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    turns on his ancestors, like a hunter’s dog that suddenly goes mad and turns on his master. I fear for you; I fear for the clan.” Things Fall Apart is an African novel written in 1958. The text above was expressed by an old native of Mbanta, the motherland of Okonkwo. When Okonkwo

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    “Fear is made of rules not swords” such should be the motto for a warrior, such is the type of character king Leonidas from 300 exhibit. He can be taken as an inspiration for a fighting spirit minded people, fighting the Persian army consisting of earth shaking numbers is no small achievement. What is more fascinating is the way he led those 300 fearless men in combat with sheer confidence. He has all the qualities of a hero as he fought with the Persian troops without surrendering in order for Greece

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    Accordig to Ledesma, J. (2017, June 07), the urban war in Marawi defines the finest moment of Muslims and Christians ties and brotherhood in the face of a ruthless aggressor that wrecked the erstwhile pristine and quiet Islamic City in the Philippines. Amidst the burst of deafening gun fires, devastations, stink of unknown corpses and threats of death by execution carried out in the most gruesome and barbaric rituals emerged a kinship among the victims helping each other survive the atrocities of

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    American Revolution was definitely revolutionary. The people broke free from Britain and gained independence. Only one third of the colonist enthusiastically supported the revolution. The colonist were unhappy and being treated terribly by their motherland and trouble started to brew. The thirteen colonies that became the United States of America were originally colonies of Great Britain. By the time the American Revolution took place, the citizens of these colonies were beginning to get tired

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    the emission of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matters, and carbon dioxide, has already gone far away beyond being the side effect of the development but also the handicap of the country’s future. “Teenagers are the flowers of our motherland.” This old saying from China has lost its timely significance as the teenagers, the future of this country, are undergoing the challenge of the country’s heavy air pollution: In some northern provinces and cities in China, especially Beijing, Tianjin

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    ITRODUCTION Rabindranath Tagore was Independent India’s earliest cultural ambassador, and his generation’s most gifted dabbler. He proved that a jack of all trades could, very rarely, be master of them all. He was a poet, an artist, a scholar and a musician. He founded a university, a musical tradition, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Tagore wouldn’t live to see an Independent India; through his vision of the country it could be advanced the cause of freedom across the globe

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    Exercise On Slavery

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    What emotions do you feel while listening to this song? The song shows a person trying to be free, and make me feel sad and the same time confused. What this person made wrong to be in this kind of prison. What other events or experiences does this song make you think about? Why man is so ambitious in point of try to control another human being to fulfill his needs. The person is trying to go back to home but is slaved for the needs to who own him. What story do the lyrics tell? Describe. The

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    France's Success Essay

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    One of the most vital factors in France’s loss and the Soviet Union’s success was the link between the home front and the battlefield. France saw a long-standing divide between the classes contribute to their downfall whereas the Soviet Union eventually experienced unification and comradery within the confines of its social structure. Not only that, but to keep a home front involved in the war effort, a country must be able to provide victory. This is something that the Soviet Union achieved—after

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    After Okonkwo was exiled from Umuofia and was forced to live in his motherland, he decided that he will gain he’s success back and he will become bigger and better than he ever was. Okonkwo is so determined that he starts to believe that “his return should be marked be his people. He would return with a flourish, and regain

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    conflict. One must realize, whether or not the allegations are true, and so yet there is no evidence they are not, there is no excuse that Indigenous had points of defence. A point of being neglect: Why do they have to feel neglected in their motherland? And a point of suffering: Why should they suffer in Australia – a birthplace of their ancestors? Until these questions are precisely challenged, Australian should still believe the grim fact that many existing attitude toward most disadvantaged

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