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    political campaigning, but a few decided to take a more direct approach. One said individual is John Brown. John Brown was a white abolitionist born in Connecticut who simply grew tired of the pacifist approach and took up arms with a few volunteers against slavery. Brown was born the son of Owen Brown, a tanner, in the town of Torrington, Connecticut. The Browns were conventional evangelicals, and John went to school in Massachusetts to become a Congregationalist minister. Unfortunately he ran

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    Lastly, Crooks, the “Stable Buck” dreams to have a purpose in life. The American Dream is a common goal between the characters in the novella. Throughout the novel, John Steinbeck cleverly shows the proximity between the principles of the American dream and the harsh reality of boundless poverty. In Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck uses the characters of

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    published in 1776. Though, in order to be shared with the public, Thomas Paine had to be inspired first. Some of the more common inspirations were derived from the ideas of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. The main points of Thomas Paine’s document were to separate from English rule and to form a democratic nation. Some of John Locke’s most common ideas of the human nature were that humans needed independence to thrive, a statement aligning with Paine’s strongly. Common Sense was written when America

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    says; “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” Pilate tells the others that what he had written he had written, and then Jesus begins to declare that he is thirsty. At this point someone put of sponge of wine to his mouth and he says: “It is finished” (John, 19:30). Then, Jesus dies and the soldiers pierced him in the side with a spear. Saramago version of the story is much different. The scene starts by Jesus explaining to everyone how they are going to die. He cooks up a plan that he thinks will save

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    In 2007, Edward J. Larson published a book that focused on the events from America’s electoral process in 1800. The book explores four candidates; Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. However, the author’s main focus is on Jefferson and Adams due to their salient bout. As the former supported the Republican Party and the latter supported the Federal Party, there was a prevalent rivalry between the two candidates (Larson, 2007). With the negative and positive aspects, Larson’s

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    The novel ‘Of Mice and Men’, written by John Steinbeck, is set near the Salinas River in California, America during the Great Depression between 1930-1939. The Great Depression was a distressing time in the history of America as the unemployment rate was high which in turn led to poverty and hunger. During this time, many struggled to find work and this steered them to travel long distances, often without having anyone to talk to. Dreams were crafted by this travelling workforce and were something

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    "You don 't get the chance to make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great,” Stated by Hillary Clinton during her campaign rally in St. Louis, Missouri to attack candidate Donald Trump from his previous diverse rhetoric. Political Rhetoric has been very popular in today’s society. Politics use this as a platform to criticize other candidates about important points that are essential to the United States and its citizens. Not only does others believe that political rhetoric

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    The topic I am choosing for the project is sonnets, with a focus on John Keats. I think that sonnets fit into the focus of this seminar because they are a form of a lyric. Like we learned in Jackson’s “Lyric” article, “"the early modern sonnet becomes the semi-official vehicle of contemporaneous lyric, and both theory and commentary respond to it as a given.” It also talks about the Romantic period was when “the lyric became a transcendent genre by remaining an idea that could blur the differences

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    Mark is considered the second Gospel by location in the Bible and opens up focused on John the Baptist. It begins with an explanation as to how he was to prepare the way for Jesus and that it was his job to fulfill prophecies leading up to Jesus. It also includes nothing about the birth of Jesus or his earlier years of life. It begins with Jesus being in the wilderness for forty days while being tempted by Satan. I felt very early that Mark left out a lot of details in some of the stories about Jesus

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    Accomplished novelist, John Steinbeck, born in 1902, serves as a staple of American literature. He grew up in Salinas, California and graduated from Salinas High School in 1919. After attending Stanford University to study English Literature and failing to obtain a degree, Steinbeck moved to New York City and jumped between odd jobs and writing. With no luck in becoming published, he moved back to California, where he spent the rest of his life. As the author of novels, both fiction and nonfiction

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