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    Reflective Statement on Persepolis The actions of an individual will impact their future this effect is called the Butterfly Effect. This effect is often described using the example of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil and a week later after a long series of events caused by the butterfly there will be tornadoes in Texas rather than clear skies. Though it also applies to human life being an action that they perform today will lead them down a path tomorrow. Though not often visible it can

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    Ba asked, what is the difficulty? The butterfly is alive... Good, Ba said. However, it is strapped. Where? Within the glass disk... Ba said nothing. However, it needs to get out. How do you understand? Because it said to me: Shuh- Shuh/ Shuh”. Here, she is the trapped butterfly that requires to be fee, at least in her supposition whereas before, he is someone who needs to tear the sky to enlarge the space

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    [Abstract] These are two world-renowned arts: traditional opera and dance. Since its appearance, Chinese ancient art has taken on the form that songs, dance and poems are performed on the same stage at the same time, usually accompanied by acrobatics and traditional Chinese operas. As a branch of traditional Chinese opera, Puxian Opera which it comes from Fujian province that is called the “Living Fossil with Mud”, plain and exquisite. Posture rhymes system of Chinese classical dance has been searching

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    Reflection of Field Notes from a Catastrophe Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe was my first in-depth look into climate change, global warming, and the contribution of humans to these things. Global warming was something I vaguely knew about before reading this book, but it never really caught my attention or seemed like a major issue in the world. After reading Field Notes from a Catastrophe, I realized that it is in fact a major issue that must be addressed by every community

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    becomes traumatized. He then proceeds by stepping on a path a crushes a butterfly under his boot accidentally. He doesn’t find out until he gets back to the future to see a new timeline. “The Veldt” is about a family who lives in a fifties-esque common concoction of a future home. The HappyLife Home is a type of smart home. The home has a room

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    dismal hole? Is the United States practicing weak or strong sustainability and should we be worried about running out of non-renewable resources? We all know what non-renewable resources are economic values that cannot be replaced within a reasonable time frame. According to the U.S. energy commission Information (EIA) Administration the United States consumed approximately 6.89 billion barrels of petroleum in 2013. Now, 6.89 billion barrels of petroleum may seem like an overwhelming amount of oil,

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    from the Desert Dolphins swam hard and did their best to take home well-deserved ribbons in each category. With dynamic strokes and fast speed, the dolphins glided through the water effortlessly, completing 25 and 50 yards per event. Doing the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle, some notable performances from the meet were by: 6-year-old Joseph Hawpe taking home 2nd place in the 25-yard

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    It’s not every day that one may watch a film that can be categorized in all the genres of thriller, drama, love, and sci-fi. However, in J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress’s movie, “The Butterfly Effect”, they do exactly that. Throughout the movie, a young man, Evan Treborn, played by Ashton Kutcher, who like his father before him, has memory blackouts that he must deal with. After several years had passed, Evan discovers a supernatural procedure to alter his entire life and find his disappeared and

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    society views as a disease. In the short stories, The Artist of the Beautiful and Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the titular characters appear to suffer from an alteration of the mind, interpreted today as mental disorders, diseases that Hawthorne’s time did not recognize. Yet, this alteration sparks their endeavors. Through their deviance from society’s norms, abnormal behavior with women, and interactions with nature, the characters of Owen Warland and Ethan Brand engage in a corruption of the mind

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    Is a plot twist a crucial point of a story? The sound of thunder is about a man named Echo who went back in time to kill a dinosaur with a man named Travis and they end up messing up the future. The Lottery is about people who draw cards and if you draw the wrong card the townspeople throw rocks at you . Shirley Jackson the author of “The Lottery”and Ray Bradbury the author of “The Sound of Thunder” use the structures of the text, manipulates the pacing, and builds suspense throughout the story to

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