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    for incisive thinking. Finish my mission or not? When I finally made up my mind I called a cab to take me to Sylvia, and as soon as it arrived I hurriedly got in. Before I could even say anything the man driving said, “I know what you are thinking Gregory. You do not have to kill her now that you have heard your life is ending. You are wrong”. I panicked and unsuccessfully tried to open the door. He turned towards me to reveal a fully covered face. Knowing I shouldn’t fight back, I allowed him to place

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    (Lauter) At the helm of the ship was the ship’s third mate, Gregory Cousins. Although Cousins was not found to have any inebriating substances in his system, he did not possess the proper license to operate the large vessel. Many local, state, federal, and private agencies assisted in the cleanup efforts. (NOAA)

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    My Trip At A Restaurant

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    The patio light was on automatically when I opened my aunt’s apartment front door but the house was still dark. I knew my aunt had not returned yet. She texted me before I was done with my shift to tell me that she would return home late. As an accountant in a hospital, she was always busy on the first week of the month for what she called ‘month end closing’. I did not know exactly the meaning of it, but I knew she would come home late for those days. Turning on the light, I put my take out container

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    because his appearance did not fit the divinity they anticipated a Christ figure should acquire. Similarly, the man with enormous wings comes to Earth in a form that goes against the expectations of the people, with “only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful

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    System thinking is considered as one of the most effective tools to solve sustainability challenges such as pollution, over population, climate change, poverty…. One of the sustainable development problems is pollution in oceans which is increasingly becoming a controversial and wicked environmental problem all over the world. Although governments are trying to solve this issue, marine pollution continues to rise and threat the survival of a large number of marine species then, it cause the imbalance

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    Magical Realism

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    Two of the most widely recognized major contributors to Latin American Literature are Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Isabel Allende’s Eva Luna. Both are written in the genre of magical realism, a literary form that describes fantasy and imaginary events in such a way that it becomes believable and real to the reader. Specifically, these books describe the geopolitical turmoil of Latin America during the early twentieth century and the mid twentieth century; respectively

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    The period of the book is an unspecified time, modern and roughly up-to-date. The story of Harry Potter came to J. K. Rowling on a train ride from Manchester to London in 1990. She was a single mother of a daughter and living on welfare in Edinburgh, Scotland, when she began to write the novel. She began writing in a café while her baby, Jessica, napped. Rowling soon shot up to fame and fortune. Identify the genre & specify how this work fits its characteristics: The genre is a fantasy tale, the

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    They (the great writers) were national first … and it was the intensity of their own nationalism which made them international. (Power 65) As Maud Gonne said “without Yeats there would have been no Literary Revival in Ireland. Without the inspiration of that revival and glorification of beauty and heroic virtue I doubt there would have been an Easter week” (24). Yeats was born in 1865 near Dublin in Ireland and through his literary work contributed in the cultural nationalism of Ireland. He

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    Faniyi 15 Kayode Faniyi 129013097 Dr. Solomon Azumurana ENG 894 REFRACTING CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH THROUGH A POST-COLONIAL PRISM 1. Introduction Respected Marxist critic Frederic Jameson once described every instance of “third world literature” as necessarily nationally allegorical (69), an assertion spectacularly assailed by Aijaz Ahmad (77-82). But it is possible to close our eyes to Ahmad’s very valid misgivings and take a bird’s eye view of Jameson’s assertion: read in reaction

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    Logical Reasoning

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    updated: April 26, 2016 Logical Reasoning Bradley H. Dowden Philosophy Department California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA 95819 USA ii iii Preface Copyright © 2011-14 by Bradley H. Dowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That is, you are free to share, copy, distribute, store, and transmit all or any part of the work under the following conditions:

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