PENGUIN ACTIVE READING Teacher Support Programme Teacher’s notes LEVEL 3 Stories of Courage Clare Gray Stories 5–6: Prisoner for Peace tells the story of Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi‚ the unofficial leader of Burma. Her government was removed from power by the Burmese army in 1988‚ and she was placed under house arrest shortly afterward. Since that time she has fought tirelessly for democracy. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991 and continues to fight for her people’s freedom
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Analysis of the “Ghost Story” The ghost story gave me mixed feelings on how to take it from a historian point of view. The story was Mr. Fleetwood’s own perception of what happened and how he remembered it at that moment. I will cover the rationality of trusting the content‚ the justification of it being historically true‚ and if the metaphysical evidence of ghost must be true for the story to be historically true. The content of the ghost story can be rationally trusted to have happened to a point
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completed the Moment of Man’s Creation‚ a scene painted on the ceiling of the famous Sistine Chapel located in present day Vatican City which depicted the creation of the Biblical character‚ Adam. Both Mirandola’s discourse and Michelangelo’s painting were completed during the height of the Renaissance‚ and both works reflected the key ideas of this time period. The values of the Renaissance expressed in the Oration on the Dignity of Man and the Moment of Man’s Creation are Realism‚ Idealism‚ and Humanism
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Name: Karl Dent Instructor: Morgen Thomas SP13: SOC 101 Date: Mar 19‚ 2013 “A Toy ’s Story Observation” When you think about toys the first thing that comes to mind is the joy they gave when you were a kid growing up‚ and the smile they put on your kid’s face when you see them playing with them on a daily basis. What if toys could talk? What information would they give us? What would they tell us? Recently I set out on a quest to better understand what information I could get just by looking
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The Glasgow Story By the later 12th century Glasgow’s population had reached around 1‚500‚ making it an important settlement. In 1175‚ Bishop Jocelyn secured a charter from King William making Glasgow a burgh of barony‚ opening up its doors to trade. In 1238 work began on Glasgow Cathedral‚ symbolising the city’s growing role as a major ecclesiastical centre. In 1450 James II issued a chapter to the Bishop “erecting all his patrimony into a regality”. Glasgow was now a Royal Burgh in all but
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Creation story: Hebrew vs Iran How did every living thing come to be? This is a question that has baffled millions from the beginning and even until the present. Before there was science to meddle their thoughts into the answer‚ cultures around the world were looking for ways to resolve this unknown thought. Within every region has what they believe to be the correct myth; however‚ sometimes those myths are affected by overlapping cultures. The end result are myths that appear to be very similar
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The puritan story was a story of many things; from the landing of the first group of puritans in New England‚ to the formation and trouble of the bay colony bible commonwealth‚ to the puritans versus Indians‚ ending with the New England family. This story wouldn’t be anything without the help of the one and only King Henry VIII. It was King’s‚ tie breaking with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530’s that launch the reformation of the protestant church. The reformation of the church led to a group
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The Tragic Story On April 15‚ 1975 at 2:00 am‚ the Quinlans received a phone call from Newton Memorial Hospital telling them that their daughter‚ Karen Ann‚ had been brought to the hospital. She was unconscious‚ and had slipped into a coma. Her state steadily deteriorated and very soon her coma was diagnosed to be irreversible. She was shortly thereafter transferred to St. Clare’s in Denville. Her condition was deemed a “persistent vegetative” state from which she would not recover. Unlike the
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existed two kinds of murder one is the moral side one and one is unmoral side of murder. And today I will like to talk about the moral side of murder and I will tell it in story form. The story occurred during the year 1884 where the country was horror stricken by a shocking story that is the story of cannibalism at sea. And the story happens when the yacht sunk into the sea‚ and the crew is been trapped in an open boat for approximate nineteen days without any proper supplies. Then they all suddenly
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This article discusses a theory about the creation of Antartica‚ which rapidly formed about 35 million years ago‚ this has been a source of contention and mystery in the scientific world. There are two major theories concerning the continents creation. The first suggests due to gradually declining carbon dioxide levels 66 million years ago‚ cooler temperatures near the poles allowed ice sheets to form. The second theory states that the dramatic deepening of the Drake Passage caused an extreme
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