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    For the majority of my life‚ I’ve never worried about being oppressed. I’ve been lucky enough to be raised in a middle class‚ white family. I may not feel directly oppressed as a result of my gender and sexuality‚ however there are people that do and they shouldn’t be denounced as a result of my experiences. Due to being a woman‚ I’m likely to be shamed for the way I present myself. For example‚ I’m unable to have my hair grow out (underarms or legs) without being scorned by others. Through personal

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    libingan. -bibig AETA RIDDLES A riddle is generally a question devised so as to require clever or unexpected thinking for its answer‚ sometimes called a "brain teaser." In general conversation‚ someone typically presents a question to another person who accepts the challenge of guessing the correct response. It was usually done by our natives to lessen their boredom and was passed by words and preserved by oral tradition. The riddles is from the Aetas of Northern Cagayan province and in the upper

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    7 Habits of Highly Effective People Book Summary Before going into the actual 7 habits‚ the author Steve Covey goes into few important concepts. Character Ethic (good) There are basic principles of effective living and people can only experience true success and enduring happines as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character. Personality Ethic (not so good) It is manipulative‚ deceptive‚ encouraging people to use techniques to get other people to like them. Personality

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    Book Review on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was written by Dr Stephen R Covey who was born in 1932. The book was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1989 and has sold around 15 million copies word-wide. The seven principles he presents in the 7 Habits are not original thoughts - he does not claim to have originated the ideas but simply to have found a framework and a language for articulating the time-less principles embedded into the

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    Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee‚ Ontario‚ Canada. During this time‚ women were viewed as second class citizens‚ but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized the narrator’s lack of identity‚ compared to her younger

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    Green principles oppose violence in all its forms: assaults against individuals‚ families‚ nations‚ wildlife and the environment. We also recognize that threats‚ intimidation and fear can be as destructive as physical violence. On the personal as well as the national level‚ means can never be separated from ends. American society has an historical legacy of violence that results in a widespread acceptance of violent methods. This is reflected in high violent crime rates‚ the highest handgun murder

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    Medieval Weapons Medieval society‚ in spite of its stereotypes‚ was not inherently more violent than modern society. "Although there was no state in the modern sense‚ and therefore no set of laws that inherently took away the power of the average man or woman to exercise violence‚ the violence of the day was considered differently‚ and with out the inherent sense of criminality that accompanies it today. Our understanding of the weapons of the medieval world is skewed by the vast disarming of

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    sacrifice with the pirates in the present. ‘The reality that awaits her on the ground’ is sad reminders of her loss and isolation. Vivid description is used to explain the plight of Phuong and Ling who lost their mother. Phuong seeks out Cang because both youths feel isolated and marginalised. In Only the Heart‚ we can see that Phuong feels grief after she has lost her parents‚ and neither does Cang. Phuong joins the gang‚ but ‘she always stood there on the edges of the group‚ part of it yet separate’

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    The Impact of an Iranian Nuclear Weapon on The Arabian Gulf Region Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons constitutes a risk to the Gulf region‚ including: A - A threat to regional stability in the Gulf region: Undoubtedly that Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons would affect the stability of the Gulf region from both sides: First: devote the existing imbalance in the balance of power. The second is: the possibility of a military conflict between Iran and the concerned parties to the nuclear

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    2012 WA 1: Narrative Essay‚ Only Daughter‚ prompt 2 I trace the development of my upbringing and think to myself that I can’t believe I have become the woman my father would want me to be. He was Hispanic with strong morals. He would be fifty years old and still pressuring me to respect another and myself‚ work hard and work to succeed. I was the youngest of three girls and we three needed to grow with those thoughts in our heads. Cisneros says‚ “Being only a daughter for my father meant

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