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    - ‘BELONGING’ - Question: What does the Oodgeroo Noonuccal poem ‘We Are Going’ have to say about Belonging and Not Belonging? How does the poet use language forms‚ features and structures to convey ideas and feelings? The poem ‘We Are Going’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal is about the displacement of the Aboriginal people in Australian society/culture and their confusion about where or what to belong to as their traditional customs are taken away/forgotten. The text raises the issues and themes of

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    The World That We Live in

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    “The world that we live in”: an appeal Not long ago the law of the jungle prevailed “kill or be killed”. Barbarism was at its heinous best. Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” was apt for those times. The smaller animals were at the mercy of the bigger ones and the latter were at the mercy of the biggest and so on. Evolution continued and finally we are today at a position of being called the ultramodern man who has lots and lots of knowledge and education‚ robots and gadgets to assist

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    WHY WE SLEEP The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals J.A. Horne Published by Oxford University Press 1988 Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.1 Early Sleep Theories 1.2 Daily Sleep and Wakefulness 1.3 Measuring Sleep References CHAPTER 2 Sleep Deprivation 2.1 Problems with Animal Experiments 2.2 Recent Animal Experiments 2.3 Some Problems with Human Experiments 2.4 1896 - The First Real Sleep Deprivation Experiment on Humans 2.5 The Longest Study - 264 hours

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    us that we were eating food poison with each bite we take? What would our reactions be? Of course we don’t cook our food in a pan of poison‚ or spice our foods with poison salts. But‚ we do eat poison everyday with some of the foods we eat. We need to start taking a look at the food we are feeding our kids‚ our families‚ and ourselves. Eating this “poison” will have serious health issues later on in life. As a society‚ we all are exposed to the worst kinds of chemicals in the foods we eat.

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    activities. The obvious reasons why there are beggars is illiteracy‚ poverty and unemployment. It is our moral duty to help to the weak‚ the hungry and the suffering people. But by giving out alms as charity‚ we do not help the beggars. As I have realized‚ there are many negative side effects when we are giving out money to beggars especially to the children. Firstly‚ it won’t stop the growth of beggars because if you give money to them‚ it would be an enticement for children to continue begging and not

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    Are We Really Free?

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    American worker in our society. He poses a question‚ “are Americans really free?” (Greider) This is a tough question to answer‚ what is our definition of free and how is freedom accomplished? Do we have more freedoms than the older generations? What roads have been paved for us and what disadvantages are we facing now? Grieder’s bottom line in this article was that communication is key for a successful business‚ is that accurate? These are all questions that after reading “Work Rules” I wanted to know

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    1 I was merely a child‚ too young to grasp the gravity of the situation‚ when my family went through its deepest crisis. It forced me to grow up faster than most—a lot of the time‚ I had to do things for myself. My mother and father divorced when I was three‚ and my life has not been the same since. My mind filled with confusion and infinite questions‚ since I was too young to understand the situation at the time. Coming from a broken home‚ I wondered why I was not able to enjoy certain luxuries

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    One Small Lie Can Turn Into One Big Problem In my personal experiences‚ lying does not seem very appealing. I had to learn the hard way just how much of a negative effect a simple lie can have on a person. From all of my experiences of lying and seeing lies occur‚ or hearing stories of someone lying‚ I have learned that there really is no point in lying. One small lie you tell someone could cause many different outcomes. Whether it’s just a small fabrication or a huge fallacy‚ or even if it seems

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    economic crisis today. Adversity‚ or as some may say struggle‚ is inevitable and unavoidable. The question that arises from overcoming adversity is value or meaning that comes from difficult times and/or catastrophic events. “ That which we obtain too easily‚ we esteem to lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value.” Thomas Paine is reflecting his belief that people tend to naturally care more about things that come or seem easy. Any human being will value only what they struggle

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    Where does power lie in Congress? Congress in the US is granted all legislative powers by the Constitution‚ the power to appropriate funds‚ regulate trade and commerce and to formally declare war. Although the President imposes his will on all of these activities Congress is still an extremely important and powerful body; arguably today it has a superior mandate as President Bush was elected on a popular minority and less recently. Congress is regularly re-elected (every two years) and because of

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