The best advice I ever got about reading came from the critic and scholar Louis Menand. Back in 2005‚ I spent six months in Boston and‚ for the fun of it‚ sat in on a lit seminar he was teaching at Harvard. The week we were to read Gertrude Stein’s notoriously challenging Tender Buttons‚ one student raised her hand and asked—bravely‚ I thought—if Menand had any advice about how best to approach it. In response‚ he offered up the closest thing to a beatific smile I have ever seen on the face of a
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After being put-off by the Hypermart people today I could try out Minute Maid ’Pulpy Orange’ at a local small retailer. It has taken close to six month for the brand to reach the Hindi Heartland after the its launch in three southern states in February. First the plus points of the product‚ It tastes good‚ and the tag like ’Puply Orange’ stands up to the expectations both while drinking and visibility of the pulp . The tag line and product experince match...The distribution and the POPs for the launch
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Love the people you hate the most. God’s chosen people were called to love unconditionally‚ yet they absolutely hated the Samaritans. “Love your neighbor as yourself. For there is no commandment greater than these”(Mark 12:31). The Samaritans were viewed as a disgrace in the eyes of the Jews. “A person’s a person‚ no matter how small”(Dr. Seuss). What gives us the right to hate someone because of the way they look‚ what they believe‚ or how they live? Israel was split into the Northern and Southern
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popularize such words. Hate speech comes from a long history and has been brought into schools which can breed an entire generation to racist actions and ignorance towards specific categories of people. Many groups have been put into place to stop such actions and they try to bring us all together but with all the laws that were made hundreds of years ago it makes it harder and harder to break up and regulate such things as hate speech. WIth the groups that try their best to get rid of hate speech‚ it brings
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Hate Crimes Against Gays and Lesbians LaReese Nixon Kaplan University CJ490: Research Methods in Criminal Justice Prof: Deborah Barrett August 7‚ 2012 Abstract Introduction Lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ and transgender persons frequently face violence motivated by their sexuality or gender identity. Violence may be executed by the state‚ as in laws prescribing corporal punishment for homosexual acts‚ or by individuals engaging in intimidation‚ mobbing‚ assault‚ or lynching. Violence targeted
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"Two Gallants"‚ by James Joyce‚ is a short story about two men who are using a maid to steal money from her employer. The entire story is filled with two different types of irony‚ situational and verbal. They are all used throughout the story to enhance the reading of Joyce’s tale. The two main characters in the story are Corley and Lenehan. Corley is conceited and brags about everything. He boasts about the cigars and cigarettes that the maid steals from her owner. Lenehan acts as if he is
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MEETING MINUTES OF PRE INCORPORATION MEETING DATE : FEBRUARY 17‚ 2015 (TUESDAY) TIME : 9.00 A.M. – 11.30 A.M. VENUE : Level 13A‚ Open Library. ATTENDEES PRESENT 1. Nor Hayati Binti Mustafa 2. Nur Adawiyah Binti Mat Rodzi 3. Nur Amalina Izati Binti Kamarul Bahren 4. Nur Atikah Binti Ahmad Zawawi 5. Nur Fatehah Binti Anuar 6. Nur Hafizah Binti Mazlam 7. Nur Hanani Binti Adrus 8. Nurul Jannah Binti Mohd Jamil 9. Nurul Nabilah Binti Mansor 10. Nurul Syahiroh
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differences between things that are similar yet different. The summer semester is about to reach its end. I am sitting here‚ in the academic block in IBA‚ 9:05 am‚ waiting for my class to begin which is around one hour from now. 14 August is just two days away and I feel sad to see the lack of enthusiasm and joy related to this occasion among the people of Pakistan‚ including me. Looking back in time‚ I recall my childhood‚ when the streets were decorated everywhere with green and white jhandyaan
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Two Friends Have you ever wondered how reality is so much more different than TV or fiction. It depicts life as we know it in the real world‚ cruel and unjust. And this is exactly the kind of writing from most of the eighteenth century‚ where life is portrayed from the lower class’ point of view in order to attain a social reform. In the short story Two Friends‚ Guy de Maupassant describes the harshness and reality of the Franco Prussian War‚ and its effect on two Parisians who love fishing. This
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The story focuses on the story of a man who hates a louse. This louse found its way into a bonnet of a lady who is special to the man. He then starts to talk down to the louse by saying it is dirty‚ ugly‚ and a harm to society. He eventually tries to persuade the louse into leaving the female alone by saying it should go to a plantation or to the homeless because that is where it is expected to be. The narrator tries to put up a front by talking about killing the louse to which he is afraid of what
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