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    Everyday people visit the doctor’s office, and lots are told their BMI (body mass index) is high and they are unfit and obese. Who really gets to define this though? It takes one person who has gone to school for over eight years, to ruin your life. Why does this affect humans so much? Why is it so hurtful to be told you are overweight? Is it because you don’t meet the standards that everyone in the world is supposed to have? It feels as if doctors are single handily pointing you out, it’s you in

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    INTRODUCTION Electron microscopes are generally microscopes that use electrons as a source of illumination to create an image, unlike light microscopes that relays on light. One of these types of microscopes is Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), This microscope uses electrons to scan the surface of a sample giving an observer a highly magnified image of the sample. The electron microscope has been an amazing tool for research purposes around the world for many decades and the technique was discovered

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    Romantic literature is very well-known for its extensive use of imagery to express different themes within a story. The Castle of Otranto is a Romantic Era story, by Horace Walpole, which expressed the expectations thrust upon women in the 1700’s in a different - and rather terrifying - light than was seen at that time. Romance of the Forest is also a Romantic Era story, created by Ann Radcliffe, which tells the story of a woman who discovers a terrifying secret that exists just on the other side

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    woman were changed, some of those elements still remained. Although Matilda and Isabella had those characteristics, they broke free of the damsel in distress stereotype at times. One example of this is Isabella’s daring escape when Manfred “rose to pursue her” (24). Manfred tells her, “I desired you once before” (24). Instead of laying herself at his feet in defeat, Isabella escapes from the terrifying sexual threat she is presented with. Matilda, too, has her own daring adventure when she releases

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    Ever since I was a young girl, I’ve had an immense interest in learning about the past, more specifically, the past of my very own ancestors. This interest was what pushed me to start learning German when I was eleven years old. With every year and every German class we learned about sentence structure, verb conjugation, and most importantly, I was introduced to German authors. But, in all of my years of learning German and reading different works, I was never introduced to any German authors

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    Paragraph 175 is a harrowing documentary narrated by Rupert Everett about the persecution of homosexuals in the Third Reich. Paragraph 175 provides insight on the experiences of those homosexuals who were persecuted during the Holocaust through interviews with aging survivors. These primary sources depict the shift from the social freedoms that existed during the Weimar Republic to the repressive terror imposed by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945. However, Paragraph 175 focuses on revealing the underexposed

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    Close attention was paid to what Osama was saying and how he portrayed himself. Even though he was not in favor of “modernity and secularism,” (Steger, Manfred B, 2003) it was made clear through his way of dressing and the background image. The way he wore the military outfit over his traditional Arab garment, shows economic and cultural globalization. Wikipedia defines economic globalization as world economies

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    Belonging Place

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    belonging to a place can influence an individual’s sense of acceptance within the community and culture or opposingly can enhance their sense of isolation and alienation from society.This is reflected through Raimond Gaita’s memoir Romulus My Father and Manfred Jurgensen’s poem Bonegilla 1916 through extensive literary devices.We learn individuals perceptions of place and their ability to adjust to new places governs their ability to belong and feel at home with new cultures. An individuals perception of

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    The Wise Men Speak (An Analysis on Sailing) William Butler Yeats, was a poet from the Victorian age. Philosophers say that Yeats was one of the greatest poets of all time, “William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century”(Adams). One of Yeats most famous poem was Sailing to Byzantium. In the poem Sailing, Yeats expresses three very important messages. The messages that Yeats expresses in Sailing are, that the soul wants to leave body when it's about time

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    The book, The Castle of Otranto, was taken place during a period in time where women were treated like nothing. Men were treated like kings, and woman were basically servants. To men, women were more seen as an object rather then a person. They thought they were only good taking care of things around the house and the kids. The three women in this story were different though, they believed they had a lot more rights then the men assumed they did. Throughout the book you can start to understand

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