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    helps you, cares about you, and is hardworking. My everyday hero is selfless, caring, and hardworking. My hero is my great grandma Vicky. My great grandma Vicky is 60 years old, and she has five kids. Her kids names are Jody, Tammy, Jason, Benny, and Rita. My grandma is Jody. Grandma Vicky married my grandpa Ben Gonzalez, but then they got a divorce, and she married my grandpa Ron Wilcox. Her and my grandpa Ron did not have children. Right now her and my grandpa live on Watson Road in Marlette

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    Janie Crawford’s journey finding love was a big influence in her self-discovery. It helped her grow from a young naive girl to a more understanding woman. Each marriage she went through brought her closer to her ideal dream true love. Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake helped her truly learn who she was. Every experience brought her nearer to where she ended up. Logan Killicks, being Janie’s first marriage taught her that love can’t be forced. When she first marries Logan, her grandma convinces

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    Cyber Warfare: The Next Frontier The year: 2015. The information age is well underway and is only gaining more power and force as time progresses. The many vast, intricate networks used for such things as communication, online shopping, business technologies and even online banking, are growing and metamorphosing into tools now utilized by not only the every-day consumer but rather political groups and individuals with extremist and even deadly intentions. Cyber warfare can be defined as politically

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    their marriage they have a few ups and downs but they then promise to share everything with each other. In chapter fourteen, because of Tea Cake, Janie decides to start working in the fields on her own free will. This was something neither Logan nor Jody were able to get her to do, but now because of how in love with Tea Cake she is, she works in the fields so she can spend more time with him. She actually enjoys this work and tells him that “Ah laks it. It’s mo’ nicer than settin’ round dese quarters

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    In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she sets the protagonist, Janie Mae Crawford as a woman who wants to find true love and who is struggling to find her identity. To find her identity and true love it takes her three marriages to go through. While being married to three different men who each have different philosophies, Janie comes to understand that she is developed into a strong woman. Hurston makes each idea through each man’s view of Janie, and their relationship with

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    In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston uses imagery to show how going anywhere in life keeps being unobtainable to Janie due to her position as a black woman. “She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her” (Hurston 11). This descriptive imagery helps one to picture how there is no opportunity for Janie to develop outside of this gorgeous backyard. She is stuck with her desires and has nowhere to accomplish them. “One of the pivotal

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    Janie finds her way out when Joe Starks appears. The first thing Joe does after asking for a drink of water is to name himself: "Joe Starks was the name, yeah Joe Starks from in and through Georgy" (47). Hurston's naming of Starks is ironic for several reasons. The word stark is often used as a synonym for barren, and Joe Starks and Janie never have any children. Hurston hints at sexual problems that develop between the pair because of their separate beds and Janie's eventual verbal "castration"

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    marries her first husband, Logan, who is not financially stable and she has to do labor, so she leaves him. Her next husband, Jody brings her to an all black city, Eatonville. The city mirrors that of a white city. Jody makes all the rules in the town and soon it becomes prosperous and grows while Jody makes a lot of money. She is unhappy in this rich white society. Thus when Jody dies, she goes off into the Everglades with Tea Cake and works in the fields

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    The book, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is about Janie Crawford and her quest for self-independence and real love. She finds herself in three marriages, one she escapes from, and the other two end tragically. And throughout her journey, she learns a lot about love, and herself. Janie’s three marriages were all different, each one brought her in for a different reason, and each one had something different to teach her, she was forced into marrying Logan Killicks and hated it.

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    In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston a young woman named Janie Crawford goes on a quest to find her inner-self. Her quest leads her to three marriages, death, and poverty. Janie’s quest has a huge impact on shaping her loss of power. Zora Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God use of imagery also plays a role in Janie’s sense power with the use of eroticized nature. Janie begins her quest when Zora Neale Hurston opens up the novel by discussing Janie’s erotic bond with nature

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