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    Dear Government of China Hello. I am Ailing who is living in Shanghai. I’m 11 years old now‚ and I love drawing. I know that you will be wondered ‘why this young girl is sending me the letter?’. The purpose of this letter for you‚ is to tell you my life story. Please read carefully. I was born in Shanghai 11 years ago. I was the first baby for my parents‚ so they loved me very much. One day‚ my mom became pregnant again. It was 3 years ago. I remember how much they felt happiness by that

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    (direct country to country)‚ multilateral aid (country to World bank to country) and NGO aid (aid given by Oxfam‚ Red Cross etc non government organizations). Food aid could also be split into long term and short term‚ depending on the situation and the need. Recently‚ cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on the 2nd of May‚ a poor LEDC in Asia. Their infrastructure is poor and housing was appalling‚ resulting in deaths of over 80‚000 people‚ and two million survivors waiting for food aid/shelter. Food aid

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    In the poem One Art‚ the literal situation is that the art of loss isn’t hard to master. Bishop gives the reader tips on how to master the art of loss and eventually gives the real answer to how she copes with loss. The ballad starts rather strongly with the inquisitive case that "the art of losing isn’t hard to master" (1.1). The speaker recommends that a few things are fundamentally made to be lost‚ and that losing them in this manner isn’t a major ordeal. She proposes that we get used to misfortune

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    a fan of the boy band from the UK named One Direction. This band was put together on a British singing competition called The X-Factor. Each member of One Direction auditioned as solo artists‚ but when they didn’t make it through the “bootcamp” round of the competition‚ a judge on the show‚ Simon Cowell‚ decided to put these five boys together to form a band. The members of the band are Niall Horan(19)‚ Harry Styles(18)‚ Liam Payne(19)‚ Louis Tomlinson(20)‚ and Zayn Malik(19). All the members reside

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    capacity in the food industry for 10 years on the entire east coast. A court would likely determine that the non-compete agreement a) violates federal law b) is unenforceable c) is enforceable d) both A and B 2) A liability that may extend from an employee to the employer if the employee is acting within the scope of his or her employment at the time the liability arose is called: a) vicarious liability b) employee liability c) employer liability d) adverse liability 3) A person

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    Research: Elizabeth Bishop “One Art” One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a villanelle poem. A villanelle poem is a nineteen line poem that consists of five‚ three-line stanza followed by a quatrain. Bishop’s poem brings a fascinating irony between different levels of losses. Between each stanza‚ the development of trivial losses escalates into a bigger and traumatic loss that was unprepared for. An intense repetition of the phrase “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” suggests a few given things (Bishop

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    “long-expected one and twenty.” Housman ties coming of age with finding love. He mentions love several times throughout the poem‚ “but not your heart away (line 4)‚” “but keep your fancy free (line 6).” Housman states his point of becoming older through his first-person point of view and a regretful tone. He reminisces about when he was twenty-one. He looks back and he wishes he had heeded the counsel of the wise man. The wise man said‚ “Give crowns and pounds … but not your heart away (line 3-4)‚” meaning

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    A Canary for One The story under consideration is entitled A Canary for One and is written by Ernest Hemingway‚ an American novelist and short-story writer. As for the author I have to mention that his style is characterized by crispness‚ laconic dialogue and emotional understatement. In his writing Hemingway explored themes of helplessness‚ defeat and social problems. The story A Canary for One is not an exception. The first idea about the title is that a bird was a present‚ a canary for somebody

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    Elizabeth Bishop is a very influential poet of our time. Her poem‚ ‘One Art‚’ is a good model for chapter five’s topics. It contains excellent examples of sound units‚ words‚ ordering of language‚ and implication. Bishop based this poem off villanelle written in iambic pentameter‚ which has an ABA rhyme scheme that forms a couplet rhyme in the end quatrain. This poem is exemplary for expressing the sound units of words‚ and sentences. The sound units of the words are phonetically connected

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    I have mixed feelings about whether rich countries should help poor countries or not. There are different reasons why I believe that they should‚ and different reasons why I believe that they should not help. Rich countries should help poor countries because if things were reversed they would want help. Opening up trade barriers so that poor countries can sell their goods is another good way to help. Rich countries could also send money to help pay off debt. People have no idea how lucky they

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