Our war stories By SHEELA CHANDRAN entertainment@thestar.com.my http://ecentral.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/2/15/tvnradio/10698441&sec=tvnradio An intriguing new documentary tells the personal stories of Malayans who endured turbulent times under Japanese rule during World War II. IT was exactly 70 years ago today – Feb 15‚ 1942 – when Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival‚ the British General Officer Commanding Malaya during World War II‚ took the drastic step of signing the surrender document
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be a critical observation of our habitual use of war metaphors in our society. Tannen suggests that the argument culture urges us to think in a very adversarial manner that our conversations are usually set up to be a debate. Many of us believe that our society has a very binary thinking. In essence‚ we always think of the right and wrong‚ good and bad‚ black and white. We understand the language is a battleground and we know that words are powerful that they shape our perception. To a certain
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Ladies managed to do something fun whle things are under repaire. And I’m pretty sure that these girls are all set to endure what’s instore ahead of them. “The children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.” This is from a line in a song which I personally believe to be true. This is the face of our future. Let us help im making them an asset to the society and not a pest or reliability to the community. Parents must not deprive their children of their right to be educated
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“Our relationships with others help define who we are” In trying to make sense of ourselves we often look to others and our relationships with them to help us. Our first relationships are with our family. Their influence is often vital to our self- definition. These relationships can give us a sense of who we are and where we have come from and it is often comforting to know we are part of something bigger. Often these relationships are positive‚ but they can also be negative. Being rejected
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Polygons in our life The importance of polygons would probably relate to the variety of polygon shape often used in the building of modern structures. The triangle‚ for instance‚ is often used in construction because its shape makes it comparatively strong. The use of the polygon shape reduces the quantity of materials needed to make a structure‚ so essentially reduces costs and maximizes profits in a business environment. Another polygon is the rectangle. The rectangle is used in a number of
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Puritan religious ideas are found in Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”‚ in which themes of devotion and selfless love for God are present throughout. There are also instances where those religious ideologies clash with the emotional response the speaker of the poem has while watching the burning house; and in this paper I argue that‚ through allusion to scripture and poetic form‚ there are comments on the struggle between knowing scripture and actually
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The poetess writes this in reminiscence of the Casuarina tree that grew in the courtyard of her childhood home. The poem opens with a description of the tree‚ tall enough to make it seem like it touches the stars‚ strong enough to continue growing despite scars on its trunk and despite all this it provides support to a creeper. And yet she gives it the air of a Gentleman when she describes how the tree is forever adorned with flowers and birds and bees. Thus we see the tree in her childhood was not
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and plants collectively. As a human being‚ we need to live in amity with other living things on the Earth. It is glorious that Malaysia is a habitat of much wildlife such as tigers‚ elephants‚ lions‚ leopards and many more. We have to appreciate that our country has such balance ecosystem. It is reported that some wild animals encounter extinction. Those animals mentioned are white tigers. Humans should be blamed causing this problem occurs. Cutting down the trees in jungles destroys habitats
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Technology in our lives Imagine your life without technology and how often we use it. Technology plays a vital role in our everyday life’s we use it for everything from doing math to reading a book. Technology has made some huge advances in the past couple years. They have made it part of our daily lives to the point where I think we might start to become too dependent on it‚ which would not be good for us in the long run. There might be a day where our technology stops working and we might not
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What ’s In Our Food Research Paper Introduction America is one of the unhealthiest developed countries in the world. About 36% of Americans are obese (Michael‚ 2012). Our diets have led to 16.3% of our nation ’s resources being spent on healthcare (White‚ 2013). There are antibiotics and growth hormones in our meat‚ Genetically Modified Organisms and pesticides in our produce‚ and high fructose corn syrup in most of the foods that are packaged and canned (Kenner‚ 2009). This leads to
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