The Fakir’s Point. ? If you had three wishes‚ would you wish for something even if you knew it would only cause you suffering? In the story “The Monkey’s Paw”‚ written by W.W. Jacobs‚ the characters Mr. White‚ Mrs. White‚ and Herbert White obtain a magical talisman from Sargeant Major Morris that was cursed by an old fakir who wanted to teach people that messing with fate will lead to sorrow. The talisman could grant three wishes from three different people‚ but not without consequences. The fakir’s
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A girl named Harriet Tubman had the greatest achievement of saving hundreds of slaves lives. Harriet Tubman was 27 years old when she escaped slavery herself. Also‚ she was born in the border state of Dorchester County‚ Maryland in 1805. But Harriet’s husband died in 1849 and she made a big decision and was a hero to her people. Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the underground railroad‚ civil war spy‚ a nurse‚ and caregiver with her greatest achievement being a civil war spy because she saved 800
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It was a cold friday afternoon as I sat at the bus stop waiting to get home. I had just got out of an intense Friday lecture from the Northampton local Mosque. The Imam was furious and obviously disgusted at the behavior of our generation. "How do we live with ourselves" Imam Aseem Ibrahim had said. "Most of us have enough to feed ourselves and our family‚ even buy the latest gadgets just because we can but do we feed the poor? Do we clothed them?" He said in anger as he chocked on the words. The
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Hostel life is not without its disadvantages. The rich students get sufficient money from their parents and therefore spend lavishly. The poor boarders also urge their parents to increase their monthly allowance and spend their hard earned money on luxuries. The company of the rich also makes them pick up their bad habits. They start smoking. Some of them take to intoxicants and thereby ruin themselves. Another great defect in hostel life is the mismanagement on the part of the warden. The food
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FREEDOM‚ A CAUSE for CHANGE Throughout history‚ the restless struggle for freedom has never ceased to be. This is a particularly sensitive issue‚ and we can’t deny that certain nations are ignoring it at a high level. It strikes us‚ nowadays‚ how we can still spot news headlines of public figures getting arrested because they are conceived as a threat to their country. The actual so-called threat is that those people were brave enough to express certain political opinions. Nevertheless‚ today
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Jacobs Syndrome Jacobs Syndrome‚ also known as XYY Syndrome‚ is a rare genetic disorder which affects males due to an extra Y chromosome. Males with this syndrome are sometimes called super males. Klinefelter’s syndrome with an extra X-chromosome (47‚XXY) and Turner’s syndrome with lack of X-chromosome material (45‚X) have been named after the physicians who first described the syndromes in 1942 and 1937. When Sandberg and co-wokers in 1961 found the chromosome constitution 47‚XYY‚ the name became
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Shakespeare has used pathos in vast ways to support character development and to build the readers or audiences’ relationship with the characters. Shakespeare makes his readers feel sympathy for certain characters by the way the antagonist treats them. In Othello‚ Iago used Roderigo‚ tricked Othello‚ and mistreated the female characters in the play. Iago helps develop the theme of jealousy throughout the play by exploiting some of the major characters. The truths about some characters are shown
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“But can that hour singing and shouting sustain them through the dreary week‚ toiling without wages‚ under constant dread of the lash ?” In the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs explains that after Nat Turner’s insurrection‚ slaveholders decided to expose slaves to religion‚ so they would not follow Turner’s decision to violently rebel. Slave masters also gave them Christianity to control them by teaching that if slaves disobey their masters‚ God would see them as sinners
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know today as Harriet Tubman. She was born in 1820‚ Dorchester County‚ Maryland. She was born a slave and the owner did not record their birthdates. Harriet’s ancestors had been brought to America from Africa during the early time period of the 18th Century. Harriet was the 11th child born to Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene‚ slaves of Edward Brodas‚ at birth her given name was Araminta. By the time she was older‚ she was calling herself Harriet (after her mother’s name). When Harriet was five or six
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290-020 LeAnn Pearson Capener 03 September 2016 Harriet Tubman Biography Profile Harriet Tubman was a strong willed abolitionist and humanitarian who is widely known for being one of the most famous “conductors” on The Underground Railroad. Throughout a span of ten years‚ Harriet‚ formerly known as Araminta or “Minty”‚ would make nineteen trips on The Underground Railroad to help over three-hundred enslaved people find their way to freedom. But Harriet was not always a free woman herself. Born into
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