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    Every day we interact with many different people. Some encounters are brief and some will be so important that they will impact you for the rest of your life. I once had a brief encounter that turned into a life changing event. I has an encounter with a person who profoundly changed my future .Through the meekness that he had while dealing with my fragile broken heart. The countless hours he spent mentoring and encouraging me through the hardest times in my life. It was an ordinary yet cold day

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    system of Christian belief in evil and redemption. This is no more evident than in the character of Joy, the daughter, who had lost a leg in a hunting accident at the age of 12 and who now has a wooden leg in his place. Throughout the story, it becomes increasingly clear that Joy’s physical affliction is closely paralleled by a spiritual one as well. As the narrative unfolds, the great lengths Joy has gone to recreate her inner self, her soul, are revealed in painstaking detail. It appears she has

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    Reflection Of Vayigash

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    My Torah portion is called Vayigash from the book of genesis. Vayigash is about Joseph’s story. If you don’t know Joseph’s story, Joseph’s father favored him the most out of his other 10 brothers at the time. Joseph was a dream interpreter. After Joseph dreamt about his brothers bowing down to him, they sold Joseph into slavery out of jealousy, and told Joseph’s father he was eaten by animals. In Egypt, Joseph was thrown into jail and interpreted two prison mates dreams. One of the two

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    connections to real life people and blunt portrayals of the societal pressures in the 1950’s. In Good Country People, Flannery O’Connor uses some aspects of Joy to represent her own life. Much like O’Connor, Joy is homebound with her mother due to her health. Instead of lupus, Joy wears a wooden leg in lieu of a leg that used to be. The health that cripples Joy and O’Connor from leaving the house very far is a clear parallel between the two young women. Another correlation between the character and the author

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    that asks, “If a tree falls in a forest and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Artists of all types, from poets to painters, strive to answer this question by preserving and bringing this sound to light to the best of their abilities. Joy Harjo and Art Spiegelman attempt to preserve a moment in time with their own work. In Source 1, Spiegelman attempts to save a legacy by jotting down his father’s memories while their shared with him. Harjo pulls a story out of the dust and ashes after

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    Ode To Joy Beethoven

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    word to describe about our purposed of life is “joy”. Why people want to get rich, why people like to travel around the world, and why people love peaceful? Because they are looking for the word “joy”. Maybe, the regular people like us could not fully understand the word “joy”, but Ludwig van Beethoven, who is one of greatest world composer, would completely understand the world “joy”, which let him wrote the Ninth symphony with the song “Ode to Joy”. I am feel so lucky when North Carolina symphony

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    At the start of the movie we are told that Christoph, the main character’s, father had died and his Uncle Curt decided to rent out the top room of Christoph’s house to Mr. Beethoven since the room was a studio. Uncle Curt did this to help the family pay their bills. As soon as Mr. Beethoven moves in it is clear that he is a short tempered man and starts off badly with the maid Sophie. Mr. Beethoven is deaf, so he is humming a lot and causes a lot of noise. Soon Mr. Beethoven and Christophe become

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    Creativity can sometimes be the result of torment. Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous classical composer with a hard life. Throughout his entire life, he suffered from various diseases, hearing difficulties, mental disorders and social problems, (Russell and Nibley 25 ). Yet despite all of these terrible ailments, he was able to compose music that is considered some of the best ever composed, and that is still appreciated today. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany on December 17, 1770 (F.C.C). His

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    Meena Alexander Essay

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    Alexander is basically a poet who writes fictions as well. Her excellence lies in the deft use of symbols so intricately networked into her writing that it becomes artfully evocative and suggestive. At times the images and symbols become very private and then the readers are teased into guessing and coming to their own meanings. Meena Alexander’s achingly spare poetry is precise, intense and critically self-conscious. She employs very few words to create highly abstract metaphors. She then evokes

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    The oil on canvas “Tears of Joy in the Garden of Giants” by Michael Zancan was created in south west France back in January of 2011. This surreal artist plunges into his fantasies creating mystical worlds filled with vivid hues and outstanding details. A long process awaited this particular piece. During one of his travels, the first draft got misplaced at a metro station for many months. Filled with hope, Zancan continued his research of varying structural forms that 1900’s dome glasshouses used

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