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    In a familial hierarchy, it is transparent who is dominant and who is subordinate. The parents are at the top, while the children are at the bottom. Parents make the rules, while the children follow them. In the story “The Rules of the Game”, the author Amy Tan uses this model of familial hierarchy to demonstrate the power dynamic between the mother and the daughter. The main protagonist, Waverly Place Jong, is the youngest out of her two brothers and is the only daughter in the Jong household.

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    Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “We Real Cool” uses musical rhythms to depict the endgame consequences of youthful, rebellious behavior. The first noticeable musical rhythm to be employed by the writer is alliteration, used to lay down the foundation for the meter used in the poem. “We lurk late. We strike straight. We sing sin...We jazz June”. The melodious pattern of the alliteration establishes the sway of the poem. As you continue to read, the alliterations pull you through the rest of the poem. The

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    THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY: aka I’ve scoured the net, and yet none have mentioned the following theory pertaining to The Retribution of Mara Dyer (edited to include A Clockwork Orange--found at the bottom.) (October: edited to include the Daniel Myer theory) This all links back to Biotechnology. Otherwise known as David Shaw, Noah Shaw’s father. Noah’s father owns a megacorporation that all stems from research in biotechnology. According to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Act 2, biotechnology

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    indispensable ally. When the goblin army attacks Parsis, we attack Abolonia and although these moves split our forces, I have foreseen this and taken the necessary precautions. I haven’t been strategically planning this war without realizing that the endgame is all that counts. Lord Kane. Are you ready?” “Yes, my lord.” Kane replied confidently. “Then our attack on Whitefield should proceed smoothly and so see how well my plan works and if all goes well, we have a major advantage in every battle in

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    One In the Same The book Dracula by, Bram Stoker, and the short story “Heading Home” by, Ramsey Campbell, are both gruesome stories. One about a head trying to sew itself together to its former self, the other a vampire like man seeking the taste of blood (can’t blame him really blood does taste like salt). The said head was formerly, a mad scientist. The latter, a man named, Renfield. Two men so different in motives, whereas their personalities are similar. These are their stories (and yes I made

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    Essay To My One Love

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    Facing death at any age is difficult, but for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and John Sullivan, it came early, resulting in two essays retelling their experience.  In their accounts of these situations, the author can see they both want to emphasise that death can come in very unexpected situations.  To My One Love, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, begins on page 17 of 50 Essays by Samuel Cohen.  In her essay, set in present day, she has flashbacks to her relationship with a boy “from the wrong side of town”

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    2-Tolstoy’s Character. Tolstoy was a multi-dimensional man. In his long career he had been a teacher and educational theorist, a philosopher and social critic, a successful farmer and paterfamilias, a soldier, and a prophet. Above all, however, he was a great artist, and it is on his fiction that his fame at present rests. The literary career of this "great writer of the Russian land" (as his contemporary Turgenev called him) may be divided into three parts: the early period of literary apprenticeship

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    Samuel Beckett, regarded as one of the best Theater of the Absurd geniuses of all time, is an Irish playwright and director of the avant-garde. Living in Paris France for the majority of his life, he wrote in both English and French. Using bleak and hopeless themes, his works depict a harsh attack on realism and challenge the very meaning of life. Beckett’s works opened the world of theater to many interesting possibilities in drama and fiction. He introduced to theater and novel the idea that the

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    questionability of the legitimacy of our government and the education of politics for the people. The voter turnout rates can lead to a multitude of things like education and more accurate votes to the simple feel of completing a civic duty. The endgame of voter turnouts is the education of voters involved (Document F) as well as the accuracy of the vote being unquestionable (Document E). This increased voter turnout can lead to the connection of people through gathering, regardless of age (Document

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    increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange (bbc new link( )”. Life is a competition, someone has to lose, and with the world globalization a wider losing class must be created. Globalization has its own endgame and people of the world won’t hear of it. Talent, pride, independence, rights, religion, and more, make each person into the people they are today and with globalization individualism may become a norm of the past. In response to globalization, one

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