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    Pantam's Alternate Ending

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    problem, the kingdom was beginning a downfall. King Carter didn’t want to let his people suffer so he knew he had to tie his country to another for support. In doing so he had to arrange a his daughter to marry a prince from another nation. Prince Charles from Wooloo, the one that will help save Pamtam After the Kings of both nations had agreed on the arrangement, King Carter had to break the news to Sophia. “How could you do something so drastic and not tell me? Who said I would even go along with

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    This women is a princess,this princess was married to Prince Charles. According to Princess Diana a book,Princess Diana once said “The biggest disease is people feeling unloved”(princess Diana). When studying about Princess Diana of Wales, is important to know her childhood, time being a princess,and life plus a death apart from the throne. First,Diana's childhood time was pretty normal. Diana had two parents,their names were Johnnie and Frances Spencer (Owings 27). Johnnie was her father and Frances

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    1996 Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, King of the Franks (742-814), was a strong leader who unified Western Europe through military power and the blessing of the Church. His belief in the need for education among the Frankish people was to bring about religious, political, and educational reforms that would change the history of Europe. Charlemagne was born in 742 at Aachen, the son of Pepin(or Pippin) the Short and grandson of Charles Martel. His grandfather, Charles, had begun the process

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    Elizabeth's Poem

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    When Charles saw the harp he waited for Elizabeth to fall asleep then he would steal it and bring it to Aaron to make a profit. When Charles snuck into her room, grabbed the harp and ran out of the house. Aaron was waiting for him at a secret hideout that was in a cave. For as long as Charles knew Aaron he always wore a mask almost as if he was covering a wound on his face, Aaron also had a necklace that was in the shape of a bear paw. When Charles arrived at Aaron's hideout

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    While he was on the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, a man named Charles Darwin viewed the relationship of plants and animals all over the world. He observed organisms on islands off the coast of South America and those on the mainland. His observations showed that these organisms were related, but not identical. This led Darwin into believing that over time, organisms must adapt to suit their environment. He explained his theories thoroughly in his book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural

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    politics that would later affect our world today. The Catholic Church As the Catholic Church and its beliefs were still strong in the 19th century, it was about to be challenged like never before in it's history. A man named Charles Darwin did this through his views on nature, also challenging biblical theology and raising debates about the beliefs of people. This uproar fuelled studying of ancient languages and the bible. What resulted was the new fact that the bible

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    Galapagos Essay

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    Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos was written one million years ahead of the year 1986 AD. In this book, Vonnegut argues that the ultimate effect of humanity's sociological problems with technology is that man's intelligence will be the downfall and destruction of the human race. The essential point made by Vonnegut in this work is that the "great big brains" of humanity drives people to go further into technology and create new weapons that will lead to the demolition of man kind; Vonnegut disagreed

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    This paper will examine the argument put forward by William Paley in 1802, in his Natural Theology. Paley offers an argument from design that purports to show a clear and distinct reason why one should hold a belief in God, due to the inherent features of the world. It is attempted in this paper to firstly: show that the argument should be rejected on the grounds of lacking a rationally flowing set of premises and conclusions; and secondly: that the criticisms made by David Hume concerning the

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    Magwitch's Manipulations of Pip in Great Expectations        In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens criticizes the motivation of the lower classes to rise to the level of wealth and education held by the upper classes by showing the extent to which Pip is exploited by Magwitch to meet these goals. To meet the expectations of the gentleman, Pip must leave his family and any possibility of earning his living in order to satisfy the educational and societal demands of this standard. Magwitch

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    The novel, "Great Expectations" is deemed to be one of the greatest English classic novels of the literary heritage. Charles Dickens, the author of Great Expectations is thought to be one of history's finest writers and has contributed to English literature in many ways. 'Great Expectations' is Dickens' thirteenth novel and is based loosely on his own experiences. He did this with many of his novels, including his partly auto-biographical piece, "David Copperfield" (with Dickens's own negligent

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