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    Stand by if you are not a citizen. Key Quote: “If we look to the laws‚ they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if to social standing‚ advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity‚ class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way‚ if a man is able to serve the state‚ he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition.” (p. 58) Context: Pericles‚ a well-known political Athenian statesman‚ delivers a speech at

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    novel‚ Never Fall Down‚ a group by the name of the Khmer Rouge invades Cambodia and takes all of their people. They have all of the power at the time‚ and force the people to work against their will. This turned out to be one of most devastating periods in history. Others may claim that power brings

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    Thank You for Smoking

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    In the movie Thank You for Smoking‚ Nick Naylor is a handsome man‚ smooth talking tobacco lobbyist and the vice-president of a tobacco lobby called the “Academy of Tobacco Studies”. Naylor’s job consists mainly of reporting the questionable research of the company to the public and defending Big Tobacco on television programs by questioning health claims and advocating their personal choice about cigarette. While Nick Naylor’s morals maybe questionable‚ he has the talent for whipping up an argument

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    YOU DECIDE: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY 1 You Decide: International Case Study Andree Carmelita Pierre DeVry University Keller Graduate School of Management YOU DECIDE: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY 2 Abstract Mary Wright is a human resources consultant for a telecommunications’ company in Miami‚ Florida‚ whose company has recently decided to expand its operations in the Arab Emirates‚ in Dubai. Mary’s extensive professional background along with her dedication

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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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    You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce is a theatre that is produced by The Civilians. It talks four real stories about the reasons to divorce what are performers’ parents’ stories. As a documentary theatre‚ during the process of performance‚ actors should restore the situations’ happen as possible. Real is the creation of the production in the documentary theatre. In this report‚ we will talk about the production You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce and discuss the significance

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    As You Like It - the Play

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    As You Like It - the Play As You Like It is considered by many to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies‚ and the heroine‚ Rosalind‚ is praised as one of his most inspiring characters and has more lines than any of Shakespeare’s female characters. Rosalind‚ the daughter of a banished duke falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the duke’s friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping uncle‚ Duke Frederick ‚ Rosalind switches genders and as Ganymede travels with

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    Hour‚ Frankie and Johnny‚ Roots of Temptation and the movie “He’s Not That Into You”. In all of these stories there is always one person out of the relationship that doesn’t know what it wants’. It makes the relationship harder because these feelings that they have‚ they don’t share it with each other. These make the relationship to fail and not to be a healthy relationship. People usually get really confused. When you have a relationship for a long time period‚ it usually becomes a routine and it

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    The more you work the more money you get It is a difussed opinion that the more you work the more you earn.Does it always depend on this factor?Yes‚ofcourse it mostly depends on it‚but also there are important factors which help you earn more money. Let’s consider it from the very beginning.Firstly‚I think that a good employee‚wherever he works‚should have such touches of nature as intelligence‚optimism‚riskiness and responsibility.Intelligence helps to solve successfully all kind of problems

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    Spirit

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    carries the aspirant towards God. In order to create the proper conditions required to cause these experiences‚ spiritual practice (called “askesis”) is required. Ideally‚ spiritual practices should be learned directly from a teacher who has accepted you as a student. Therefore‚ we must always strongly encourage our readers to seek tutelage under the guidance of an instructor‚ even if that guidance is not with us. No general course of instruction or list of techniques‚ no matter how great or thorough

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