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    Have you ever wondered how dreams come about...whether the BFG really existed? That this huge giant would stalk around at night catching dreams to trap them into jars and blowing them into your ears to determine what sort of dreams you would have that night? Well‚ you will find out very soon. Good morning to one and all. Today‚ I will be delivering a speech on the topic ’dreams’. I’m sure many of u here might find this topic strange. A speech? On dreams? You must be joking! Some of u might scoff

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    Pericles‚ Aristotle and Dahl from those we learned what they think makes a democracy work. Pericles was the leader of Athens from 460–429 B.C. He developed a democracy based on majority rule. In “Pericles Funeral Oration” he describes Athenian

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    The Landlady and Crime & Punishment are titled specifically so the authors can introduce and link the themes of the text. Dahl deliberately used the vague title ‘The Landlady’ to evoke the reader’s interest. Before the story begins we are already curious to know who this female character may be and what she is capable of. The title ‘The landlady’ serves a strong relationship with the plot of the story. Ulman used the title ‘Crime & Punishment’‚ which makes the reader assume that the genre of

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    have more power than one may think. It’s a classic ’Mouse and the Lion’ story. The weak seem pathetic‚ but prove very powerful in the end. The short story begins in a very homey situation and Dahl emphasizes the great deal of love and willingness to cater to her husbands every need that Mary Maloney feels. Dahl portrays Mary Maloney as a typical ‘50’s housewife (although that very well may not be the era in which this short story was written); she waits for her husband with his drink prepared‚ and

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    Unit 15 Developing Children’s (3-8 years) Mathematical Skills E1 There are different national frameworks and policies that are used for the development of mathematical learning from 3 to 8 years old. One of these is the Childcare Act 2006. The Childcare Act is an update on the Children Act 2004. It basically makes sure that local authorities reduce any inequalities in their individual areas by providing an ‘integrated’ service for children and their families. They make it so that each local

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    Friedan points out that the average age of marriage was dropping and the birthrate was increasing for women throughout the 1950s‚ yet the widespread unhappiness of women persisted‚ although American culture insisted that fulfillment for women could be found in marriage and housewifery; this chapter concludes by declaring "We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ’I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.’ "All [women] had to do was devote their lives

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    MMLLDC Roald Dahl (1916-) Roald Dahl was born in South Wales‚ though his parents were Norwegian. He became a fighter pilot during the Second World War and his first book of short stories‚ `Over to You’ (1942)‚ deals with the tensions of war-time flying. After this carne two very successful collections of short stories‚ Someone Like You’ (1953) and `Kiss Kiss’ (1959)‚ from which this story is taken. A later collection was ’Switch Bitch’ (1974‚ and more recently he has written a novel‚ `My Uncle Oswald’

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    6th period 3 May 2012 Polar Pioneers Thirteen months into an Antarctic exploration Roald Amundsen found him and his fellow explorers engulfed by a sea of eternal ice. There was no escaping the lingering death traps surrounding the ship‚ without waiting for the frozen sea to release them. So they waited‚ for thirteen months‚ hunting seals and making warm clothes out of blankets (“Roald Amundsen”). This is one of many stories of Artic pioneers who have endured the treacherous components the

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    democracy because representatives do not represent us equally. Rather‚ they are more responsive to interest groups. But not everybody agrees with this position. Political scientist Robert Dahl has suggested that even if interest groups represent different groups on different issues‚ the effect is pluralism in action. Dahl studied community power structures in New Haven‚ Connecticut‚ in the 1950s. He observed that three separate interest groups emerged around each of three policy issues. In each case the

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    Social Anxiety: Healthy Ways to Treating Fear Social Anxiety Social anxiety disorder is one of the most commonly occurring mental health disorders with a lifetime prevalence rate of 12.1% (Ruscio et al.‚ 2008). Social anxiety has been defined as anxiety resulting from the prospect or presence of person evaluation in real or imagined social situations‚ in which the person is the focus of attention (e.g.‚ conversations‚ public speaking; Schlenker and Leary‚

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