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    22 September 2011 Credit Research Sector Report German Schuldschein Loans – A Primer ■ Schuldschein loans ("Schuldscheindarlehen") are bilateral loan agreements in a form unique to the German market. They represent a source of capital market financing similar to bond financing for issuers with long-term funding needs. For an investor with a long-term investment objective (i.e.‚ buy-and-hold strategy)‚ they are an important alternative to investing in bonds. In contrast to bonds

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    Billy Elliot is a movie about a young boy who has I tough with his family‚ he wants to do ballet instead o doing boxing. Billy’s dad is really sexist when it comes to boys doing ballet and he says to Billy “boys do boxing or football or wrestling not firkin ballet!” Jackie (Billy’s father) gave Billy fifty pence each day for him to go to his boxing classes‚ but Billy would be using the fifty pence to do ballet classes behind Jackie’s back. Because Billy hates boxing‚ and to be honest he’s really

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    Michael Collins

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    Michael Collins 1. On the16th October 1890 Michael Collins was born in West Cork near Sam’s Cross‚ named after Sam Wallace‚ a local highwayman. Michael was born to father Michael Senior and mother Marianne O’Brien. Even though there was a 52-year age difference it did not stop them from making Michael the youngest of 8 children. Collins’ father‚ Michael Senior‚ said on his deathbed "Mind that child"‚ pointing to his six-year-old son. "He’ll be a great man yet‚ he’ll do great things for Ireland."

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    Samantha Ward Professor Amy Clukey English 300-03 Due Date: September 22‚ 2011 Most Painful Memories: An Explication of Edward Mayes’ “University of Iowa‚ 1976” Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals‚” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses‚” and “throats half gone‚ /eyes bleeding‚ raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly‚ grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem‚ “University of Iowa Hospital

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    In my school there are many teachers. Each one teaches us different subjects. Although all of them are fairly good‚ there is one teacher whom I love and admire the most. Her name is Mrs. Grace Gilo. There are some teachers‚ who hardly ever make an impact on‚ or touch someone’s life for the better. Some just go through life teaching. But there are some that change a person’s life‚ for the better. She was the kind of person that everyone loved. She never asked too much‚ or expected too much. She is

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    strike and the atmosphere is tense. Eleven-year old Billy Elliot‚ whose father and brother are participating in the strike‚ whose mother has died quite some time ago and whose grandmother is not completely aware of what’s going on‚ doesn’t like the brutal boxing lessons at school. Instead‚ he falls for the girls’ ballet lessons. When his father finds out about this unusual love of his‚ Billy is in trouble. Being supported by the ballet teacher‚ Mrs. Wilkinson‚ he keeps on training secretly while

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    Kendra Hamilton Block 5 Mrs. Hodges 15 December 2015 Langston Hughes “Harlem” Poetry Explication The most obvious quality of Langston Hughes’ "Harlem" is the poem’s use of imagery. The imagery in this poem contributes to the image of the frustrating times of how dreams end up for African Americans during this time period. The speaker in the poem describes the fate of a dream being “deferred.” Langston Hughes uses several analogies to describe the image of a dream that might have happened but didn’t

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    Explication of Ulysses

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    Explication Of Ulysses In this poem‚ Tennyson reworks the figure of Ulysses by drawing on the ancient hero of Homer ’s Odyssey. Homer ’s Ulysses learns from a prophecy that he will take a final sea voyage after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. Ulysses finds himself restless in Ithaca and driven by "the longing I had to gain experience of the world". Ulysses says that there is little point in his staying home "by this still hearth" with his old wife‚ handing out rewards and punishments

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    Explication #2 “The Gift” By Li-Young Lee This poem is written in free verse‚ separated into four stanzas each with a varying number of lines and syllables. There is no precise rhyming pattern‚ but there is a pattern within the usage of words. The speaker uses bodily words such as palm‚ hands‚ face‚ and head at the ends of lines in the second stanza when describing‚ in the literal form‚ when the speaker is talking about the experience he went through getting the metal sliver pulled from his palm

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    Which character changes the most? Discuss Billy Elliot‚ directed by Stephen Daldry is a film set in County Durham‚ England during the Miner’s Strike in 1984. The theme change is portrayed in a range of different ways and the characters who are able to exhibit this are Jacky‚ Tony and Billy. They face many glitches which illustrate their individual journey in the film that are impacted by the strikes. Jacky Elliot is a miner on strike who is irritated because he is unable to bring money to

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