Santa Claus is real “There are three stages in a man’s life; When he believes in Santa Claus‚ When he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus‚ and when he is Santa Claus” – Author Unknown How many people do you know who believed in Santa Claus as a child? Some say the image of Santa Claus takes away from the fact that Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Christ. Some opinions are “What is Christmas without Santa Claus?” The innocence in a belief of someone who gives and doesn’t expect anything in return
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Illusion‚ or Real Security? Seven thousand five hundred and twenty one is the number of miles that the U.S. Government is charged with securing along the U.S.-Mexican and U.S. Canadian land borders (“Canada” and “Mexico”). Although the U.S. Government insists that border security has always been a priority‚ it was the terrorist attacks of September 11th‚ 2001‚ that pushed the issue to the forefront of politics from D.C. to LA. This issue has developed into a highly debated and divisive issue
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J.B Priestley wrote the play an inspector calls to promote capitalism and socialism. He portrayed his and opposing political views through the different characters. Although his play was written in 1945‚ he chose to set it in 1912. He set the play in this particular era as the date represented an era where all was different to when he was writing. At the start of the play‚ Sheila is described as being dressed in an evening dress‚ a "pretty girl in her early twenties‚ very pleased with life and
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The Hound of the Baskervilles Paragraph In The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ Sherlock Holmes is a very memorable detective. One of his memorable characteristics is that he is very observant. He observes his surroundings like nobody else does. An example of this is Holmes saying to Watson‚ “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by chance ever observes” (pg. 36). Another example of this is when Holmes notices Watson eyeing the walking stick left in Holmes’s apartment
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How do you respond to Gerald in An Inspector Calls? How does Priestley make you respond as you do by the way he writes? (30 Marks) The character of Gerald in An Inspector Calls is one that produces different responses; this is due to Priestley’s writing style. During the start of the play Gerald takes a low level status but by the end of the Play he is defiantly trying to save himself and the family. How does Priestley make us feel like that? Well it’s all down to the stage directions and how the
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The playwright of ’An Inspector Calls’ John Boynton Priestly was alive between 1894 and 1984‚ in this time he served in the First World War where in 1916 he was badly injured. It wasn’t until the end of the Second World War in 1945 that he wrote ’An Inspector Calls’; he chose to set the play thirty years in the past before either wars had happened- in 1912. Priestly was a renowned socialist and highly respected in his time- with his own radio show which around twenty million tuned into each week
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It is Lactilla’s position—and in turn where the reader is directed—that serves as a marked challenge to the pastoral mode. In the above scene‚ Yearsley’s presentation of the pastoral has her persona‚ Lactilla‚ engage with domestic images: “the kitchen fire‚” “the low cottage door‚” and the presence of her “fav’rite cow” do not take the reader to idealized versions of Bristol’s natural splendor; instead‚ the poem demands that Lactilla remain in a highly domestic space‚ and that she stay firmly in
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REAL life Applications. At Home Some people aren’t even out of bed before encountering math. Setting an alarm and hitting snooze‚ they may quickly need to calculate the new time they will arise. Or they might step on a bathroom scale and decide that they’ll skip those extra calories at lunch. People on medication need to understand different dosages‚ whether in grams or milliliters. Recipes call for ounces and cups and teaspoons --all measurements‚ all math. And decorators need to know that
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The Real History of the Crusades Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common. The Crusades are generally portrayed as a series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics. They are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance‚ a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western civilization in general. A breed of proto-imperialists‚ the Crusaders introduced Western aggression
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the action by shifting the audience’s attention to Sybil and Sheila‚ insisting that they should be allowed to hear what Gerald has to say. This builds tension and increases the audience’s curiosity. Priestley also increases tension by having the Inspector release information bit by bit. He shows the photo(s) to one person at a time and positions himself so the others can’t see – the characters‚ like the audience‚ are kept on their toes. Priestley creates dramatic tension at the end of act two by
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