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    excelling starts in that job surroundings to be one of the highest paid employee. Now‚ the evil one behind the curtains is‚ none other than‚ MONEY. The education today is more focused at earning‚ and not learning. The sole aim is information‚ not knowledge. Instead of broadening one’s mindset‚ it is narrowing down one’s perspective towards things. The power to withstand others is reducing and thus‚ splitting apart the social

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    1) Social networking can build up your online reputation and your brand. A) Do this through Facebook is by connecting vendors to one another. Your efforts will be appreciated and could be rewarded by those you’ve helped connecting you with a vendor who may be interested in putting some business your way. i. Passing on relevant links and posts to your customers and asking them for their reaction. Your customers will feel you value their opinion and don’t just see them as your ’target market’

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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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    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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    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 true it shows that when a white man takes up his burden that the country is great. It makes other powerful countries look at it as a great country just like them. Imperialism

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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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    “King Leopold II may we please 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

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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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    The theme “stranger in the village” has multiple meanings and references in many writings and screenplays. In “The White Man’s Burden” by Richard Kipling‚ the white man is often portrayed as the stranger. “The hate of those ye guard” (Kipling 36)‚ Rudyard Kipling states as he conveys how white men are only here to “Reep his old reward” (Kipling 34). There are many instances in the poem that prove how the “white man” has been extremely controlling and only take as they please. In many or most writings

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    I found books 2 and 3 to be particularly concerned with the American Dream‚ as many of the characters were growing up and moving away. The Burdens lose Jake and Otto to the west in the beginning‚ and soon after the Burdens move into town‚ Antonia becomes a servant for one of the neighbors. However‚ her servitude for the Harling family is short lived‚ and she soon quits and works for another family. She quit because the Harling family was disapproving of her social habits‚ especially that of going

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