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    you hear the people sing? Sing the song of angry men..." Perhaps many people are familiar with the song above‚ and this is from the movie called Les Misérables. The plot of the movie is based on the novel written by a French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. The beginning of the movie is set in the early 19th century France‚ in a prison. This movie is mainly about the main character‚ Jean Valjean‚ was sentenced to the jail for 19 years only because of having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving

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    Reading Notes Themes: Searching for Redemption Amir feels responsible for the death of his mother‚ who died during child birth‚ at the beginning of the novel we see Amir desperately trying to redeem himself to Baba by trying to win the kite tournament. Amir’s guilt from the incident regarding Hassan retrieving the losing kite is what causes Amir’s search for redemption. Closer to the end of the novel Amir travels to Kabul to retrieve Sohrab from Assef’s custody this is what redeems him. Earlier

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    This is when many athletes often turn to performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Marion Jones had won 3 gold and 2 bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Life was good until federal investigators approached Jones in 2007 as to whether she knew Victor Conte (a known distributor of PEDs to professional athletes). She denied the allegations and said she “didn’t know nuthin”. But that didn’t last long‚ soon she was forced to admit she had been using steroids for a long time‚ which disqualified and

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    Other Times‚ Other Places: Les Misérables Author: Victor Hugo Year: 1987 (New English Translation by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacFee). 1830 (Victor Hugo’s Original) Title: Les Misérables Country of Publication: New York‚ United States of America Set in the early 18th century‚ Les Misérables spans a few generations of people‚ who fought for freedom and well-being in a harsh world as pre-revolution and post-Napoleon France was. The story follows the political progress in France‚ for the second

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    Being secluded from everything caused the creature for example to be bitter and desolate. The creator of the creature‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ has also denied the creature one glimmer of hope for the feeling of worth. A mate was never made for the creature and the creature does not have a single person willing to stand by his side. Between not having a mate and being hated

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    Victoria Sanford’s book‚ Buried Secrets helps readers to understand the violence that occurred during the genocide that took place in Guatemala. This destruction happened during the 1960’s until 1996. She reviles the tragedies that happened from the standpoint of more than 400 rural Maya survivors‚ former soldiers‚ archival research and formerly classified documents. There were 626 villages and 200‚000 civilian victims that were affected by this genocide. The Guatemalan army were the ones who led

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    Contents Introduction The Western plains of Victoria formed expansive grassland in south eastern part of Australia. Stretching all the way from Melbourne to Portland‚ the plain is mostly flat and used widely for agriculture. Dairy farms‚ livestock‚ and vineyards are all examples of agriculture types found in the region. Major population centers in the region include Camperdown‚ Hamilton‚ Portland and Colac. The explorer Major Mitchell described this place as “a region more

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    around him. There’s no possible way that a newborn could comprehend and decide to be evil. You must be taught right from wrong. The creation was labeled as wretch and then ignored. He isn’t given a chance to become anything but a monster. Through Victor Frankenstein‚ the cottagers‚ and the world this marvelous creation morphs into what he is seen as and expected to be: a monster. Frankenstein struggles with his creation from its very beginning. Calling him a “dæmon” and “wretch” several times in

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    beautiful and the monstrously ugly). In the first drawing‚ the skull represents the madness and obsession Victor goes through as he is making this creature. Victor begins with this abundance of knowledge; the obsession to be able to expand this knowledge then leads him to the lack of morality. “My mind was filled with one thought‚ one conception‚ one purpose”(page 33)‚ this conveys the idea that victor wants to have this recognition of being able to create another life and to go all lengths to achieve

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    Develop and Update Tourism Industry Knowledge SITTIND001A Amy Sanders 9th March 2011 | Associations “The Accommodation Association of Australia is the representative body for the Australian accommodation industry. It is a specialist organisation committed to working for employers in the accommodation sector” AAA helps provide information about simple factors needed to be known for starting new into the Australian Accommodation Industry. By becoming a member you are able to get

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