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    Does a company need a noble purpose to be successful in the long run? In my opinion yes. There are many factors that plan in on whether a company will be successful or not‚ but having a noble purpose‚ I believe is the most important of all of them. Without a company having a noble purpose many things can happen‚ employees quit‚ lose customers‚ leaders may start heading down an un-ethical path. A company having a purpose can prevent many of these possibilities from happening. When a company does

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    Mr. Horsfall Yr 11 IB English Thomas Brelsford 11.5 ‘Discuss Owen’s use of visual and aural imagery in three of his poems’ Wilfred Owen was a famous anti-war poet from World War I. He wrote poems about his first-hand experiences during the war. Wilfred Owen uses personification‚ metaphors and similes‚ onomatopoeia‚ alliteration and assonance to increase the effectiveness of the messages he is trying to convey and to create a variety of visual

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    The Right to Die

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    because I went against the order of nature by extending my life. Hence‚ “a hair‚ a fly‚ an insect is able to destroy this mighty whose life is of such important”(294). Moreover‚ if God owns my life and it is my duty to protect it‚ then there is no one so called hero. He is indeed a criminal for putting an end to a life that does not belong to him. Furthermore‚ according to Hume (1874-1875)‚ “I owe my birth to a long chain of causes‚ of which many depended upon voluntary actions of men”(296). If this

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    just say one of the most beneficial way to kill time. Making extra cash is not easy but it is definitely worth the effort because the extra cash could come in handy during the rainy days. Besides‚ it’s easier earning some side income through the internet than working at a part time job. Therefore‚ follow these two ways and maybe they could get you somewhere. First of all would be selling unnecessary possessions on eBay and secondly‚ online tutoring. Selling stuffs that are of no need to one on eBay

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    The noble savage in antiquity is often characterised by the traits of the golden races accounted for by Hesiod in Works and Days and Ovid in Book I of the Metamorphoses. The two accounts mark the decline in human moral behaviour from the idealistic and peaceful Golden Age to their contemporary violent and competitive Iron Age world. Accordingly‚ the so-called noble savage is always discussed by the Graeco-Roman authors from an ethnocentric world-view wherein the spaces most familiar to them were

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    Classics Poetry Paper Rough Draft 4/24/2013 Wilfred Owen’s Anthem for a Doomed Youth Born on March 18‚ 1893 of an English and Welsh background‚ Wilfred Owen was born at Plas Wilmot‚ a house in Weston Lane‚ near Oswestry in Shropshire. He was the eldest of four children and extremely fond of his mother‚ which became apparent in the letters he would send her during his tenure in World War I. His mother was of a wealthy background and always imagined Wilfred rising to aristocracy. Wilfred’s father was

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    The Four Noble Truths

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    The first noble truth is ‘suffering’ or ‘Dukkha’. On Buddha’s first adventure out of his palace he witnessed three main types of common suffering‚ old age‚ sickness and death. According to Buddha suffering goes much deeper than those three examples. He says that life is not ideal and constantly fails to live up to our expectations. Humans are full of desires‚ when you satisfy these desires the pleasure only lasts a small amount of time. When we are not suffering from illness or obvious suffering

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    in the subtopics of Interpretation‚ Structure‚ Language‚ Imagery and Personal Response. The poem talks of a gas attack upon an accumulation of soldiers who are fighting in World War I. He sarcastically states that it is ‘sweet and fitting to die for ones country’. Wilfred Owen thought completely different of this‚ however‚ and is complexly against the war. He uses very powerful‚ vivid descriptions‚ for example‚ the young soldiers being described as ‘aged by war’. For someone to ‘age’ in a matter

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    The Four Noble Truths are the basis of the Buddhist teachings. They are as follows: 1. Dukkha – the truth of suffering a. Says that all existence is characterized by suffering and does not bring satisfaction. Everything is suffering: birth‚ sickness‚ death; not obtaining one’s desires; etc. 2. Samudaya – the truth of the origin of suffering a. The cause of suffering is craving or desire (tanha)‚ the thirst for sensual pleasure (trishna)‚ for becoming and passing away. This craving binds beings

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    traditionally most pervasive stereotypes: the noble savage and the bloodthirsty savage‚ or more generally and simplistically‚ the good and bad Indian” (Kilpatrick 2). The bloodthirsty savage is a vicious‚ animalistic beast‚ attacking white men and kidnapping white children. The noble savage is a wise‚ exotic being unfettered by society and at one with nature. Dan Georgakas acknowledges in his essay They Have Not Spoken that the emergence of the noble savage stereotype was an improvement over the

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