w w w e tr .X m eP e ap .c rs om IGCSE SYLLABUS 0476 IGCSE SYLLABUS 0486 O LEVEL SYLLABUS 2010 STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH NOTES FOR TEACHERS on the short stories set for examination in June and November Years 2013‚ 2014‚ 2015 * © University of Cambridge International Examinations [ * NOTE: There are separate documents about the different selections of stories set for examination in years 2007- 2009
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Certainly‚ the form has potency that keeps pulling me back‚ both as a reader and a writer. I feel as Edgar Allan Poe argued that ‘the intensity of short‚ concentrated forms read in one sitting increases there emotional impact.’2 In Silence by Alice Munro‚ the author manages to portray over twenty years of loss in less than eight
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The Collapse of the Roman Empire The Roman Empire is considered by many to be the greatest empire of all of time. However‚ everything has to come to an end at some point‚ even the greatest Empires of our time. There were many reasons as to why the Roman Empire collapsed‚ the three most significant ones being that they lost control over their army‚ there was too much land for them to rule‚ and the government was people lost interest. As the Roman Empire expanded‚ the ratio of land to officials
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Management: Competiveness and Globalisation (4th ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning‚ 2011. Print. Johnson‚ G.‚ Scholes‚ K.‚ & Whittington‚ R. Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases (8th ed.)‚ Prentice Hall: Pearson Education‚ 2008. Print. Munro‚ P. Men ’s fashion: big business. Brisbane Times‚ 2009. (Accessed online on 19th June 2013)‚ http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/executive-style/style/mens-fashion-big-business-20090622-ct2j.html Brenton‚ P. & Hoppe‚ M. Clothing and Export Diversification:
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Quarter Two DBQ: The Fall of Empires The Han Dynasty and Roman Empire both expanded their boundaries to the point where many thought they would be impossible to defeat. Regardless of that power‚ both empires had very devastating falls. Though they were both very different societies‚ China having a centralized bureaucracy‚ and Rome having a rule based on laws and private authorities‚ like many empires‚ many aspects of their defeat are similar. Some of the ideas contributing to this fall was the
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blogs‚ etc. The problem is not all of them are specialists or professionals‚ or they share the one’s academic experience. Many internet users just post their own experience or understanding which is not based on dependable foundation. Moreover‚ vandals together with naughty individuals often deliberately upload wrong materials or try to modify true available information for their certain purposes. Unfortunately‚ most web administrators are not normally able to control such a huge number of posts
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and the contrast between museums and outlaws when it comes to street art. These chapter provide a great deal of insight for both sides of the argument. Because of the focus on individual artists there is room for the comparison between artist and vandal in the sense of graffiti. For this reason‚ I will likely use this source in my final essay. Welsh‚ Brandon C.‚ et al. "Reimagining Broken Windows: From Theory to Policy." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency‚ vol. 52‚ no. 4‚ July 2015‚ pp
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problems and crime in today’s society. Exciting stories and sensational headlines help to sell newspapers and attract TV viewers. The mass media often generate this excitement by creating stereotypes of young people as troublemakers‚ layabouts and vandals‚ and by exaggerating the occasional deviant behaviour of a few young people out of proportion to its real significant in society. For many people‚ the mass media provided the only source of information about events‚ and therefore‚ distort people’s
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Abbasid Caliphate Dynasty of caliphs who ruled an increasingly fragmented Islamic state from 750 to 1258‚ eventually becoming little more than figureheads Al-Andalus Arabic name for Spain (literally "land of the Vandals")‚ most of which was conquered by Arab and Berber forces in the early 8th century C.E. Anatolia Ancient name of Asia Minor‚ part of Byzantine Empire that was gradually overrun by the Turks and that’s now the Republic of Turkey Battle of Talas River Arab victory over the Chinese in
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A: Geography effects the Greek and Roman civilizations because Greece is very mountainous. It has high elevation with valleys. The Greeks were separated by its geography and made into city-states. These cities are independent because the mountains made it hard to move to different cities. Then the Greeks learned a new type of government through the city-states. This new form of politics was called democracy and it meant that the civilians themselves are the governments. The new government the Greeks
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