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    The Landlady by Roald Dahl

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    The Landlady also always refers to young Billy as "my dear" which is reminiscent of the predatory wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. Billy is portrayed as a young and spruce man. This is shown by his new work clothes‚ "He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat‚ a new brown trilby hat‚ and a new brown suit". The repetition of the word new also emphasises the fact that he is very excited about his new job and has to be very prepared. Roald Dahl also portrays Billy as an ambitious young man. He looks up to

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    Efrefe

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    Understanding Health and Safety in the Workplace There a lot of rules in place in any working environment to keep customers and workers safe at work. They vary from a wide range of rules that the company has to follow and it is essential for a company to comply with the rules to prevent accidents and then law suits. All types of companies and buildings need to follow these rules and will be looking at a manufacturing factory called Uniq and a service provider which is Radbrook College. Key Features;

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    The Namesake

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    his parents give him the name Nikhil. In 1971 his sister Sonia is born. When Gogol turns fourteen‚ Ashoke gives him the Nikolai Gogol series that means so much to him‚ but Gogol didn’t seem to have any interest. Then once Gogol read the story “The Overcoat” in his junior year of high school‚ he becomes ashamed and confused of his name and before going to college he changes his name to Nikhil. Nikhil attends Yale and starts to drift away from his culture to the American

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    More Than Money: How Class Affects Opportunity in “Paul’s Case” Money cannot buy happiness. This famous proverb initially provides a comforting idea; that life is worth more than wealth. However‚ Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” provides a more unsettling take on this proverb. Cather asserts that the upper class has more than just money. They have a radically different set of societal expectations and standards‚ allowed the privilege of exclusive pastimes‚ such as the fine arts. Paul exemplifies the

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    English Yusef Komunyakaa

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    representation of the girl’s freedom away from the violence and persecution by German soldiers in Poland. The fact that this is freedom away from German soldiers in Poland is shown when the boy finds the girl‚ “I eased open the door hidden behind overcoats in a closet.” (Komunyakaa 16). This indicates the girl is hidden. In addition‚ the author’s inclusion of the term‚ “Vistula” (Komunyakaa 34) indicates that the events occur in Poland. The narrator states‚ “She said‚ Friend.” (Komunyakaa 15). The

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    Image pair 1: Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II (with smaller royal family figures)‚ 20m high‚ Exterior: Abu Simbel temple‚ Egypt‚ 1279-1213 BCE Gian Lorenzo Bernini‚ David‚ marble‚ 1.7m high‚
Galleria Borghese‚ Rome 1623-4‚ At the exterior to the Abu Simbel Temple‚ in the small village of Nubia in Southern Egypt‚ there lies the ‘Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II’. These 20 metre tall‚ statues were carved into the bare stone at around 1279- 1213 BCE‚ and were an exaggeration of Ramesses II’s

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    From fibers to yarns Yarns Definition of Yarn • • • • A yarn is a constructed assemblage of textile fibers which acts as a unit in fabric formation. Classification: Yarns may be: • Staple or Filament • Single or Plied • Simple or Complex In addition‚ Filament yarns may be: * Types of Yarn 1. Staple (Short fibers) 2. Single or (One Strand) or 3. Simple or (Same appearance along length) Filament (Continuous Filaments) Plied *Cord(Cabled) (Two or more strands‚ twisted) Complex

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    Diagnosing Septimus Smith

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    295-296) Virginia Woolf’s first description of Septimus Smith immediately gives the reader the sense that Septimus is not mentally well. “Septimus Warren Smith‚ aged about thirty‚ pale-faced‚ beak-nosed‚ wearing brown shoes and a shabby overcoat‚ with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which

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    this is dum

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    Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one sitting‚ a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe’s essay "Thomas Le Moineau (Le Moile)" (1846). Interpreting this standard nowadays is problematic‚ since the expected length of "one sitting" may now be briefer than it was in Poe’s era. Other definitions place the maximum word count of the short story at anywhere from

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    DBQ Essay From the late medieval era to the enlightenment a series of plagues devastated European society‚ economy‚ and social/political structure. In the Middle Ages‚ the Black Plague (or Death) was a pandemic that killed nearly 2/3 of the population in Europe‚ and lead to the downfall of the feudal system. The groups that benefited the most from the changes caused by the Black Death were peasants and laborers reaction toward the calamity ranged from rational and proactive to irrational‚ egoistic

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