The significance of the Vietnam War to New Zealanders The Vietnam War was a highly controversial war that attracted severe international criticism towards the US and its allies. New Zealand’s direct involvement started due to the international pressure exerted on us by Australia and the USA‚ and the increasing threat of the spread of communism this created huge divisions throughout New Zealand and questioned our reasoning to commit military forces there in the first place. The Vietnam War was significant
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As we read through Act One in the play of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ we can notice the recurrence of the haunting flute music‚ and how it signifies to different things at various times. We all know that the flute is an expressionist device and its music is soft and peaceful‚ but let us see what it symbolizes in this play. The flute is played five times in Act 1‚ the first time we hear it is at the beginning of the play in the stage directions‚ "A melody is heard‚ played upon a flute
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Samantha Wilson Molinaro‚ R HUM-2211-01Z 10 February 2014 Water: What’s the big Deal? The most important nutrient for the human body is water. Many people fail to understand that water makes up “more than 85%” of the body and the need to to replenish it frequently is undeniably critical (Altman 7). A mere drop of 1% below the normal water balance in your body will leave you thirsty‚ and a drop of 12% will have you close to death (Altman 12). While commonly misused and wasted in modern society
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Today‚ India is one of the most powerful forces of the developing world‚ it is part of the BRIC nations that are predicted to be super powers by 2050 and holds an influential position in world politics. Therefore‚ it is no wonder that the government felt it was time that the rupee join the elite club of US dollar‚ British pound-sterling‚ Euro and Japanese yen that have their own symbols. In 2009‚ the government announced a competition to design the new rupee symbol. The finance ministry wanted the symbol to
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The title alone told me that this story had some amount of darkness to it‚ but the setting of "Greasy Lake" is what eluded me as to what would happen next in the story. The author‚ T. Coraghessan Boyle‚ foreshowed each phase in the story by providing the reader with such a detailed description of the setting that the reader could make relatively correct assumptions about forthcoming happenings. The setting of Greasy Lake is significant in that it foreshadows what is about to come about in the story
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Throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury we see a world where books and knowledge is no more and where the destruction of all books is handled by Firefighters. Reading through the novel you are taken through the life of Guy Montag a Firefighter who has lost his hope on his profession and wants to find a meaningful way to live his life. Through a quest to find knowledge‚ going against his profession Montag starts preserving and reading books instead of burning them. This causes
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In The Great Gatsby you will see a lot of references to colors. Some of the colors include green‚white and yellow. All the colors have special meaning behind them. The novel‚ The Great Gatsby ‚ is like a mystery behind a painters palette. F.Scott Fitzgerald uses the color green to represent hope throughout The Great Gatsby. “Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light‚ minute and far way‚ that might have been the end of a dock.” In this quote the color
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People buy into the idea of their country’s involvement‚ in that it is bringing a better life to the people in the land; disillusionment and betrayal of the promised ideal motivate both versions of a genocidal Kurtz. Kurtz of Heart of Darkness begins his expedition into the Congo believing that “‘by the simple exercise of [...] will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded” (Conrad 61). This idealistic man turns into a merciless killer making his own declaration “exterminate all the brutes
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The subjugation of the protesters provided an essential meaning to the CCP‚ they persevered. The rebellion was crushed‚ callously‚ despite expectations in the west that the government would collapse and a ‘serious chaotic state’ would appear‚ they remained. The reality that the government remained distinctly indicated an end to calls from pro-democrats to reorganise a rebellion. Gittings argues that ‘fear of national upheaval with historical memory of the rebellion within the past century remained
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It happens many times. A person finds the car of their dreams. They drive it around for a few weeks when it happens. The car will not start‚ it makes a funny noise‚ or the breaks just will not do anything while stepping onto the pedal. Does the person have to pay for the repairs all by themselves? And if so‚ what happens when the exact same problem happens more than 3 times? It is just not fair to pay all this money on your brand new affordable car. But‚ one should not worry. There is a solution
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