Life is what you and you alone make of it! What is your view? I believe that we can make our lives into what we want them to become if we have enough drive and reserve to achieve our goals. Our lives are our own‚ waiting for us to take them and mold them into exactly what we want. However‚ our lives are very much influenced‚ affected‚ and controlled by the people around us. Friends‚ parents‚ society‚ and even ourselves‚ can inhibit our hopes and dreams just as much as they can help us achieve them
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’Antigone is a thoroughly admirable character.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Throughout the play‚ Antigone is presented as an audacious and unorthodox female character‚ whose actions depict her independence and confidence. She dismisses the rules which she believes are false‚ and honourably battles against her uncle’s rule to bring justice to her slaughtered brother; her original intentions suggest how important family relationships are to her. However‚ Antigone’s reckless behaviour
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2. Amalgamation of ITC Classic Finance Ltd. It was one of the first-of-its-kind mergers in the country’s financial sector‚ ITC Classic Finance Ltd‚ the beleaguered non-banking financial arm of ITC Ltd‚ and country’s premier development financial institution‚ Industrial Credit Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) to merge their operations and share swap ratio for ITC Classic-ICICI merger was 15:1. Tobacco major‚ ITC was desperately scouting a buyer for ITC Classic‚ which had accumulated losses
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This is a poem about the joy and sadness that comes with the flash of burning life soon blown out with nothing more then a sigh. It focuses on the sadness as those we care for go far too gently into that good night. Of those who left before their time. As this poem was written specifically for Thomas’s dying father it is even more poignant in the emotional weight the words convey. This poem radiates with intensity‚ in particular‚ the verse beginning: "wild men who caught and
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("Self-Reliance‚" by Ralph Waldo Emerson). You will also find several pieces by three major essayists of the 20th century: Virginia Woolf‚ George Orwell‚ and E. B. White. If your reading interests are more contemporary‚ have a look at the essays by journalist Anna Quindlen ("Homeless")‚ comedian Steve Martin ("The Death of My Father")‚ and novelist Stephen King ("The Writing Life"). Several essays first appeared in print within the past few decades. To help you locate essays that match your own tastes
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Television Summary Has popular culture grown more complex and intellectually stimulating over time when compared with popular culture from 20 years ago? That is the question Steven Johnson tries to answer in his best seller Everything Bad Is Good For You. Johnson uses tables and graphs‚ as well as the use of multiple threading‚ flashing arrows‚ and social networking to show the reader the difference in viewing a show from the 80’s (such as Starsky and Hutch or Dragnet) and comparing them to shows
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Globalisation is the growth to a global or worldwide scale. It is the increase of trade around the world‚ especially by large companies producing and trading goods in many different countries. When available goods and services‚ or social and cultural influences‚ gradually become similar in all parts of the world. Examples of globalisation are Companies such as Toyota‚ a Japanese company that has become globalised and is now a worldwide company. Another example is Nike which was originated in Beaverton
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What Would You Do? Episode __ : Helping the Homeless I. Relate the video to conscience Conscience‚ as defined by the Merriam – Webster Dictionary‚ is “the part of the mind that makes you aware of your actions as being either morally right or wrong”. It’s that tiny voice inside your head that tells you if what you’re about to do‚ what you’re doing or what you’ve done is essentially right or not. A lot of people nowadays tend to ignore this for fear of being ridiculed or judged by other people‚ even
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3/29/11 “Do not go gentle into that good night” The author Dylan Thomas has written a variety of poems. One of his poems which is very interpretive called “do not go gentle into that good night” gets you to explore every line to identify the meaning. In my point of view every stanza talks about different kinds of people; there’s the wise men‚ the good men‚ the wild and the sick. It gives you a choice on who you want to be. Enjoy life but be careful‚ because your actions can determine the way you die
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A Microscopic view of cultured athlete’s foot fungus Athlete’s foot can usually be diagnosed by visual inspection of the skin‚ but where the diagnosis is in doubt direct microscopy of a potassium hydroxide preparation (known as a KOH test) may help rule out other possible causes‚ such as eczema or psoriasis.[10] A KOH preparation is performed by taking skin scrapings which are covered with 10% to 20% potassium hydroxide applied to the microscope slide; after a few minutes the skin cells are degraded
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