INTRODUCTION Penang Island was founded in 1786 by a multilingual maverick‚ Captain Francis Light of the British colonial firm‚ the East India Company. The Sir Francis Drake of his day‚ Captain Light envisaged his new town as a harbor for China-bound ships in pursuit of tea and opium. Under Captain Light‚ Penang was given duty-free status and new arrivals were allowed to claim as much land as they could clear. According to one story‚ he ended up bombarding it with silver dollars from cannons
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Marshall Islands By the beginning of 1944‚ United States Marine forces had already made a start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese early in World War II. Successful American assaults in the Southwest Pacific‚ beginning with Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942‚ and in the Central Pacific at Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943‚ were crucial battles to mark the turn of the Japanese conquest. The time had now come to take one more decisive step: assault of the
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Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal‚ between the Indian peninsula to the west and Burma to the north and east. Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India‚ while a small number in the north of the archipelago belong to Burma. 12 00 N92 45 E is the longitude and longitude of these islands. Paragraph on the topography of the land: Flat? Mountainous? Plateau like? The climate
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In The Stranger‚ Camus’ treatment of nature demonstrates how he sees nature as unrelated to and uninterested in human activity. In the text of The Stranger‚ Mersault tells the reader‚ a woman at his mother’s funeral reported “If you go too slowly there’s the risk of a heatstroke. But‚ if you go too fast‚ you perspire‚ and the cold air in the church gives you a chill." I saw her point; either way one was in for it.” (Camus 16) This statement comes early in the text and is part of setting up the action
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IB SL English 2 Commentary on The Comfort of Strangers In one part of the novel‚ The Comfort of Strangers‚ the English writer Ian McEwan describes the admiration with which his male character‚ Robert‚ contemplates his sisters playing dress up. Though the speaker’s age is never divulged‚ we readily jump to the conclusion that he is around ten years old because of the childish and rudimentary language. The structure of the sentences is also very reflective of the child’s young age‚ as well as
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- Contents About the Author Bertolt Brecht is a German poet‚ play writer‚ theatre director and Marxist. Born in Augsburg‚ Germany in 1898 and was a medical orderly during WWI. This has reinforced hatred about war and eventually became more interested in literature than medicine. He is highly influenced by English writers and Chinese philosophers of the time. His famous works are ‘Drums in the Night’ about a soldier returning from war‚ ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ about his growing belief in Marxism
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The movie The Spectacular Now directed by James Ponsoldt is an emotional but realistic movie about Sutter Keely who is afraid of growing up so believes he should be ”… in living in the now”. Sutter is a high school senior who is popular‚ loves his job‚ is the life of the party and has no plans for the future. After getting drunk one night he wakes up on a lawn with Amy Finicky hovering over him‚ she is quite‚ not popular‚ never had a boyfriend and unlike Sutter she has dreams. Although the two of
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The flag of the United States Virgin Islands is one of the most attractive flags of this world . The flag is very similar to the United States presidential flag. The flag consists of a white background on which a strong bald golden eagle sits in the center holding a green branch on the right talon and three light blue arrows in its left talon. These three light blue arrows represent the three islands St. Thomas‚ St. Croix and St. John. The mighty shield on its chest bears a blue chief on the top
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My Island Escape Ever since I was a little kid I knew where I always dreamed of living. My dream home would be more than I could ever imagine. It would be on a bright and warm island. With the white sand all around me‚ bright from the glistening of the sun‚ to the feel of the breeze blowing up to the shore and the sound of the beautiful aqua blue waves. As I walk up to the house all I imagine to see is a big porch overlooking the island. I see a two story house with maybe 3 bedrooms or so‚ not
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Discuss how W. H. Auden connects life and art in "Musee des Beaux Arts." Introduction It is inevitable that tragic events happen in life. Perhaps it is only a few people who are affected‚ perhaps there are millions‚ but they always move on from these tragedies. In the poem "Musee des Beaux Arts‚" by W. H. Auden‚ the author uses references from the painting "Icarus" by Peter Breughel. This painting shows a boy drowning in the ocean‚ while all the focus of the painting is away from that‚ as everyone
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