I meant to say good luck An AUBG teacher told a student: “Go break a leg” for good luck‚ and the student actually broke a leg during a performance. The teacher felt somewhat responsible as if he wished bad luck upon the student. I think the teacher was sorry for not using a simple “Good luck!” Furthermore there are a lot of phrases that are used to wish good luck but have a bad literal meaning as “Break a leg”. Most people use them without considering their literal meaning and history. The Oxford
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Gary Paulsen’s novel is a story of a battle between a boy and the nature that’s against him. When Brian first arrives in the woods after the plane crash‚ the setbacks he experiences frustration in his journey of survival. He cries and despairs‚ and he gives in to self-pity and hopelessness. However‚ he soon learns what he considers the most important rule of survival. That is self-pity‚ rather than accomplishing anything only wastes time and energy that could be spent working and getting something
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1. Proverbs expressing general attitude towards life and the laws that govern life. * Early to bed and early to rise‚ makes a man healthy‚ wealthy and wise. * It’s no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. * Laugh and the world laughs with you‚ weep and you weep alone. * See a pin and pick it up‚ all the day you’ll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie‚ bad luck you’ll have all day. * ‘Tis better to have loved and lost‚ than never to have loved at all.
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We are given a month to make a case study in a company by Sir Castillo. The group comprises of Ian Ferdinand C. Chua‚ Zen Domingo‚ Maple Salac‚ Martin Tan‚ Amalia Formadero‚ and Lawrence Songco. The group was assign in Watsons head office in Mall of Asia. The group researches the exact location of the place called the head office and emailed the head of Watson’s office. so after one week the group went to the said head office after but they are disappointed after knowing that the Contact Person who
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If I could change 3 things about myself. By: Kimberly C. Essay no.2 19.5.2013 Did you ever think‚ that if you could change three things about yourself‚ what will you change? Yes‚ maybe you will say:”Hey! That’s not enough! I need MORE!” but what are the three MOST IMPORTANT things that you decide to change? If I could change three things about myself‚ I think first and foremost‚ I would change my desirous of food-ness. This‚ is (obviously) to change myself to a less lardy size. Because
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the same in thine own act of valour” (I.iv.43-44). In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth plays the role of Macbeth’s wife and together they go through the tragic murders that forever changed their lives. The whole play is surrounded by superstition which causes Lady Macbeth to undergo some developmental changes. There are three main changes: selfishness‚ sympathy towards others‚ and a two-faced personality‚ which lead to her unfortunate downfall. Lady Macbeth uses her selfishness to grant
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What is superstition? According to the dictionary‚ a superstition is an irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious‚ especially in connection with one’s religion. Often‚ a superstition is nothing but a senseless belief which arise from one’s fear or ignorance. Some superstitions may come off as logical but most of the time‚ they are ridiculous. However‚ even though most people know that superstitions are based on pure imagination and are nowhere close to the truth‚ some people still become controlled
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Shakespeare play Macbeth‚ witches and prophecies drive Macbeth to perform unforgivable acts out of fear and paranoia. The same feeling of paranoia and superstitions occurs in the modern theater world as well as the medieval theater world. Macbeth revolves around the main character Macbeth and his behaviors that shift and change due to his growing superstition. Macbeth’s first shift of thinking occurs during an aside after becoming the Thane of Cawdor‚ “If good‚ why do I yield to that suggestion/ whose
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at as the main theme for the whole book. The main two themes that I got out of the book is religion and superstition. The two themes I got happen to both be systems of belief. I got religion and superstition as the two main themes. I think the book shows all the civilized people to have the belief in christianity while all the poor and uneducated people like Huck and Jim believe in superstition. Huck begins to think that christianity is useless because he thinks that the christian heaven is a place
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According to the Oxford Dictionary‚ solitary confinement is defined as “the isolation of a prisoner in a separate cell as punishment‚” Not only does the United States imprison more citizens than any other country in the world‚ but the US correctional system places the largest amount of prisoners in solitary confinement (Cloud‚ Browne‚ Drucker‚ & Parsons‚ 2015‚ p. 18). According to the definition of solitary confinement‚ it is used as a punishment‚ but what other reasons does our criminal justice
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