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    On a bright sunny Saturday afternoon, the sun was pounding, and Anthony decided to go outside to play basketball. Besides it being ninety degrees out he practiced like he was Michael Jordan. The sound of the ball swishing is like heaven to him. With a big,bright smile on his face he looks at the rim, and is set up ready to take a free throw. He gets in position, shoots, and makes it! He looked around him to see that his neighbor was having trouble with her groceries. Her two kids were screaming,

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    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an America as “a native or inhabitant of the U.S.; a U.S. citizen”. However, being an American is far more than simply living in America or attainting citizenship, it is about a person’s actions and thoughts towards their country. In the book Americanah, Ifemelu, who is originally from Lagos, Nigeria, moves to America to go to a stable college, unlike those in Nigeria, where teachers are frequently on strike. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

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    James Joyce's short story "Araby" is a story that is about a nameless young boy having a crush on his friend’s sister, and how he goes on a quest to make her notice him but to come to the realization that these actions are childish and immature. Joyce introduces where the boy lives, and his thoughts, and how he feels about the area that he his living in. Joyce also shows how the boy only sees the darkness and feels disgusted for his simple life, but that changes when he sees his friend’s sister and

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    young age it was forced on everyone that a child was filled with original sin. Children needed to beg for the forgiveness of God and only if they were lucky would He grace them and take them to heaven when the time came. Around this time a man named James Janeway had published a book that would help to show children and parents the proper way to convert and be accepted into heaven. Throughout 22 different stories children can follow how other children learned to be remorseful and obedient. Janeway’s

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    Rear Window is odd in how it is filmed. Focusing on the idea of voyeurism and watching others. You see this is the first scene instead of seeing the main character or even side characters, you see the building the many apartments and the courtyard and then you meet Jeff. Jeff you can see is a broken man, he laying down sweating, unsleep on a chair. But you only see Jeff a glance like he is not important instead the film focus the people in the apartments nearby in the rest of film he will watch out

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    Introduction The Jeffersonian Democracy, What was the Jeffersonian Democracy? It’s a movement led by Thomas Jefferson.There was a lot of movements that went on during this time, Jefferson Presidency,The war of 1812,The Era of Good Feelings,and The Slavery and The Antebellum South.These movements are important because they affect our country whether the country evolve by growing or get worse and worse.The society and economy can increase in many ways like money can come in and help economy will get

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    Rear Window is odd in how it is filmed. Emphasising the idea of voyeurism and watching others. You see, this is the first scene instead of seeing the main character or even side characters, you see the building of the many apartments and the courtyard and then you meet Jeff. Jeff you can see is a broken man, he lays down sweating, a sleep on a chair. But you only see Jeff a glance like he is not important instead the film focusses on the people in the apartments nearby in the rest of the film he

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    ) by the fact that I was in the war’”(Dickey). James Dickey wrote his novel Deliverance based off much of his own experiences in war. In his novel, narrator Ed is in a predicament. He feels like life is floating by without actually experiencing it. When his friend Lewis comes along and offers him the canoe trip of a lifetime, Ed is all in. These two are joined by two other city slickers to set off on an adventure that will change their lives. James Dickey wrote this adventure with a different kind

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    A Young Man Attempting to Give Birth Someone saves a girl and is shot due to an unfit understanding of his appearance (Shelley 140). Similarly, society adjudges those with abnormal appearances as immoral. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, not the creature, struggles to parent an inhuman individual in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Dr. Victor Frankenstein experiments with parenting an inhuman individual in isolation, then this creature suffers alone due to his appearance’s

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    Brother, who wanted a little sibling, Doodle, and finally got one although he was invalid. Brother was persistent, maybe too persistent, on making Doodle normal that he let it get in the way of being a good and loving Brother. The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst is a story which shows that pride can be a wonderful yet terrible trait to have through foreshadowing and imagery. To begin, a way that pride is a wonderful yet terrible trait to have is shown through foreshadowing. Brother was talking about

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