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    Moonstone Commentary

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    things that already happened only cause more destruction. Wilkie describes the area of this bay to be haunted especially in the sense that the quicksand shivers and trembles. This relates to the idea that all the trapped things people bottle up and try to conceal forever from the rest of the world are trembling to break free and escape just like the quicksand. From this part of the passage “No boat ever ventures into this bay. No children from our fishing-village‚ called Cobb’s Hole‚ ever come here

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    Emotion is the basis of human interaction. Everyone has emotions and everyone responds accordingly. It is obvious that in trying to create an effective piece of writing‚ authors will turn to using human emotion to do so. In the speech by Martin Luther King Jr.‚ his stylistic choices are effective in persuading his audience by targeting their emotions. Ultimately‚ the content of the writing is unsuccessful unless delivered in a way that forces listeners and readers to feel a certain way. MLK Jr. expertly

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    Neanderthals because‚ without it‚ they would die out. Research have been carried out to show that meat played a large part of their diet. The chemical signature in their fossils have shown that Neanderthals at the same amount of meat as any carnivore would (Larsen

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    in drastic population growth. Though many different explanations have been proposed to explain this growth‚ evidence shows that an increase in the birthrate and fertility of mothers was vital to growth during the transition to an agrarian economy (Larsen 1995: 197). Birth intervals are mainly determined by a mother’s metabolic load and balance of calories. In the midst of the Neolithic Revolution‚ mothers who had recently bore children were able to equilibrate their calorie balances faster than mothers

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    Catalogo‚ Nathalie G. University of Makati IV – GMK Prof. Richard Nellas Immanuel Kant German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is considered the most influential thinker of the Enlightenment era and one of the greatest Western philosophers of all times. His works‚ especially those on epistemology (theory of knowledge)‚ aesthetics and ethics had a profound influence on later philosophers‚ including contemporary

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    Stylistic Analysis

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    Stylistic Analysis of “ I Have A Dream” “All the fun is in how you say a thing.” Robert Frost’s words give us a perfect explanation about why the style is so important in an article. According to Alan Warner‚ style is a way of writing‚ a manner of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings in words. A same meaning can have different effects on its readers by being put in different ways. This article is to take the famous speech of Martin Luther King as an example to analyze and discuss its stylistic

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    ULTRATECH PROFILE Ultratech Cement was incorporated in 2000 as Larsen & Toubro. Later it was demerged and acquired by Grasim and was renamed as Ultra Tech Cement in 2004. Today Ultatech cement a part of Aditya Birla group‚is the country’s largest exporter of cement clinker. It manufactures and markets Ordinary Portland Cement‚ Portland Blast Furnace Slag Cement and Portland Pozzolana Cement and has annual capacity of 18.2 million tonnes. All the plants have received ISO 9001 certification

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    characters of Jay Gatsby and Wolf Larsen validate the theory that life is created to live and grow into the most dominant form of that person in order to survive and thrive. In the novel The Sea Wolf by Jack London‚ the character of Wolf Larsen mirrors the meaning of a credo written by the same author in that both talk about living life to what he believes to be its fullest potential‚ and not caring what is done to achieve it. Over the years and starting from nothing‚ Wolf Larsen built this life on his ship

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    Duality exists in all aspects of the world- in the light of the stars against the dark of the night sky or the vibrant spring colors and the desolation come winter. The dual nature of this world has added deep lines between right and wrong‚ but of course both will present themselves and both will always‚ in some way‚ shape‚ or form‚ affect one another. In the Devil in the White City the author‚ Erik Larson‚ not only informs the audience about a colossal architectural turning point for our nation

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    Jaycee Dugard Analysis

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    Jaycee Dugard: The Struggle Behind her Survival. Hundreds of children are abducted every year‚ but few escape and live to tell their stories. Jaycee Dugard is the exception. Dugard’s survival captivated the country after her eighteen years in captivity. With her entire teen years spent in captivity there is more to her story besides survival. While her story is not like most‚ here story teaches about strength and resilience. As Jaycee said “If all my heart was filled with hate and regrets and what

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