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    The Boarding House

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    THE BOARDING HOUSE The Boarding House is included in Dubliners‚ a collection of fifteen short stories by the Irish poet and novelist James Joyce‚ which was first published in 1914. This story of a boarding house‚ like the other stories in Dubliners‚ describes the lives of ordinary citizens of Dublin and illustrates their various qualities. There are three main characters - Mrs. Mooney‚ her daughter Polly and Mr. Doran. At the very beginning the author describes Mrs. Mooney‚ who relinquished

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    Esperanza was writing in the beginning of the chapter and she sounds like six years old because she loves to write about her houses that she described many things about her homes that her family and she didn’t always live on Mango street. Before that‚ they lived on Loomis on the third floor‚ and before that‚ they lived on Keeler. She writes‚ “The house on Mango Street is ours‚ and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody‚ or share the yard with the people J downstairs‚ or be careful not to make too much

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    A Doll's House

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    A Doll’s House is a three-take action drama in writing style by Henrik Ibsen. It first went to stage on 21st December 1879‚ at the Royal Theatre in Denmark. It was originally published one month earlier. The play has been charged with the fever during the European revolution in 1848; in this case‚ a new modern perspective was emerging in the literary as well as dramatic world; hence challenging the romantic traditions. Major characters in the play include Nora‚ Torvald Helmer and Krogstad. The characters

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    Sophie Other names Centre Number Candidate Number Edexcel GCSE Mathematics A Paper 1 (Non-Calculator) Foundation Tier Thursday 28 February 2013 – Afternoon Time: 1 hour 45 minutes Paper Reference 1MA0/1F You must have: Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres‚ protractor‚ pair of compasses‚ pen‚ HB pencil‚ eraser. Tracing paper may be used. Total Marks Instructions Use black ink or ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name

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    “Law and Order in Philadelphia” is a documentary based on the policing. We see that the area is bad and that there is violence‚ crime‚ and drugs on the streets. There is a lot of crime in Philadelphia and they use the due process model which “stresses the criminal justice system to protect suspects from honest mistakes or deliberate deception and bias by police…”(Barkan 400). A reporter goes undercover with the police so see the everyday occurrences with crime in Philadelphia. We witnessed in the

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    Order Play Analysis

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    Order play has critical influence in the lives of young kids. Order play comprises in perceiving the spot for every article in connection to its surroundings and in recollecting where everything ought to be. Such mindfulness is crucial for a child to feel secure inside of its surroundings and to expand on existing encounters. Order play in nature makes children feel safe and that they know how things ought to be. Extraordinary accentuation is in this way put on request inside of the Montessori classroom

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    Hull House

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    Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate was a great idea to create

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    The House of Mapuhi

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    The House of Mapuhi‚ Jack London Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines‚ the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze‚ and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water‚ a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide‚ twenty miles in circumference‚ and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell‚ and from the deck of the schooner‚ across the slender

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    Bleak House

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    Bleak House In the book “Bleak House” Charles Dickens expresses his contempt towards the vast amount of pollution in the air‚ water and lives of the citizens due to the filthy and unsanitary conditions in London. Throughout the book‚ Dickens describes very vividly the mud in the streets‚ the fog in the air and the dung in the streets. The polluted conditions in London were described as being a layer of thick fog that held within it components of gas‚ dirt‚ grime dung and grease. Just about every

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    Sociology and Social Order

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    not only do you participate in a social context but most often you are bound by a set of rules of conduct. These are part of the invisible social order. Still on a street‚ or perhaps in other social contexts‚ gazes may be misinterpreted‚ According to Foucault‚ power works in subtle ways through discourse – what can be talked about – to shape popular attitudes. These discoursesChapter 7 Making social order Chapter 4 of this book also talked about ‘discourses’ in relation to questions of

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