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    America's free enterprise system allowed Jeffery Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, to create the largest online retailer and provide the ability for consumers, worldwide, to buy what they need or want with a click of a button. Along the way, he has taken the risk out of buying online from unreputable sources, created higher chances for lower prices, and taken the hassle out of shopping by giving us all a one-stop shop - where almost anything can be found. Without the free enterprise system, Jeff

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    The Bell Jar Living without control of your life and being powerless is especially difficult for anyone to cope with. In the novel The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, a unique individual is struggling to find her way in life as she is living as a powerless individual. The lack of control, guidance, and power, leads to her downfall battling with reality. Plath gives the perspective of a young woman’s madness as a reaction of the social pressure that the 1950’s attributed. Esther Greenwood, the protagonist

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    Zadie Smith's White Teeth

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    throughout the novel. Teeth are something that connects all human beings. Everyone, no matter their race or gender, has teeth. They vary in size, shape, and even color but they tend to look the same from person to person. But throughout the novel Smith uses the different action each tooth performs in order to get her message across, specifically in chapters, five, seven, ten, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. Even though teeth are mentioned in other places in the novel, these chapters use the metaphor

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    Zach Burrell Mr. Bergman Senior English P- 28/August/2015 Greatest receiver Jerry Rice Do you think that Jerry Rice is the greatest wide receiver in the NFL out of all time? To mainly everybody yes he is. Do you want to find out read about him and say your opinion on what you think about him, Jerry Rice played for San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, and the Seattle Seahawks Rice was born October

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    In this document, John Smith describes the abandonment of their colony in Virginia during a long period of not having food. Smith took his men and sailed back to England, where he described, in third person, what is was like before they left. “The day before Captain Smith returned for England with the ships, Captain Davis arrived in a small Pinace with some sixteene proper men more” (Smith, 27). Captain Smith had previously thought that they would rely on the Patawomeke tribe to trade with them

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    The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 289 Pages Character Identification Protagonist: Esther Greenwood. A young college girl, that is going through some hard times. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, which is what is giving her those sad feelings. She suffers from depression and is very suicidal throughout the entire story. She is trying to overcome mental illness. * There are small characters, like Esther’s mother, who is concerned but doesn't know how to help. Then her boyfriend, Buddy

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    The novel, The Bell Jar, is a half autobiography and half fictional story written by Sylvia Plath. It follows the main character, Esther Greenwood, in first person point of view through the comforts of high society in college all the way to the asylum for the insane. While the setting is in the 1950's, the book has stood the test of time by not only being a story that discusses difficult issues but also challenges the social pressures of that time. The Bell Jar definitely deserves to be called

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    John Smith Biography Explorer 1580-1631 John smith was born in 1580 in Lincolnshire, England, He made his way to America to help govern the British colony in Jamestown. When he was saved from his death by Pocahontas, He made a trading agreement with native tribes. He returned to England in 1609 and became an advocate of colonization. Working as a soldier for hire, smith embarked on a campaign against Hungary. Where He was captured and enslaved. He was sent to a mistress who didn’t want smith to be

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    During his term as president he led the colony in a productive manner. He actively traded with the Indian tribes and even held military exercise training for the colonists. Smith made sure that the people of Jamestown became productive members of the community by having a “no work, no food” policy. In contrast to other settlers he tried to keep peaceful interactions with the Indians. After leaving Jamestown in 1609 for Europe, he returned in 1614 to the new world to explore an area he later named

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    Yes, Winston Smith should definitely be considered as a hero. Winston Smith is the main character of George Orwell’s “1984”. He is a member of the Outer Party and is being ruled by the Inner Party. Because those who do not follow Big Brother are vanished and never seen again, he has to pretend that he is one of Big Brother’s loyal followers. Because all of the citizens know that they are being watched at all times, nobody seems to have enough courage to rebel because they think that they will either

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