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    wrong. What about "First they came" by Martin Niemoller, you know what that means? The plot in "The Lottery" is, that you should speak up even if it’s the "wrong" thing to do. The plot in "First They Came" is, "justice & indifference" -Martin Niemoller. The three claims I have are justice & indifference, standing up may not be the easiest, & following the crowd (peer pressure). Now, the claim is talking about justice & indifference. The justice & indifference in “The Lottery” & “First they came” are

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    deteriorating due to a heart attack and cancer of the kidneys, I became aware of how patients and their families can be affected. This made me appreciate how a doctor and their team play such an important part in helping to relieve a patient. As I have had first-hand experience on how a doctor and their team minister a patient not just by performing surgery or by providing drugs to increase chances of recovery but by empathising with patients and showing care and concern towards them, I have become mindful

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    American life. This essay looks at the similarities between the love triangle that is depicted in Erdrich’s novel, along with the male-female relationships which are described in Ruth Landes ethnographic study of Ojibwe women and gender, which was first published in 1938 (Introduction). Parallels between the two books certainly exist. One is even able to substitute the characters of Nector Kashpaw, Marie Kashpaw, and Lulu Lamartine, into an almost identical situation in Landes’ book The Ojibwa Woman

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    Language is an essential part of life, it allows communication, organisation, creativity and a way to maintain and build relationships (Cremin & Myhill, 2012). Language can be thought of in two distinct, but complimentary ways; as an object to be analysed and dissected, and a dynamic social process. These two ways of thinking can aid a teacher in bridging sociocultural issues that may arise in the classroom. Sociocultural issues in the classroom include differences between Standard Australian English

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    The beautiful thing about Shakespeare’s writings is that while they may not be canonically connected, they share similar aspects in terms of central themes or driving forces. This is most notable in many of Shakespeare’s tragedies since he uses many of the same faults of man to create a tragic ending. One of these recurring fatal flaws is ambition, and interestingly enough, Shakespeare crafts his work in such a way that the characters all show their passionate ambition in very different ways depending

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    Nepal is characterized as multilingual and multicultural country from the very beginning. It is common phenomenon in which Nepalese people are heard using bi/multi-lingual repertoire in their conversation at informal level. This is the case even before Nepal and its people were exposed to the outside world viz. the Hindi and the English languages in particular and other foreign languages in general. It is observed that people living in large city centres and small remote cities and villages are multilingual

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    from one country to another. Obviously, migrants may have their own language and that is absolutely normal that they would speak it with their relatives and friends. Some may consider that behavior as rude and anti-patriotic. Is that really so? My first language is not English and I think that people should be respectful toward others tradition and culture, because some people think that it is disrespectful to speak another language other than the official language and in some of the cases it is true

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    Description During the first week of our new nurses in a surgical ward, I was supervising one of the supernumerary nurses. We were looking after a thirty-nine year old woman, Ms LC, who had undergone a laparoscopic peritonectomy. We had to start her on a negative pressure wound therapy dressing or NPWT; as suggested by wound clinical nurse consultant and the doctors during their ward round, since this would allow the fast healing of her wound. I showed the supernumerary nurse the proper way of

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    are now almost obsolete thanks to the Drs. and scientists that have developed the vaccines. But now the integrity of these vaccines is being questioned and people want to know if vaccinations are truly safe and if they are necessary. Before the first day of kindergarten most children are required to be up-to-date on vaccinations; this prevents the spread of communicable, life threatening diseases. From generation to generation, depending on how one is brought up, there is no question on whether

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    The influence of learners’ first language (L1) plays a significant role in learning a second language (L2). In general, numerous studies have been investigating L1 transfer. In specific, the influence of Arabic, more specifically Saudi Arabic, in learning English has been examined to demonstrate the native language transfer in L2 learning (Binturki, 2008; Grami and Alzughaibi, 2012; among others). Based on the influence of L1 and universal markedness (things that are present in a small number of

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