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    will be? Nick comes from a prominent family and is intelligent‚ being a graduate from Yale. He seems to be a kind‚ humble person. I think that Nick will be a reliable and honest narrator. 5.What image does the author use to describe Jordan Baker? What does it mean? Fitzgerald describes Jordan to be "...a slender‚ small-breasted girl with an erect carriage.” He also describes her to be like a cadet. This means that she is very alert and keeps an eye on everything. 6.How does Nick react

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    Frankenstein’s Monster & The Lack of Familial Ties The Romantic Era inspired detailed expressions of internal feelings and an emphasis on the appreciation of nature. Romantic writers feared the disintegration of human emotion and the relationship between humans and nature. Once the Scientific revolution called for reason and the theorizing of the causes of life‚ it seemed as if people would become more mechanical and rational rather than sentimental and imaginative. There was in fact‚ a sweeping

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    In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot‚ there is a debate over whether Americans should be hopeful for the future of healthcare or whether to be pessimistic about what’s to come. There are times where people can see both sides of the argument and it is understandable why people have different points of view based on the argument. In the story‚ we see Henrietta’s cells used as research and the information is kept away from Henrietta’s family. Even though by keeping the

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    Elsinore by Elizabeth Coatsworth embodies the situation between characters‚ and has hidden morals within the prose. There are many morals and life lessons in Hamlet‚ one of which is the effects of poor parenting. In Hamlet‚ emotional suppression and lack of parenting lead to the downfall of Gertrude‚ and her son Hamlet. Proper parenting can be defined as caring for children and providing them with shelter‚ emotional security‚ food‚ education‚ and safety so that they can become successful adults. Gertrude

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    CONCLUSION 15 5 RECOMMENDATIONS 16 6 REFERENCES 17 7 APPENDICES 19 * Appendix A: Figure 8.0 19 * Appendix B: Questionnaire 20 ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate lack of healthy lifestyle awareness among IIUM students. A total of 13 male and 20 female among undergraduate students of IIUM Kuantan and Gombak campus were selected randomly to be the respondents of the study. A set of questionnaire was designed to gain

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    Who should profit from the HeLa cells in particular‚ and medical advances in general? Does the Lacks family have any claim to the money that has been made from HeLa? Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb I find the question of who should reek the benefits of the HeLa cells in the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to be not just be a simple he or she answer (if that makes any sense)‚ but I find this question really asks something deeper. The questions

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    This novel goes through the story of a woman named Henrietta Lacks. The book is based of her story that started with a cancer that was discovered in her when she thought she was possibly pregnant because of a feeling of a knot on her cervix. Although she wasn’t pregnant they did find out she had a cervical cancer. Little did she know that some of her cancer tissue was removed and sent to George Gey’s lab in Hopkins. The scientist there‚ one named Gey ‚ have been trying to get human cells to divide

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    The Lack of Comprehensive Speech in Catch 22 Most of what we really say has no meaning. This concept is perfectly supported in Catch 22‚ by Joseph Heller. Almost every character and scene in the novel contain dialogues where the people speak aimlessly and have no explanation for why they are talking. Colonel Cargill addresses his men by saying‚ ÒYou’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it."(29) Even though the remark

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    Lack of unity caused the failure of rebellion against William in the years 1066-75’. Explain why you agree or disagree with this view? After William of Normandy became the first Norman King of England in 1066‚ there was still severe instability within the country. Between 1066-1075 there was the threat of rebellion against William however there was no victory for the rebels. Lack of unity among the rebel forces played an important part in the failure of the rebellions; however it acted only as

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    first book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book took Rebecca more than a decade to research and write. It instantly hit the New York Times best-seller list where it has remained for more than four years since its publication in 2010. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was about an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks. Her cancer cells were harvested and used to create an immortal cell line for scientific experimentation. Henrietta Lacks was 30 years old at the time she went into

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