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    Drunken Young Men attack women in Cologne Central Railway Station In what is regarded as one of the most disturbing news in recent times‚ about 1000 young men had attacked about 80 women in the Cologne Central Railway Station mugging and assaulting them sexually on the New Year’s Eve. The magnitude of the incident was such that it has sent shock waves across Germany and promoted to city Mayor to summon the police for holding crisis talks and taking evasive actions. The chief of Cologne Police

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    In modern society various people partake in acts of aggression and violence. Regardless of age or gender‚ expressing aggression and participating in violent actions are frequent obscenities in many cultures today. In the documentary Girlhood‚ Liz Garbus follows two young women who have encountered numerous misfortunes in the past that led them to implement their violent offences. Both girls work towards their freedom from the rehabilitation center in Baltimore‚ Maryland and finally become productive

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    DRUNKEN DRIVER DETECTION SYSTEM ABSTRACT: At present drunken drivers have increased enormously and so is the deaths due to drunken drivers. The main reason for driving drunk is that the police are not able to check each and every car and even if they catch any one the police can be easily bribed. So there is a need for an effective system to check drunken drivers. In alcohol detection system the ignition of the fuel is regulated by a sensor circuit. The sensor circuit is used to detect whether

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    A Report on Road Accidents - Role of Cell phones and Drunken Driving Submitted to Dr. Naval Bajpai Submitted by Arnab Roy Pousali Chakrabarti Shashank Badre Prateek Singh Section A Quantitative Techniques Indian Institute of Management Raipur

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    Marshall Article Summary Elizabeth Marshall‚ an associate professor of education at Simon Fraser University‚ contends in her article “Borderline Girlhoods: Mental Illness‚ Adolescence‚ and Femininity in Girl‚ Interrupted‚ that Susanna Kaysen’s popular memoir is an accurate depiction of the characteristics which mark female adolescence. Marshall points out that the adolescent time period for a girl is defined by “historically and culturally bound gendered pedagogies” (118). It has become normal

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    Discussion #1 Preface to Page 105 Quote 1. It was the promise of dinking that sustained me through all of high school’s afflictions I feel my peers would almost agree with that statement. Maybe not to the fullest extent‚ but I am confident that a lot of my peers would agree with the fact that drinking was a part of there high school career. My parents would be HIGHLY disagree with this statement. My mother and father both are against drinking and if I was in high school and they

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    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts‚ Kingston struggles to assimilate into American culture while living in Chinese culture at home. Her conflict in identity leads her to self-invention as displayed by her idea of American-femininity and the fictitious image of the Woman Warrior‚ thus contradicting the idea of America as a melting pot. Kingston retains both her Chinese and American culture by merging the two together. The tradition of talk-stories and fictitious elements like the

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    Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts‚ by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ she reveals that voice‚ through the use of talk-stories and her words‚ allows her the freedom to own the independence needed to reach a closer understanding of her own identity. Talk-stories‚ defined by Jenessa Job in “The Woman Warrior: A Question of Genre‚” are “…verbally relayed stories based upon Chinese myth and fact” (83). Kingston uses talk-story to retell her aunt‚ No Name Woman‚ and her mother‚ Brave Orchid’s‚ stories. As well‚ she

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    order to achieve higher levels of being. Intrinsic revelations are made in “Drunken Boat” by Arthur Rimbaud‚ “The City” by Constantine Cavafy‚ and “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines” by Pablo Neruda. Although the individuals have various starting points and different paths to finding self‚ the characters gained awareness through the voyage and were able to incorporate lessons learned

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    LALALALALALLALALALLALA Story-story” is a circle game for all ages. The group of performers sit and a moderator (us) stands in the middle and provides a setting for the story. Then we point to a person in the circle and they begin telling a story (says 2 sentences). After the first storyteller has described the beginning of the story‚ the moderator points to another person‚ the story continues on; the new person picks up from the last word and tries to continue the narrative. Every performer should

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