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    Parrot” Robert Olen Butlers main character is a parrot whose character traits consist of jealousy, insecurity, and lack of confrontment. The Author creates a story that is told from a perspective that is informative but also vivid. The development of the story allows the reader to visually analyze a picture as the story is being told. The overall theme of the story is that relationships are tough when they consist of certain traits. This is shown through the story 's character, tone and symbolism.

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    Africa with little food and water, specifically food. Luckily for Salva, he finds his Uncle, Jewiir. He joins the group that Salva traveled in, and marked himself as a leader to the others. While learning about the journeys of both characters, many traits are exhibited. However, after careful analysis of the two, Salva’s hunger is the most prominent

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    are raised by themselves without someone to care for them. In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Happy inherits some of Willy’s less attractive traits which leads to their demise. These traits are: lying, the need to impress others and the way they manipulate reality and pretend things are happening to make situations better for themselves. The first trait that Happy has inherited from Willy is lying. When in a restaurant Happy see’s a girl and lies to her in order to gain her interest “Biff is a

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    into silence because of their race and where they stand in Maycomb County. Characters like Tom, Calpurnia, Dolphus Raymond, and even Miss Maudie are not given a proper voice in the novel but still demonstrate subtle heroic traits. Marginalized characters display as many heroic traits as voiced characters do, but are portrayed differently because of social class and race. To begin with, social class has been evident in the treatment and portrayal of marginalized characters throughout the novel. For example

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    UNEVOC that states, “Entrepreneurship refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action…”. But no matter how you define it, the most important skills, traits, and characteristics needed to be successful are vastly analogous. Along with this week’s reading, I conducted internet searches for the top characteristics, traits, and skills for entrepreneurship and my findings were surprisingly similar. The most common result that I found was determination (willpower, self-discipline, drive

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    lot of learning isn’t fun”. The reason why this one stood out to me the most is because of my own personal experience in my educational past. In Dr. Weimer article, she lists out seven Characteristics of a good learner. These consist of multiple traits that good students have, and with elaborations on why they are vital to a student’s ability to learn. The one the stood out to me the most was Good learns recognize that a lot of learning isn’t fun. The description of this characteristic states that

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    Over the past 18 years of my life on this earth I have felt that I have created my strengths from my past experiences and my urge to become the best person that I can be. It also plays into the type of student that I want to be and can be with the evolution or continuation of my education. Over my lifetime I noticed that some of the strengths that I have discovered in myself are my math skills, my ability to somewhat talk to people, my problem-solving capabilities, and my sympathy towards people

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    act of kindness after he tried stealing her purse. My greatest influence in my life is my mother as she strongly impacted me through my 14 years of existence by helping me strengthen my faith and morality, helping me to build great characteristic traits, and she sets a great example for me to become a good mother in the future. My mom is a very strong woman of faith and she values good morals and ethics, to grow to be a decent human being. One of her main priorities as a mother is to help my brother

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    Life is in their hands, death is on their minds. The movie Twelve Angry Men consists of twelve characters playing as jury members in an alleged murder case. Throughout the movie these twelve characters show a wide variety of characteristics such as, being impatient, aggressiveness, and anger. When watching this movie, one quickly realizes why it is called Twelve Angry Men. Almost all twelve characters showed the characteristics previously stated. Although, there were five characters in

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    His two character traits that stood out the most was being strong and fearless. This story is based on real life, and on a book called Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. The

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