The name-giving of Athens It is well-known that Athens was the most powerful and glorious town of ancient Greece. Its residents managed to develop a wonderful civilization that is admired till today. It is also known that the city got its name from Athena‚ the goddess of wisdom and courage. But how did Athens have its name? Here is a charming little story about the origin of the city’s name. The dispute of the gods Cecrops‚ a strange creature‚ half-man half-snake‚ was the founder of a city which
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If I was he manager of the concerned organization‚ I would use three ideas to turn the dissatisfied customers to become satisfied ones. First‚ Compensate for guitar expenses. In the case‚ the guitar was crafted by Spanish master guitar maker Antonio Marin Montero who only made twenty guitars each year.And the guitar cost one hundred thousand HK dollars but we only compensate 234 HK dollars. So we need to have a reasonable compensation.For example‚ we can find the guitar maker to make a same guitar
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Is it hard to live in Hong Kong? A psychologist said that stress is a joint result of weak knowledge base plus and in sufficient support. In a highly competitive society like Hong Kong‚ everyone must work very hard for keeping a foothold. Moreover‚ Hong Kong’s Gini Coefficient has consistently at the world’s top rank‚ which implies the city’s income gap have a great disparity‚ despite a high living standard. That is how the stress comes up and let us take a close look at the issues. First of
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I am writing to you today‚ to explain what I believe about your discriminative views on names of children and scapegoating it onto their parents. May I call you Katie? Maybe I should stick to Ms. Hopkins‚ because you have made it really quite clear - you don’t like me. In fact‚ apparently‚ you hate me a lot just because I don’t have a top-notch name. I don’t really understand why you would feel such hate towards me; it’s such a strong‚ negative word and I wonder why you feel the urge to use that
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Hong Kong – Jenny Bakery – Best Butter Cookies Restaurant: Jenny Bakery Cuisine: Dessert/Bakery Last visited: April 10‚ 2010 Location: 5 locations - Central‚ Hong Kong Address: Metro: Central Station Shop 126‚ #33 Queens Road Central‚ Melbourne Plaza 1st Floor‚ Central‚ Hong Kong Tel: 2524-1988 Price Range: $10-20 1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent 6: Tres Excellent!! Food: 6 (for butter cookies) Service: n/a Ambiance: n/a Overall: 5 Additional comments: * Since
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Gonzalez 1 Anabel Gonzalez Mr. Helle English p.2 7 September 2009 Thematic Effects on Novel without a Name Novel without a name by Duong Thu Huong provided a real insight on war from the Vietnamese point of view. Readers are able to contemplate with the themes that reoccur‚ what the war truly is like‚ and the effects it causes on the people‚ society‚ and the individual. Three main reoccurring themes of this novel were disillusionment of the war‚ betrayal‚ and the loss of innocence that the
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Students are taught in most schools that slavery ended with President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. However after reading Douglas Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name I am clearly convinced that slavery continued for many years afterward. It is shown throughout this book that slavery did not end until 1942‚ this is when the condition of what Blackmon refers to as "neoslavery" began. Neoslavery was practiced after the Emancipation Proclamation and until the beginning of World War II
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nowhere to dispose our waste‚ ______. You may be dubious that there is still a long way to this nightmare; however‚ according to the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department‚ the three major strategic landfills in Hong Kong will be saturated in the mid to late 2010s. In other words‚ our landfills are going to be filled up within ten years. It implies that Hong Kong indeed has an imminent waste problem associated with the sturation of the landfills. At present‚ we depend merely on landfills
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The youth unemployed should be one the groups the most in need for financial support in Hong Kong. They face keen competition and suffer from the local economic regression‚ which create difficulty to them earning a living. Young people‚ in general‚ refers to people in the age groups of 15-19 and 20-24 (Chung Kim-wah 2009). They are recognized as labor force in Hong Kong‚ but their employment opportunities are not optimistic. Those school leavers in the age of 15-24 entering the labor market have
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ELC291 – English for University studies Ng Ka Lok‚ Kyle (11228174D) Aging Problem in Hong Kong Introduction Nowadays‚ it is common to see elderly everywhere in our society. Not only from the own observation‚ but the result from the population census and other documents also give reliable information of aging population in Hong Kong. Obviously‚ problem of aging population should not be neglected as it is not simply a phenomenon of people getting older‚ it causes other social problems and the
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