equality and fraternity with a view to make its citizens feel free and safe. It has to be ensured that the said values are not dying and the necessity of their healthy growth is being monitored for the survival of a free and vibrant society. Constant vigil is the price to be paid for survival of democracy. Whether these are the enlightened citizens of the society‚ print and electronic media‚ social activists‚ reformers – all are the parts of activism in a democratic system. More than 60 years
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SURVIVAL GUIDE Deciding to attend college online was a challenge by itself‚ so I am writing this survival guide to help me stay focused and remind myself that attending the University of Phoenix was the best decision that I ever made. This survival guide will allow me to look back on all the things that I have learned and how to apply them to my future classes. When you are taking courses online‚ there are many things that are different than being in an actual traditional school and certain
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Response to Survival in Auschwitz “Why is the pain of every day translated so constantly into our dreams‚ in the ever-repeated scene of the unlistened-to story” (Levi‚ p 60)? As I read this quote in my book‚ I highlighted it and wrote in the margin “foreshadowing”. I feel confident that these dreams signified just that; that the author (amongst the other survivors) would forever re-live those horrors and try tell their stories…and no one listens. The poem at the beginning of the book‚ Survival in Auschwitz
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A major theme in Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” is that adaptability is essential for his survival‚ which Buck must undertake and throughout the course of the book. At the beginning of book‚ Buck must start to adapt to the harsh and hostile environment in order to survive. First‚ Buck must learn the “Law of Club”. For example‚ if Buck didn’t learn that law from the man in the red sweater‚ he might get beat to death by other men with clubs. Since Buck survives the beating from the man
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Personality and learning style are probably two of the greatest keys to academic success. Key’s that all students should have in their guidebook. Personality and learning style is a reflection of one’s unique individual makeup. Personality can make or break a student’s ability to be successful in the classroom. For example; if a student is pessimistic by nature and always views the cup as half empty as opposed to half full he/she will probably be two steps behind. However‚ if a student is more optimistic
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us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die? And if you wrong us‚ shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest‚ we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in WW2‚ Marjane writes about her own life story when she was growing up in Iran before‚ during and after The Islamic Revolution in her
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In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ there is a motif of survival and a central idea that when one is put in a desperate situation‚ developments that may otherwise seem either mundane or horrifying may instead be seen as remarkable or amazing. When all the guards leave their posts because of an alarm signal‚ two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. All of the prisoners quickly take note of the soup and are in awe‚ “two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast” (Wolff 59). The author’s
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In the film Life Of Pi‚ Pi Patel’s adventure ends in a hospital bed where he is interviewed by two Japanese investigators about the shipwreck of the Japanese cargo ship. Pi tells them about how he survived with multiple animal companions in the lifeboat and his discovery of the carnivorous island. The Japanese men refused to believe his story simply because it is unrealistic. Pi then retells the shipwreck without the animals and instead puts himself as Richard Parker‚ his mother as the orangutan
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Cherokee Indians history states that they were natives in the New World. They experienced years of surviving great historical events which began with Western hemisphere explorers coming to the New World bringing sickness‚ cultural change‚ and repeatedly invading the native American lands‚ along with the many wars they were fought in against various factions. Some archaeological evidence indicates that the Cherokee Indians may have come from Mesoamerica and migrated to the north toward the Great
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Wild Animal Profiles African Elephant | Mammal. The largest living land mammal‚ the African elephant weighs 3500 to 7000 kilograms (3.5 to 7 tons) and stands 3.4 meters (11 feet) high. The elephant’s remarkable trunk serves variously as a nose‚ arm‚ hand‚ foot and multi-purpose tool. The trunk is strong enough to uproot a tree and delicate enough to pick berries‚ and it enables the elephant to reach as high as 7 meters (23 feet). Humans can hear only 20% of the vocal sounds an elephant makes;
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