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    PSYCH 6123 Assignment #1: Comprehensive Assessment Process Yorkville University  Character Summary Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten is a student at Springfield Elementary school and he is currently in grade four. He lives in a town called Springfield and his Father worked at the local cracker factory until he was recently fired. His parents are Kirk and Luanne Van Houten and they have a strained relationship that resulted in their current seperation. Luanne’s Father owned the cracker factory that

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    In the novel, The Fault in Our Stars, the author, John Green, provides the reader with a theme that people tend to differ other people who do not appear to be the same as every other average human being. People would contradict this universal truth, but it cannot be denied. From the onset, Hazel is receiving extra care and attention from her parents and guardians. “‘Mom” I shouted. Nothing. Again, louder, “MOM!” She ran in wearing a threadbare pink towel under her armpits, dripping, vaguely panicked

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    and Gus together becomes a perfect bond. Hazel shares her affection toward the book called An Imperial Affliction with Gus and anticipates knowing the ending because the story just left undone. A week later, Gus reveals that he is able to track down Van Houten's assistant,

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    John Green describes the story of a sixteen-year-old girl, Hazel Lancaster, who is diagnosed with cancer, and her journey through the adversity she encounters. Throughout her journey, Hazel stumbles upon various types of significances in her life including her relationship with Augustus and uncovering her true self. Her identity disappears from her, as she is confined in her house or at her support group where ironically, she does not express her emotions whatsoever. After meeting Augustus Waters

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    What is it about how Iago is characterized in the play Othello and how he acts that makes him such a vivid villain, even today? We still use the expression “an Iago” to describe someone evil and underhanded. Iago is characterized in the play Othello by William Shakespeare as a vivid villain because he manipulates the other main characters. Iago contains so much jealousy and hatred against Othello for being a general in the army, a position he feels in righteously his that he victimizes everyone around

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    he knows that he has changed lives, that he was a legend. Another main character in this book is Peter Van Houten, the man who wrote the book that Augustus and Hazel could not stop reading, An Imperial Affliction. They loved the book so much that Augustus spent his cancer wish, a wish that kids with cancer made to do what they wished to do, to go to Amsterdam with Hazel and meet Peter Van Houten. The next main character is Augustus’s best friend, Isaac. Isaac is the whole reason that Augustus and

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    Hazel Grace

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    travel. But, finally her favorite doctor persuaded them to allow her to go. Augustus, Hazel and her mom were off to Amsterdam before you knew it. Once they arrived Van Houten assistant planned a nice dinner for them. The next morning, they went and met with Van Houten. However, once they arrived they quickly realized that Van Houten is a mean old drunk man. He provided them with no answers and ranted about death. They left feeling very disappointed. Next, they went for a tour of Anne Frank’s

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    HAZEL GRACE LANCASTER Hazel Grace Lancaster the main character and narrator of TFIOS is a 16 year old girl who suffers from thyroid cancer, she discovered this when she was 13 and she is able to survive due to the experimental drugs called Phalanxifor. Hazel is described as having the haircut of a page boy and chipmunks cheeks due to so many steroidal treatments, her cancer which is at stage IV has spread to her lungs so she has to carry an oxygen tank and nasal cannulas to help her breathing. She

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    Why Leslie Van Houten deserves to walk free. Picture this…You’re nineteen years old with nowhere to call home, your mothers left you traumatised and permanently scarred. You’re alone in the big bad world. Fragile, vulnerable and powerless. Does any teenager really have life’s answers? Or are they aimlessly searching for them from somewhere or someone else? Cast yourself back to when you were nineteen, if someone had entered your life offering all the answers, don’t tell me you would’ve turned

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    Fault In Our Stars

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    1. What is important about the subject? The subject in The Fault in Our Stars is important because both Augustus and Hazel have different types of Cancer. Augustus and Hazel know that they are going to die so they try to spend as much time together as possible. Augustus and Hazel support each other daily and care for each other. 2. When does/did this take place? This took place when Hazel was 16, and Augustus was 17 3. Where does/did this take place? For most of this book the setting takes place

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