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    A young boy walked along the dry infertile plains of Salmon Falls, swinging a tin box in one hand and clutching a bottled flower in another. As he walked alongside the drained stream, the crunching sound of the dry tree pods, branches of dead trees and soundless birds rose from under his feet. Where woody, green oak groves once grew was now merely empty ditches. The boy tightened his grip around the flower bottle. His dark green eyes saw the illusion of a golden green in the dense river oak tree

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    of people adapt into another culture by taking small pieces of that culture into their own culture. It is the idea of blend in with another culture, other than your own. For example, my family and relatives came to the United States for a little over 10 years now and some of the family members have assimilated into the American culture by beginning to celebrate the holidays, during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Further, we are remaining embedded in the ethnic of being Hmong. Many of

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    Social Issues In Art

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    they are. It is important that individuals appreciate artworks that show social issues because each artwork has strong messages more than words and power to change the world. The Flower Vendor (Girl with Liles) (fig. 1), painted by Diego Rivera in 1941, the Holocaust (fig. 2), created by George Segal in 1982, and Breaker-Boys in a Pennsylvania Coal Mine (fig. 3), took by Lewis Hine in 1911, are generally known as indicators of social issues, and each artwork includes strong messages about society. Diego

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    they are. It is important that individuals appreciate artworks that show social issues because each artwork has strong messages more than words and power to change the world. The Flower Vendor (Girl with Liles) (fig. 1), painted by Diego Rivera in 1941, the Holocaust (fig. 2), created by George Segal in 1982, and Breaker-Boys in a Pennsylvania Coal Mine (fig. 3), took by Lewis Hine in 1911, are generally known as

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    Fatty: A Short Story

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    gets really drunk and fells on top of you, telling you you’re pretty or hot or both. Puting his hands all over you, as well as trying to pull up your skirt. Then pass out in the Courtyard, forcing you to, once again, drag him to bed. He’s not a bad leader, he’s just having fun. And who can blame him? You got all this power, money and fame in your hand! Not only that, he’s

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    Goudi Ozilia Short Story

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    morning in the great land of Stillta. The twin suns were shining brightly this morning. Goudi, a mischievous 8 year old boy with light brown hair, walked down the dirt road looking for flowers to pick for this mother. Of course the best flowers were grown and cultivated by hand, so as he did every year since he was 5 he visited local neighbors asking for permission to pick flowers to give to his mother on her birthday. By now he knew which neighbors were likely to give permission and which were not

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    may have has happiness but then It got taken when his mother died. Secondly, after his mother died he got put in a group home to meet new people and know the outside world. Another main topic when he went to breakfast with his new friend Jack at big boys cafe and he met a beautiful women named Dolores. When he met Dolores he was so stunned on how beautiful. When Ernie’s mother died he didn’t know what to do. “Ernie cried for nearly a month. Then he dried his tears, and learned how to bake.”(70)

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    Midsummer Night's Dream

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    while at the same time upholding the dreamlike state of the ideal world. The conflict begins when Oberon punishes his wife, Titania, for not obeying him and refusing to surrender the Indian boy to him. This causes Oberson to become insanely jealous because he desperately wants the beautiful boy and wants to raise him as one of his knights. Puck explains this by saying, “She (Titania) never had so sweet a changeling; And jealous Oberon

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    Midsummer Night's Dream

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    that Oberon and Titania are arguing over a human boy that Titania stole. Titania wishes to raise the boy, Oberon wants the boy to be one of his henchmen. Oberon creates a plan to drip a juice of a flower into Titania’s eye to have her fall in love with the first creature she sees. The scene cuts to Helena desperately pursuing Demetrius, but Oberon sees and tells Robin to drip the flower juice into Demetrius’s eye. Oberon clarifies which man to drip the flower juice into by saying, “Thou shalt know

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    the sky, butterflies, and flowers?" to write about. I think the significance of the butterflies and flowers are that they represent beauty and hope to Esperanza. She says "Butterflies are too few, and so are flowers", I think because where she live in the barrio or inner city you see very few of those two things. Butterflies and flowers are probably where she would hope to live. The house she dreams of or imagines living in would probably have a lot of butterflies and flowers. In her mind they would

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