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    THE RIGHT WORD by Imtiaz Dharker Imtiaz Dharker’s poem “The Right Word” focuses on a figure that is in the shadows outside the narrator’s house. It is noticeable that the word “outside” appears in the first seven of the poem’s nine stanzas‚ and the word “shadows” or “shadow” in the first six. Because the figure is in the shadows‚ it is difficult to make out who or what he is‚ and so the narrator is searching for the right word to identify him. The first stanza describes the figure as “lurking”

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    Hoàng Hồng Thủy – LQT40A THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH INTRODUCTION Those people who complain about the difficulties of learning German‚ don’t know how lucky they really are - they only have one language to master. Admittedly‚ there are regional differences of dialect in German-speaking countries‚ but the non-native speaker who has learned Hochdeutsch (high or standard German) should have no problems in making himself understood by citizens of Germany‚ Austria or Switzerland

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    The Bill of Rights and the fourteenth amendment are the most important constitutional provisions affecting civil liberties policy making. Bills of Rights which are the 1st 10th amendment of the constitution. Fourteenth amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. I really appreciate what government have done for people’s right because according to my experience I have never seen in any country such as Europe‚ Asia or Middle East where people have such

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    Civil rights refers to the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality and is an important part of our history because for example when Frederick Douglass was a slave as a kid‚ his Aunt Katy wouldn’t feed him for days because of his skin color.Therefore‚ shows how African Americans even as kids were treated very poorly during slavery. Civil rights is also important to our history because when Frederick was a kid he was separated from his family and sold to another slave master

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    Similarities and differences between English bill of rights and the declaration rights of man and citizen Bryan. W Mr. Roberts The English bill of rights and the declaration rights of man and citizen are two of the most influential documents ever written between 1600-1800; those documents greatly affect the rights and freedom that everyone was born with today‚ it also greatly affects the US constitution about how they govern their country how they think about government. The two documents have

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    When it came time to pass the voting rights act‚ in 1965‚ there were 6 African­American members of the US House of Representative and no one in the US senate. By 1971 there were 13 African­Americans in the house and one who was apart if the US senate. After this act passed the 15th amendment ratified in 1970 prohibiting the state from denying any males vote based on their race‚ color‚ or previous condition of servitude. During the Civil Rights act many voting rights activists were subjected to various

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    The Lightning Thief By: Rick Riordan Journal #1 In the beginning of this story we meet Percy Jackson‚ a 12 year old “demigod.” Demigods are superhuman mortals born of the Gods. They are half man‚ half god and wield powers connected to the powers of their Olympian parent. Percy had no clue of what he was or what he was capable of. During a school field trip to the museum‚ Percy was not feeling well. He was seeing weird things such as water flying in the air and his teacher teleporting

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    linguistics has to do with how words are shaped‚ and how the shapes of words may be systematically adjusted in order to accomplish communicative tasks. You can also think of morphology as the study of how meaningful units combine to shape words. There is connection between a word and a morpheme but a number of elements that can be drawn as either a similarity or difference concerning the two terms. In view‚ this essay will look at the similarities and differences between a word and morpheme. Aronoff and

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    thought is headed concerning Mark Twain’s use of the word nigger‚ but I would like to add to it as well as bring up another perspective. Twain may be speaking out about the demeaning aspects of slavery and the lifestyle those people had during that time period‚ but I believe the use of the word nigger is not ment to be offensive. From what I gathered from the novel the word nigger was a synonym for black person‚ just like to a child poddy is code for bathroom. To say the word is "too offensive" and that

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    The difference between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites are: Bacteria are single celled organisms that can rapidly multiple themselves every 10 minutes up to 10 times each bacterial cell‚ but they do not live or reproduce in a human cell. When threatened they will make a copy of their DNA to enable them to come back to life in the right conditions. They are able to survive in most extreme living conditions including with and without oxygen‚ there are various types of bacteria such as Cocci/Coccus

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