Prefect Essays

  • My Interest in Law

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    Delegation' award due to our hardwork and team effort. With my reputation as a morally upright student, I was appointed to the highly responsible post of Anglican Chapel Prefect of my school from May 1999 to June 2000 and my task included mobilising students to attend worship on Sundays, as well as assisting other school prefects to run the school. My good communication skills helped to elect me to the office of the Secretary-General of the Photography Club from September 1999 to June 2000, during

  • Year 11 Prom Committee

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    Prom Committee Personally, I would absolutely adore the oppurtunity to be a member of the prom committee for the 2016 year 11 prom for a variety of reasons. Firstly, I have an extremely creative streak and would relish in the chance to plan and think of new and unique ideas whilst working with and building off of the ideas of others to create a phenomenal finalised piece. Additionally, I don’t enjoy being a bystander and I dislike the idea of spectating when I could be participating and in general

  • Sixth form prefect application

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    support the senior prefects in managing particular projects using my mentioned skills, qualities and experiences. As mentioned above, I will be able to use my media expertise to work alongside with other members to produce moving pictures or print productions as require by the prefect team or the school, at the same time taking responsibility for specific assignments given by the prefect team. This can include the promotion of the sixth form and prefect’s events such as the prefect video every year

  • Reflection Paper On Being A Prefect

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    improve someone’s quality of life leaves me yearning for the opportunity. Throughout secondary school, I remained a hard-working and dedicated student, my enthusiasm for learning shined through, so much that I was selected to become a prefect. During my time as a prefect I was given a year seven form class to look after and monitor progress, throughout the year this was a great responsibility

  • The Significance of Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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    Ford Prefect is a remarkable, elemental figure of comic relief in the novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a sci-fi by the legendary Douglas Adams. An adventuring hitchhiker through space, he and his best friend, Arthur Dent, embark on a quest to find the purpose of the universe. He brings out the humor and a broader view of events in the novel, and is the only other protagonist apart from Arthur who endures mostly the same problems, and yet his approach to these problems and witty characteristics

  • Prevailing ingeniuity in Edgar Allan Poess The Purloined Letter

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    clever and cunning amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin. In this story, The Prefect of the Parisian police calls upon Dupin to aid in an investigation that has baffled and frustrated the police. Dupin finds a worthy adversary in the antagonst, Minister D_. Dupin must identify with the mind of the criminal in order to retrieve a stolen letter and return it to its rightful owner. With the dynamic relationship between Dupin, Prefect G_., and Minister D_., Poe skillfully illustrates that an ingenious felon

  • Foreshadowing In The Purloined Letter

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    eyes. In many real life problems many people can’t find happiness but sometimes it’s right in front of them. Poe utilizes foreshadowing to elucidate where the letter is to be found. During the beginning of the story, Dupin hints that the reason the Prefect is having a troublesome time with the case is because it is too conspicuous. In the offing of the story it is found

  • My Journey: My Leadership Journey So Far

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    My Leadership Journey So far Throughout my primary school and junior secondary school education, our teachers used to tell us that we were the future leaders of this country. We would soon be the ones in charge of running various organization and occupying various positions in our country. Thus, the mention of the word leader back then meant to me as something I could only be in the future. As a result, I never saw myself as leader. I believed I would be a leader only when I had finished school and

  • The Themes Of Secrets And Silence In Detective Fiction

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    also states that the only reason that he is looking as hard as he is, is because of a handsome reward for the return of the letter. (Poe, The Purloined letter) The characters in The Purloined Letter consist of C. Auguste Dupin, the narrator, the Prefect of the Parisian police, minister D, and the victim of the story. Dupin reside in many tales written by Poe and is consequently the main character of this narrative, he is a complex character. As the story progresses the Minister and Dupin act in the

  • Praetorian Guard Character Analysis

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    unintended consequence of increased political powers to the Praetorians, especially the Prefect of the Guard. Following the death of Augustus in 14CE, his experienced and esteemed successor Tiberius, was sworn allegiance to by the Senate, and the armies. During the first years of his reign, the Praetorians, lead by Prefect Sejanus, attempted to consolidate their influence on Tiberius; alongside disposing of

  • The Preatorian Guard

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    the Capital” (Wasileski 1). The transition from Bodyguard to Political Power gave the Praetorian Guard a sense of power, especially the Praetorian Prefects Most of the infamous stories surrounding the Praetorian Guards assassinating their emperors are in fact only about a few guards following a very ambitious Praetorian Prefect. Praetorian Prefects usually do not serve with Praetorian’s before taking command. They are mainly administrators for the Guard and most do not have ... ... middle of

  • My Experience At Greensprings School In Lagos, Nigeria

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    I was involved in being a prefect. To earn the title of being a prefect was a huge honor. I patrolled the school and made sure everything was running like it was supposed to, and if it wasn’t I was to report to my senior prefect who would then report to our headmaster of the primary school. My two older siblings we’re senior prefects who did a little more than I did because they were dealing with not only incidents during school

  • Analysis Of Poe's The Purloined Letter

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    reiterate, all the knowledge and information we receive is from Dupin, or the narrator’s interpretation of Dupin. He is the only light we are provided in this dark room of contemplation. So, when he regales this information, he is not giving it to the Prefect of the Police or even the Minister. He is giving this re-count of what happened to his friend, his confidant, and thus he would only say what is particularly important to

  • Analysis Of The Murders In The Rue Morgue By Edgar Allan Poe

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    and Dupin, for instance, seems far from strange within the liminal space of bachelorhood that has been established thus far. For example, instead of attributing their close relationship to possible erotic attraction, their companions, such as the Prefect, seem perfectly willing to consider them as an investigative duo. To demonstrate,

  • Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

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    his adventures in space with Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android. The setting in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was on a Thursday morning in England by a house. For example, in the book it says,”the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday… begins with a house”(pg.6). The author decided to tell the story in third person point of view. A narrator is telling its point of view. Arthur Dent Then, his friend Ford Prefect, who is an alien from Betelgeuse, tells

  • Why I Want to Study Mechanical Engineering

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    Making life decisions and planning at such a young age always made me wonder. When I was a kid, I used to watch a Japanese cartoon show called ‘Doraemon’ and seeing those impossible futuristic devices made me believe that one day, I would be inventing them. Despite my childish dream, I am still determined to be among those inventors that could awe the world using my imagination to create something impossible into a possible one. My uncle who is an engineer used to say that engineers need to be committed

  • Biomedical Science Personal Statement

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    t helps to you challenge ideas and show how you worked things out through logic and step-by-step reasoning Studying Biology and Chemistry at A-level has helped I have found a particular interest in the human body especially its defence mechanisms against disease and I believe studying Biomedical Science would allow me to pursue a career in research. My fascination for Biology and the sciences are clearly shown by my A-level choices, where an understanding of self-motivation and a desire to succeed

  • Gcse English Language Analysis

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    this game is not to be the one holding the ball at the end and avoid elimination. So basically all that is needed is a ball and to set up the participants sit in a circle, with enough space between each other to pass the ball comfortably and the prefect would be the host or moderator to observe the game and identify ‘It’ and ask the questions. So the game is simple, here’s the rules: • The person holding the ball is ‘It’. • The host or moderator asks a question and calls out ‘Pass the ball’. •

  • Pharmacist Personal Statement

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    I have always taken pride from working with people and supporting them in whichever way I can. I believe that I have an enquiring mind, an interest in people and patience, which are all skills required to be able to communicate well with patients, carers and colleagues as a pharmacist. Therefore, I believe a career in Pharmacy would help me pursue this ambition. I am well aware that providing service and caring can apply to a number of careers, not just in healthcare. However, I enjoy a challenge

  • The History of Joseph Ratzinger a.k.a. Pope Benedict XVI

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    Conclave of the Sacred College. After nineteen days in Conclave, Cardinal Joseph was selected as the Pope of the Catholic Church. He chose the Papal name of Pope Benedict XVI. As pope, Benedict continued to live a simple, prayerful life like he did as prefect of the CDF. However, Benedict was faced with many scandals, mostly from the Islamic Religion. He was very peaceful about these scandals and resolved them by apologizing and promising better things in the future. On February 28, 2013, Pope Benedict