In “One thousand Roads to Mecca‚” Michael Wolfe introduces us to the importance of hajj through the personal experiences of two travelers. Before the accounts of the two travelers‚ Wolfe explains the brief history of the expansion of Islam. According to Wolfe‚ Islam spread in two directions‚ from Mecca east to Afghanistan and west to Morocco. “As a religion and as a social order‚ it went on steadily expanding into Africa‚ India‚ and Asia‚ bearing with it a legal system‚ a trading network‚ and a coherent
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I have read an excerpt called A Thousand and One Arabian Nights‚ which is a Persian work written by multiple anonymous Arab storytellers. The excerpt recounts the story of a character named Sinbad’s first merchant voyage‚ out of the seven total voyages he took. The story was written in a time where trade was booming and merchants in Iraq were especially fortunate being able to trade from the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. The story starts out with Sinbad talking about how he began the voyage
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Red Grief People use literary devices in their speech every day. However‚ few people know what they’re called. In his short story “The Whirligig of Life” O Henry demonstrates five common examples of literary devices. The first example of figurative language is in the very beginning of the excerpt‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief”. O Henry ironically uses the simile “as flat as a flannel cake” to describe the town of Summit. The irony is that the flat town of Summit doesn’t contain a single summit. The
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The definition of love is " a deep‚ tender‚ ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person." In "The Gift of the Magi‚" the two main characters possess a love for each other that is so strong that they are willing to sacrifice their greatest treasures for each other‚ with no regrets. Also‚ they do not obsess over superficial things like appearances. Therefore‚ the moral of the story is that it is not the material things that matter‚ it is the love you have for another person‚ and the
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Two Thanksgiving Gentleman by O. Henry O. Henry is one of the most famous American short story writers. O. Henry’s real name was William Sydney Porter and he was born in Greensboro‚ North Carolina on September 11‚ 1862. O. Henry’s short stories are famous for their surprise endings and humor. O. Henry’s wrote such classic short stories as The Ransom of Red Chief‚ “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room”. His stories often have characters from opposite society levels: the wealthy and
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Jimmy Valentine‚ an awfully arrogant‚ but charismatic‚ criminal‚ was featured in O. Henry’s short story “A Retrieved Reformation”. During the late 1800s‚ Elmore‚ Arkansas became an area with many mysterious happenings. Following a brief‚ ten month period of imprisonment‚ the evasive fugitive‚ Jimmy Valentine‚ was released. Moments after his release‚ the anti-hero immediately returned home to attain a suitcase possessing his own novelties of safe-cracking tools. A week after receiving the pardon slip
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ENDORSEMENT LETTER November 10‚ 2014 Ms. Jennifer Odiver Head‚ HRD Dept. Cebu Bionic Builder Supply‚ Inc. 2/F One Bldg.‚ 242 Magallanes St.‚ Cebu City‚ Philippines Tel. No. (032) 418 - 4288 local 106 Dear Ms. Odiver: This is to request your good office to accommodate the following Bachelor of Science in Management Accounting student as intern in your company: Go ‚ Monica In your assignment of tasks‚ our practicum student is expected to conform to the following: 1. She is required
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Weak Dollar vs. Strong Dollar With the economy constantly changing‚ we are starting to see drastic changes in our dollar. A countries currency determines their strength in the market and their inflation rate. With a higher inflation rate‚ they are able to buy more and do more for a cheaper price. To help us better understand the difference between the weak dollar and the strong dollar‚ we will go in depth with both weak and strong dollars and its advantages and disadvantages‚ the currency monitor
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The Sand Dollar Splash!! Of course it’s me being picked up by every human and throwing me as far away out as possible. It gets me very angry and annoyed because the humans don’t treat me with enough respect as some other organisms living here. Humans don’t look at me as a living creature and I have the same systems and some of the same body parts as them but I’m just a lot smaller in size. They get angry at me for trying to get away using my spines to move along the sand. People who pick me
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economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy‚ it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.” (Hazlitt) This is the core lesson that Henry Hazlitt hopes his reader learns as he reads his book Economics in One Lesson. This interesting read explains the fallacies of economics and provides short lessons that assist the reader in understanding why these are misconceptions. Three of the
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