‘A Gift’ by Rahila Gupta‚ is a short story about a two homosexuals‚ which traces fragments of the feelings and emotions of a chaste and somewhat intellectual relationship between two women‚ one being the dominant partner and the other the submissive one. She uses a vast variety of figures of speech‚ such as alliterations‚ metaphors and similes to describe the platonic relationship between two women. As we read through this short prose‚ we learn that the author is seeking attention and grabbing
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ife (“Hard Work Beats Talent‚ When Talent Doesn’t Work Hard”) - (Kevin Durant) Over this past summer‚ I experienced a lot of events that I think will change my life for the better. It seemed like everything started falling in place when I got an unexpected call from a college coach from a small school called Samford University. I was shocked that I received the call because for one‚ I’d never even heard of the school he was calling from. Also‚ I never actually played
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Law of Life “Live as if you were to die tomorrow‚ learn as if you were to live forever” (Gandhi). Although this one sentence may not have a very big impact in your mind‚ it does for me. No‚ it is not because it was said by Gandhi‚ but because it has a certain meaning to it that cannot be expressed in words. It is that one meaning that we all strive to find in our own separate laws of life. Many do actually find their interpretation‚ however what one approves as one’s interpretation of a quote
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1. What personal attributes of the main character may have led to his death? What was his affliction (disease)? What was it founded in? Explain in detail and validate with evidence from the text. One of the personal attributes that may have led the main character to his death is his arrogance. His arrogance led to the main character death because his inability to think about what can happen during the journey. For instance‚ “The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was
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in urine‚ feces‚ and even vomit. Prison food often leads to nutrient deficiencies and is often described as utterly foul. Inmates on bad behavior are put on nutraloaf‚ a cruelly disgusting food used as punishment for days or months at a time. Prison life is also difficult because the guards are very rarely rebuked for being hostile to the inmates and incomprehensive to their needs or complaints. This negligence is made even more dangerous because of the threat of some potentially dangerous inmates
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The 2001 documentary Life and Debt examines the impact of IMF and World Bank’s ‘structural adjustment policies’ (also called ‘conditionalities’) on Jamaica. The IMF started lending to Jamaica in 1973‚ after years of extreme poverty were followed by the ‘oil shock’ that created a global economic catastrophe‚ eventually leaving the country about $4.6 million in debt. The loans were front-loaded with conditions‚ requiring Jamaica to “enact major economic reforms‚ including trade liberalization (The
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much more than what we understand it to be. Education enlightens a person in the same way a lamp brightens a dark room. But in order to ignite the light of education in a person‚ a teacher plays the role of the lamp carrier. Through my educational life I’ve considered education as a process to not only gaining knowledge but also a method of igniting our thoughts‚ and the process of development of a person starts from his early school age. In the developing country like India where half of the population
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this is something that will just get you started. if you what to make the intro bit better. basically define what belonging is. HOPE IT HELPS In the book ‘the simple gift’ belonging to a group or to anyone has been a struggle to this one young person ‘Billy’‚ this young boy had left home as his father didn’t not support him in anything he did we are able to see this throughout a flashback billy has “when billy was ten years old he was playing soccer in the back yard practicing for the game but
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Ramifications create portholes to discovery. Such portholes transfer individuals to new and differing worlds. When Ang Lee’s 2012 feature film Life of Pi is compared with Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s book Where the Wild Things Are we visualise the strong links both texts have with one another. Both texts represent how composers create portholes for people to new places‚ which represent emotional and spiritual discoveries. Negative situations can often develop into positive discoveries. Ang
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estimated 20 percent more water than is now available will be needed to supply the needs of the three billion additional human beings who will be alive by 2025” (Geddes). Recently the drought issue is becoming worse. In the article‚ “The Ocean’s Greatest Gift” by Kurt Stehling‚ he claims the world should use the nearby ocean to solve the drought problem. From a broader perspective‚ John Geddes‚ author of the article‚ “Water Wars‚” state water can also be considered a commodity‚ the same as goods for trading
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