many more seconds will he take to pass the remaining 4 flags ? 2. A person has to cover the fixed distance through his horses. There are five horses in the cart. They ran at the full potential for the 24 hours continuously at constant speed and then two of the horses ran away to some other direction. So he reached the destination 48 hours behind the schedule. If the five horses would have run 50 miles more‚ then the person would have been only 24 hours late. Find the distance of the destination. 3
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In the Western society I was raised in‚ a mother is usually understood as one of two ways. A mother is either a selfless and hardworking nurturer‚ or a protective and “helicoptering” figure that will do anything for her child. While numerous mothers‚ in actuality‚ encompass neither or both of these roles along with several others‚ the definition usually encompasses much more than just somebody who has given birth. The factual and textbook definition of being a mother is simply to be a female parent
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A king was touring his kingdom on his elephant. Suddenly he stopped in front of a shop in the market and said to his minister‚ "I don’t know why‚ but I want to hang the owner of this shop." The minister was shocked. But before he could ask the king why‚ the king had moved on. The next day‚ the minister went to that shop dressed as one of the locals to see the shopkeeper. He casually asked him how his business was faring. The shopkeeper‚ a sandalwood merchant‚ reported sadly that he had hardly any
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Meron Habtemichael Sugar: Is Sugar "Bad" for You? There is controversy about sugar and its heath issues. · Eating a lot of sugar means you will have to cut down on other forms of food. · Sugar causes malnutrition because it reduces the nutrition that one would receive from other foods. · Also if you consume sugar along with other food you eat regularly you will be taking in too many calories‚ thus bringing in the problem of obesity. · Once the body has enough sugar to fill its glycogen
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The character in “where are you going‚ where have you been?” Connie is affected by the role she plays in modern society. Fifteen year old Connie has the confusing‚ often exterior behavior typical of those girls who are facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood in the 1960s. She is caught between her roles as daughter‚ friend‚ sister‚ and object of sexual desire‚ uncertain of which represents her real self. The sixties were the age of youth‚ young people wanted change. The changes
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“Two American Families” The PBS Frontline documentary “Two American Families”‚ produced by Bill Moyers‚ follows two middle class families in Milwaukie‚ one black and one white‚ for over a decade as they struggle to achieve the “American Dream”. This documentary mirrors the struggle of so many American families who work hard and play by the rules‚ yet fall victim in a struggling economy to a series of policy decisions made. The hand of policy ineffectively steered the lives of the two families
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In the book‚ Things Fall Apart‚ the author Chinua Achebe emphasizes cultural collisions dramatically. Okonkwo‚ the protagonist‚ a warrior and a clan leader and must never show softness or weakness. Unlike his father who is cowardly and dishonorable man‚who died in shame. In the novel‚ Okonkwo has many responsibilities from being a father‚ farmer‚ and leader. But his world falls apart when he has to kill Ikemefuna‚ a boy he takes charge of when his tribe wins a settlement with another tribe‚ and
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Magical Realism Paper Life as we knew it quickly evaded from us as the sirens swam around our bodies embedding their screams in our ears and as the consistent sound rang through us‚ the dread over took my body. The war that we all prepared for was here‚ the one we read in our holy books‚ the one which many people spoke about but didn’t prepare themselves for. It was looked upon as a myth‚ but for us it spiraled around fusing itself with time‚ making the war between worlds reality. Nothing that I
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Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is about a 15 year old girl named Connie. Connie is the dark blond haired girl who catches all the attention and knows she looks good. The story is somewhat journalistic in the sense that there are few extreme stylistic flourishes or complicated sentence structures. Oates’s spare style allows the images in the story to stand out in realistic coherence‚ in a way that makes one feel they have some unexplainable importance. “There’s your
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Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on her lover’s
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