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    Vampire Diaries Analysis

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    Lj Smith, the author of the Vampire Diaries, wrote, “...but right now everything looks strange to me, as if I don’t belong here. It is me that is out of place, and the worst thing is that I feel there’s somewhere that I do belong, but I just can’t find it.” In 2016 65.3 million people are refugees around the world that are displaced throughout the United Nations. These people now have to adjust to a new life, in a new country, and a new “home.” Although some might believe that newcomers, immigrants

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    other effects, and it is said that up to 20% of all adults in America who have experienced some type of loss develops PTSD. (BS-1) Towards the beginning of the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, there is a character named Najmah who loses the ability to speak and loses control of her life, as a result of Mada-jan and Habib’s loss. (BS-2) As an effect of Baba-jan and Nur missing from her life, Najmah changes her mindset and the decisions she makes from then on. (BS-3) Najmah’s relationships with others

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    is said that up to 20% of all adults in America who have experienced some type of loss develops PTSD (“PTSD Statistics”). (BS-1) Towards the beginning of the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, there is a character named Najmah who loses the ability to speak and loses control of her life, as a result of Mada-jan and Habib’s loss. (BS-2) As an effect of Baba-jan and Nur missing from her life, Najmah changes her mindset and the decisions she makes from then on. (BS-3) Najmah’s relationships with others

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    This shift inhibit Jack’s loss of childhood innocence and displays his vulnerability to the evil which has taken root in his heart. Jack is no longer human; he is a savage who has lost all control and power over his own life. So, he looks for control and power in the lives of others. Regardless of Jack’s self-serving manners, in order to ensure their own security, the boys blindly trust and give power to Jack. The boys are forced to blindly trust Jack. It is in human

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    Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. -Henry Ford (Brainyquote) In the Novel Lord of the Flies the boys come together, keep together, but then begin to become completely unglued. The boys come together at the start of the Novel when an election is held. This is the first time all of the boys on the island meet. Ralph wins the election by a landslide against Jack. Although, Jack wants to be the leader of the boys because he is already the leader

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    This season of life audio clip is about losing a loved one. Most of us have grieved the loss of someone we love, and yet few understand the process of grief. Dick describes how a police officer told him there had been an accident and they needed him to identify his son’s body. His son was 30 and a college student. Their son was a member of a golf team and he was captain for the last two years. He was a very strong athletic man and he was about 6’4. The mother describes him as very handsome, and he

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    Humanity and Its Way of Being Lost

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    are dead. The boys take it upon themselves to survive, until they are rescued, but being upon that island for so long, the boys soon lose who they are. Some don’t want to be rescued, and some have just lost it completely. Lives and personalities are lost to the invading savagery of the island. Throughout the book, Golding shows how the boys upon the island slowly lose themselves. The island’s barbaric influence on the

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    In our lives struggles and difficulties will never be avoided; they are a part of life. Whether or not we are ready or prepared, they are always going to happen. The fact is that life is ever changing. And, as one season ends and those doors are closed, new seasons as well as new opportunities will come in place of those gone. What makes the difference in each day, however, is how we respond when that adversity comes our way. As was the case this past year in football for me. For me, the most

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    Pancakes Short Story

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    Everybody desires to be perfect. People long to have more control of their lives, yet life does not work their way.In Joan Bauer's short story, "Pancakes," he writes about a girl, named Jill, and how she manages her work at a pancake house.One Sunday when Jill was working, a group of tourists arrived at her workplace. Jill was the only waitress working at the diner so she had to balance her “perfect” way of work as new customers walk in. Jill tries maintain her “perfect” work, but the stress from

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    Holocaust was an event that shapes Vladek’s future and causes light to be shed on his weakness, control. We can see in his that his relationships that he desires to have control. We see this with his first and second wife in different ways and we see it with his two sons. Vladek in his earlier life has control but when he loses it in the camps he becomes more aggressive and desperate to keep that control it affects his family and relationships. In the beginning of the novel Vladek loves Anja, his

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