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    commune school to find suitable children to study ballet and serve in Chairman Mao’s revolution. At first they passed Li without taking any notice‚ but just as they were walking out of his classroom‚ the class teacher hesitated‚ and suddenly tapped the last gentleman from Beijing on the shoulder and pointed. "What about that boy?" And that boy was Li. | | | | | 4. Li attends Beijing Dance Academy - He was 11 when he left home to begin a seven-year harsh training regime from 5.30 am to 9 pm‚ 6

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    The Last LEcture

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    all his readers to complete all life’s goals and never lose your inner child. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is an inspiring novel that at moments you will laugh and others you will cry. Randy lets all his readers into some of the brightest and happiest moments of his life and also his devastating death with pancreatic cancer. Written in first person point of view Randy grows on you as a person and by the last page of the novel you feel as though you know him. One of my favorite quotes from Randy

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    Last Lecture Don’t judge a book by its cover. You hear that expression all the time. However‚ it couldn’t be applied greater than the book titled‚ “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. When I first looked at the book‚ I expected to encounter a story filled with nothing but sadness. However‚ after reading this National Bestseller‚ I found that I had discovered a tale of life. “The Last Lecture” documents the life of Randy Pausch in the form of short stories that exemplified the kind of man

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    The last leaf

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    Acknowledgements I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Qi Liang‚ my supervisor‚ not only for his illuminating instructions and invaluable suggestions to the completion of this paper‚ but more importantly‚ for his rigorous scholarship and professional conscientiousness. I am also indebted to all my teachers in USTS‚ whose wonderful lectures on different subjects pave me the way for the fundamental and essential academic competence. I owe my sincere gratitude to my classmates and friends

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    The Last Lecture By: Randy Pausch Table of Contents Significance of the Title 5 Setting 6 Main Conflict 7 Main Characters 8 The Major Change 9 Truths About Human Nature 10 Quotes from the Book 11 Significance of the Title

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    Now‚ after analysing the two documentaries this paper focuses on‚ it is time to compare and further analyse how climate change and the people affected by it are represented in a general sense. To sum up the main points addressed in Words From the Last Generation and to answer the three questions this paper focuses on‚ I will elaborate on every of question individually. First of all‚ the documentary predominantly represents climate change as a natural process. The role western countries play is not

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    The Last of the Romanovs

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    The Last of the Romanovs The fall of the Romanov Empire changed the face of Russia forever. The royal family‚ led by Nicholas II‚ we’re imprisoned and eventually assassinated by the Bolsheviks‚ a political party founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov whose main focus was to eliminate the monarchy and employ their own form of democracy. Tsar Nicholas II‚ his wife‚ Alexandra‚ and their only son‚ Alexei‚ heir apparent to the throne‚ were all integral figures in this historical evolution

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    The film The Last of the Mohicans‚ starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline Stowe‚ is an adaptation of the James Fennimore Cooper novel with the same name. It is an entertaining movie with historical relevance and highlights events that occurred during the French and Indian War‚ such as the siege of Fort William Henry. During the war‚ the British‚ French‚ and Native American tribes were faced with many conflicts that are embodied in the film. The Last of the Mohicans is set in the British colony

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    The Last Spin

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    ‘The Last Spin’ by Evan Hunter Question’s 1 - 7 1. Two boys‚ named Tigo and Dave‚ who were both enemies and both belonged in two different gang’s had never met each other before and engaged themselves in the game known as the ‘Russian Roulette’. They had to settle a situation for their gang’s. Apparently‚ Dave and his gang member’s had set foot on the territory that belonged to Tigo and his gang member’s. When they engaged themselves in the ‘Russian Roulette’‚ Tigo wore a green silk jacket

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    The Last Unicorns

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    The Novel “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle is a timeless classic story about love and loss. The story has a mesmerizing hold on the reader‚ drawing you in on its beautifully simplistic storyline. A unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind and sets out to find out what happened to the others. Along the way she meets a few friends that aid her on her quest. It turns out that all the unicorns have been captured by an evil king and his Red Bull‚ so they set out to save the Unicorns from this

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