Come as You Are

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------------------------------------------------- 26/12/09 ------------------------------------------------- Dear Ashok, ------------------------------------------------- How are you? How are your parents? ------------------------------------------------- I have come here on holidays with my family. We are staying in my uncle’s house in Shimla. The house is big and very old. I can see some beautiful mountains from my bedroom window. ------------------------------------------------- It

hear from you during the traveling and this first week I had a lot of work, and I am disappointed because I wasn't there for your birthday, but you know very well that I went in Brighton for good reasons. Yesterday I joined the VADs (Voluntary Detachments Aid). So I became a nurse as I have always dreamed in my childhood. However it is very different from what I thought. Indeed the first three days I was very tired and alone but now I met a girl, her name is Lesley Smith. She's 19, so we are the youngest

elow is the transcript of a speech Robert did at Yale in October along with the Q&A that followed. For those of you who would prefer to listen to an mp3 of the speech, you can do that here. Host: Welcome everybody. So, it’s a pleasure to have all of you here, and a particular pleasure to welcome our honored guest, Robert Greene. He is, well, you are all here, so I think you probably know a lot about his books, his writings. I’ll state just a few words. He has trained in classical literature. And

State of Texas Trial JUGE: Do you plead guilty or not guilty? ACCUSE: Guilty. DEFENSE: My client suffers from serious psychiatric confusion. She’s attained of schizophrenia, indeed she’s taken herself for the Messenger of god on earth. Therefore, we plead guilty but we ask for the dismissal of the charges because of the well-known irresponsibility of my client. JUGE: The speech is to the claimant. ACCUSATION: I call to the stand Mrs. Charlotte Brown. JUGE: Do you swear to tell the truth, the

my mother screaming: ‘ John ! Come on, I have something to say to you ! ’ ‘What is there again …’ I asked ‘I need to talk to you about the money that I give you’ she answer. I began to get excited because I didn’t finish my part of video games. ‘Is there any problem ? I am busy and I didn’t spend more than I have !’ Although I shouted that, I went to the kitchen where my mother was. And she declared : ‘You don’t have to spend all of your money every month. You have to keep some euro in the bank

THE OPERATION In the UK, universities are legally independent and can freely recruit their staff and students. They are usually managed by three bodies: the council where the majority is people from outside, the Senate that deals with respect to education and the Court in very limited role. The newer universities are managed by a Board of 12 to 25 members where people from outside are a majority and Academic Board of 30 members where the direction of the university is majoritaire1. Access to British

mausolea of the Banu Marwan (God have mercy on their souls!) that are erected over their graves in the cemetery of al-Rabad, beyond' the river, she observed him to have gone apart from the rest of the people and to be preoccupied solely with her. She accordingly went up to him and said, "Why are you walking behind me?" He told her how sorely smitten he was with her, and she replied, "Have done with that! Do not seek to expose me to shame; you have no prospect of achieving your purpose, and there is no

countries especially in Europe, Great Britain suffers from several stereotypes. Some might be true but others are exaggerated. But the British people are mostly conscious of these stereotypes. What is a stereotype? A stereotype is considered as “A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image ». This supposes that it is normally wrong because oversimplified. Stereotypes come from our experience with people from other countries. Our experience is subjective but we tend to do from

Australian Idol… when you cast a glance at TV nowadays, most of the programs are reality TV shows. In each of them, dozens of unknown people become for a few episodes TV stars. They are watched, spied on, admired and adulated by millions of people in the audience. These reality shows touch most of the population because they propose us to make our dreams come true : the dream to be famous, to emerge from obscurity and to reveal to the whole word who you really are and how gifted you are too. With the