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    Ever watch America’s funniest home video and think‚ my animal can do that. Animals can be the only enterntainment a person needs. Every animal is unique in their own way in how they think‚ listen and act. My animals are not just animals‚ they are members if the family. My cat‚ Isabella‚ unfornuatly has a habbit of licking her fur too much‚ to the point of the fur falling off. She didn’t believe me when I threatened to get a shirt if she didn’t stop. Isabella continued to lick so I bought a shirt

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    Risk Assessment P3 M2 D1

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    Hazard Identified Risk/ Current control Who is at risk? Likelihood of Risk (of injury occurring) Severity of Risk (type of injury) (1-5‚ 5=High) Recommendations/ further controls Date to review Children spreading mould around the room after playing in the animal/plant area The mould is cleaned up with a dust pan and brush when mould is spilt around the area/room. Staff and mostly children (service users) 1 – low risk 1 – low risk Children should be told to wash their hands after playing with

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    Heritage is the important part of a person’s life‚ it will influence you become what kind of person you are. Everyone is born with the difference heritage. Some people respect their heritage‚ but some people disrespect their heritage. I have read two articles which are “Everyday Use” and “Blue Winds Dancing”. In these two articles‚ the narrator talks about how character think about their own heritage. We also can see the different conflicts the character facing in the articles. I respect heritage

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    Wilma Rudolph Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely on June 23‚ 1940 to a railroad porter and a maid. She was the twentieth of twenty two siblings. She became stricken with polio as a child‚ and developed problems in her left leg‚ so she became required to wear a brace. Soon though‚ she was able to overcome the disease as well as her resulting physical abilities. (Biography.com) Rudolph grew up in the south before segregation was outlawed so‚ for her education she attended the all black‚ Burt High

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    Tim Seibles Analysis

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    Warner Bro’s Bugs Bunny and Tim Seibles Bugs Bunny are similar in that they’re both humorous‚ they both speak with an accent‚ and they both say "What’s up‚ doc?"‚ however‚ attitude wise‚ they are somewhat different (and I’m sure all the children of the world are grateful for that). Tim Seibles Bugs is sardonic‚ sarcastic‚ and quite frankly‚ rude. Honestly‚ he probably would’ve made little red riding hood cry; for example‚ in line 8 when he bad-mouthed her mother and said "This was your mother’s idea

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    Alice Walker - flowers

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    Alice Walker – The flowers “The Flowers” is a story written by Alice Walker‚ in 1988. It’s a 3th-person narrator that tells the story. The story tells us about a girl‚ whose name is Myop. She lives near a forest in a cabin with her family. Sometimes she walks in the forest with her mother‚ they collect nuts among the fallen leaves – actually they have done it many times‚ so that’s why Myop knows the forest very well. One day she is out for one of these walks‚ but by herself. This day something

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    Alice Walker Heritage

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    Through contrasting family members and views in "Everyday Use"‚ Alice Walker illustrates the importance of understanding our present life in relation to the traditions of our own people and culture. Using careful descriptions and attitudes‚ Walker demonstrates which factors contribute to the values of one’s heritage and culture; she illustrates that these are represented not by the possession of objects or mere appearances‚ but by one’s lifestyle and attitude. In "Everyday Use"

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    Alice Walker Identity

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    The obsession with one’s quest for identity is part of the human reality of the self-defining paradox; a universal theme. In essence‚ in Hawthorne’s narrative‚ the readers are able to witness the importance of one’s own definition identity through personal semiotics and the deceiving reality of not finding true self; thus making it both relational and understandable. While Young Goodman brown‚ may have “taken a dreary road‚ darkened by the gloomiest trees” (Hawthorne p.1) the universality of discovering

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    Alice Munro’s short story‚ “An Ounce of Cure‚” pertains to a young teenage girl‚ dealing irrationally with a break up. The setting is in a town‚ where drinking alcohol is almost considered foreign. The narrator’s dad would lightly consume beer on a hot day. As for her mother‚ she did not join in on the occasion. The narrator is a reliable person who babysits around town. The title of reliability soon changes into irresponsibility after she gets heart broken from a boy named‚ Martin Collingwood. She

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    The Lovely Bones is about a 14 year old girl called Susie Salmon who is the narrator in the film. On her way home from school one day‚ she is stopped by her neighbour George Harvey. He asks her to see the den he made in the cornfield. She thinks she can trust him‚ but regrettably he murders her. She tells her story from the place between heaven and earth‚ where she meets and learns about the stories of his other victims. But she can only watch as her devastated family begin their own investigation

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