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    As social animals‚ human beings have a need to belong. Human beings need the stimulus of other human beings to reach their full potential. One’s identity is formed and influenced by the groups one belongs to. Humans are by nature sociable beings that must learn to cooperate for peaceful existence to occur but are also individual personalities who seek their own self fulfilment. Belonging to groups; family‚ social or environmental groups‚ can have immeasurable benefits. But while groups do provide

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    friendship groups reflect our personalities and sometimes even our insecurities. Language is the major means we have of representing to ourselves and to others‚ it determines who we are‚ people who speak same language are perceived they belong together‚ being foreigner to a new country without speaking the language can often be difficult‚ Many Australians have stereotypes about Asian people and overall migrants‚ they assume you are stupid or illiterate idiot‚ take the case of Simon tong in Alice Pung’s

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    Without connection with the others there is no me As human beings‚ interacting with other people is inevitable. Our experiences tell us not all relationship turn out great‚ so why do people still seek out companionship with other people? This is because we need others to define who we are‚ it is also the social nature of human beings. Our sense of self is found through where we belong and don’t belong in the immediate world and wider society. Family has a huge impact on one’s life. To a great

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    day-dream long enough to take a grown-up look at the lay-off.’ The tropics of North Queensland are home to Roo and Barney for seven months of the year‚ where they spend their days ‘sloggin it out under the sun’ working as cane-cutters. This idea of people being shaped by their environment is also evident in ‘The Cane-cutters’‚ a short YouTube film‚ made by The National Film Board (1948)‚ where the men are made to be tough due to the exhausting and physical work they do; ‘stoop‚ chop‚ straighten‚ top’. The

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    the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially‚ he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities‚ instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so‚ he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus‚ by challenging these groups and

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    The Perks of Corrupted Childhood When people hear about childhood in totalitarian society they first think about the Nazi regime in Germany and its political and educational influence on the youth. They frequently forget about the former USSR‚ which brought up several generations of the counties’ citizens under the same political structure. And despite the censorship‚ such writers as Joseph Brodsky‚ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn‚ and Varlam Shalamov in their works shed the light on what was happening beyond

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    ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ explores how one culture adapts to living with another.’ Discuss. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection ‘Interpreter of Maladies’‚ the writer silhouetted the adaption of one culture to live within another in the form of allowing differences to exist and reaching a compromise. Lahiri drew the readers into the witness of different people battling with the obstacles they encounter. While some people like Mrs Sens‚ fell to the abysm of culture-displacement because of

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    Step 1: Generating Ideas * Read Destiny by Shalini Akhil * Answer the following questions: The text a) Who are the characters? b) What is a lungi‚ and what are rotis? c) What do you think is the message of this piece? Yourself d) What did you want to be “when you grew up”? Try to remember a really idealistic dream from when you were quite young. Go back to that memory and write a paragraph describing all the details of that dream: why you wanted it‚ how you imagined yourself to look

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    Leadership Development: Perk or Priority? by Idalene F. Kesner May 2003 Harvard Business Review Her alma mater had never looked better. Sunlight bounced off the gables of the old library building‚ the rose beds were in full bloom‚ and the hush of earnest academic endeavor hung over the quad. For once‚ though‚ the myriad charms of the university were wasted on Karen Barton. She was livid. Two weeks ago‚ Barton‚ the senior vice president of human resources for Zendal Pharmaceuticals‚ had routinely

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