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    cleaning up after the mess that I create. I can’t believe that I once thought that elementary school was difficult. Let’s ignore the fact that my English wasn’t that good in elementary school, now that I’m actually reflecting on the time that I spent in elementary school, I can truly see how simple everything was. For example, I had to write my weekly vocabulary words thrice. But, this is the real world. We aren’t given the chance to go back in time just because we wish to relive certain periods of our

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    The foundation of the United States of America lies in a malcontented populace and a forceful government. Since the colonists were technically a part of all English people, they expected to receive the rights of the Magna Carta, but Britain decided to ignore giving its people freedom. This lead to rebellion and the birth of a new nation. It took some time for the United States to get on its feet, but the founding fathers found forged a federal document that is now the oldest constitution that

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    Julia Patterson Dr. Cofer English World literature September 6, 2014 Why yes, it is another biblical allusion. In the story “A Hunger Artist”, by Franz Kafka, uses biblical allusions to further the meaning of his short story. This is evident through Kafka’s attempt to illustrate suffering by the allusion of his main character, the hunger artist, to the ultimate sufferer, Jesus Christ. “The longest period of fasting was fixed by his impresario at forty days, beyond that term he was not allowed

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    Anna Kitzman Mrs. Lind Advanced English 22 February 2024. Reading Inbetween the Lines In the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about IAT testing. IAT testing involves taking words, phrases, and places and then comparing them with certain groups of people. In this paper I'm going to choose to talk about how racism is associated with the IAT tests, while also trying to understand why he chose to talk about the IAT tests and why he chose specific punctuation and word combinations. You can tell what

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    Key Events in the Reformation

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    starting the spread of Christianity and the Catholics. The Printing Press was created by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450. Before the Printing Press the bible had to be printed by hand, which meant that the copies had to be written word for word. Because they had to be written word for word only the important people had them such as Popes

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    what he knew about planes, but it also tested him on how much he knew about how to survive without the major necessities. “You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the best thing you have.” (page 51). Brian had to take the words from his english teacher to help him get through the 54 days in the Canadian Wilderness. This is the power of positive thinking, after he got over the fact that he was stranded all alone, he used positive

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    literally translated to the greeting “happy Chinese new year” in English. Today is the Chinese New Year (Yeh). Chinese New Year is the most important traditional holiday in China. Despite its winter occurrence, Chinese New Year is also known as Spring Festival in China. The festival begins on the first day of the first month, which is today, and ends on the 15th day of that month. As I had mentioned, Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the chinese Lunisolar Calendar.

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    shaped through our experiences and social locations. These experiences can come from our family, beliefs, verbal, and nonverbal communication. Culture is passed on from generation to generation through symbols, which stand for other things through words, images, or ideas. Culture background is when an individual talk about his or her heritage or background. These are my personal cultural backgrounds of what molds my cultural identity through of family, beliefs, and social relations with others. My

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    Wider Reading. Georgia Thorne At 1,358,805 words Homestuck is within the top 5 longest written works in the English language. The webcomic first began on the 13th of April 2009 as a choose-your-own-adventure style comic, written by Andrew Hussie. When the comic ended on the 13th of April 2016, it was massively multimedia, with hours of flash animation, thousands of panels, and multiple minigames. Homestuck is very unique in the way it's organised. Whereas most comics have chapters, Homestuck is

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    that I must inform you that we have lost one of our own, Samuel Cade Parker had passed away last night.” I couldn’t process the words that I had just heard. He was just at school with us the day before. He had lunch with us just like it was a normal day, how could he be gone? How could someone I’d know for most of my life, someone that had helped me understand a word in English the day before, someone who had been in my classes since we started school be gone just like that? Next thing I knew, two of

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