Just before 10 a.m. on June 27th‚ the children came to the village square‚ where the boys began to make a mountain of smooth stones and the girls talked about school days that had just concluded. Husbands came and talked about taxes and wives gossiped about the town. In some towns‚ the Lottery could take two days‚ but in this town‚ there were no more than 100 residents and the Lottery only took two hours. If the Lottery began at 10 a.m.‚ families could be home for their noonday meals. Each
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mountains isolated communities. I-Witness travels to the Tapaz Mountain‚ considered the farthest in Capiz‚ located in the central Philippines island of Panay. Reporter Kara David reaches the community of Rizal Sur‚ a village that looks just like any other isolated community‚ where the people living in traditional huts and survive on whatever nature provides them. In the midst of this community‚ she meets one of the last remaining binukots‚ 73-year-old Lola (grandmother). This old woman lives in an old
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Year of Wonders: Practice essay This text demonstrates the difficulties of holding on to faith in times of adversity. Discuss. Geraldine Brook’s novel ‘Year of Wonders’ is a true story of Eyam‚ a small village in the north of England‚ which made the remarkable decision to voluntarily quarantine itself when struck by the plague in 1665. Set during the restoration England where Puritan Christians were losing their battle against the Church of England to simplify practices‚ Brook’s explores how
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Being a Responsible Steward Starts at the Community : A Clean and Green Enviromental Project I. Ecological Problem : Improper Garbage Disposal II. Target Specific Community : Maharlika Village‚ Bulacao‚ Talisay City‚ Cebu III. People Involved : a.) Azza Nur Olandag b.) Jashley Kesha Diaz Ng c.) Charmaine Coronel d.) Mary Lilybeth Olandag (mother of Olandag) e.) Sedronico Olandag (father of Olandag) f.) Maritchu Bagona (yaya of Diaz Ng) g.) Leovina Coronel
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written by Geraldine Brooks‚ she explores how such horrible tragedies can bring out the worst in human nature. The plague was a major disaster that can affect many people in different ways. Brooks expresses these misfortunes through certain characters such as Aphra Bont as she was a selfish‚ uncaring character who manipulated the people of Eyam‚ Colonel Bradford as he was a heartless coward who only thought of himself and Josiah because of his poor decision making and attitude that was presented in
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India has many big cities. Delhi‚ Mumbai‚ Kolkata‚ Chennai‚ Bangalore‚ etc. are some of them. But 80 per cent of our population lives in the villages. A person from the rural area may find himself lost in a big city. Life in a city looks attractive and glamorous. People are progressive. They are constantly keeping abreast with the developments in the world and even the government takes care to see that the big cities begin to look like any other big city in the world. This is a desirable attitude
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amenities so I feel that cities provide a much better environment for the bringing up of children. Firstly‚ cities provide good arrangement of education. Today education is a very requisite aspect of life. As Lord Biougham truly said- “Education makes people easy to lead‚ but difficult To drive; easy to govern‚ but impossible to enslave” Cities provide good schools for children to gain education from kindergarten to school level also at college and university level. Students who want to pursue higher
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about purgation of the societies is dealt in this play. Throughout the narrative‚ an atmosphere of foreboding prevails. At the onset‚ Sunma‚ urges Eman‚ who is a stranger to her village‚ to leave the place before evening. The reason for her restlessness is revealed to both Eman and the readers very gradually. The village has an annual New Year purification rite in which the wrong doings of the villagers are heaped on ‘carrier’- a stranger- so that the community may be redeemed of its sins and have
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The Transall Saga Mark Harrison is a thirteen year old boy who is obsessed with hiking and backpacking. In the book The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen‚ Mark has finally convinced his parents to let him backpack by himself across an abandoned missile range and he couldn’t be more excited‚ until a strange blue light teleports him far into the future where the world has devolved into the days of swords and arrows. After‚ being in the new environment for a while mark begins to worry about
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important to live an urban area because we can earn money to work in such industries. At present‚however‚especially in developed country‚a tertiary industry occupies mainly among three industries and then the workplace is concentrated in cities so many people tend to live in cities and prefer to do so in order to get better jobs compared with a rural area. This phenomenon can trigger over population which cause several crucial problems. That is why the government should consider this matter seriously
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