Sir Mohan Lal looked at himself in the mirror of a first class waiting room at the railway station. The mirror was obviously made in India. The red oxide at its back had come off at several places and long lines of translucent glass cut across its surface. Sir Mohan smiled at the mirror with an air of pity and patronage. ’You are so very much like everything else in this country‚ inefficient‚ dirty‚ indifferent‚’ he murmured. The mirror smiled back at Sir Mohan. ’You are a bit of all right
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My Friend Max By: Shane Droske FOREWORD By: Brittany Mineard Many people don’t recognize suicide as a major problem until it directly effects their lives. Many people also don’t connect suicide with the amount of deaths within the teenage population. In fact‚ teen suicide is a major cause of death among teens‚ being the third leading cause. According to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)‚ about 8 out of every 100‚000 teenagers committed suicide in the year
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Eng. 121 Essay 1:Remembering The Day I Learned To Ride My Bicycle I must have been seven or eight years old when I rode my first bicycle‚ and the day I learned to ride my bike is very memorable to me. It was a bright warm afternoon and the perfect summer day; school vacation time‚ kids playing‚ sun shining‚ birds chirping. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the afternoon. The kids in my neighborhood were running around playing fun games. I was in my back yard with my two sisters and my little brother
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is pleasant. The hot weather in Florida is the first barrier to enjoying Disney‚ but the temperature and climate in Florida determines the types of activities Disney offers. Florida is a place that is always hot‚ and during the summer it rains every day. Disney is on land and the only water involvement is the water theme parks. A person can choose not to participate in the water activities if he or she cannot swim. The rain‚ however; does not mess up the vacation plans because the sun shines most of
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Friends - one word with a very beautiful meaning behind it. To most of us‚ friends are known as our pals‚ buddies or acquaintances. The more the merrier they always say. The more friends you have‚ the wider you horizon. With the ample presence of social networking sites these days such as Facebook and Twitter‚ it is much easier to be connected to people from the other end of the world than it used to be. With just a few clicks of the mouse‚ you will become friends or be connected virtually to other
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stray animals in Hood county are dogs‚ and the other 55% are cats. The first step to a better‚ less stray-infested‚ future is to get the shelters going harder at their jobs. More animal control vehicles should be patrolling through the town during the day. More funds are needed to give the animal control vans the equipment they need to properly contain stray animals and ensure the safety of the officer on duty when the equipment is being used. Second‚ overpopulation is one of the biggest issues in our
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have that Ln ( ) = 1 2 τn n 2 E Xni I{|Xni |≥ τn } −→ 0 as n → ∞ ‚ i=1 then for every a ∈ R we have that P (Sn /τn ≤ a) − Φ(a) −→ 0 as n → ∞ . Proof: Step 1 (convergence of expectations of smooth functions): We will show in Appendix 1 that for certain functions f we have that E [f (Sn /τn )] − E [f (Z)] → 0 as n → ∞ ‚ (1) where Z denotes a standard normal random variable. If this convergence would hold for any function f and if we then applied it to fa (x) = I(−∞‚a] (x) = 1 if x ≤ a and = 0 if
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about twenty strangers‚ where I learned my best friend would not return to school. The sun glaring through the window nearly blinded me as I turned away from the class to hide my tears. Facing away from the quiet room‚ I still knew everyone’s eyes were fixed on the teacher as they waited on her to say something else. After sitting in silence for what seemed like forever‚ the class turned their attention to the school guidance counselor frantically rushing into the room. I kept my position toward the
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In the semi-autobiographical poem‚ ‘The Story of Lost Friends’‚ Ruskin Bond chronicles all the important incidents in his life which lead to friendship being made and then broken. In this poem he narrates a brief story of his childhood‚ of promises kept and broken‚ friends made and lost‚ joy and sorrow‚ set against the war years in India. The poem starts with him standing on the edge of the railway- cutting‚ looking for someone among the hundreds of people in the station and reminiscing
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A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED Meaning Almost always it is the origin of a phrase or saying that requires the most research; the meaning being well understood. This phrase is interesting because there are various interpretations of its meaning. Firstly‚ is it ’a friend in need is a friend indeed’ or ’a friend in need is a friend in deed’? Secondly‚ is it ’a friend (when you are) in need’ or ’a friend (who
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