if it is not in our best interest to pursue it. Sometimes stubbornness can be a good thing‚ but sometime it can also be a bad thing. For instance‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ a man who was rejected from positions of leadership eight times‚ out of stubbornness‚ continued to pursue his dreams and ultimately rose to become one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States. However‚ although stubbornness can be beneficial to many people like Abraham Lincoln‚ it can also be detrimental in many
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Magtalisay Tree Used in Lowering of Cholesterol Levels Magtalisay Tree (Terminalia catappa) or Indian Almond is a large tropical tree in the leadwood tree family‚ Combretaceae‚ that grows mainly in the tropical regions of Asia‚ Africa‚ and Australia. It is known by the English common names country-almond‚ Indian-almond‚ Malabar-almond‚ sea-almond‚ tropical-almond and false kamani. It is among one of the most common trees throughout India‚ Malaysia and many other parts of South East Asia‚ growing wild
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Nanotechnology Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally‚ nanotechnology deals with developing materials‚ devices‚ or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres. Quantum mechanical effects are important at this quantum-realm scale. It is considered a key technology for the future and various governments have invested billions of dollars in its future. The USA has invested
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that nature is to mean. They cry‚ they wine‚ poor get poorer and the rich get richer‚ people are condemned by the things they didn’t do. Men weep when their lives are in danger‚ and humans being the great cockroach of the earth we survive. We survive to live another day‚ to rebuild and replace‚ to gain more material objects. In the following essay it will be my comments on Pitts’ “Sometimes the Earth is Cruel” and will follow up on a single theme from it. One main theme is the idea people who are poor
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Should Corporal Punishment be illegal? In order to answer this question we need to some definitions. What does the word corporal’ mean? For the purpose of this essay we define corporal relating to the body. The word illegal’ means prohibited by the law. And by the phrase corporal punishment’ we mean pain inflicted on the body‚ like canning. How else are we supposed to teach a child the difference between right and wrong? How can teachers establish order in the classroom? Corporal punishment has
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This Lime-tree Bower my Prison belongs to the period in Coleridge’s life‚ in 1797‚ when the poet was living in close proximity to William and Dorothy Wordsworth‚ in Somerset‚ and arises from an occasion in June of that year when the Wordsworths and a visitor from London‚ Coleridge’s friend from his schooldays‚ Charles Lamb (a poet and essayist)‚ left Coleridge‚ who had been disabled by ‘an accident’‚ in his ‘garden bower’‚ and went walking in the neighbouring countryside. The poem’s title captures
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look on his criticism on male’s romantic notion of going to war‚ we can tell he is extremely harsh on such idea: “honorable and brave with your buddies in glorious battle. But when your balls are blown off‚ it is not romantic…My son got his nuts shoot off?” (36). The “balls are blown off”‚ “nuts shoot off” are all very direct and negative yet truthful consequences when one goes to war. Further on‚ the narrator stresses his disgust when pointing out romantic notion as a “crap” and it
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lengths just to avoid him. It was obvious that no one could ever take him down. Although the ape was king‚ he was also very lazy. So lazy that he hired other animals to gather only the ripest and freshest mangos to satisfy his appetite. The trade off for these hired animals was the guarantee of their safety and protection from the dangers and threats lurking from outside the great fortress the ape had built. Many of the animals in the forest did not approve of this type of system and thought those
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bangladesh is the most affected country in regard to the thoughtless distructiion of trees.25% forest area is a must for the environmental balance of a country.but the fertile land of Bangladesh has only 16% forest area.it is now adversely affecting our nature.for the last few years‚the heat and the sun both become unbearable during the summer and winter season and natural calamities have become a daily part of our life.to avoid this situation‚social foresty should be taken on a large scale and trees
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in my view it is also necessary at times to do things we do not enjoy. The bases for my view are personal‚ social and financial. Personally‚ doing things we don’t care for builds character and helps us mature. For instance‚ when parents have their first baby they are forced to give up their freedom in order to look after the child. There are times when parents barely get enough sleep and still have to get up and go to work in the morning. Similarly‚ when students are in school and university‚ they
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