How Tabiteuea got its name? One of the islands in Kiribati (Central Pacific) There are legends and myths that tell how certain places in the Pacific got their names. In Kiribati‚ each island has its own story on how it got its name from which the people of the island claim the position of their island in the creation of Kiribati. The people of Tabiteuea‚ the largest island in Kiribati claim that Tabiteuea was the first island created or the oldest and therefore should be respected by the rest of
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"What’s my girl’s name?" From the age of about four until I was around eight years old‚ I firmly believed that I had two last names‚ Hoffpauir and Monceaux. This was because of my grandfather‚ he never made it a secret when I was younger that I was his special little one‚ which was unsurprising to most of the family as I was nine years younger than any of his other grandchildren. Whenever I would go and visit him we had a routine conversation; first‚ he would say‚ "What’s my girl’s name?" Which I would
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Americans know about the events of September 11th. Many poems‚ songs and books have been written about it. Brian Doyle talks about people jumping from the twin towers in his poem “Leap.” Billy Collins also talks about individuals in his powerful poem “The Names.” Both of these authors wrote poems about a very powerful event in history that have both similarities and differences. The two poems differ when it comes to the imagery used. In the poem “Leap” the imagery used makes you feel sick to your stomach
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To write a review about a film which contains not only the magical combo of Shahrukh Khan-Kajol-Karan Johar but also something different from melodramatic love story or usual remake of hardcore commercial film is pleasurable.My Name Is Khan has a excellent point to a class of audience who likes to watch Shahrukh Khan in a different characteristic. But the film does not show the excellence enough to get a perfect worship from all audiences and critics. In the movie Rizwan embarks on a touching journey
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In the editorial‚ “Discrimination by Another Name‚” by the Washington Times‚ the author talks about the different problems of discrimination in colleges accepting people of a certain minority‚ and discarding others. The editorial also uses different rhetorical devices‚ connotation‚ and bias to affect their argument and the audience’s opinions on it. The author mostly talks about how it is wrong that colleges are still allowed to do this‚ even though they should not be able to. Overall‚ though‚ the
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got back to France. As Elizabeth Wien explains a very dark and mysterious story in Code Name Verity about two girls named Verity
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Abortion : Another Name for Murder Every day‚ an overwhelming amount of human beings’ lives are terminated. The culprit: unwanted pregnancies. So what is one to do when they discover that they’re pregnant? They have some alternatives: (1) have the child and raise it (2) have the child‚ then give it up for adoption (3) get an abortion. Sadly‚ many women choose alternative three. A mother kills her baby because it is unwanted‚ yet she is not charged with murder. Is this right? It is wrong to kill
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moving her hand up to her mouth trying to hold back the tears as she looked at her‚ one tear dropping from her eyes to the floor. Her daughter name Annabelle looked at her‚ and instantly knew what her mother was crying about. She ran up to her room and locked the door behind her and layed on her bed bursting into tears as she sat there thinking about about what the future holds for her now. She sat up wipeing the tears after she had sat there for awhile. She started to write "I wont let this get the
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FRAILTY‚ THY NAME IS WOMEN Frailty is defined as being fragile‚ foible‚ and having a moral weakness (Oxford Dictionary). At one point during the play Hamlet‚ Hamlet states‚ "Frailty‚ thy name is women" (i.ii.146)‚ generalizing that all women are frail. During the period Hamlet was written‚ the society was patriarchal‚ therefore‚ the women were very dependent on the men‚ and were unable to exist independently. Through their submissiveness Gertrude and Ophelia are treated as marionettes‚ who are
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(or ratherdeveloping) to look into the reality. The event of 9/11 divided the timeline of a race (with respect toMuslims) into two time intervals‚ before and after 9/11. Most of the movie “M y Name is K han” was shot in Los Angeles‚ United States. This paper gives insights into the movie “ My Name is K han” and the reality of an entire race (Muslims) with respect to social discrimination‚ portraying them asterrorists and treating them as the “others” after the 9/11 incident . “ It’s
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