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    unstable family, would you be motivated to do well in school? Conditions like non-stable parenting, growing up in a poor community, and not having a safe learning community all impact a student’s education. These misfortunes lead to students not being driven to graduate and dropping out of high school. A big contribution to the drop out rate is not having a stable family. Students who do not have stable parenting at home can lead to students dropping out. In the article “How Broken Families Rob Children

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    Short Story Zebra

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    died, and the boy buried it under a tree on his lawn...You always tell such sad stories,” Andrea said.” Zebra is feeling hopeless and it shows through his writing. In his class he was writing about a bird that had crashed into a windowpane and had a broken wing that couldn’t be fixed, the bird ended up dying in the end and even though this story is about a bird Zebra is taking his emotions and putting them into writing explaining his

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    A key aspect in writing an interesting story is forming symbolism. As the result of symbolism, readers can dive just a little bit deeper into the meaning and core of the work. Birds are a moderately frequent emblem, serving as representations of freedom, independence, and not afraid to be loud or to speak their minds. In Kate Chopin’s novella, “The Awakening,” birds were used to express Edna’s true feelings and desires, to explain the courage required to defy the standards, and to show Edna’s final

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    Broken April Essay

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    Broken April by Ismail Kadare depicts the story of newly weds Bessian and Diana on their honeymoon. The word “broken” in the title not only represents how April, for Gjorg, has been metaphorically “broken”. It seems to suggest the breakdown of Bessian and Diana’s relationship as well. They are a tragic couple, whose marriage disintegrates to an almost unsalvageable state by the end of the novel, with Kadare using words such as “empty” to describe it. Kadare also uses the landscape around them as

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    Since 1851, Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) and the Anglo–Dutch Billiton plc. (Billiton) have been developing and contributing to industry, communities and economies around the world (Billiton, 2016a). BHP Billiton is a multinational mining, minerals (such as iron ore, copper, coal and nickel), gas and petroleum company. The company was created in 2001 after merging with the two company’s BHP and Billiton (ABC, 2001; Wikipedia, 2016b). These two company’s brought their companies

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    highest scores in 2014 and 2015. (Disclosing annual report, 2015)  In 2005 BHP BILLITON became second largest copper producer and third largest nickel producer. Background of the organisation BHP BILLITON is merger of two companies. First one is BHP (Broken Hill) was formed by Charles Rasp in western New South Wales. BHP started their business with mining of silver and lead. Second one is Billiton used to abstract tin in mid-1800s. BHP was largest zinc producer but when these came to less profitable

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    “Araby” is chock full of interesting imagery. This imagery points us towards outstanding themes. Along with imagery, diction can point us in a more concise direction by cuing us in on the year and/or the location of the piece. Knowing these things can help us, as readers, better understand the words James Joyce chooses and helps us get a firmer grasp in the imagery. An outstanding theme in “Araby” is heartbreak. Now, heartbreak is in a lot of the imagery and diction in this piece. The narrator talks

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    My First Love Essay

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    experiences shared, I never would have believed the result of falling out of love. All of the novels and sweet smiles never hinted about the time I would end up crumbled down on my bedroom's floor, with two years of a person's presence surrounding a broken heart. Nobody will speak of watching your first love leave for college, knowing that they will want to move on. I went through the stages of heartbreak that left me with a cracked and bruised heart. The recovery and journey of finding acceptance and

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    mean it’s been a family tradition that the land has always been past down to the eldest son, in this case it’s just the eldest, and only, grandson.

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    “Man in the Mirror” is about a man who believes that only by changing himself will he be able to change the world. The main focus of the song is a man’s struggle to improve himself morally after witnessing his inability to impact the lives of those in need. Michael Jackson reflects on how the world around him is suffering while he lives a life of comfort, and the guilt triggers his decision to change himself so that he can eventually help the world. . The song raises up questions such as,“What purpose

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