George Leslie Mackay is the founder of the churches in Northern Taiwan. His life had great impact on Tamsui through his missionary‚ medical and education work. He not only changed the cultural landscape of Tamsui‚ he himself became an inseparable part of Tamsui history. * Background and childhood Mackay was born in Zorra Village‚ Oxford‚ Ontario‚ Canada on March 21‚ 1844 to a Scottish emigrant family. His parents were typical Presbyterians‚ with immovable faith and devoted family values.
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Literary Analysis on “Shaving” by Leslie Norris Leslie Norris’ short story “Shaving” is a coming-of-age piece that stresses the need for a family to have a strong and responsible leader. In the short story Barry‚ the main character‚ is in a position where his father is dying and he has the responsibility of taking care of him. One day after school Barry comes home to shave his father because he is too sick to do it himself. Through this the reader is able to comprehend the idea that Barry is
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Case Analysis – Leslie Brinkman at Versutia Capital Ying – Chen Lee Hawaii Pacific University 04.08.2013 Case Summary Leslie Brinkman is a CEO and founding partner of the hedge fund‚ Versutia Capital. She spent late 2002 and early 2003 assembling her team and launched the fund in early 2003. When it came to 2003 and 2004‚ the firm performed well. She and her team were receiving congratulation from the fund’s investors regarding Versutia’s 21% gain in 2004
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Stylistic analysis "W.S." by Leslie Hartley NB: набросок анализа Leslie Poles Hartley‚ an English novelist and the son of a solicitor was educated at Oxford’s College and for more than twenty years he was a fiction viewer for magazines. He wrote many novels and made a good contribution to English fiction. According to his novels films were casted. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator and we can see that in his literary work "W.S.". The main character of the story - Walter Streeter
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The writing by Leslie Guttman called Important Strangers describes thoroughly of how much of an impact strangers can do in our lives. Leslie talks about two people that meet‚ but they meet for their own good because they are both grieving. She talks about how people are put in our paths for a reason and how it benefits both of us. The small piece of writing can really connect to us all because each year we meet a new person and sometimes it’s for bad or good. “I told her to wait a second. I knew
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Стилистический анализ текста: Leslie Poles Hartley “W. S.” The text under stylistic analysis is taken from the book “W.S.” by Leslie Poles Hartley.The story is told by author. The main character of the story - Walter Streeter - gets the postcards with messages from anonymous and starts thinking them over. The author uses simile “like other novelists” to show that he is not the only one who gets such postcards. Walter was used to getting communications from strangers‚ sometimes they were friendly
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prominence in Australian media recently after the education minsters’ agreement that in 2016‚ the State wide Naplan test will be done online. In her opinion piece titled‚ “The vanishing art of handwriting”‚ a supplement magazine for a weekend paper‚ Leslie Slater expresses her concern that the growing use of technologies intended to replace traditional “pen and paper” could mean that handwriting will eventually‚ no longer be an “everyday skill.” Targeted at adults‚ mainly consisting of parents‚ Slater
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Leslie White‚ author of The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome (1959)‚ attempted to create a theory explaining the entire history of humanity. The most important factor in his theory is technology: Social systems are determined by technological systems‚ wrote White in his book‚ echoing the earlier theory of Lewis Henry Morgan. As measure of society advancement‚ he proposed the measure of a society’s energy consumption. He differentiates between five stages of
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Online response – Secret CHIN 360 Introduction to Chinese Cinema Leslie Wangxiaoqi Sun 2014/11/30 Knowing the ending and watching Secret for the second time‚ I can see that many small details in the first half of the movie imply and coordinate with the second half after Lu Xiaoyu reveals her secret. I’m amazed by the way plots are arranged. In this response‚ I’ll analyze how director Chou laid groundwork and foreshadowed in this movie. The piano building is one of the important props in the movie
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with the proliferation of environmental crises around the globe. The trade off between sustainability and economic growth is still of discourse as mankind has the ability to mass produce more than ever before. With that in mind‚ Sustainability‚ by Leslie Paul Thiele defines and discusses the topic of sustainability. While Thiele’s text is engaging due to the areas of discussion‚ I argue that it is not an adequate guide as he fails to provide a thorough explanation of how solutions should be implemented
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