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    EIPHREIM HONRADA BUCO Maingat Street‚ Katapatan Banay-Banay Cabuyao Laguna 09153771036 eiphreim09@yahoo.com.ph TRAINING OBJECTIVE TRAINING OBJECTIVE To secure a challenging on the job experience that will allowing me to utilize my knowledge and competence in culinary arts/food and beverage operations and learn from the establishment/co-employees about excellent and virtuous service and even good attitude needed in the Hospitality Industry and to exercise my skills to the benefit of the

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    Kiana L. English 102 24 September 2013 Reaction Paper #2 Ancestry Means a lot To Some People‚ Not All People To some‚ the importance of history and ancestry is not a point of interest. When Obi was chosen to become the leader of the Ndume Central school‚ he decided to have something that meant a lot to many removed. There was a path that a teacher who has been at the school for about three years stated‚ “the path appears to be very important to them. Although it is hardly used‚ it connects

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    Your reputation determines the respect people give you. In All Things Fall Apart‚ Achebe exhibited a character named Okonkwo‚ who was extremely concerned with reputation. He reputation was ruined when he killed Ezeudu’s son. In this society‚ reputation is solely based on merit. Men gain reputation and respect through bravery in battle‚ skill‚ and hard work. Okafo build a reputation doing wrestling. He was know as the best wrestler out of the nine villages. Bravery In Battle Okafo demonstrates

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    Norman conquest of England in 1066. The first law on income tax was passed by the English Parliament in 1404 and the first deduction of income tax at source was done in 1512.6 The point has been made in the preceeding chapter that the various pre-colonial Nigerian empires practiced various forms of taxation. In the

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    In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ things fall apart for the character Okonkwo because of his character traits. Okonkwo is a very structured man with little patience for whatever he believes is wrong. Some of Okonkwos negative character traits include his violent temper‚ which gets him in trouble with his religion‚ clan‚ family and the missionaries‚ and his constant battles with his own father which cause him to believe in what is wrong‚ even if he is aware of what is right. As well

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    European literary perspectives‚ Chinua Achebe works to truthfully portray the Ibo culture in the novel‚ Things Fall Apart. Achebe does this through the illustration of the traditions‚ laws‚ and customs of the Ibo people. In addition‚ Achebe explores and develops individual characters in order to humanize the African people. However‚ Achebe remains objective in his depiction of the Ibo people. By revealing the aspects of the culture which the Ibo people question‚ Achebe both demonstrates the dimensionality

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    Cultural aspects that we have and the way we deal with‚ will be completely different in other parts of the world with few similarities if any. For example in the book‚ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe it describes the setting and a third person perspective on the Igbo culture. Housing and gender roles are some of the cultural aspects that are notable in both the Igbo and western culture and are worth discussing some of the shared and unshared characteristics. There’s a wide range of cultural traditions

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    In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ the author tells the story of a man‚ Okonkwo‚ and his Ibo tribe during the age of imperialism. Achebe does this in order to give a perspective on tribal life in Africa to those who know nothing of it. The quote by Obierika which says‚ “He [the white man] has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart” is entirely significant because it completely summarizes the novel as well as the overall effects and consequences of the European

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    By the start of the 20th century‚ Colonial rule by both the French and the British in Southern Africa had rising expenditure costs. The British method of indirect rule in their colonies‚ created by Frederick Lugard to leave existing government as it is‚ had far lower costs than the French method of direct rule. Nonetheless taxation stood as the universal method of keeping all colonies cheap and straightforwardly ran. African’s disgust with a white man telling them to pay for the white man’s endeavors

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    formal independence during the 1960’s In this post-colonial period‚ the majority of African states operate under some form of Presidential rule. Only a few of the states were able to maintain democratic governments permanently. As a result‚ many states produced military dictatorships during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. The military was seen as being the only group that could maintain order in an effective way. From the early 1960’s to the late 1980’sAfrica had 13 Presidential assassinations

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