Words and expressions for self study work Topics: Politics, Economy, social Issues and News You are required to work on the following phrases and expressions to accumulate 10% of your overall course grade 1. to mark the anniversary 2. from dawn until dusk 3. solemn ceremony 4. devastating attacks 5. armored vehicles 6. democracy advocates 7. a lukewarm supporter 8. newspaper columnists 9. adultery law 10. opinion polls 11. incremental reform 12. color-coded
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so preoccupied with my thoughts that I didn’t notice my name being called, or my piano instructor nudging me towards the stage. But I distinctly remember being offstage, and then, as if I had been teleported, onstage. I froze, standing as still as a dead man, in the middle of the colossal stage. My knees nearly buckled under my own weight, and my frail, 3’9’ frame shook. As my 8-year-old brain frantically calculated the benefits of
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the occupation. The Titanic was to be his last trip before retiring after thirty-eight years of serving the White Star Line. It was to be a splendid way to end his career. Sadly, due to misfortunate events, the Titanic’s sinking ended with over 1,500 dead and the loss of the magnificent ship on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. Safety feature were put in place to prevent a disaster like the Titanic to never happened again, or at
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It was a beautiful July day, one of those days that come only when the weather has been settled for some time. The sky is clear from earliest morning; the sunrise does not blaze like a fire but spreads a gentle blush. The sun is not ignescent or scorching hot as it is during a sultry drought, nor is it a murky crimson as before a storm, but it is bright and affably radiant-peacefully arising beneath a long narrow cloud, freshly gleaming through it and submerged in its lilac mist. The delicate
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List of Greek Gods and Goddesses - A • Achelois - One of the moon goddesses. • Achelous - The patron god of the Achelous river. • Aeolus - (a.k.a. Aeolos, Aiolos, Aiolus, Eolus) God of air and the winds. • Aether - (a.k.a. Aither, Akmon, Ether) God of light and the atmosphere. • Alastor - God of family feuds. • Alcyone - One of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. • Alectrona - Early Greek goddess of the sun. • Amphitrite - (a.k.a. Salacia) The wife of Poseidon
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When people think of the Roman Colosseum, they often think about the huge stone stadium structure and gladiator fights. While this is true, the Colosseum was much more than this. The Colosseum is not only an ancient structure, but also a symbol representing the power of the Roman Empire. This structure, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, entered construction in 72 CE in the reign of Vespasian. This building, which was built on a site that was once the lake and gardens of Emperor Nero’s Golden
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Night’s Brutish Theme and its Effect on Eliezer In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, the atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes, however Eliezer escapes this fate and he is able to retain his goodness through the end of the story. Eliezer is the main character who starts out in the novel as a very devout Jew living in Sighet, Transylvania at the beginning of World War Two. As the years progress in the war, Eliezer and the Jews are taken from their homes and either put in
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A Tale of Three Lions Haggard, Henry Rider Published: 1887 Type(s): Short Fiction, Adventure Source: http://www.gutenberg.org 1 About Haggard: Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public Schools
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Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas Index Previous Next Buy this Book at Amazon.com The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, ed. Andrew Lang, [1898], at sacred-texts.com p. 187 The Little Hunchback In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much. One day, when the tailor was hard at work, a little hunchback came and sat at the entrance of the shop, and began to sing
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difficult position; have been much troubled with snipers. Am glad I have done my duty. First wash for a week – go down to the Water Hole, which is always covered by Turkish snipers – it was safer in the trenches than here – all around this spot are dead and wounded who have been hit when dodging round this corner; however, one must drink, even if the price be Death. Make dug-outs in our rest camps, but men are continually caught by the snipers. Many are commencing to suffer from dysentery, though
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