Chinua Achebe, In the author of Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe compares the destruction of the Igbo people's culture to the damage done to Western civilization caused by World War I. ... He resists the new ways at first, trying to carry on the old traditions, but then realizes his efforts arehave been futile. ... In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe demonstrates the destructiveness of cultural collision by showing Okonkwo's loss of identity as a respected man in Igbo society and his response to the changes in his clan. ... Later on, Okonkwo still resents the white men even though t...

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Every member of society has a different interpretation of what they believe should be carried out by a good government. ... "I just have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion" (214, Verse 67). ... They should relax and let things happen as they do, because a balance will always end up being restores. ... A leader isn't solely responsible for carrying out a government for the common good. ... They listen to what citizens have to say and they use their powers to carry out the wishes of society. ...

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This became so because each busy with their own affairs that led to disregard the other things. In their opinion, the important thing in life is that they should try to find wealth and to find money to increase revenue alone. ... Furthermore, the practice is important because we can create a society that will always love the country and not do things that will bring discredit to the country. ... The responsible party shall carry out a large-scale campaign through the mass media. ... Therefore, efforts to foster the spirit of patriotism must be carried at all times without interruption. ...

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People with an education have this responsibility to lead portions of society because they owe society for their education. ... An educated person expects of themselves success in society: the ability to get a well-paying job, the ability to lead, and the ability to simply carry on an intelligent conversation about a wide range of topics. A person who is educated knows a good deal about their topic of study, and therefore they should be able to get a "good" job, and this they should expect of themselves. Being able to lead comes with an education because leadership is contingent on having k...

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Nitrogen and phosphorus are considered good things because they support the bottom of the food chain. ... Toxic substances are poisonous to humans and other living things and have been known to cause a wide range of negative health effects. ... As a result, not enough is known about the kinds and amounts of toxic chemicals entering the Bay or the effects they have on the living things in the Bay's water. ... Some facilities carry their wastes off site and spread them across the land, where they eventually flow into the water. ... These various pollutants eventually settle directly into t...

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In this paper, I will discuss the general mission of the Nature Conservancy, some of the things they do, current activities of the program, and also some of the places they are trying to protect and how they go about doing those things. ... They also use a non-confrontational approach. ... I also learned that a lot of people want to help the goals of organizations like this one be carried out. ... Overall, I also learned a lot about how companies and organizations like this work and what kind of things they do to help preserve our land. ... Through their Campaign for Conservation prog...

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As a result of cultivating plants and the domestication of animals, both civilizations allowed their people to spend time doing other things that weren't related to farming. ... However, merchants traveling to china had to carry the most expensive things with them since the traveling in caravans through the desert was so long and they need to make a profit. ... The Indus had extensive underground sewers using the force of gravity to carry away human waste from the city. Unlike China, they didn't (ew!). ... But this didn't change how prosperous they both were. ...

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Some reason could be such things as; family stress, school, experimentation, social life and depression. ... Adolescents also take drugs because they are bitter and bored with the economic and political system in which they live. ADOLESENTS TAKE DRUGS BECAUSE THEY ARE BORED SENSELESS! The solution to this problem is to stop banning the interesting things that adolescent would do if they weren't in such an oppressive society. ... Then things got better for a while. ...

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The characters do not have serious problems such as money complications, or depression so viewers believe that if they have major problems in their own life they are less of a human being. All of the characters on this soap opera have everything; they have a lot of clothes, a nice car, beautiful home, attractive furnishings, major social life and they seem like they have all of these things without working. ... When viewers see this they start to believe that they have to look young in order to be beautiful and accepted by society. ... They are happier than North Americans even thought th...

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The difference in the text between "masculine" and "feminine" styles of living is that the male figure will develop the right characteristics at first, but later on as they gain certain access to things, in this case Gilgamesh being the king of the city of Uruk, they may become overbearing and do more harm than good. In contrast, the female figure may gain access to certain powers, but instead of getting carried away, they may find ways to use their abilities without going to an extent where they may lose control of themselves and let their power become too extreme. ... When the gods Anu an...

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During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. ... Not all things exchanged were beneficial, however. ... Small pox, yellow fever, and malaria were some of the devastating diseases carried into the New World. ... They set up a huge traffic of slaves to work in their native sugar plantations. ...

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Pollution released by processing plants in on nation with poor natural gauges can result in issue in neighboring countries, actually when they have harder laws and higher benchmarks. ... They incorporate the 1976 Bathing Water Directive (overhauled 2006), which looks to guarantee the nature of the waters that individuals use for amusement. ... If we reused, we would need to deliver less things since we would be reusing more. ...

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Along with that when Montresor and Fortunato take a break and grab some wine that was already there in the catacombs and they both toast to Fortunato's long life. This is another case of verbal irony because Montresor is toasting to his long life while carrying out a plot to kill him. ... Relating to the plot to kill Fortunato with the trowel, early on when they first started walking down to the vault Fortunato makes the comment, "I will not die of a cough" to which Montresor replies, "true-true" the reader knowing that Montresor is planning to kill him by burying hi...

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If a teacher defines a pupil as either bright or dull then the teacher has formed an opinion of the student and thus marks the student as such in work or pays more attention to the student, even being more willing to explain unclear points to the pupil in question than they would with a pupil that is perceived in a bad light. They did this by having a study in which they carried out IQ tests on pupils and then generated false results in which 20% of the pupils were said to the teacher to be likely to achieve highly in all of their work, at the end of the academic year that randomly selected...

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Violence is defined as an act carried out with the intention, or perceived of causing physical pain or injury to another person. ... Many things must be done to identify students that may perform violent acts, discover the possible sources of violent behavior, and resolve this increasing problem. ... If the area around the school is fierce and violent, the children learn from what they see. ... Even students that are not aggressive are taught in hopes that they would stop fights and arguments. ... Many things are being done and will be done, in order to reduce the number of violent behavior...

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His study concluded that depending upon the person and situation most people will inflict pain on others when they know they will not be held morally or legally accountable, especially if they have something to gain or lose. In many cases people will carry out cruel and unusual behavior at the will of a higher authority and not feel remorse; mentally they may justify their actions as not being of their own will. ... It is not only important to know these things about the human race, but also to understand how these facts of life will effect you, in any given situation. ...

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Even when cloned animals look normal, the team found, they still harboured genetic disruptions from the cell culturing process that could pose unseen dangers. "Disruption of those genes in humans could cause things like mental retardation,"says Eggan. ... They found that a lot of the disruption occurred when the embryonic stem cells were being cultured in the lab, not because of the cloning or IVF process, this is what they found when that examined the six genes linked with embryonic development. ... Eggan says that there is no obvious was to alter the culturing process to prevent the disru...

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It is at this early stage of life, that genes carry specific information about who we are. ... These are carried to other hormonal secreting glands. ... This theory is given support by an experiment carried out by W.C.Young. Young carried out an experiment on a pregnant monkey, that was carrying a female foetus, she gave the primate large daily doses of the male hormone testosterone to try and ascertain if the hormone would have any effect on the monkey's sexuality. ... She enjoyed feminine things such as playing with dolls, having her hair brushed and putting on makeup, by the time she h...

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The data collection was based on a survey which was carried out by the CIPD (2006) on employee engagement in the UK. ... The survey is based on a report which was carried out by the CIPD in 2006, which attempted to measure the levels and drivers of employee engagement of employees in the UK. ... Organisations fight to recruit and train their talent, so they need to do their best to keep hold of it. ... In December 2004, the Harvard Business Review released the results of a survey carried out by the Corporate Leadership Council (CLC), which involved the compiling of 50,000 employee engagement s...

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These valves were fragile as they were mainly made out of glass, they were used in radios and some of the early computers, but they were not reliable. ... These valves were also large at time and they used large amount of energy and they would generate a lot of heat. ... One of the things he said was that electrons are arranged in various energy states. ... This free electron becomes the majority charge carried in the doped semiconductor, but charge will still be carried by electrons freed from electrons escaping the valence band and going into the conduction band of the atom. ... In these sem...

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When any institution or agency's current policy guidelines and procedure standards are set aside in lieu of officer discretion for everyday duties so often that they become the expected norms or standard rather than utilized for the unusual or exceptional situations, then abuse of that allowance for discretion has occurred. ... The times that real emergencies or dangerous situations bring this to the forefront are the times when that authority is needed most as the inmates or staff are less likely to comply with commands that would benefit all involved by being carried out immediately...

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The greatest advantage of these supermarkets is that we, the consumers are able all of the things we need, all in one place, and in some cases very low prices. ... I work at Fred and Theresa's No Frills, and I have a substantial amount of knowledge about this industry and the different product lines that No Frills carries. ... The two main product lines that No Frills and the three other chains consistently carry are No Name and President's Choice. ... The main and underlying similarity is that both chains carry the same products, but Loblaws has a different approach to their day-to-...

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About one-fourth of all pregnant women bleed some time during pregnancy, however, up to 50 percent of these women carry the fetus to full term. ... They may think that they are not ready to become mothers at such an early age. ... Other women say that they get abortions because they have gone through a physical trauma or abuse. The fact of having a child or carrying a child that is not wanted or desired makes them have an abortion, instead of giving that child away or not taking care of that child as they should because of their previous experiences. ... Nowadays there are many things o...

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We communicate with each other in many ways, either by email, telephone, text, face to face, social media or letters and the language we use allows us to get things done, however the language and communication method we chose to use will vary dependent on the discourse community. ... Each discourse community includes its own individual terms of language, words relating to the community carry special meanings within the subject or activity as part of the community, this helps communication between members easier to understand and enables tasks to be effective and precise to reach the goals they...

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" (Rizal 377) Filipinos, who carried many different customs even before occupation, became further fragmented and complicated in their attitudes towards the occupiers. ... " (379) This propagation occurred due to common grievances of the conquered of his situation, and quickly spread to the few others who carried similar fires themselves. ... They dominated them on a psychological level, complicated their identities and beliefs in what is right or wrong. ... Generations later, the "the neck [became] accustomed to the yoke, begotten in chains," and became better adapted &q...

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