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The Fault in Our Stars is a hotly debated book due to its mature themes and morbid ending. This book portrays death, explicit language and sexuality through its characters. As a result of these themes and the book’s ending, it has been banned by several school districts. Books can help introduce difficult concepts and promote intellectual and emotional growth. However, they need to be appropriate to the level of maturity of the reader. Children’s literature should be able to teach a lesson that…

CASE NOTE: Inco Europe Ltd & Ors v First Choice Distribution & Ors I. INTRODUCTION This case bears a great importance on II. THE CASE A. FACTS Inco Europe was a dealer in non-ferrous metals traded on the London Metal Exchange. It had previously done business with Steinweg, owner of an approved LME warehouse for metals being traded on the exchange. The two have been in business together for at least three years preceding this collaboration. Inco Europe and Steinweg usually dealt on the terms…

When there is protagonist in a story, there exist antagonists. They are used as either an obstacle to the main character’s journey, or as another form of motivation to get through. Posidon, without a doubt, is the antagonist in The Odyssey. There may be many insignificant characters that are obstacles to Odysseus’s episodes of adventure; however, Poseidon’s existence becomes the main objection to Odysseus returning to Ithaca. … “Ah poor man, why is the god of earthquakes so dead set against you…

What is something that people should have? Its pride all three of the people i'm about to talk about is how Claude Mckay,Miep Gies, and Harriet Tubman all have pride and are brave people cause of what they did. Tubman freed many slaves, gies helped a jewish family and mckay stood up fighting all in which are people who did something different from other people. Although Claude Mckay,Miep Gies, and Harriet Tubman had many different experiences, when the time came, they all acted very heroically…

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the middle of my childhood. We got our dog during this time, our pocket beagle Belle, which was like adding a new member to our family. During this period, we went to Europe for my dad’s college basketball team. We toured all over Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, etc. Our home was in a yellow house with a green roof right across from a rock corey. My bedroom went from yellow to elephant pink to lime green as I grew older. I had a lot of stuffed animals when I was younger, next I changed it to posters…

Attacked on the United states aviation as always been a target for terrorist to carry out their violence disasters exploit against the United States calling fear and economy breakdown. And of such attacked was the Richard Reid failed shoe plot. Richard Reid board flight 63 an American Airlines flight carrying 197 people from Paris, France to Miami, United states on December 22, 2001 with sophisticated bombs made of plastic explosive, detonating cord, a homemade detonator and a safety fuse with…

Everywhere we go nowadays, advertisements are prevalent all over; making it difficult to depict an underlying meaning seeing as you are constantly surrounded by them. Whether you are out and about, or sitting at home watching TV, products are constantly being displayed that you “need to get.” Some gimmicks and sayings that are used to promote these services or items are completely ridiculous, or even offending. There are many ads that have hidden messages that pertain to topics such as race,…

The movie Gangs of New York takes place in mid-19th century in the Five Points district located inside of New York City. The Five Points area was built on what was known as the Collect Pond; the Five Points was a very important part of the movie because this is where everyone got their fresh water. Eventually, overtime due to the amount of people immigrating here the water started to become contaminated in a short period of time. In other words, it stunk, and the place was filled with disease.…

Racial Profiling involves the targeting by a law enforcement official simply based on the color of one’s skin, physical features, religion, and race. One form of racial profiling is criminal profiling, practiced by law enforcement officials as focus on a group of characteristics; believe to be associated with crime (ACLU, 2015). This form of racial profiling isn’t always fair; however, criminal profiling can be effective in identifying and preventing possible criminal activity. The benefits of…