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    William Blake was a poet, painter, and engraver, who was born in Soho, London on November 28th 1757. Blake lived in London at a time of great political and social change. The Industrial Revolution took place in 1760, the American Revolution began in 1775, and the French Revolution began in 1789, and all of these revolutions greatly influenced William Blake’s writing. Blake wrote his world famous Songs of Innocence in 1789 and later combined it with additional poems titled Songs of Innocence and of

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    follow, and into a lift. The lead mannequin puts its arm in the closing doors, causing Rose to scream. When the mystery Man starts yanking on the arm, Nico jumps forward and helps pull it off. After they get it off the door closes and the Man presses the ground floor button. Rose breaks the silence. "You pulled his arm off." "Yep. Plastic." He responds, and tosses the arm to Nico, who quickly gives it to Rose. "Very clever. Nice trick! Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what

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    no Rose without thorns.”All immigrants have troubles through their life. Maybe they are judged by their Heritage,and that is why they are mistreated. Those are the thorns I’m Talking about Esperanza Ortega from Esperanza Rising by pam Munoz Ryan is no different. This young girl had to face a huge challenge to where she had to leave her home in Mexico. She ran to California to start a new life. Since her papa’s death,Esperanza had face many other challenges as an immigrant. Mama getting sick with

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    have to find out. There are two great qualities of Gothic stories first “A Rose For Emily” the second “Tell Tale-Heart” you must have heard of these stories before. In these two stories Emily and the unknown narrator are both messed up in the head they are mentally deranged. The two stories have different themes even though they have their similarities. Nothing good can come from evil deeds. The similarities between “A Rose

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    they were believed to be the main cause of losing the war. Innocent German Jews were taken their citizenship away and violently killed. The holocaust was a horrific time period where Nazis took control and fought against Jews First, both Night and Rose under fire explained the harsh treatment the Jews faced during the Holocaust. They both explained their own personal troubles they faced during the holocaust and the other inmates problems as well. Elie Wiesel, a famous survivor wrote this quote

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    smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.” It refers that love likes a smoke, touches the eyes, and makes people cry. Emily, a character in the story of William Faulkner “A rose for Emily”, is suffered the tragedy of love. In addition, she also links to the death of the Old South. To begin with, the first section of “a rose for Emily” tells about the struggle between Emily who symbolizes for the Old South and the new generation

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    “There is no rose without thorns.” An immigrant can have stress when moving to the U.S., & you don’t know how much they lost. You shouldn’t treat people like they have no worth, and I should know because my brothers treat me like that all the time. Esperanza Rising, written by Pam Munoz Ryan, is about an immigrant named Esperanza Ortega, and she has been treated just the same. After Esperanza immigrated, she had few challenges like how she didn’t know how to do chores because she always had servants

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    friend or even that children my age could get sick was completely unknown to me. Later that night, “Rose is sick and I cannot let her die,” kept replaying in the back of my mind. Meanwhile, I desperately tried to think of a plan to save my friend’s life, but everything I thought of required an adult. This conclusion made it seem that as a twelve year old, I was powerless. However, I still refused to accept the fact that I was incapable to help Rose. I decided the most effective way to accomplish

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    My favorite saint is the saint I chose for confirmation, Saint Rose of Lima. She was born on April 20, 1586 in Lima, Peru. She was born with the name Isabel but grew the nickname Rose because her mother would tell her she was as beautiful as a rose. From the moment she was born she was admired for her beauty. She found such little importance in physical appearance that she cut off her hair and rubbed pepper to ruin her skin. She refused to accept any suitors. At an early age, she promised to live

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    bar, it was as big as a house. I also glanced at my other friend Courtney and my friend Andrew wiggling and shaking to the music.I was walking over to both of my friends and when my friend Stephen bumped into me he said,”Girl u look as pretty as a rose.” I said,” Thanks” then continued walking again. By the time I reached them Andrew said,”You look as cool as a rock star.”After that I said,”Thanks for the compliment and we galloped to the music.Once me,Andrew, Courtney Leigha, Stephen, danced until

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