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    passion for music. When he was eight years old, he was fully able to play the guitar (Quintana, 2017). Arjona began school in a Catholic school, and then moved towards a military type school (Artist Direct, 2017). He attended the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, where he earned a degree in communications (Quintana, 2017). After he graduated college, he became a rural schoolteacher then, went on to basketball for the Guatemalan national team (Bush, 2017). In 2014 Arjona opened a school in his

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    cubes. For most people, this is all they will learn about the missions unless they visit one. While each mission is unique, most of what you learn in one is the same. My first visit to a mission was as a child with my grandmother. We visited San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo and San Juan Bautista. Both were presented as old churches that the Indians and Mexicans came to practice at and lived in. I looked through the glass cases and saw the tools and pictures and copies of the Bible. The placards described

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    Cavallaro April 18, 2010 Pinocchio; A Story For Children Pinocchio is concidered an adventurous tale for children. The original story was first published in 1881 by Carlo Collodi in Italy . Collodi published his masterpiece as a serial story in a children’s weekly paper, Giornale dei bambini, between 1881 and 1883 (Liukkonen, 2008). Collodi wrote the story to be a lively adventure for children and a very adult social critique, attacking poverty and emphasising the importance of education (Liukkonen

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    “Now, you see, the world is full of temptations. They’re wrong things that seem great at the time.” (Carlo Collodi). In Pinocchio, there is a scene where Pinocchios conscious is talking to him about how he wants to a real boy, and what temptations he must avoid to be a good one at that. Though Pinoke makes many mistakes along his journey in becoming a real boy; those mistakes taught him a valuable lesson and built him to be a better person. Life lessons learned in, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

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    Understanding Disability: A Study of Sharon M Draper’s Out Of My Mind By Dr Preetha Vasan and Ann Mariya Jose Abstract: This paper endeavours to demonstrate, how application of contemporary ideas about disability to recent literary writings that portray children, give new dimensions to the idea of disability. It provides the experiences faced by the children with disabilities within the contexts of family and society with special reference to the contemporary fiction Out Of My Mind by Sharon M Draper

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    Bildungsroman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn]; German: "novel of formation, education, culture"),[a] novel of formation, novel of education,[2] or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age),[3] in which

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