students are weak in English. Most of them can hardly write a 100-word comprehension or read simple materials. If we care to do a random survey‚ we will find that the majority of Penilaian Menengah Rendah students don’t understand the required text‚ Phantom of the Opera. They just memorise it for the sake of exams. They don’t read it for enjoyment as students of my generation did in the 1960s. The stress faced by students is not so much because they come from poor families‚ live in slums or in one-bedroom
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confinement by his god-fearing Baptist family. Despite this treatment Boo remains gentle and harmless. However‚ people tell stories about how he eats squirrels and cats and poisons the pecan nuts in the school yard. To the community Boo is a "malevolent phantom". Gradually Scout and Jem begin to see things from Boo’s perspective. Like the mockingbird Boo gives pleasure and comfort: for example‚ the gifts in the tree‚ the blanket placed around their shoulders as they watch Miss Maudie’s home go up in flames
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Honorable Chief Guest‚ Worthy President‚ Respected Teachers‚ And My Dear Fellow Students Assalamoalaikum! The topic of my speech for today is “Distant Drums Sound Sweeter”. Dear Audience‚ it was Francis Bacon who famously said that if you take all the vain opinions‚ flattering hopes and false valuations from the minds of the people‚ nothing will be left behind except melancholy and indisposition. Let’s have a look into our own lives‚ as our lives are full of desires‚ wishes
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Text Response Paragraph: “How does Owen convey the suffering of war?” For Owen‚ the anguish brought about by war is manifest within the wretched psychological state of the soldiers embroiled in conflict. Owen depicts a view of the war that is undeniably bleak‚ illustrating a conflict that ensnares its combatants within a vacillating state of dull monotony and high tension. Within “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ the reaction of simply “turning their backs” evidenced by the soldiers trudging in the “sludge”
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"purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy. Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium‚ has nurtured a cult of personality‚ and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits‚ including a Chinese phantom.” (2012) Luis: “Kony has been accused by government groups of ordering the abduction of children to become child-sex slaves and child soldiers. An estimated 66‚000 children became soldiers and two million people have been internally displaced since
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from the scene added after Hamlet’s father’s death where Claudius‚ Gertrude‚ and Hamlet argue over his body‚ being added‚ the movie is fairly accurate to the original play. From the film’s first scene‚ which happens not on the bulwarks with the phantom of Hamlet’s father however at the killed lord’s memorial service‚ we are bolted into Hamlet’s anger and disillusionment. Gibson plays him‚ there’s nothing adademic or neurasthenic about this irate youthful man; he’s not a hypochondriac. Rather‚ he
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Dear Diary I had seen what could quite possibly be the most amusing sight in my whole life this afternoon. As I had watched through my "spy hole" as I liked to call it‚ two young boys were standing a ways down the street with a little girl running towards them with a tire. "I’m first!" the little girl had proclaimed. I had wondered what they were up to but thankfully I didn’t have to wait long. The little girl folded herself into the tire. The eldest of the boys went behind the tire and pushed
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Have you ever watched a television show and wondered exactly how realistic it is? An award winning drama called Grey’s Anatomy aired in 2004. It is a medically-based show that follows the lives of a multitude of doctors‚ nurses‚ surgeons‚ and other medical professionals at Seattle Grace Hospital. The main character’s name is Meredith Grey. The storyline is based upon her rise from intern to surgeon along with the lives of the people who surround her at the hospital. Grey’s Anatomy can be compared
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track of time once I started updating my blogs. Once‚ I started to update my blog at about 7 in the morning and suddenly I only realised that it was already 3 in the afternoon. Other than blogging‚ I also love to read classical stories ’Phantom of the Opera’‚ ’Tom Sawyer’‚ and ’The Prisoner of Zenda’ are among my favourites. I could go on for hours reading a classical story without ever feeling bored. I sometimes found myself completely immersed into a story. The stories were so simultaneously
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By the early 1930’s‚ the theater and film capital of the United States was separated across the continent. In the Great Depression‚ artists had to make a choice: stay in New York‚ where the winters were harsh‚ and business was sparse‚ or move to Hollywood; sunny year round‚ and business and money was everywhere. Which would you choose? It is‚ of course‚ a trick question. Movie studios quickly tired to add musicals after The Jazz Singer in 1927‚ however they lacked the technology to actually make
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