One Direction are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London‚ consisting of members Niall Horan‚ Zayn Malik‚ Liam Payne‚ Harry Styles‚ and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell’s record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by the power of social media‚ their two albums Up All Night and Take Me Home‚ released in 2011 and 2012 respectively‚ broke several
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The movie‚ The Day After Tomorrow‚ addresses the issue of global warming. The movie’s portrayal of the events caused by global warming was extreme and not very believable. Some of the information is backed up by science but most is completely off the wall and nonrealistic. The movie cited the cause of the global climate change to be the rise in temperature due to greenhouse gasses. The warmer temperatures caused the polar ice caps to melt‚ and the increased amount of freshwater in the ocean
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constitution should commence after independence under the auspices of the independent Scottish Parliament. It should be for the newly independent Parliament to devise the process and timetable for the drafting of the constitution. The Government’s view is that the process of shaping the new constitution should be participative and command the support of the whole of Scotland. When the process of determining the constitution gets underway‚ the Scottish Government will be just one of many voices. However
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EXPEDITIONS AFTER MAGELLAN: 1. LOAISA – it was a failure because all members died at sea. 2. CABOT- also a failure because they were attacked by the hostile Indians. 3. SAAVEDRA- The crew touched Ladrones or Guam & reached Mindanao but were driven by winds at Tidore. All the members died at sea. 4. VILLALOBOS –Headed by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos. It was also a failure. He was able to reach Moluccas but was harassed by misfortunes so he died unhappy. It’s only historical significance
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After WW2‚ Australia felt that the population was too small to defend itself in case of another event. It also felt that Australia needed an economic boost and an increase in the population was the way to do so. In a speech to parliament in 1944‚ Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell expresses the need for migrants; “…Only by filling this land can we establish a title to hold it” (House of Representatives‚ Debates‚ 1944‚ vol. HR177‚ p.935). The Chifley Labor government’s aim in the late 1940s was
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In the poem One Art‚ the literal situation is that the art of loss isn’t hard to master. Bishop gives the reader tips on how to master the art of loss and eventually gives the real answer to how she copes with loss. The ballad starts rather strongly with the inquisitive case that "the art of losing isn’t hard to master" (1.1). The speaker recommends that a few things are fundamentally made to be lost‚ and that losing them in this manner isn’t a major ordeal. She proposes that we get used to misfortune
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the Pilgrims‚ not to mention turkey being the main dish of the meal. This event has been distorted to the point that many people are unaware of the true happenings that took place‚ which led to the celebration now concrete in the American mythos. In After the Mayflower‚ the filmmakers portray the events leading to and following the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of the Wampanoag tribe. The film explores the diplomatic intentions behind the Wampanoag alliance with the settlers and reveals
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just after 30‚ but a dream of taking care of a host of own children may not come true. Moreover‚ couples who have decided to create a full family‚ may not have enough money to educate their offspring‚ due to the fact of faster retirement comparing to other relationships. But there’s also a great advantage of getting married a bit later! Both partners have learnt in earlier relationships how to be independent‚ self-sufficient‚ and how to accept shortcomings or habits of current beloved one. Another
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depends on how one prepares for it. In Nigeria‚ the private sectors have a relatively better reputation for taking seriously their obligations to retiring and disengaging employees through the prompt payments of severance benefits and gratuities. Happily and commendably‚ the uncertainties‚ poor-record keeping‚ frustration and trauma which are common feature of pensions and terminal gratuity payments in the public service continues to be very minimal in the private sector. However‚ after putting 40
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Elizabeth Bishop is a very influential poet of our time. Her poem‚ ‘One Art‚’ is a good model for chapter five’s topics. It contains excellent examples of sound units‚ words‚ ordering of language‚ and implication. Bishop based this poem off villanelle written in iambic pentameter‚ which has an ABA rhyme scheme that forms a couplet rhyme in the end quatrain. This poem is exemplary for expressing the sound units of words‚ and sentences. The sound units of the words are phonetically connected
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