about "abolish pork barrel system" but something seems missing. Has anyone suggested any alternative? But is pork the real root of corruption? Let us say a person is convicted of rape. When asked why he did such crime‚ he would say it is because he found the lady beautiful and tempting. Should everyone go and kill all beautiful women so that rape will end? That logic may sound oversimplified and childish but that is what the call is saying. The controversy on the pork barrel scam sheds light
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Magic Realism is a literary school that arose shortly after Realism. Unlike Realism‚ Magic Realism distinguishes everyday components with surrealistic elements to weave together myth in an effort to question the true nature of one’s interpretation. The short story‚ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‚” by Gabriel García Márquez‚ attributes the common ordinary message with Magic Realism to allow the reader to untangle it‚ discover its meaning with child-like eyes‚ and to help one mentally experience
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In Huxley’s‚ Brave New World‚ Bernard Marx‚ one of the story’s main protagonist’s‚ fails to play the role of a dystopian hero. An Alpha male‚ who is supposedly meant to be a big‚ strong‚ leader figure‚ is unsuccessful in fitting into society because of his substandard physical appearance. Due to his dissatisfaction and lack of confidence with himself‚ Bernard’s main goal is to fit into the dystopia and raise his social status. However‚ because Bernard is so focused on himself‚ he is unable to criticize
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Initially‚ my personal values distracted from my ability to sympathize with Bernard Ebbers conviction. His defense team argued that the trial judge wrongly instructed the jury that it could convict Mr. Ebbers on the basis that he engaged in “conscious avoidance” of the fraud at WorldCom. It is evident that Ebbers took a blind eye to any consideration to analyze the good stuff from the bad stuff in this situation. He failed to calculate the considerations of utility and as a result he is paying the
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Napoles has been alleged of having engineered a PHP 10 billion scam over the past decade by using the pork barrel funds of 5 senators and 23 Congressmen for ghost projects. She was even tagged as the alleged mother of the PHP 10 billion pork barrel scam. Napoles’ firm was allegedly tapped for government-funded projects that were later found questionable. The “so-called projects” include the PHP 728 million funds for a fertilizer project for poor farmers. It was alleged that the fund was diverted
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in the world. Magic is also not easy to define. Perhaps it is best to describe the different types of magic. There is the homeopathic type‚ which is the belief that an action will have a similar desired effect in a similar context or situation. Homeopathic magic operates under the law that "like causes like". For example‚ in folk-magic a "poppet" is a doll used to represent a certain person‚ enabling the practitioner to cast spells or the like upon said person. Another type of magic is contagion
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In Bronwen Wallace’s‚ 7 stanza poem “Common Magic”‚ the reader is shown different subjects’ lives and how they coincide in the same world. With each person different‚ along with the problems they must face‚ there is an unexpected sense of connection through the literary work. In Bronwen Wallace’s poem “Common Magic” the poet uses‚ imagery‚ and structure to illustrate that the world still goes on regardless of the problems you and everyone else in society may face. Bronwen Wallace utilizes imagery
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS AS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 9695 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe 2. The Open Boat Stephen Crane 3. The Door in the Wall HG Wells 4. The People Before Maurice
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Danger of a Single Story; an eloquent and lively account of the lack of native literature in the childhood of speaker Chimamanda Ngozi. A story of a well-educated Nigerian who noted the lack Nigerian stories in her country. The danger of a single story. A tale of a single-minded story being told by the western world about Ngozi’s home countries. Stories of poverty and unhappiness not expressed in her own life experience. Ngozi’s TED talk warns the listener about the single story. She talks about the
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kinds of stories. One is a nonfiction autobiographical story about a boy‚ while the other is a short story about a girl. However‚ if you look a little closer‚ you will see that both stories actually share a common theme. In both stories the authors teach us that it is important to have the courage to be an individual. In “Everything Will Be Okay”‚ by James Howe‚ the author shows us that you can be whoever you want to be even if things are in your way. Towards the beginning of the story‚ James
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