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    Characters Kept Me Company: How Literacy Was My Outlet Reading and writing are significant in my life because they have given me a way to express myself and hide from my everyday life‚ even though I don’t read or write as often as I once did. Literacy provided me a way to understand and communicate with others. Societally‚ literacy is important to comprehension and education. We as humans are taught from the moment we are born to speak‚ read‚ and write. It is our most basic form of communication

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    The Genius of Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon‚ widely known as Alexander the Great‚ is opinioned by some people to have been a ruthless man who only had a thirst for conquest ‚ but according to others he was a man of intellect and “statesmanlike vision” (Hammond Preface). In N.G.L. Hammond’s book The Genius of Alexander the Great‚ as stated in the preface‚ he tries to refrain from writing based on his own opinion of Alexander‚ and instead analyzes the few surviving narratives on Alexander’s

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    anywhere” to some of my friends. They make me noticed that we should not give advice if we are not experienced. First‚ I had shared to my same-aged neighbor Ah Yong. His first reaction is he became flip-out and start asking me “ Lun‚ are you crazy? You want me to bring an umbrella to wherever I go? I will be look like a dumb!” said Ah Yong angrily and pushed me out and slammed the door “Bang!” I felt like I had been humiliated so I walked home. After that‚ I go and shared this advice to my classmate Chun

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    Rossner‚ Judith. “I Am Cinderella’s Stepmother and I know My Rights” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J Rosen. Boston: Longman 2011. 662-665. Print. In her essay “I Am Cinderella’s Stepmother and I Know My Rights” Judith Rossner humorously argues and sues the Disney Corporation for bringing out a movie that was not put into the right perspective of her family. She states “she never said her girls were easy” and after her first husband passed her girls “became

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    in her story. Flannery O’Connor becomes the grandmother‚ she is the mother‚ the father‚ the children and the misfit himself. Great detail is put in describing the way the parents act along with the children. She describes how the children are impatient and talk back to their parents. They need to have it their way. And the mother is caring for her baby. The dad is impatient as well and just needs quiet so he does what the kids want. And the grandmother is very astute and persuasive‚ very careful

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    Management Genius: Peter F. Drucker By Md. Faruk Hossain (Faruk) Dear reader‚ there are many kinds of writings‚ many kinds of posts‚ that depict different kinds of tips‚ suggestions‚ etc. But I will try here to post something different‚ because there are really something differences to write. Actually sometimes there exist lots of geniuses in our invisibility‚ but we don’t know well about them though we did hear a little or knew the names of them. Today I will write about one of the best Management

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    oft-mentioned arguments that arise concerning Hamlet is whether he can be considered truly mad‚ or simply genius. Did these situations- the ghost’s arrival‚ The Murder of Gonzago‚ and Polonius’s murder in any way change his course? While it is true that all humans have the potential for deeds with magnitudes of great good and evil‚ was he already bloodthirsty‚ did he become bloodthirsty‚ or was his brutality simply awoken from its slumber? While some may argue that Hamlet did not truly lose his innocence

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    “Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand‚ I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.” (A-Z Quotes). He was an amazing and clever man but he worked for it just like he explained in this quote. Hamilton worked hard for everything he did and for all good things. It wasn’t

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    The suicide note of Vincent Willem van Gogh “My dear brother‚ Thanks for your kind letter and for the 50-fr note in contained. There are many things I should like to write you about but I feel it useless. I hope you have found those worthy gentlemen favorably disposed towards you. Your reasurring me as to the peacefuless of your household was hardly worth the trouble‚ I think having seen the weal and woe of it myself. And I quite agree with you that rearing boy on the fourth floor is hell

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    The unnamed grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” considers herself morally superior to others by virtue of her being a “lady‚” and she freely and frequently passes judgment on others. She claims that her conscience is a guiding force in her life‚ such as when she tells Bailey that her conscience wouldn’t allow her to take the children in the same direction as the Misfit. She criticizes the children’s mother for not traveling to a place that would allow the children to “be broad‚” and she compares

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