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    This quote uses metaphor to further the understanding of Antonia’s character and her portrayal in the novel. Jim Burden in this passage is contemptibly looking back on the awe that Antonia once made him feel throughout their childhood. This serves to exasperate Antonia’s representation as a loving mother figure. We see how she takes care of her children and how her loving nature has manifested itself into sons who‚ “stood tall and straight”. She truly is a source of compassion which people draw

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    ‘Mobile phones are more of a nuisance than a benefit.’ Discuss The mobile phone is a device which has revolutionized the world of technology. In fact the mobile phone started with the keypad buttons and has now attained the ‘touch screen’ system. Nowadays three persons out of five possess a mobile phone. It is a tool which is used everyday and is sometimes essential for someone depending on the type of job‚ one does. For instance‚ businessmen use their mobile phones much for transactions or for

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    where a certain race of people is more superior than the other by the color of a persons skin. This concept is 100% not true a human no matter what race should be treated the same period. But‚ as we all know history says otherwise. Rudyard Kipling ( the author of The White Man’s Burden ) believes that it is the white mans responsibility to go help other countries that they conquer. He thinks when a white man takes up his burden that there are no benefits for the white man. But‚ that is not entirely

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    THE WAY WE PERCEIVE THE WORLD IS SHAPED BY INTERNAL RATHER THAN EXTERNAL FACTORS Acclaimed playwright Tennesse Williams was a sickly child. As a result‚ he was heavily dotted upon by his mother. He was inherently sensitive‚ desiring to “shrink away in his own private oasis of poetry and writing”. This behaviour was a desperate attempt to escape the domestic conflict between his puritanical mother and bombastic father. His father‚ disapproving of his literary endeavours‚ labelled him a sissy instigated

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    EDUCATING A BIRD CHILD IS A BURDEN Education of a child starts from the family and mother is the first teacher. But‚ the irony in India is that although the deity of education is a female i.e. Goddess Saraswati according to the Hinduism‚ innumerable number of women are illiterate. They are not remaining uneducated by their own wish but they are being forbidden from receiving education because of the patriarchal families in our society. In most of the families the birth of a girl child is not desired

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    Research Center Publications. Pew Research Center‚ 20 Apr. 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2012. . Map of Texting Bans. Map. iLookBothWays. Linda Criddle‚ 14 Dec. 2011. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. . Powell‚ D.‚ and M. Dixon. “Does SMS text messaging help or harm adults’ knowledge of standard spelling?” Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Feb. 2011): n. pag. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. Stout‚ Hilary. "Antisocial Networking?" The New York Times 30 Apr. 2010: ST1. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. . “Teens Aware of Texting

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    us to have the ability to understand and share the feelings of another‚ but compassion asks us to want to see those who are suffering relieved of such pain. The Dalai Lama describes how taking on the burdens of the world through empathy and compassion may be somewhat strenuous‚ but the outcomes can also be every beneficial for both parties. Their may be some

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    go to Congo to conqueror them and use them as slaves so they can produce goods for us‚” asked a Belgian military soldier. The King of Belgium at the time was King Leopold II‚ answered by saying‚ “why yes! That would be such a great idea to spread imperialism around the world.” Imperialism was being spread by Western civilizations to foreign countries and they were bullying the foreign countries‚ because they were bigger and stronger than they were. The Western nations wanted to take over them by using

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    Tien Le Amy Anderson English 10 December 1‚ 2013 Full Body Burden         “The cost of silence and the secrets it contains is high‚ but you don’t learn the price until later. Secrets depend upon the smooth façade of silence‚ on the calm flat water that hides the darker depths” (Iversen 300). Full Body Burden‚ a memoir by Kristen Iversen involves her past life experiences as well as the environment she grew up in. Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town nearby Rocky Flats‚ a secret factory developing

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    history professor and a writer on the history of slavery and the origin of racism in the US. Jordan is the author of the 1974 book The White Man’s Burden. In this book‚ Jordan tries to describe the history of prejudice behavior in the US. Jordan states that the thesis of this book is that‚ “rather than slavery causing ‘prejudice‚’ or vice versa‚ they seem rather have generated [. . .] slavery and ‘prejudice’ may have been equally causing and effect continuously reacting upon each other” (45). To provide

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