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    What do you desire? What inspires and motivates you to live? What sort of job would you be willing to wake up for and do from 8:30am to 5:00pm every working day? If you know this for sure then you are amongst the very few graduate students who do. Good evening toastmaster and guest speakers. Tonight I will deliver a speech that tackles the transition of students into the working world‚ a usually very tough transition that is. And I feel like bestowing something inspiring upon you all. I am in my

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    Dear Grace‚How are you and your family getting on? I hope everyone is fine. I await with eager anticipation to share with you that I spend a family vacation on a tropical island ended up with this wonderful holiday trip to Tioman‚ a popular Malaysian island resort which shot to fame as the island of Bali Hai in the Rodger’s & Hammerstein movie of ’South Pacific’. First day that we started our journey‚ we boarded the high-speed ferry from Kluang ferry terminal in Malaysia for the 2 hour journey to

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    What if somebody you always thought you loved turned out to be someone they were not? In the short story‚ “Brigid” by Mary Lavin‚ Owen’s wife is trying to convince Owen to put his sister‚ Brigid‚ in a nursing home. This story is set in Ireland during the 1930s. At this timeyou were known as a terrible person if you put a relative in a nursing home. When the couple gets in a fight over this debate‚ Owen storms to Brigid’s house. When Owen’s wife begins to worry about Owen‚ she goes to search for

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    "Gattaca"‚ written and directed by Andrew Niccol‚ depicts a futuristic world of a cold society‚ where one’s resume exists in their cells and genes. Although genes play a significant part to a successful life in this world‚ the path and success of one’s life is not determined solely on DNA as demonstrated by Eugene‚ Anton and in particular‚ Vincent who clearly "exceeds his potential". Vincent Freeman is cast into society’s redundant section as being an "invalid"‚ however he overcomes this burden

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    with sparrows flitting about under the high ceilings. Here the check-in is completed‚ welcome-drink served‚ luggage taken by porters and electronic universal key to the resort room‚ restaurants and all resort-island attractions given. The straight passage through the spacious reception lobby leads to the pier where speedboats are ready to take guests to the island. During the seven-minute voyage by sea‚ one can contemplate the cable road on nine massive pillars‚ which when lit at night looks like

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    This is a very somber‚ regretful and resigned poem. It has a quiet‚ dreamlike feeling to it‚ achieved by an undulating rhyme scheme (ABBA) and use of soft-sounding‚ uncomplicated words that are nevertheless powerful. The theme is the painful one of unrequited love‚ which Yeats manipulates in an interesting manner. Instead of focusing upon the present or the past‚ as is usually the case with this often used theme‚ Yeats looks to the future‚ a future in which the two people in the poem are destined

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    The article "When the Cyberbully Is You" by Nick Bilton discusses the problem of online shaming faced by our society. According to him‚ there is nothing new about cyberbullying‚ but now the debate is happening everywhere: on radio shows‚ movies‚ books‚ talks‚ TV shows‚ blogs‚ book reviews including social media. With serious concern‚ Jacqui Shine states that online shaming has come to the point that anyone can be a victim of that kind of shaming‚ and that is the reason why it is being discussed now

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    How do you spend your free time? There are many different things which you can do in your free time. Personally I don’t have much free time. I am preparing to my mature exams. However‚ there always happen some free moments on the weekends. I don’t do any especially exciting things then. Sometimes I simply lie on the sofa and watch TV. I like series movies‚ like "Friends". I must admit that I also watch soap operas to entertain. In my mind you cannot learn anything watching TV so I generally choose

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    When You Do Work You Give it Energy! Holly Beech Professor Evans SCI 110 Holly Beech Professor Evans SCI 110 31 January 2010 Whenever You Do Work You Give It Energy How would one know that working creates energy? Well the definition of energy might give a clue. “Energy can be defined as the ability to do work” (Tillery‚ Enger‚ and Ross‚ 2008‚ p. 59). If one were to think about this statement unscientifically‚ it might evoke the picture of some one being to tired‚ having no energy‚

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    Can a blood test really tell you when you’ll die? Author: Giles Tremlett. Source: http://thelonggoodread.com/2011/10/13/can-a-blood-test-really-tell-you-when-youll-die/ As a taxi takes me across Madrid to the laboratories of Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre‚ I am fretting about the future. I am one of the first people in the world to provide a blood sample for a new test‚ which has been variously described as a predictor of how long I will live‚ a waste of time or a handy indicator

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