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    The Open Boat" Sections 1-3 The story opens in the month of January with the oft-quoted line: “None of them knew the color of the sky” (Crane 57). “Them” means four individuals who are aboard a dinghy‚ having been shipwrecked: the captain with an injured arm‚ the correspondent‚ the cook‚ and Billie‚ the oiler. Except for Billie‚ the rest of the characters remain unnamed. The oiler and the correspondent row the dinghy‚ while the captain provides directions and the cook bails water out of the boat

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    Gerald M. Zinampan II-5 (Marketing) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Long time before the Spaniards and other foreigners landed onPhilippine shores‚ our forefathers already had their own literature stamped in the history of our race. Our ancient literature shows our customs and traditions in everyday life as traced in our folk stories‚ old plays and short stories our ancient ancestors also had their own alphabet which was different from that brought by the Spaniards. The first alphabet used by our ancestors

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    East Asian religions‚ also known as Taoist religions‚ refer to the religions and philosophies that are dominant in the Chinese‚ Korean‚ Japanese‚ and Vietnamese regions and any other places near them. Taoism is the root of all these religions‚ teaching that nature is the greatest teacher and that everything has a flow and a way. Confucianism teaches that without education and social order there can be no religion‚ and the act of learning is the religious experience. Buddhism taught that craving‚

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    Answering Children’s Questions All the children are very curious and they always ask a lot of questions because they want to know a lot of things. "Where does water come from?"‚ "why is the sky blue?" and "what is infinity?" are among the questions that parents struggle to answer for their children. Another query that has tripped up mothers and fathers for generations is‚ "where do babies come from?" Most parents are unable to give a correct answer to the basic questions from children about the

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    Toni Morrison. The first novel Wide Sargasso Sea contains women’s body‚ silence‚ feminist theories and racial oppression against patriarchy. Jean Rhys‚ using these perspectives‚ tells the story of Antoinette‚ patriarchy‚ British dominated rules and roles and limited perspectives of a woman. In Wide Sargasso Sea‚ Jean Rhys “exposes the marginalized condition of women within the patriarchal issues such as colonialism‚ race‚ political oppression and mental illness” (Carr 123). In this colonized

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    What Religion is Religion comes in many forms‚ many ideas‚ thoughts‚ and many different beliefs. According to Julian Huxley “Religion is a way of life founded upon the apprehension of sacredness in existence (Molly 2010).” The definition of religion has multiple meanings to all types of different people. There is also more than one belief in just one god itself. “Religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause‚ nature‚ and purpose of the universe‚ especially when considered as the creation of

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    PSYC – 1000 Introduction to Psychology Melissa Pascoe U10a2 The topic that I have chosen to research for my course project is children’s social development. I have had a love for children ever since helping take care of my younger brother when he was a baby. I have two children of my own and my four-month-old nephew living with me. Eventually‚ I would like to be a youth counselor or probation officer so researching social development would be very interesting to me. Social development is

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    The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Last night‚ I finished reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. Ok‚ I know you can’t believe I only read it now‚ everyone already said that to me‚ and looked at me in that weird way as if I was living on Mars for the last few years. But well‚ I only got to read it now‚ and I totally loved it. A friend of mine told me a few days ago when I started reading "The Alchemist" that it was the kind of book that would either change your life or change your conception of

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    was also greatly affected by religion at the time. Another factor that was important to Chinese Art was literature. Additionally‚ location was as well a very important component to how art was produced in Ancient China. Chinese Art had several components that had affected their art significantly‚ which led to how art is created today in China. Religion There were many things that affected Chinese art‚ one of these things was religion. One of the most influential religions at the time was Buddhism.

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    does not indicate an adult may not read it. Adults learn differently‚ for them‚ learning must be meaningful; they can still accept the ability to learn from reading children’s books. By reading children’s books‚ it can help them relive the imagination we once had as children‚ and demonstrate a better connection to classical literature. All this can be experienced through the reading of C.O.W. Boys: Stolen on the river. Many things can be learnt from the books that children read. One may learn

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