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    Statement of Purpose / Motivation Letter Dear Sir/Madam‚ I came from Indonesia‚ a developing country in Southeast Asia where its total population reaches over 235 million by 2010. Indonesia‚ however still stumble in the >100th rank in terms of GDP‚ despite its richness in natural resources. Realizing this‚ Indonesian government and civilians start to built their beloved country‚ and one of our endeavour is to modernize our technolgies. Because we (Indonesian) believe that modernize

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    Defending Hamlet

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    Throughout my experience with tragic plays‚ I started to like some of the ideas‚ concepts and moral beliefs of these plays. Reading works from William Shakespeare like Othello and now Hamlet it was easy to understand the messages he was trying to portray. After reading and analyzing Both Othello and Hamlet‚ I came to the conclusion that Shakespeare is a dramatist who writes about tragic and unfortunate drama. Therefore‚ the quote “Hamlet is a noble prince who suffers from a corrupt world that is

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    But if you flew on Air New Zealand in the recent past‚ it’s Simmons who may have video-instructed you how to buckle up. Great companies always think outside the box‚ and Air New Zealand is no exception. In the most recent Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards survey‚ the Kiwi airline came in No. 2. And while readers didn’t specifically rank in-flight entertainment‚ ANZ’s fresh‚ amusing spin on the standard safety video surely gave passengers a memorable impression of the airline. The factors our

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    AIM: I am carrying out an investigation to see which alcohol is the best fuel. I will do this by experimenting with different alcohols and setting them alight and measuring different factors. I will analyse all my results and try to discover patterns‚ which should help me to conclude which alcohol is the best fuel. PLAN ==== This is how my experiment will be set out: ========================================== Keeping this experiment a fair test ===================================

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    life to the fullest.” This quote by Ernest Hemingway was made after the era of transcendentalism‚ but I believe that the idea came from the transcendentalists. In Walden‚ by Henry David Thoreau‚ he writes “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life‚ to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life‚” Among Transcendentalists’ core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that ’transcends’ the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual’s intuition

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    The key legislation and regulation which govern the safeguarding of adults In this essay‚ I will be outlining the key legislation and regulation which govern safeguarding adults in keeping them safe. In health and social there are key acts which are made to ensure the safety of vulnerable adult and this includes the: safeguarding vulnerable group acts‚ the rehabilitation of offenders act‚ the police act‚ sexual offences act‚ care standards act‚ the care homes regulation‚ mental health act‚ mental

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    responsibility and co-operation between parents and local authority services. Children Act 2004 - this Act supplements the Children Act 1989 by reinforcing the message that all organisations that work with children must help safeguard and promote the child’s welfare. One of key points of the legislation is the “Paramountcy Principle” which describes the welfare of the child being paramount in any decision making. The child’s wishes and feelings must also be taken into consideration in any court case and

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    Thoreau Essay

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    Markus Mayer CP American Lit Walden Walden‚ by Henry David Thoreau is written in first person about the events and ideas that came to the author during his time living at Walden Pond in the eighteen hundreds. Henry David Thoreau was a poet and a philosopher who lived a life of simplicity in order to make a direct connection between people‚ God‚ and nature. He viewed knowledge as an "intuitive force rather than a set of learned‚ logical proofs." His writing in Walden focused on many different themes

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    latest technology. Technology has spread to many different areas in life. Henry David Thoreau promoted a life that denied materialistic values. Although not all of his views could improve today’s society‚ some of them should be reintroduced. As materialism moves through the United States‚ citizens should choose a balance of Thoreau’s values and technological values. Recent technological advancements affect people in all aspects of life. A common use of technology is for personal purposes. This is evident

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    Philosopher Thomas Hobbes argued that government was best if it was autocratic‚ an all-powerful sovereign. To understand Hobbes’s reasoning‚ it is crucial to first understand his view on man’s conditions in an anarchic environment. In Hobbes’ perspective‚ man’s life in the state of nature was “solid‚ poor‚ brutish‚ and short” because man is selfish and violent. Without institutions to provide security‚ man was always in a constant state of war. These anarchic conditions compel men to look after

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