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    symbolism. In her short story The Life You Save May Be Your Own‚ O’Connor incorporates numerous symbols to emphasize her theme. O’Connor’s use of symbolism filters into the names and traits of her characters‚ the dimensions of her setting‚ and the events of her plot. Mr. Shiftlet is a man who doesn’t know what he wants. Throughout the story‚ his views on life vary from righteous to self-absorbed. In the beginning of the story‚ he preaches to mother Lucynell about the evil of the world‚ citing how

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    Obesity is in our school. It is also everywhere else in America. But‚ it is the wrong message to assume that it is all the schools fault. It is not. School comprises about seven or eight hours of a child’s day when it is open. It is only open about nine months out of the year. The remainder of the time the children are home or out and about with their friends. So then why are people blaming the schools? They may eat food out of a well stocked refrigerator filled with nutritional choices or they might

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    Describe a time when you have organised an event. (This could be a large event‚ such as a party‚ or a small event‚ such as a gathering with friends.) What was the event‚ how did you organise it and what happened? Situation Last summer‚ my best friend’s birthday was approaching. I wanted to organise special birthday party for him in order to express daily’s appreciations. Target My target is organising a big party without telling him. I did not want him to have any doubts about my secrete

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    When you chance the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change. The most fundamental and mayor decision you have to make in your life is this: Do I live in a friendly or A hostile universe? Is it the universe‚ where people want to hate each other‚ kill each other. Is that what you see? Because when you see the world that way‚ that is exactly what you create for yourself. The interesting thing is that this is not just a clever play of words: When you change the way you look at

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    3. Describe a time when you took a great risk. What was the outcome? The heat baffled me when I left the plane in Jeddah airport after a 10 hours’ travel. I met the company driver to embark in drive in a desert area‚ punctuated by a few police check points along the trip. We reached our destination after an hour and a half‚ and once passing the armed guards looking for potential bombs under the car‚ we finally reached the base camp where I was going to spend the next months. Completely out of my

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    Write about an event that changed your life for the better. Written by Aris Li Lu “You have advanced lung cancer. The chance of a successful operation is very slim‚ almost non-existent.” I blundered out of the consultation room with downcast eyes as the doctor’s sentence lingered in my mind. I tore the report and threw it on the ground. Hiding my face‚ I wept‚ not believing such a terrible thing could have happened to me. After my mother passed away‚ I became an anti-social person. My mother

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    When You Reach Me follows a sixth-grade protagonist‚ Miranda. She lives with her single mother who has a kindhearted boyfriend‚ Richard. Miranda’s best friend Sal‚ who she knew since she was a small child‚ had recently started ignoring Miranda after he had been punched in the face by another boy‚ Marcus. A homeless man lives on the corner of Miranda’s street. She calls him the "laughing man" for his tendency to laugh without cause. Miranda notices that he always utters the words "book bag pocket

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    Life As You Know It

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    LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT Who among us wants to have a difficult life? Of course‚ everybody wants to be happy. We want that great job or a succesful business. We want to be married to Mr. Right or Mrs. Perfect and to have great kids. To have friends that stick by us come rain or shine. To be able to have all the material things life has to offer and have all our problems just disappear is what most of us want. Everybody wishes for a good life. but it may be at different perspective. One person may

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    When You Are Old and Gray

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    When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire‚ take down this book‚ And slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once‚ and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace‚ And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you‚ And loved the sorrows of your changing face. And bending down beside the glowing bars‚ Murmur‚ a little sadly‚ how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead‚ And hid

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    While I was working part-time‚ I saw a number of instances of ethical conflicts‚ but not being involved in the decision-making process meant I had little to do with them. But it’s not only in business that one encounters such dilemmas—they come up a lot on everyday life as well. In my senior year at college I took a course called Advertising Creativity and Marketing‚ for which we had to break into groups to do our term paper. Each group had to make an advertisement to market their own product‚ and

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