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Take a Risk!Rules:1. One player will voluntarily raise his hand and

answer the jumbled word.2. Failure to volunteer in each flashed words will

lose someone else's turn. 3. Each is given 10 seconds to guess the answer. 4. One answer is required and should be the first

and final.5. Choose carefully.

DOGO CULK!

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II.Culture of the Country:Polygamy is legal in Iran, and men can marry up to four wives. Once married, a girl can no longer go to high school. The marriage age of girls is currently 13, up from 9 years old after the Revolution. Boys may marry at 15, the legal age Iranians can vote.

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If a girl in Iran is sexually abused or harassed, blame typically falls on the girl’s mother, for not protecting her daughter, much more than on the offender.They believe in AFTERLIFE.

INDYEST

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III.Comparison to Philippine Culture:

Feast days involves drinking alcohol. We both consider heaven and hellIn Muslim culture they practice Polygamy.If we read the bible or reflect it with HIS presence we would attain honor and happiness.

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IV. Connection to other Disciplines:

Origin of the Species

Natural Selection

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First Wine? Archaeologist Traces Drink to Stone Age Expert on the origins of ancient wine

and a leader in the emerging field of bio molecular archaeology. Through a combination of archaeological sleuthing and chemical analysis, that the history of wine extends to the Neolithic period (8,500-4,000 B.C.) and the first glimmerings of civilization.

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Life- characteristic distinguishing physical

entities having signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate.

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Health Benefits Of Drinking Alcohol1. It Can Lower Your Risk Of

Cardiovascular Disease2. It Can Lengthen Your Life3. It Can Improve Your Libido4. It Helps Prevent Against the Common

Cold5. It Can Decrease Chances Of Developing

Dementia6. It Can Reduce The Risk Of Gallstones7. Lowers The Chance Of Diabetes

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Death- is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging , predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury.

ATEMTPOINT

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The effects of abusive alcohol consumption

High levels of alcohol consumption are associated with an increased risk of alcoholism, malnutrition, chronic pancreatitis, alcoholic liver disease, and cancer. In addition, damage to the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system can occur from chronic alcohol abuse and can lead to DEATH.

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Why Do We Get Emotional When We Drink?

Alcohol impacts every organ system in the body.As more drinks are consumed , The limbic system, a set of six inner structures tucked under the cerebrum, is believed to be the emotional center of the brain and is tasked with controlling our emotions and behavior, and forming long-term memories.

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Top Ten Countries With Highest Birth Rate (2012)

Rank Country Birth Rate (Birth/1000 population)

1 Niger 47.60

2 Mali 46.60

3 Uganda 45.80

4 Burkina Faso 43.20

5 Zambia 43.10

6 Somalia 42.12

7 Burundi 40.58

8 Malawi 40.42

9 Republic of Congo 40.09

10 Angola 39.36

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Death Rate:

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Rank Country Death Rate (Death/1000 population)

1 South Africa 17.23

2 Ukraine 15.76

3 Lesotho 15.18

4 Chad 15.16

5 Guinea-Bissau 15.01

6 Central African Republic 14.71

7 Afghanistan 14.59

8 Bulgaria 14.55

9 Somalia 14.32

10 Swaziland 14.21

Top Ten Countries With Highest Death Rate (2012)

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V.Definition of Terms:

1. Hedonism- excessive pleasure2. Cessation- termination3. Sleuthing- investigating4. Audacious- risky5. Antidote- remedy, cure

HOMDESIN

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VI.Synopsis/Summary:

There is God accepted rule and law, by

choice, we are going through a path either

success or failure. Both require celebration,

getting drunk on a good path make us certain

about our future. Be righteous. Conserve your

time efficiently; make yourself do what should

be done. Remember that experiences which are

not reflected are easily forgotten.

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On the other hand, getting wasted on the

wrong path attracts temptation to create a

sin. Those are referred to as forbidden rule.

In these dark times, you will stumble and

fall, be broken—worst? Die in agony and

regrets. But rejoice True-Believers! For the

Lord who will open his door and will offer his

life for Man’s forgiveness.

FLELUNTMILF

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VII.Genre:

Persian POETRY form of “rubai” (quatrains)

SEUCSCS

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VIII.Universality:

Human Ups and DownsTemptations/ FailuresSuccessLifeDeath

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IX.Author:

BackgroundOmar Khayyam (1048-1122)-a Persian Mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet

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Reason why he wrote this masterpiece:His love of wine (a drink which drove

sorrow from the heart, as he composed his poetry) and his hedonism so publicly demonstrated in his poetry was audacious for his time.

TIBRET

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Translator: Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)- an English poet and writer -made five editions of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat -first published in 1859

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X.Symbolism:HEAVEN- fulfilled desire

67th rubaiHeav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire,Cast on the Darkness into which

Ourselves,So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire.

HELL- soul on fire

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WINE symbolizes the water of life.

43rd rubaiAnd if the wine you

drink, the Lip you pressEnd in what All begins

and ends in — Yes;Think then you are

today what yesterday you were —

Tomorrow you shall not be less.

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MOVING FINGER -symbolizes fate/destiny

70th rubaiThe Moving Finger writes;

and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety

nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half

a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a

Word of it.

ITEM

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XI.Figures of speech:

Alliteration- repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

1st rubai

1- AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night

2 - Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:

3 - And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught

4 - The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light

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Repetition-use of the same word(s) more than once in close proximity within a verse

25th rubai1- Ah, make the most of what we yet may

spend, 2- Before we too into the Dust descend;3- Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

4- Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and —sans End!

GHORITUES

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Internal Rhyme- rhymes and inverse rhymes involving non-ultimate syllables.

68th rubai

1 - For in and out, above, about, below,

2 - 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,

3 - Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,

4 - Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

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Extreme Contrast- dramatic juxtaposition of diametric opposites

8th rubai1 - Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,2 - Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,3 - The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,4 - The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

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XII.Plot:Man in a Road

64th rubai

Strange, is it not, that of the myriads whoBefore us passed the door of Darkness

through,Not one returns to tell us the road,

Which to discover we must travel, too?

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XIII.Narrator’s Point of View:First Person:

66th rubai

1- I sent my Soul through the invisible,2- Some letter of that After-life to spell;

3- And by and by my Soul returned to me,4- And answered, “I myself am Heaven and

Hell.”

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2nd Person53rd rubai

1- But if in vain down on the stubborn floor

2- Of Earth, and up to heaven’s unopening door

3- You gaze Today, while You are –You, how then

4- To-morrow You, when shall be Youno more?

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Third Person92nd rubai

1- O Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make,

2- And even with Paradise devise the Snake,

3- For all the sin wherewith the face of Man

4- Is blackened, Man’s forgiveness give-and take!

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XIV.Characters:

I (narrator) You Man

Dynamic and Round

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XV.Setting:

Nishapur, Pilgrimage to Mecca,1092

VEFSORGISNE

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XVI.Theme:

36th rubaiThen the lip of this poor earthern urnI leaned the secret of my life to learn And lip to lip it murmurd-While you live drink!For once dead you never shall return

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“Carpe Diem” - Seize the Day and make the most of it, it will

never return.

“Learn from your Failures, enjoy your Life and be Happy for you cannot turn back the

Time”.

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