moving story of the Vo family‚ who come to Australia as refugees in search of "hope"‚ as a result of the "suffering" in The Vietnam War. Many members of the family in turn become "narrators" and perhaps because of the unfamiliarity of the names‚ readers must looking back to the family tree‚ at the front of the book‚ while the reading of the first few chapters. This novel portrays the hardships‚ struggles and "suffering" that a Vietnamese family endures through the years of approaching communism
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liberate the people and modernize the Soviet Union in a way that neither dictators nor capitalists could monopolize society‚ but rather a democracy‚ in which the people governed themselves. His goal was a balanced and perfect socialism‚ a utopia. What inspires me the most about Gorbachev’s actions was his willingness to challenge the hard-pressed Soviet beliefs in order to promote peace and re-administer the rights unto the people. His fresh thinking led to the reformation of the Soviet based on
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“THINK BEFORE YOU POST” This is really the golden rule of online communication. Online communication is instant‚ wide-reaching and difficult to retract‚ so you need to be sure you want it out there before you put it out there. A couple of seconds re-reading your post‚ thinking about the photo‚ or running the worst-case scenario through your head can save you a lot of real-life pain. The only person you can trust to keep your private photos private is you. Once you send them to someone else‚ they’re
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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Lesson 1 (5.0 points) 1. What is a screen in a presentation called? (1.0 points) Each screen in a presentation is called a slide. A presentation is sometimes called a slide show. 2. What file extension do Impress files use? (1.0 points) Presentations created with Impress are saved with the .odp file extension. 3. What can you use to create a presentation quickly‚ without making it from scratch? (1.0 points) The Presentation Wizard lets you set up the different parts of a presentation
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 1. Boys and girls should attend separate schools. 2. Technology has made the world a better place to live. 3. Advertising can tell you a lot about a country. 4. Modern technology is creating a single world culture. 5. Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn. 6. Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school
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What factors would you use to decide whether to do you NPV analysis on real or a nominal basis NPV analyses usually involves four steps such as forecasting the benefits and costs of a project in each year‚ determining a discount rate‚ using the NPV formula to calculate‚ and comparing the Net Present Value with other alternative projects. Comparing real (current) and nominal discount rates when conducting an analysis is all based on how detailed of an analysis you’re looking to obtain. Forecasting
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Chop ‘Em Boys Have you ever gotten one of your limbs sawed off by some lady with a rusty saw? Probably not. If you have‚ sorry about that‚ but you’re not alone. A while ago‚ in 1861‚ the Civil War in the United States began. The deadliest war in American history‚ and it’s not because a bunch of boys were shooting each other with minié balls. It’s because medical hygiene didn’t exist until a few hundred thousand soldiers died of infections. Fortunately‚ someone figured it was a bad idea chopping off
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being labeled a hypocrite is something we all strive to avoid. Philip Meyer takes this emotion to the extreme by examining a study done by a social psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ involving the effects of discipline. In the essay‚ "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger‚ Would You? Probably"‚ Meyer takes a look at Milgram’s study that mimics the execution of the Jews (among others) during World War II by placing a series of subjects under similar conditions of stress‚ authority‚ and obedience. The
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But then you ask yourself what is responsibility to you. To me it is my personal responsibility‚ more so accepting my personal responsibility. What is accepting personal ? Accepting personal responsibility includes: Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life‚ Accepting that you are responsible for what you choose to feel or think‚ Accepting that you choose the direction for your life‚ Accepting that you cannot blame others for the choices you have made‚
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