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    well I will tell you why Ngunguru is the best place to live. Its not just the beach the water buts its also the community after this your going to want to move. Living Ngunguru is great are so many fun activities to do that you don’t have enough time in the day to do everything. There are spectacular swimming destinations‚ you can literally fish off your front lawn and there are lots of bush walks and mountain biking tracks to explore. Who knows a place where you can do all these fun activities

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    .Hard Times In the novel Hard Times‚ by Charles Dickens‚ we can immediately see the problems that occurred in England around the times period of the mid 18oo’s. Dickens shows us how the class system works and what the economy was then and what it would shape out to be. This novel is split into three books‚ the "Sowing"‚ "Reaping"‚ and "Garnering". In the first book‚ we can see that it is aptly named because we begin to learn about who the characters are and what they are about. The characters

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    he uses a lot of descriptions and similes to show the implications in which the society is inflicting. For example‚ the steam engine is constantly going up and down is "like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness‚" (1057). He also uses metaphors like "it had a black canal‚" and "interminable serpents of smoke" (1057). He is portraying a point that the government in this town is not caring enough about there community so therefore he feels he needs to get the message across about

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    advocate for the common man‚ he wrote hundreds of woks and contributed them to magazines and newspapers. Chesterton was met with many opportunities to progress and grow in his life‚ thereby validating his insight on the subjects. In his essay‚ “Fancies vs. Fads”‚ he defines progress as a “fatal metaphor” that entails “leaving things behind” and growth as a “real idea” that means “leaving things inside us” and claims that progress makes growth more difficult to understand. I agree that such

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    SIGNIFICANCE OF TITLE HARD TIMES was serialized in Dickens’ magazine HOUSEHOLD WORDS in the winter of 1853 -54. Before the publication of the novel‚ Dickens took great pain with the title of the book. He experimented with as many as 24 titles Like ’ According cooker the grindstone ’ ’ something tangible ’ ’ Rust and Dust’‚ ‘Hard Heads and Soft Hearts’ etc. Later on those whittled down to just four : ’ Two and Two are Four ’ ‚‘A matter of calculation’ ‚ ’ The Gradgrind philosophy ’ and ‘stubborn

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    Dickens’ Hard Times “Now‚ what I want is‚ Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.” (Dickens‚ 1854‚ p.1) With these beginning sentences of the novel “Hard Times”‚ Charles Dickens has made readers doubt whether it is true that facts alone are wanted in life. This question leads to the main theme of the story‚ fact against fancy‚ that author has never been written this kind of plot in his other stories before. In factHard Times is considered as "the

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    Topic: The judge tells the jurors it is their ‘duty to try and separate that the facts from the fancy’. How do the jurors separate the facts from the fancy? ‘Twelve Angry Men’ is a drama play written by Regional Rose in 1954 which was set in a jury-room of a New York Court of Law‚ 1957 during a very hot summer afternoon. The jurors are asked to come up with a verdict whether the boys are guilty or not. The judge states: “You’ve listened to the testimony and you’ve had the law read to you and interpreted

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    Hard Times Coursework Hard times was written in 1854 by Charles Dickens. Dickens was a famous Victorian novelist who wrote about the civilization that surrounded him. He was knowledgeable and middle-class but had some sympathy with the way poor people were treated. He was vital of utilitarianism and felt that those in power showed little understanding of the poor. His sympathy with the poor stemmed from his upbringing and his father’s failure to stay out of debt. Hard Times is Dickens’ shortest

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    Woman and Fancy

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    “Here’s your one chance Fancy” Reba McEntire’s song titled “Fancy” arouses interest in many people because poverty is such a popular issue in today’s society. As Reba states in line 1 “I remember it all very well lookin’ back it was the summer I turned eighteen” you can tell she is a young lady‚ and as you continue through the lyrics you acknowledge that “Fancy”‚ her mother‚ and young sibling live in a “rundown shack” and her father had left them. She continues to tell us that her mom buys her

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    Hard Times Essay When one thinks of a “fairy tale” story they think of the themes and characterization of any common “fairy tale” such as; good vs. evil‚ hero/heroin vs. evil villain‚ good triumphs evil and love conquers all‚ these are some of the obvious themes of any ”fairy tale” story. Many stories contain a “fairy tale” base or components. The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens has been termed a “fairy tale” for the industrial revolution. Hard Times resembles a “fairy tale” story by expressing

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