Анализ текста “A Friend in Need” I’ve just read the story which is entitled “A friend in need”. To begin with I’d like to say a few words about the title. In my opinion‚ on the one hand‚ the title is quite suggestive because it’s a part of well-known proverb: “a friend in need is a friend indeed”. So we can predict that the story is about friendship‚ may be one friend got into trouble and the other helped him. But‚ on the other hand‚ the title made me think why the author gives only the first
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This book‚ A Friend at Midnight by Caroline B. Cooney is a great book relating to young adults. Caroline B. Cooney has a good understanding of the human mind and psychology based on the “emotion of this book”. The main character is Lily‚ a young adult who has had a divorce in her family. Lily is like a heroine because she struggles with her life and has to help others but manages. Lily has here faith in God tested as she goes through some tough spots in her life. First‚ she finds out her father
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I met Laurie Ann way back in high school‚ and six years on‚ she is still my best of friends. The first day we met‚ she walked up to me and introduced herself. It felt way weird shaking her hand like grownups do and declaring my name to her after the hand shake. "Stacie Oliker?" "Pretty name." she remarked instantly. This close friendship allowed me to come to know and experience a level of self disclosure like no other. With her I was and still am myself. Our high school friendship has unfolded over
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Antoinette Ransom English 1 MWF 9-9:50 Friend or Foe? Technology is advancing at a faster pace than ever before in history. People are continually discovering more ways to do things faster and easier‚ and to make their lives simpler. It has taken many great minds to reach the point that at in our technological advances and our society. The knowledge to make those advances did not just appear overnight‚ they had to work at it. This advancement has really taken a toll on society and its brains
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THE DEVOTED FRIEND By Oscar Wilde As it is known‚ Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and writer who became popular because of his different forms of writing style‚ remembered as one of the greatest playwrights in the early 1890s. His work is characterized by two concepts of aesthetic: the moralizing aestheticism and the art for art’s sake‚ the second one being more prominent. Therefore‚ the stories action
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On Free Choice of the Will By Saint Augustine Questions to be addressed: Would a good God let bad things happen? Why does man choose to do evil? For many people‚ nothing drives them away from Religion like pushy‚ preachy people. I don’t feel that I am knowledgeable enough to argue many points when it comes to religion. I’m actually not a huge fan of organized religion myself. Like most things‚ it has its good and bad points‚ but overall‚ anything that brings people to God is great. However‚ you
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Technology: Friend or Foe? The majority of western culture seems to be reliant on technology‚ but does technology facilitate or hinder us? As a biased approach I would strongly suggest that technology improves our quality of life to the extent that if it were removed from our society‚ our quality of life would suffer dramatically. In my life I am aided by technology every day so I have chosen three of the most essential and life altering pieces of technology that affect me at present: Printers‚
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the distant future FROM: CAMERON GERDES SUBJECT: WHAT IT WAS LIKE 100 YEARS AGO DATE: 4/30/2012 ________________________________________________________________________ I AM WRITING THIS LETTER ON THE 30TH OF APRIL 2012 ON A WARM SUNNY DAY IN HOUSTON‚ TEXAS. BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS LETTER I WILL HAVE LONG PASSED AND HOPEFULLY MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT LIKE WOULD BE LIKE IN 2113; I AM NOT EVEN SURE YOU WOULD STILL USE A COMPUTER TO WRITE LETTERS LIKE THIS
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Word list Here is a list of most of the new words in the units of New Headway Plus Intermediate Student’s Book. adj = adjective adv = adverb US = American English coll = colloquial conj = conjunction pl = plural prep = preposition pron = pronoun pp = past participle n = noun v = verb Unit 1 achievement n /əˈtʃi:vmənt/ advertisement n /ədˈvɜ:tɪsmənt/ afford (can’t) v /əˈfɔ:d/ amazing adj /əˈmeɪzɪŋ/ ambassador n /aemˈbaesədə(r)/ amount n /əˈmaʊnt/ ancient adj /ˈeɪnʃənt/ apologize v /əˈpɒlədʒaɪz/
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children of God. The Church also has teachings about the evils of racism‚ mostly reflected from biblical scriptures and teachings. Through biblical scriptures and passages as well as Catholic social teaching‚ racism towards one another is an evil that must be dealt away with in the eyes of the church and God. The Catholic social teaching says that indeed racism is a sin because racism divides the human family‚ blots out the image of God among specific members of that family‚ and violates the fundamental
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