man whom his trust was tested
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fibre by using different wavelengths (colors) of laser light to carry different signals. This allows for a multiplication in capacity‚ in addition to making it possible to perform bidirectional communications over one strand of fiber. (Tomlinson & Lin‚ 2000‚ p.345-347) 1.2 Systems involve in Wavelength-division Multiplexing technology A WDM system uses a multiplexer at the transmitter to join the signals together and a demultiplexer at the receiver to split them apart. With the right type of
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feeling of reading and holding a book still has its own value in me. In “The Art of Reading”‚ Lin Yutang‚ a Chinese scholar says that reading makes people enjoy a rich spiritual life that those people who do not read books can’t obtain. The main point of this article is trying to say that you can ’t force someone to read‚ you have to let them fall in love with their own style of book or author. After reading Lin Yutang’s essay and according to my experiences‚ I agree with his opinion that reading can
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The West’s influence on China In what ways was the Western encroachment in the 19th century detrimental to China‚ and in what way might it be beneficial? The encroachment of the West vastly affected China in very many ways. Good and bad. The affect of West’s influence on them helped alter China’s government‚ lifestyle‚ and their industrial development. The governments of America and some Europeans countries pushed a strong burden on Chinese government to change the ways that they treated
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possible cause of a problem and also sort the ideas into the useful categories. Thus‚ this diagram is more structured approach than some other tools available for brainstorming the causes of a problem (Khilyuk & Chilingar‚ 2017). Source: (Bilsel & Lin‚ 2017) Based on the structure of Ishikawa diagram‚
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struggled to shape their land. As old wounds are slowly being healed‚ New Zealand is becoming a nation that is more at peace with themselves. Free from it’s previous colonial ties to Great Britain‚ New Zealand has emerged as a confident nation (Smelt & Jui Lin 2010: 5). New Zealand’s pacific people are a very dynamic and diverse group. Pacific people in New Zealand are represented by at least 13 distinct languages and cultural groups (http://www.mpia.govt.nz/pacific-peoples-in-new-zealand/). The many Pacific
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