As voting comes to an end in long drawn-out‚ multi-phase elections in Bihar on Saturday‚ it seems the Indian state is beginning to shed its reputation for lawlessness‚ caste violence and banditry. While voters determine who will inhabit the 243-member provincial assembly‚ these issues - including the muscle and money power of the candidates - have been subordinated. The main question now is how the state government can function more effectively and provide better governance. It is such a change
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An interesting section of T.S. Eliot’s "The Wasteland" is that headed "Death by Water‚" a section that has engendered some argument about its meaning and about whether or not the death of Phlebas is intended to be real or symbolic. The poem uses sound in an interesting way to draw ideas together and to create a musical lilt. In the first line‚ the repeated "f" sound carries over to the first word of line two‚ evoking the idea of death‚ the image of the sea‚ and a connection between the sea and the
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Name: Anonymous Date: June 22‚ 2012 Year & Section: Weather: Fair Exercise No. 1 Title: DETERMINATION OF PACE FACTOR I. OBJECTIVE To let the student be familiar with the Pace factor its computation and uses by means of a field activity. II. PROCEDURES 1. Measure a horizontal distance of 55m. 2. Cover the measured distance by walking‚ count and record the number of paces in a trial. 3. Do the second procedure by seven trials. 4. Tabulate the gathered data accordingly and calculate
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Richard Serra Richard Serra is widely celebrated by academics and popular critics alike for rethinking the very nature of sculptural objects. Rather than functioning as sites of aesthetic interest in themselves‚ Serra’s works have served as literal indexes of his working process‚ or as quasi-architectural structures that prompt critical reflection on how we perceive space and time. These terms‚ which have been painstakingly refined in the voluminous critical texts on Serra’s work‚ can be
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India‚ our motherland‚ invokes pride in its citizen’s minds. This is because India is a country with diverse customs and traditions‚ values and religions. Though India might not be considered a technologically advanced country‚ it still remains the most traditional country in the world. Indian tradition is admired and respected all around the world for its beauty and depth. Almost every Indian tradition or custom has a particular scientific‚ logical or spiritual significance. Though traditions
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http://www.saintinel.com/commentary/2012/12/18/teenage-girls-should-be-allowed-to-get-birth-control-without-parent-permission/ Teenage girls should be allowed to get birth control without a parents’ permission‚ because for starters it reduces the number of teen pregnancies‚ teens have a safer home life‚ and shows teens are responsible. According to the article‚ “Some Basic Truths About Teen Sex”‚ Teens are less likely to use a condom properly‚ condom slippage and leakage is higher in younger users
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In the well-known short stories The Landlady by Roald Dahl and Examination Day by Henry Sleaser two surprising events occur. In The Landlady the surprising event is that we find out the landlady is a murderer and in Examination Day a surprising event is when Dickie is killed by the government because he has a high intelligence quotient. One event that surprises the reader in the short story The Landlady is when the landlady is suspected of killing her previous guests and probably planning on killing
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BA 465 I. Current Situation A. Current Performance: How did the corporation perform the past year overall in terms of return on investment‚ market share‚ and profitability? B. Strategic Posture What are the corporation’s current mission‚ objectives‚ strategies‚ and policies? 1. Are they clearly stated‚ or are they merely implied from performance? 2. Mission: What business( es) is the corporation in? Why? 3. Objectives: What are the corporate‚ business‚ and functional objectives? Are they
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In this poem‚ Derozio personifies India and talks to her in a monologue. Derozio talks about the glorious past of India. He tells her (while Derozio does not hint at what sex he personifies India as‚ I assume it to be a female because we always refer to a country as mother and in India we refer to our country as Bharat Mata (or mother India the diety)) that in her days of glory‚ she used to be regarded highly‚ worshipped and was considered sacrosanct. But now (at the time of writing the poem) all
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Character Essay/Landlady In the short story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl‚ the Landlady begins as very kind‚ caring‚ and motherly. But her pretention is all part of her both psychotic and evil plan; although she is aware of her actions‚ there is no clear logic to the murders‚ creating an interesting‚ complex character. In her pretentiousness the Landlady hides her true character to gain the trust of Billy and her recent victims. “She seemed terribly nice‚ she looked exactly like the mother of
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