languages. 2000 endangered languages. Leaves us with 4500 languages. Language death is occurring at a high rate. What are we doing? Do we care about our future generation? Do we have any values regarding our culture? The answer to all of that is very pessimistic. At this point of life‚ we give absolutely zero attention towards the death of the languages. We think that the languages that are vanishing do not matter‚ that is why they are dying‚ so why should we fight the tide? Well‚ I bet we all know the
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1. ‘For the nation to live‚ the tribe must die.’ Assess the validity of Samora Machel’s assertion with reference to examples in Africa and/or Asia. It has been estimated that there may be some 600 to 1‚000 different tribal groups or more in Africa. There are some whose territory may be 200 or 300 miles square. Inside each large territory may live more than a million people. The smaller tribes may have only two or three thousand people and some of the smallest have only a few hundred. Most tribes
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university has prepared for you. Although we are going to suffer‚ we should never ever lose our faith during our prime time in the university. You are going to have bright vision. I want to ask you‚ my dear fellows‚ are you still holding your dreams tightly in your arms? I can bet you‚ all of you‚ never want your dream to stay in the past tense‚ but the perfect tense. In the university‚ you are going to face new challenges‚ new difficulties and new dilemmas. Never lose faith‚ go‚ run‚ fly‚ and then seize
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chapter 11 of Unfair “What We Must Overcome” our author tackles on three serious challenges we face in realizing science-based reforms. First‚ he addresses the approach our justice system has towards juror screenings and exactly how we are getting it wrong. Benforado suggest that these juror screening are intended to eliminate those people who cannot be fair if selected to be a jury in a criminal case. While we purpose to address this bias‚ our author suggest that we are instead‚” reinforcing a
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When history will be written by hunters they will never discuss lions This is an African quote illustrating the misleading stories of hunters about their hunt. Most of the hunters create myths of miraculous events in the forest. Hunters narrate surprising events of their bravery against lions. They exaggerate the tales of their hunting. As no one has approach to forest so authenticity of these tales is always suspicious. The theme of this quote expresses the biased stories to hide the facts of different
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Life Is Never Sweet When Things Fall Apart Change is something that is very hard to accept. Especially when you are use to everything going your way. The story Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu‚ by Abioseh Nicol‚ is about a woman named Bola who had six children. Unfortunately‚ all of the six children ended up dying young. After she gave birth to her sixth child‚ a medicine man demanded her to break her dead son’s bones so he couldn’t come back to mock her. However‚ she refuses to fulfill
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Farley‚ Mowat’s “Never cry wolf‚” is a book based on the research of the lifestyle of wolves in the Arctic Circle. Mowat uses his experience to educate the society of the social ills conducted by the hunters towards the wolves. The book displays the risk that the wolf pack families face due to the human activities in the area. The title of the book acts as a symbol in reference to the story of the boy who cried wolf. The book thus enables the reader to think beyond the tile so as to form an opinion
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What factors must be considered when making moral decisions? There are a variety of factors‚ which need to be considered when making moral decisions. Everyday we have to make decisions‚ some are hard and some are easy. When we are talking about moral decisions we are talking about what actions are right and what are wrong. Morality is about actions and the consequences made by actions‚ motives and our human nature. There are different ways in looking at making moral decisions‚ 2 main ethical
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When I read an article about Amanda Todd’s story‚ I was shocked and felt how no girl should go through the sexual harassment and cyberbullying that Amanda experienced. Amanda was manipulated to flash her bare chest to a stranger in a video chat room‚ when she was in seventh grade. The same stranger haunted her through social media by creating fake accounts‚ and blackmailing her
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Why were we created? I believe we were created to stand out and be different. As DR. Seuss said WHY FIT IN WHEN YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT. The quote by DR. Seuss means that you must always be yourself. You should not change who you are for anyone else. Everyone is unique in their own way. We were all born to stand out in our unique way. It’s very easy to fit in so we do what everyone else does and gets what everyone else gets. Standing out like someone has a standout performance. The definition
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