“Hello‚” a young woman asked desperately. “Is this Oz Matthews?” “Yes‚ it is‚” a man remarked. “How may I help you?” The woman stated deliberately‚ “I need to report a crime.” “What is your name?” Oz Matthews asked vigorously. “Mrs. Smith‚” the woman murmured. “There was a shooting at the concert in Central Park. Over thirty people are dead and a multitude are wounded.” “I’ll survey it. Thanks for calling‚” Oz Matthews responded conclusively. He quickly hung up the phone. “Another mystery
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Background The Vice President‚ Thomas Chan‚ of API was summoned to a meeting with an employee‚ Suzanne Chalmers. Suzanne was one of API’s top talents in the fiber optics lights and was employed with them for four years. As soon as Chan spoke with Chalmers he had a preconception that the meeting would be about Suzanne wanting to resign as he has had numerous experiences of this in the company. His perception of the situation was that people leave the company because of money‚ even though they
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Although all the slave narratives are similar in some respects; Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was comparatively different from Olaudah Equiano’s and Venture Smith’s slave narratives. The major contrasts start in the beginning; Jacobs’ was born into slavery‚ whereas Equiano and Smith were native Africans who were captured and brought to America. By being born into slavery I believe that she had a different mentality of what being a slave was‚ unlike the other two authors who
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Beth Slutsky 12/4/14 Harriet Jacobs a former slave and author of Incidents in the life of a slave girl began working on her autobiography while she lived in Rochester‚ New York in the year 1853. It takes Jacobs five years to finish writing the accounts of her life‚ but when she finishes she tells a completely different story from those that were written from the male perspective‚ where narratives focused mainly on the physical abuse of slavery. Jacobs tells the story of “Linda Brent” a slave
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SHOULD RICH NATIONS LEND AID TO POOR ONES? Globalization is one of culprits causing greater development gaps among countries over the world‚ and the act of lending aid is remarkable behavior of rich nations to assist poor ones. To some people‚ rich nations should lend aid to poor ones because of its economic‚ diplomatic‚ politic and military advantages. Meanwhile‚ opponents claim that on account of their possibilities of financial distress in the future‚ they should not do so. I am of the former
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Whether or not rich countries should lend aid for poor ones is an issue that has aroused considerable debate. Some people think that aid brings many advantages for recipient countries‚ such as developing economy‚ reducing unemployment‚ improving the lives‚ … However‚ I think that these nations loss much than receiving. Rich countries lend aid for poor ones‚ first of all‚ always follows by some conditions which are not only about the economy but also about politics‚ culture‚… Receiving the amount
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When Harriet Jacobs published her autobiographical work “Incidents in the life of a slave girl” she believed that it was her duty to tell the country about her life as a slave in the south. She believed that by putting her story out there‚ she could influence more people to join the abolitionist movement and to humanize slaves in the eyes of white people. Jacobs uses the pen name Linda Brent to narrate her story in a first person point of view. Linda Brent was the literary representation of Harriet
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Harriet Jacobs was a beautiful slave girl who suffered great abuse as a child from her master. After loosing her mother at age six‚ her grandma was all she had. Although she had great admiration and respect for her grandma‚ she also feared her presence. Harriet lived in town with her master‚ Dr. Flint‚ instead of on a distant plantation like most slaves in that time. As she grew‚ she caught the attention of her master more and more. She was fifteen when the innocent attention turned in to something
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Suzanne Roles Suzanne Roles studied painting and printmaking at Camberwell School of Art from 1979 to 1983.Her still lives are based upon photographs taken with macro lenses and also use natural light to create dramatic shadows‚ therefore exploring the main interests of space‚ colour and texture. She is influenced by 16th/ 17th century Spanish still life artists. “My still lives are based upon aerial photographs taken using natural light to create dramatic shadows‚” she says‚ "therefore exploring
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Arminius 1 Jacob Arminius During the seventeenth century‚ the Calvinist or Reformed tradition within Protestantism defined and determined what it would henceforth consider orthodox theology. A well-respected Dutch pastor named Jacob Arminius (1560-1609) was the lightning rod of controversy that helped to generate this movement. Arminius was a Calvinist of impeccable credentials. He had traveled to Geneva to study with Calvin’s successor‚ Theodore Beza. When he returned to Holland‚ he enjoyed
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