Subject: English Format: Commentary “The Visitor” by Gibbons Ruark Through rich‚ sensory details with flowing‚ enjambed lines‚ “The Visitor” by Gibbons Ruark is an elegant prose poem which elaborates on the sensuality of music through the vivid experiences of the first person narrator instead of the visit of a piano tuner‚ the inferred visitor in the title. Utilizing the narrator’s impressions‚ Ruark portrays the ‘blind’ (l. 1) piano tuner in the first lines as a frail‚ vulnerable‚ dependent
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(afternoon) Vendredi 11 novembre 2005 (apres-midi) Viernes 11 de noviembre de 2005 (tarde) 1 hour 30 minutes / 1 heure 30 minutes / 1 hora 30 minutos INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so. Write a commentary on one passage only. It is not compulsory for you to respond directly to the guiding questions provided. However‚ you may use them if you wish. N’ouvrez pas cette epreuve avant d’y Etre autorisi(e). Redigez un commentaire sur un seul des passages
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The Visitor There was once a con man. Who ran away from home? His name was Jake the reason he ran away from home is because he wanted to find a new family. He went to the police station saying he escaped from a man’s house that had kidnapped him and he has been missing for a few years. He also mentions how he had no accesses to television or anything so he wasn’t sure how long he was missing for. He told the police “I found a broken window in the basement so I managed to sneak out and run as
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Workshop Description: Supporting Student Learning across the Curriculum - with Pauline Gibbons | In an English-medium school‚ many students will be learning English as a second (or subsequent) language. Such students are not only learning a new language‚ but learning through that language at the same time‚ and so they are faced with the challenge of simultaneously learning curriculum content while developing academic/subject-related English. This requires teachers to take a dual focus in their
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School Uniforms Should schools require students to wear school uniforms? This issue of whether or not students should wear uniforms is far from over. School uniform has proven to be an enormously complicated question since the fall of Berlin Wall. More interestingly‚ this debate often touches on the essential core principles rather than a serious theoretical research. Those who approbate and deprecate of school uniform generally bring up the following arguments. This has been an increasing concerned
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The Visitor reveals the complexities of immigration in America Looking back at our American values after watching the movie‚ “The Visitor” and reading a couple articles‚ it has come across that some of these values can be hypocritical. We say something but‚ we don’t show it. To the other countries we are portraying that all immigrants are welcome and that they can get a better living down here in America. The poster in the detention center where Tarek was put in into you’ll see it said‚ “The
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Edward Gibbon the Historian Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a historical work that is more than two hundred years old‚ and yet it’s popularity continues to remain strong among the educated public. This masterpiece has been called “The greatest history that has ever been published” (Miller 1). The value of this work and its reliability have been exhaustibly questioned‚ praised and criticized. So what is it that draws people to read his work? Gibbon introduces The Decline
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After a four year hiatus in the Supreme Court docket‚ the court finally rule in 1824‚ the case of Gibbons v. Ogden‚ which eventually proclaimed the federally supremacy clause and the commerce clause‚ but it’s impact of American commerce can still be felt today. The loose interpretation of the Constitution by Chief Justice Marshall had greatly infuriated and scared the Southerners because if the government could regulate interstate commerce‚ then it could one day regulate slavery; it’s technically
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Visitor Management Revision Typology of attractions (Swarbrooke‚ 2002) • Natural environment • Human-made (other than tourism) • Human-made (for tourism) • Special events WHS Definition: ‘attract visitors to view buildings that were not originally designed for this purpose‚ and due to the historical significance of the site can rarely be adapted to accommodate visitor flows (Jones et al‚ 1998). Examples include Temples‚ churches‚ A-Ma Temple‚ St Pauls Ruins‚ State homes etc. Management
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number of visitors visit same destination. The Siloso Beach in Sentosa Resort‚ a famous beach in Singapore‚ is a destination that overcrowded temporary during holiday and festival. Overcrowding at Siloso Beach has caused multiple negative impacts. Pollution and conflicts are major problems in there‚ The visitor impact management (VIM) is an appropriate approach could be contributed to manage Siloso Beach in order to reduce visitor impacts. In addition‚ direct and in direct visitor management
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