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    takes the stranger into her home, rumors begin to circulate that Miss Amelia has only done so to take what the hunchback had in his suitcase. When the rumors hit their peak, a group of eight men come to her store, sitting outside on the steps for the day and waiting to see if something would happen. Finally, they enter the store all once and are stunned to see that the hunchback is actually alive and well. With

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    the oracle. From that point, Leonidas and his army went through several wars with different groups of Xerxes’s army, first the Medes, the Immortals, and the final battle with Xerxes front army. In their journey the king meets Ephialtes, a deformed hunchback in exile wishing to join the army, Leonidas tested him by rising his shield high but he was strong enough and he rejects him. Later Ephialtes gets revenge and betrays his homeland by helping the Persians to find the secret path that only local knew

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    Benny described that show as one of the bests. Even though racism was heavy swing music still gave the minorities a place to go where they were judged based off the music they played and not their skin color. For example, Chick Webb was a black hunchback but he played his music with so much energy and talent that no one

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    would first go to a small wooden gate called het Poortje, which could be seen from the Van Alkemadelaan. Second, the prisoners were loaded onto a truck and driven to the Waalsdorpervlakte in the dunes, which was a huge bell like the one from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Lastly, the imprisoned Jews were shot at or nearby the dunes, and over three hundred were killed

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    Jane Eyre

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    come across as a ‘fair assessment’ if that is the way he is played. Pacino, in Looking for Richard, echoes the word ‘deformed’ when Richard first states it in his soliloquy and a quick flashback of black and white pictures of a horrified man with a hunchback appears. Kimball stats that “Shakespeare has exaggerated Richard’s deformity” but doesn’t mention why, so it seems that Richard’s deformity doesn’t really have much impact on the

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    The main character Quasimodo, whose name means in Latin "almost the standard measure" of a human being, is the bell-ringer of Notre Dame the cathedral and a barely verbal and half-blind hunchback. He is abandoned on the stairs of this religious place as a baby and he was adopted by Claude Frollo. This man is the first to describe him as a monster because of his disfigured face, so he decides to coop him in the cathedral so nobody can see

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    “All the illusion faded” (58). In this part of the novel, Gringoire is watching Esmeralda among the crowd and is as mesmerized as everyone else. However, when one of her braids comes undone and a feather falls from within it Gringoire is quickly snapped out of his trance at the realization that she is a gypsy. This enforces the idea that social classes played a significant role in everyday life and determined social interactions. While Gringoire is a poor poet that barely has enough money to support

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    Bathroom Analysis

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    The lights in the bathroom reflect off of every crevice, even the clear glass shower hidden in the far corner. The tiles of the shower reveal no dirt and the glass of the shower shows no streaks. Along the wall lies a bathtub that is eight feet in length and five feet in width. The walls of the bathtub are littered with jets, soothing muscles after a long work day. Across from the bathtub stands a dark gray granite counter held by light tan wooden cabinets. In the cabinets lay freshly replaced towels

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    “My, my, my! Isn’t it a wonderful day Raymond?” said Walter as he carefully pulled up his car on the small driveway. Standing up, he brushed away any dirt on his nude suit and wing-tipped Oxfords. Besides Walter, Raymond hummed a small reply. Walter, content, continued on out to the quaint diner slumped in the middle of the paved road. The diner wasn’t much. A small stoop and a door with a rusty metal frame on top was smack dab in its middle. On either side of the door was a row of windows and underneath

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    The Tthoracic Spine

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    fractures are perhaps the most common form of thoracic problems. While they can be caused by an accident, generally they are the result of osteoporosis and the aging process usually occurring in the lower region of the thoracic spine. • Kyphosis (hunchback). Poor posture or a deformity, such as ankylosing spondylitis can be the cause of kyphosis, which is the rounding of the back. While kyphosis is primarily a deformity, it can also be a source of pain and stiffness. • Scoliosis. Scoliosis is a condition

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