While the conquest of the moon was in the offing‚ although the limelight was on the astronauts manning the space ships‚ yet the ultimate glory was not theirs alone. It equally belonged to others who had risked their lives in the quest. In an equal measure‚ it also belonged to men like Euclid‚ Archimedes‚ Copernicus‚ Kepler‚ Newton‚ Tsilkovsky‚ Oberth and many others who had blazed the trail with ideas and experiments which made the feat possible. And in the ultimate analysis‚ it was a victory
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I spend most of my weekends either with my family members watching television the entire day and play football in the evening or go for a sleepover at my friend‚ Karim’s‚ house. In fact‚ as long as my memory stretches‚ I have been spending my weekend in this rather unexciting manner until last weekend. That weekend‚ I was in Karim’s house and was introduced to is cousin Jamal. The latter hails from Kelantan and very vivacious personality. He was full of energy‚ enthusiasms and a bit of a dare-devil
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Topic: An Interesting Neighbour (Introduction) Who this composition is about My house is the first on my street. Living in the house next to mine is an elderly lady we call Aunty Mei. She lives alone with her pet cats. No one knows if she has a family. She has been living next door to my family for as long as I can remember. (Body) Main point 1- What my interesting neighbour looks like Aunty Mei looks over sixty at least. Her hair is mostly grey. Her face is covered with faint brown
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Beowulf 1. The English language has transformed a lot since those early times. While reading it I noticed many words that aren’t normally used in today’s society. There were also noticeable differences in sentence structure although this may have been a result of how it was translated. The fact that it is a poem might also be why the sentence structure is different‚ not just that it has been translated to English. The introduction provided much information about the story and the way the story
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What’s the coolest job ever? One that allows you to express your personality while doing something you love and getting paid for it (otherwise‚ it’s a hobby). That’s the conclusion reached by David Rosen author of What’s That Job and How the Hell Do I Get It?: The Inside Scoop on More Than 50 Cool Jobs from People Who Actually Have Them. Rosen believes “coolness” is subjective. Everyone interviewed in his book thought they had a cool job‚ but that doesn’t mean they wanted any of the other
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Faulkner’s initial title for The Sound and the Fury was “Twilight” -"The Raven" made Poe a star almost overnight and "Nevermore" became a catchword. -Poe was good looking AND athletic with a serious case of bad PR. -Coleridge wrote one of the most read poems in literary history while he was completely high. -The Great Gatsby: celebrated literary classic was almost titled Gold-Hatted Gatsby. -No word in the English language rhymes with month‚ orange‚ silver‚ and purple -The name for
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An interesting character in “Yellow Brick Road” by Witi Ihimaera is Matiu‚ a young boy who cares for his family and is very eager to meet with the future. Matiu helps to deliver the idea of going somewhere foreign with great enthusiasm in this story‚ unlike the character Hema from “Big Brother‚ Little Sister.” Hema is also an interesting character as he is protects and cares for the people in his family‚ and instead of purposely harming them when they betray him‚ Hema runs away. Hema and Matiu are
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Jane Chance’s critical essay on Beowulf gives the reader an in depth view of women roles and views from another angle. A lot of critical essays pertaining to Beowulf focus more on the man or men and Christian symbolic meaning. Chance gives us another side to Beowulf through the view of the women. She sees Wealtheow as the strength of the community as well as a peace keeper. At this time the women were supposed to be seen as a peace maker or an initiator of cultural rituals such as passing the cup
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Beowulf The poem begins with a feast that was held at the Herot Hall. Hrotghar was a good king and he wanted to celebrate with his people his reign by building a new hall. But such celebration did not only bring Hrotghar people to the feast‚ but also the attention of a horrible monster known as Grendel. It is a beast that lives in the darkness all his life and dislikes the light; as well as the people of the light. Grendel main focus was to eliminate them all. The night was around the corner to
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Beowulf the Anglo Saxon Hero It’s hard to imagine what a perfect individual is like‚ and how he or she reflects all of the morals and values of his or her society‚ but every now and then one special person comes quite close. In the story Beowulf‚ by Seamus Heaney‚ the character Beowulf‚ is the perfect embodiment of the Anglo Saxons‚ and their beliefs towards life‚ and living. In Anglo-Saxon culture‚ they believed that warriors should follow the Heroic code; an ancient germanic code that stressed
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