Background/origin/history Land van de Dood is located between Japan and Indonesia near the equator‚ at Latitude 14.604847‚ Longitude 155.039063. Starting in the late 1800’s‚ the still existing dutch speaking viking descendant clans sent criminals to this abandoned island to die. They called this island ‘Land van de Dood’ meaning ‘Land of the Dead’ in Dutch. However‚ due to their ancestry‚ the exiles were somewhat abnormally tall and muscular. This strength allowed their survival on the island. They
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Explain what is meant by ‘upwardly mobile’. (Item A‚ line 6). Upwardly mobile means when someone or a group of people move or aspire to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power. Suggest three criticisms of ‘new vocationalism’. It is a cheap source of labour meaning that it should not be up to the education system to train employees for companies. It creates a lack of jobs – young employment is due to lack of jobs and not vocational skills. Working class students
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Van Gogh painted this piece in 1889 while he was in Saint Rémy seeking treatment in a mental asylum. Interestingly enough‚ he painted this piece from his memory and it was supposed to have been based on a constellation arrangement he had seen earlier on in the night sky of Provence. Starry Night is perhaps one of his most famous and yet most elusive works. The first thing that I noticed was the overwhelming night sky‚ which takes up most of the background. Its swirling‚ flowing lines appear to
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Final Notice is a book written by Van Fleisher. It is a realistic fiction book that takes place in the United States. It addresses a pressing issue the United States is faced with presently. A group of scientists invents a device that resembles a watch for monitoring heart rates during exercises. It turns out this device can do much more than that. The device can give full medical diagnostics. It has a feature called the final notice that can tell when the wearer is going to die. This device initially
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I don’t remember how I got here. There was a promise of money and shelter‚ a van and a brown paper bag. The van they transported me in smelled sour‚ the children they took before me must have pissed themselves. I think I was scared enough to. I lie here in a bed with an IV in my arm. I know I’ve been drugged into compliance but it’s hard to shake the fog. I hear other children in the area beyond curtained off section of the room my bed is in. The curtains were once white with speckled with blue
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Reading: van Wensveen 1. What is the primary ways that Van Wensveen Siker views the relationship between Christianity and business? A: Van Wensveen Siker reimagines five ways or types of viewing the relationship between Christianity and business. These five types are - Christ against business‚ Christ of business‚ Christ above business‚ Christ and business in paradox‚ and Christ the transformer of business. For the readers enrichment I will provide a brief summary of the five types. First‚ Christ
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A great example of a tragic hero is a man by the name of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born into a dutch family of nobility in the field of music on December 17th 1770 in bonn. He was named after his grandfather‚ a bass singer. Beethoven’s father‚ Johannes‚ was a court Tenor and pianist and was the first person to instruct young Ludwig in music. He taught him the piano‚ violin‚ and also possibly the viola. He went to elementary school in the Neugasse until his first public performance at the
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Teun A. Van Dijk‚ in his essay "Pragmatics and Poetics‚" explains the reason for speech is "to change the internal state of the hearer" (Dijk 30). Ferdinand de Saussure describes in his essay‚ "Nature of the Linguistic Sign‚" how a word is more connected to the minds of the speaker and the hearer than to anything else. He describes that the "linguistic sign" as a unit formed equally by the association of a "concept" and a "sound-image." The "sound-image" is what one would call a spoken word‚ something
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(Stokstad 778). Unlike oil paints‚ tempera dries quickly. Tempera is used before oil paints become popular. One example of Tempera is Baptism of Christ (1450) made by Piero della Francesca. The color is not as bright compare to other paints. Jan van Eyck is a painter. According to Marilyn Stokstad‚ he painted for” Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy” (575). He used oil media to paint portraits of the duke. His famous artwork is the Ghent Altarpiece (1432). The altarpiece is highly detailed‚ fill with
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The sweet romance and drama story‚ “Flipped” by Wendelin Van Draanen‚ is about a girl‚ Juliana‚ and a boy‚ Bryce‚ who lived across each other since second grade. This story is told by both‚ Juli and Bryce’s‚ points of view. When Juliana first saw Bryce she knew she would like him a whole lot. Now when Bryce first saw Juliana that was a different story. He ran away from her. You can see how their relationship started out from both sides in chapters one and two. Juli might have had a huge crush
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