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    Al Gore's speech titled “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” is a powerful work of literature which serves two purposes. The first purpose is stated in the title - to accept his award of the Nobel Peace Prize. The second intent he had when writing the speech was to reiterate his points that awarded him the honor in the first place. The speech explains his passion for the problem in our world that is the climate change and how much we pollute our earth. To give a short gist of what his cause was, the following

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    or pieces of stone by drilling a hole, put gun powder in the hole with a stick of dynamite and then ramming all of that as far as you can in the hole with a three-foot rod. On the date of September 13, 1848 Phineas life would change forever. The same as every day he was working on the same stuff as always and while he was he was ramming the rod down the hole the rod and the stone made a spark that set off the dynamite and shot out of the hole, shot through his head and landed sixty too seventy feet

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    Curley’s Wife: Floozy or Innocent Girl? Curley’s wife is a young, pretty woman, who is mistrusted by her husband, Curley. The other characters refer to her only as ‘Curley's wife,’ which is significant as she is the only character in the novel without a name. She is a simple object or possession belonging to her husband and this shows the severity of the sexual discrimination in America in 1930s. I believe Steinbeck would have thought of her not as a person but a symbol. Almost everyone on the ranch

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    SCENARIO 1: TRESPASS TO PERSON According to In Brief helping with life’s legal issues, “trespass to the person is an element of tort law which covers wrongs done to an individual. [And] can exist even if the victim suffers no physical harm…There are three main wrongs which fall under the umbrella of trespass to the person: assault, battery and false imprisonment. They are intentional torts, meaning they cannot be committed by accident, therefore, they are civil wrongs and not criminal wrongs.”

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    The Industrial Revolution was a crucial time in world history. During the Industrial Revolution, many advanced ideas were just being invented and new materials were being discovered. The amount of employment went up. Children then had to work in dangerous conditions to help to support their families, and were useful because they could move in small spaces and could be paid less. Since then, child labor has been substantially reduced due to new laws and machines that were made to do the work children

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    Coral reefs, known to house a wide range of organisms, are being negatively affected by our environment. Seeing as to how one third of marine fish live part of their lives on coral reefs; it is easier marine fish to die off knowing that they are all in the same area. There are some places in not only our country, but also in others where the reefs have already been completely destroyed. Whereas, some reefs are barely surviving considering the great dangers coming their way. With the ideas of pollution

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    When the word “peace” comes to mind, one usually thinks about tranquility or absent from violence but when learning about Alfred Nobel, one learns that the products he invented were far from “peaceful” in some eyes. The Nobel Peace Prize was created because Nobel left in his will that his fortune was to be given as awards in the areas of: peace, chemistry, physiology, and literature. Alfred Nobel himself started with nothing and ended with a large fortune, and as for The Nobel Peace Prize, it has

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    “A&P” written by John Updike, uses a fictional situation to describe how Sammy’s actions are an example of consumerism. His actions, and his thoughts about those around him explain consumerism today. Sammy used his thoughts to highlight how he felt about every character and he used his actions like quitting his job to display consumerism. Consumerism was implied not only from the customers in the store but the physical items in the grocery store. Consumerism was also exposed through the lustful actions

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    Howard Roark A Villain

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    Gordon Prescott were made co- designers of the project by Ellsworth Toohey and made their own addition to the original designs. In addition to that he also provided the prosecutor with Roark’s motive to dynamite the housing scheme. So we can see through this contract Howard had all right to dynamite the housing scheme. Roark could’ve just exposed Peter as a fraud but he decided that would of no use to him, he had no malice towards Peter; he only wanted to take back what was his. His design was covered

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    during the mid-19th century when terrorist attacks came in the form of anarchism and nationalism. One of such group is the “Narodnaya Volya” or “People's Will” in Russia. They were the first terrorist group to use dynamites and succeeded in killing Tsar Alexander II through a suicide dynamite

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