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In 2015- Automobile Statistics of Sri Lanka printed by the transport ministry mentions that, there had been a total of 349 automobile accidents which lead to 39 deaths and injured over 200 people. The main cause for these 349 automobile accidents was the use of smartphones for texting while…

different backgrounds may believe the other is completely immoral and insensitive. In the novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera, 2012, paints the stories of intertwining characters, one of which who becomes a suicide bomber in Sri Lanka. Looking into young Saraswathi’s life, Munaweera introduced her as an intelligent girl who dreamed of one day becoming a school teacher. Yet unfortunately, she was living in a time of civil war and bloody massacres. After being stripped from her…

Wow, I would never have thought I’d die at the age of sixteen. Well at least I don’t have to go to school tomorrow! I searched around the Garden of Eden; there was no shortage of sweet coconuts or juicy mangos, but where was everyone else? Could this be hell and not heaven? I mean hell doesn’t necessarily have to be a fiery cave where there’s a guy in a red cape prodding you with his trident. I heard about this sort of thing, my mum told me. She said hell is…

hospital in search of medicine safely by Ruslan and Sarah. Stated by the article, Indian Ocean tsunami: then and now, from BBC News, they said, “After the quake struck, the resulting tsunami radiated across the Indian Ocean, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka and beyond.” After the tsunami, Sarah and Peter were trying their hardest to survive to find their parents. When they found their mom dead, and saw their dad for a brief time, they both got a reality check. They realized they were going to have to…

I was not interested in politics for most of my life or that was what I thought up until the year 2007. Previously my views and conceptions of politics were often based on a restricted understanding of the subject and the lack of trust in politicians. I perceived it to be irrelevant to my life because then I had other priorities such as sports, exams, and other school related activities, hence I became alienated from politics. As I grew older, my interest in political affairs was realized at…

Bosnia/Former Yugoslavia The Bosnian Conflict is a conflict with two parts, one included an armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina; another is the Bosnian Genocide of the Bosniak people. The Conflict was caused in part by the splitting of Yugoslavia, during the early 1990s near the end of the cold war. The Bosnian Genocide coincided with Bosnian War, the genocide was a mass killing or ethnic cleansing of the Bosniak people and their culture, which occurred shortly after the…

When the Charlie Hebdo attack happened, people were shocked and angered by the actions of the shooters, though, to the shooters, the acts they committed were just. In Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera, when Saraswathi bombed the bus, she did it to find justice for herself. To those who are negatively affected by it, suicide bombings and mass killings are never justifiable. People have their own idea of what is right or wrong and once a person has made up their mind, it’s hard to…

The Impossible “The Impossible” is a spanish disaster film. It is a touching film which based on an experience of Maria Belon and her family in 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. “The Impossible” set in the year of 2012.It directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and written by Sergio G . Schez . It is all about the family love and the miracle happens in the terrible tsunami. This film had shown that miracle happens everywhere as long as you believe in faith. I like this film because it touched me so much.…

On a Saturday morning I decided to do a family tree project for my English class. On one of the websites I went to an ad popped up on the screen telling me I can learn more about my family history through my DNA and it was for free. I decided to try it because I was curious about my family history, so I had applied for it. Three days later I had gotten a DNA testing kit. I had put the tooth cotton swab in my mouth and moved it around to get my saliva on it. After that I had sent my DNA back and…

In “A Necessary Luxury: Tea In Victorian England,” by Julie E. Fromer, the role that tea played in England, during this time, is assessed and analyzed. In these first three chapters from her novel, the author lays out the role tea played by discussing: the history of tea and the representations of English national identity; the middle-class Englishness of drinking tea; as well as gender and middle-class domesticity at the tea table. She begins by describing the role tea played in Victorian…