No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe ------------------------------------------------- Themes‚ Motifs‚ and Symbols Themes The Corruptibility of Civil Servants One of Chinua Achebe’s main socio-political criticisms in No Longer At Easeis that of corruption in Nigeria. From the moment the book begins the main character‚ Obi Okonkwo‚ is confronted with the issue of bribery. From the moment he arrives at customs to the point at where he gives in to taking bribes himself‚ the voice of Achebe lingers
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spray guns left a yellowish fog in the air that coated everything in sight. Exposure to the toxic fumes left some workers so dizzy at the end of the day that they walked as if drunk. Worse yet‚ many developed long-term ailments. One worker can no longer stand or sit for more than 20 minutes without feeling excruciating pain in her spine and legs. Another lost control of his hands and could not put on clothes without help. Medical experts and even companies that once made nPB had long warned that
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“We need longer lunches!” That is what Dylan Haselhoff‚ a student at Havre de Grace middle school‚ said. The best way to have students talk less in class is to make lunch longer. First of all‚ lunch is the only period in the day where students are allowed to socialize with each other. This will cause less talking in class. With the extra time in class‚ students will learn more. It would also make kids like school and want to come knowing that they have more freedom at school. A longer lunch would
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”Weekend” by Fay Weldon In the short story we are introduced to a family taking their weekly weekend trip to their cottage in the countryside. For the most part‚ the story takes place at the cottage itself‚ and here we get a good insight into the family’s‚ and especially Martha’s‚ life. The themes in this story are old vs. new norms and traditions relating to gender-roles within marriage and society. From the beginning the 3rd person narrator introduces us to Martha‚ a middle-aged woman of 38
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Why Women Live Longer Thomas Kirkwood 1. If there are any men left who still believe that women are the weaker sex‚ it is long past time for them to think again. With respect to that most essential proof of robustness—the power to stay alive—women are tougher than men from birth through to extreme old age. The average man may run a 100-meter race faster than the average woman and lift heavier weights. But nowadays women outlive men by about five to six years. By age 85 there are roughly six
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No Longer at Ease From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo (also spelled Ibo) man‚ Obi Okonkwo‚ who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service‚ but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the sequel to Achebe ’s Things Fall Apart‚ which concerned the struggle of Obi Okonkwo ’s grandfather Okonkwo against the changes
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Features in Akruti Marathi Multifont Engine (For Marathi Software Tools MCIT - Date 09-01-2007) The Akruti Marathi Multifont Engine has the facility to install in any directory. This has low memory requirement. The space needed is about 8 MB. Installation 1. Start the Computer. 2. Insert the Marathi Software Tools CD and run SETUP.EXE from the CD. 3. The Serial Number is AKMFENGINE (all capitals) 4. This will install the software to the computer in AKMARENG directory
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Problems with standardized testing: it might cause children to fail! Standardized testing has been hailed as the solution to many school performance troubles‚ and condemned by others as the very cause of them. To measure the capability of the students via any assessment tool‚ most importantly‚ we need to know are we measuring the right thing the right way. People argue that the use of an objective instrument is necessary to measure performance. Because of this concept‚ standardized testing sounds
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countries in the world. But whether it is effective‚ especially when dealing with pretty crimes?( should not use question in introduction or however‚ many people doubt about its effectiveness on pretty crimes ) I think those pretty criminals should be punished to work for local communities rather than instead of being put into jail‚ for the sake of a local community. With no doubt‚ offenders should pay the price ( or be responsible for) for their illegal activities‚ no matter they are felonries
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The issue expressed in the article‚ “Should Lunch Be Longer”‚ written by Mackenzie Carro‚ states that lunch in numerous places needs to be prolonged. In addition‚ she argues that school schedules are very tight and that extending lunch may make it worse. Even though many students say that lunch should be longer‚ I definitely disagree. This argument has been in the air for countless years. Nevertheless‚ nobody has done much to change this. This being the case‚ followed by many other reasons‚ I believe
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