...ENGLISH – STEP BY WICKED STEP SAMPLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. Choose one character that you like and give your reasons why you like the character. From the novel 'Step By Wicked Step' by Anne Fine, I like Claudia from the story the Green Pyjamas. I like Claudia because she is kind, loyal and she can be very mature and wise. Claudia is a very kind girl. During her father's birthday party, Claudia wears her green pyjamas given by her father's girlfriend, Stella. She decides to do this because she feels that the guests in the party are very rude when they refuse to talk to Stella. They act like Stella is invisible and Claudia feels angry because Stella is actually a very nice person. Other than that, Claudia is also a loyal daughter to her mother.She knows that her mother hates the fact that her father is happy with a new woman in his life so she pretends that she is unhappy when she has to go to her father's house. Claudia also refuses to accept Stella's kindness because she wants to show that she is loyal to her mother. Lastly, Claudia shows that she is very mature and wise. Claudia feels that the guests for her father's birthday party are very rude. They do not want to acknowledge that Stella is her father's new love by giving her a cold shoulder during the party. Claudia is very angry with all those immature adults so she decides to give all of them a lesson by wearing her new green pyjamas and showing it off in front of the guess, hinting that...
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...doing evil towards others. Some people commit evil actions for good intention, but some do because of their selfish interests and desire for power. In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, it is questionable whether the characters and the society have displayed cruelty and inhumanity among other characters. Heartlessness of humanity is evident throughout the novel. By examining the corrupted values, abuse, and discrimination visible in the society of Afghanistan, it becomes apparent how evil humankind can be. Hosseini portrays the struggles of two young Afghan women, Laila and Mariam, in war riddled Afghanistan. Both women are years apart by age, but are forced to marry an older man, Rasheed, who they do not know. The women learn to co-exist as they endure Rasheed's mental and physical abuse. The women in Afghanistan have to face arranged or forced marriages, poor education and restrictions brought on by the Taliban. The lack of respect and freedom of Afghan women compels them to fight for their rights to halt the inequalities they face in society. Corrupted values are detrimental to society by the fact that it takes away one’s freedom and a chance to live. Marriage is the voluntary union of two people, who choose to be together and nobody else for the rest of their lives. In the case of Afghan women, they deal with forced under-age marriages. Freedom is a basic fundamental right that every person deserves to have. The opportunities to speak, believe, and pursue...
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...and Intuition as ways of knowing. Ethics are a set of moral principles which mainly govern a person’s behavior. Most of the time we make instinctive judgments about moral issues, but the question remains; are they as instinctive as we think? When I left home for college as a boarder doing my IB Diploma, my parents sat me down and told me how I was to behave, to conduct myself appropriately in their absence and basically do everything that they had taught me, in other words, moral values. I got to college and I found myself amongst different people, being in an international school, I was only right to make friends with new people so I could get acquainted with them. In this new adventure, I was invited to one big night party and to make it to this party; I would have to break boarding rules and go without permission. My gut quickly told me not to go to this party; it felt wrong, like something bad would happen so I did not attend the party. Then later, some people who had gone to the party got caught and got into a lot of trouble. When asked why I had not gone to the party, I imagined all that would have happened if I had actually disregarded my instincts and gone to the party; then got caught. I would have gotten into trouble and risked getting expelled from the boarding house, I remembered how my parents brought me up and I just felt like it would have been a disgraceful and an immoral thing for me to do. My ethical values as an individual have molded me into who I am today and...
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...Regarding this, she lets her audience have a clear view of both sides of surrogate mothers bearing in mind that not everything is wicked. In opposition to the surrogate mothers, she views surrogacy as a malicious dealing whereby people trade themselves into slavery (Sughrue, E., Sughrue,). Additionally, she criticizes this as a dirty dealing where people are marketing their children for money. To put this clear, she quotes, “we cannot trade ourselves into servitude. Besides the surrogacy business comes perilously close to both of these deals”. According to her, she uses the term slavery to portray the painful picture of both the dishonorable and dissolute actions. As such, the author applies such terminology to create the emotional effect to her audience and induce them into sympathizing with surrogate mothers and their babies at...
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...BRISTISH COLUMBIA BAPTIST COLLEGE ABORTION, AN ACT OF MURDER A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO PASTOR JUSTIN WAMSLEY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE ENG 101 COLLEGE WRITING BY MARIA KRISTIANNE PAGALUNAN SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA 10 DECEMBER 2014 THE OUTLINE I. Thesis Statement Abortionists are guilty of taking the life of an innocent, unborn baby prematurely; completely disobeying the commandment of the Lord. II. Main Idea #1 Genesis 1:27 The Bible said that human beings, us, are made in the very image of God. Psalm 139:13-19 “…for I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” a. Abortion destroys and interferes with the work of the Lord. b. Abortion disannuls the plan of God. c. Concluding with the thought of ‘Children are a blessing from the Lord”. III. Main Idea #2 Exodus 20:6 The Bible repeatedly condemns the killing of the innocent. It is an act of murder which goes against one of the commandment of the Lord. “Thou shalt not kill”. Deuteronomy 27:5 The shedding of the innocent blood a. Abortion promotes killing. b. Abortion promotes child abuse. c. Abortion devalues life. IV. Main Idea #3 Isaiah 30:18 The Bible talks about a God being a ‘God of Justice’. a. The Bible said that we are to love unconditionally and show compassion. b. Abortion shows a lack of natural affection and faith in God. c. How can you kill without caring? d. How can you kill someone and think nothing...
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...Isaiah Davis 05-08-2012 Justice in a P.S. Seeing Through the Lens of Biblical Justice Biblical Justice has been one of the main topics that we have been discussing in our class lately. Biblical Justice involves making individuals, communities, and the creation whole, by supporting both goodness and impartiality. Biblical Justice stands at the center of true religion, according to the book of James, James believed that the kind of religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: “to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” James 1:27. Proverbs 29:7 says, “The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. I believe that if we can live according to biblical justice in whatever society where in, things won’t be as difficult as they are. The christian perspective on justice goes along with biblical justice, when being a christian we should be gentle and kind, more understanding, merciful and helpful. A christian is to do things the way God intended on them to be done or by living how Jesus lived. The way that I would connect a Christian perspective of Justice to a philosophical understanding of justice would be through the three philosophical views of justice. The three philosophical views of justice are Utilitarian, Contract, and Entitlement. Utilitarianism is a theory based on the principle that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...
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...His approach is blackmail, which is successful until it is discovered that Dmitri and Koyla’s wife, Lilia are having an affair; then all hell breaks loose and the events that follow unfold in a tragic, unfair way for Kolya. Bleak and relentless in the midst of corrupted government, exhibiting propaganda through traditional symbolism that has become customary in Russian films, and biblical in its name as well as its moral outrage at the powerlessness of the individual in the face of unchecked authority, Leviathan is dealing with nothing less than the current state of Russia's soul. In an interview between NPR and the film’s director, Andrey Zvyagintsev, the propaganda content and pointed criticism of Russian leaders is discussed. Leviathan was released coincidentally enough during a time when Russia could be considered to be reverting back to it’s state during the Cold War, threatening neighboring countries and suppressing any dissent held by its citizens. The director characteristically denied any intentional attempts at propaganda, which should honestly be...
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...At first I was not fond of Night I usually like a book that has some kind of mystery or romance involved. With Night I already had an idea of how the book will end and I would not understand any way to pull a romantic notion from it. This book would definitely not be a first choice of mine. Even though I did enjoy reading it and believe that the events should never be forgotten, it is important for our societies to remember the victims along with the dwindling number of survivors. I was very impressed with the wording used; the word choice was very strong. It is amazing that his wife was able to translate and use words with so much power and strength. I had the same feelings and questions after reading Night as I have had after reading Ann Frank’s diary or watching Schindler’s list. How could this happen? What would drive any one to these thoughts or actions and believe it is right, good, or even acceptable. I wonder how Adolf Hitler would have felt if Jews had decided to eradicate Austrian/ Germans? What would he have done, would he have died or survived? I googled Adolf Hitler and there are several websites saying his father was ½ Jewish. There is even a video on UTube about Hitler being part Jewish. With a name like Adolf, some of his facial characteristics, and hair as dark as his why, would he want to annihilate a mass of people who are similar to him? I am not sure if Hitler truly was part Jewish, but if he was, did he know? How would he react if he was alive, the allegations...
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...life until they reach their end. The human race is naturally full of malicious thoughts and needs that eventually are brought out in actions or words. Evil is a word that has an infinite amount of definitions and can be described differently by others. Since evil has such a broad definition “...it is difficult to formulate a universal ethics, although there is, regardless of cultural differences, a considerable number of universal concepts and values to be examined in ethics” (Wolfgang G). Around the world, evil is seen differently throughout every religion, race ,culture etc. With this enormous range of possibilities it makes it hard for many to understand what makes a person evil and what evil is to begin with. This then makes it difficult to make right from wrong. We don't truly know if our intended actions are selfish or not, so we don't know if we should proceed. This occurs very often exactly like "Huck Finn [believing] his conduct to be morally bad, when it is actually good. His inner turmoil is the result of a conflict of two value systems which coexist in his consciousness, a conflict which pains him, but which is not intelligible to him” (Wolfgang G). Since humans don't have a clear set of rules describing and explain what makes a person evil, it makes many believe they don't do such evil duties or might even falsely accuse themselves of evil acts like Huck Finn did when in reality they were doing the right thing. Every person sees and interprets evil in a certain way...
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...Akua Watkins Interpersonal Communication Dr. Douglas Marshall March 13, 2014 Ethics Think Paper News to you: A lie is a form of deception, but deception is not considered a lie. A lie is meant to deceive a statement so the statement appears to seem true. Although humans are programmed to tell the truth, everyone has told a lie to stay out of trouble. Lies are justified by the inner conscience or small group before released publicly. People turn to small groups to gain assurance that the lie may sound believable. Growing up there are different levels of not telling the truth. Adolescents believe lies will make God upset. Although lies are deemed to be unclean, truth also has many faces as well. Truth can also make a person feel superior which makes an individual intimidated. Deceit will always prevail in some type of shape, form, or fashion. When two people are communicating and one of the persons are telling the untruth, the conversation continues because neither party wants to speak on what they actually know is the truth. All lies are not bad lies depending on the circumstance. Sometimes people face dilemmas which a lie is told to save a person’s life. What choice do an individual have when the truth will maybe destroy a family’s life when faced with certain evils of the world. All truth is not good truth, while all lies are not bad lies. Lies have circumstances with hidden agendas, whether good or bad. In the story Hidden Places, one of the siblings believed lying was...
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...millions of people live their lives to make sure I am as respectful as possible and hopefully learn something new when approached with an open mind. This paper is a learning process for me and I will try to stay as unbiased as possible when searching for references. Judaism is the eleventh most popular religion in the world with over fourteen million followers. This religion dates back over four-thousand years ago to the year 2000 B.C.E. This religion is practiced in over fifty counties and is even increasing in popularity. In 2014 there were half of a million more Jewish people in the world than the previous year which continues the exponential expansion of this religion. Judaism is a very intricate religion with interesting beliefs, morals, and traditions with global impacts and conflicts around the world. Judaism is strictly monotheistic religion with the belief in an absolute one, incomparable, and indivisible being. This being is God and is the ultimate cause for all existence. Jewish beliefs insist that the true aspect of God is incomprehensible and unknowable which can also be described as numinous. This one God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and is referred to as the guide of the world. The idea...
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...Kyle Jordan Estanislao TREDTWO C37 2/17/2015 The Clutches of Sin Sin as we all know is formally defined as the infraction against the word of God. With every sinful act we commit, it is like we are distancing ourselves from God. Despite this, it seems that nobody could still stay away from the clutches of sin. Nobody is perfect. We live in an imperfect world filled with temptations and bad influences. Unfortunately no matter how hard we try to stay away and fight off these negative inducements, eventually we would succumb to the pull of sin. As my father always quotes from the bible “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Due to this, people have this common notion in mind that if everybody eventually turns out to be a sinner, then why bother trying so hard not to be one. These people would then rationalize that it is ok to sin because God is super forgiving and that by confessing our sins, everything would be ok. It is as if by simply telling someone of one’s bad deeds, it would magically erase all the damages done because of one’s sinful acts. What they don’t realize is that as described in the lecture, sin is a spiral that enslaves us, making us addicted to it. Every time we commit a sin, it opens us to a possibility that we would keep repeating them until it now harms our major social and personal relations. Sin doesn’t just affect oneself, it also affects the people around us. Every time we commit a sin, more likely than not, someone would be negatively...
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...Critical Reading 1. Preview. Look “around” the text before you start reading. ... 2. Annotate. Annotating puts you actively and immediately in a "dialogue” with an author and the issues and ideas you encounter in a written text. ... 3. Outline, Summarize, and Analyze. ... 4. Look for repetitions and patterns. ... 5. Contextualize. ... 6. Compare and Contrast. When you write about literature . . . Some Tips for Academic Writers Sentence Style 1. Use simple sentences as rubrics (pointers). 2. Use compound sentences to suggest balance and to present pairs of ideas of equal value. 3. Use complex sentence to emphasize the most important ideas and to subordinate less important ideas. 4. Avoid "empty" sentence frames that say little or restate the obvious. 5. Use present tense when referencing details in a literary work except for passages written in the past tense. 6. Incorporate short, key quoted phrases into analytical sentences. 7. Avoid the use of such words and phrases as "you" and "the reader" that often lead to wordiness. 8. Avoid the phrase, "In conclusion," when opening the concluding paragraph. 9. Avoid gratuitous complements and superlatives. Paragraph Development 1. Use Pattern 1 paragraph frames for most paragraphs in the body of academic essays. 2. Begin body paragraphs with claims as topic sentences that repeat key concepts from the thesis sentence. 3. Always introduce the speaker, context, and/or significance of block quotations. 4. Always...
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...Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a celebrated painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts five prostitutes in a brothel, in the Avignon Street of Barcelona. The controversial eye-catching painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Les Demoiselles d Avignon work represents a major milestone in the history of modern art. Picasso's controversial and powerful painting broke all traditional concepts and perspective of ideal beauty. It distinguished him from other artists and ushered in the new artistic movement of cubism. In the months leading up to the painting's creation, Picasso struggles with the subject -- five women in a brothel. In 19th century art, prostitutes played a significant role as they were regarded as subversive and disruptive to the social and sexual status quo . Picasso's awareness of this theme must be remembered when examining this work since it aided the painting in becoming the most important artwork of the century. The painting began as a narrative brothel scene on Avignon Street in the city of Barcelona where Picasso was a young up and coming artist. Here he created more than 100 sketches and preliminary paintings before his final design. Initially the painting had five naked prostitutes and two men, a patron surrounded by the women, and a medical student holding a skull, perhaps symbolizing that "the wages of sin are death. " The sailor seemed to be walking into this curtained room where the ladies stand and the woman on the far left now...
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...Eve teasing Eve teasing is a euphemism used in India and sometimes Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal for public sexual harassment, street harassment or molestation of women by men, with Eve being a reference to the biblical Eve. Considered a problem related to delinquency in youth it is a form of sexual aggression that ranges in severity from sexually suggestive remarks, brushing in public places, catcalls, to outright groping. Sometimes it is referred to with a coy suggestion of innocent fun, making it appear innocuous with no resulting liability on the part of the perpetrator. Many feminists and voluntary organizations have suggested that the expression be replaced by a more appropriate term. According to them, considering the semantic roots of the term in Indian English, eve-teasing refers to the temptress nature of Eve, placing responsibility on the woman as a tease, as though the aggressive response of the males was normal rather than criminal. Eve-teasing has been a notoriously difficult crime to prove, as perpetrators often devise ingenious ways to attack women, even though many feminist writers term it as "little rapes” and usually occur in public places, streets, and public transport. Some guidebooks to the region warn female tourists that eve teasing may be avoided by wearing conservative clothing, though eve teasing is reported both by Indian women and by conservatively-dressed foreign women. MEANING :- Eve teasing is a euphemism used in India for sexual harassment...
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