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    The Chicago Bears were not always the Chicago Bears; they first began as the Decatur Staleys. The Chicago Bears had many things that helped them be a successful team. The success of this franchise can be contributed to dedicated coaches, talented players, outstanding fields and teams with Super Bowl hopes. The Chicago Bears that people know today were not always the Chicago Bears. The Bears originated in Decatur, Illinois. The first year of this franchise was in 1920 when they were called

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    ambitions. Soon, the narrator had acquired too much ambition, putting Doodle at risk. This is evident with Doodle’s constant cry, “don’t hurt me, Brother.” Little did the narrator know he would be pushing his brother too far. Later in the story, the narrator let his ambition overcome him and decided to keep on pushing his brother. He did not want a brother who could not do what other normal schoolboys could do. He admits to himself, “the knowledge that Doodle’s and my plans had come to naught was bitter

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    much misfortune bodes. This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, that presses them and learns them first to bear, making them women of good carriage.” This quote is from Act One Scene Four Page Three Line Fifty Five to Sixty-Seven from Mercutio. From English Professor to Writer no one really understand this speech from Mercutio. Mercutio was a rambling alcoholic who was pushing the fight with Tybalt. Mercutio was the first one to draw his sword. In the 1968 film of Romeo and Juliet it shows

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    Minimum Wage Raise in Seattle

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    ones. This will hurt current workers and potential workers, because businesses must adjust to the new policy. Minimum wage should be raised to help these workers to a better living conditions, but fifteen dollars maybe too excessive for the market to bear. One

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    more minor effects of global warming. Lomborg finds an issue with the way environmentalists are pushing this global warming fear by using both data and statistics to show that the global environment was improving and that temperatures have been higher in the distant pasts all these claims that we are hurting our planet by causing things such as rising sea levels and threating extinction to polar bears are misrepresenting

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    motives of this were not fair to Doodle, but the outcome made everyone in the family delighted. Soon he had let the feeling of pride engulf him turning it into something worse. “I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death” the Narrator said. Now instead of celebrating with his brother the accomplishment they had made, he felt saddened by his own

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    tell by the man’s stature that he was a bear, but what the hell did he want this early in the morning? Suddenly the man’s phone went off. Logan watched as he took his phone out of his pocket, looked at it a moment, and then silenced it. That was odd. Hesitantly, Logan opened the door, not knowing what to expect. “Don’t you think it’s a little ear –” Logan was cut off by the bear’s harsh voice. “Where is she?” The man growled at Logan before pushing his way into the apartment. Noah spotted

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    her,- for seven long years had it frowned upon this lovely woman,- and still she bore it all… Heaven, likewise, had frowned upon her, and she had not died. But the frown of this pale, weak, sinful, and sorrow-stricken man was what Hester could not bear, and live!” (133). Hester does not care about the church or the world giving her forgiveness. The only person whose approval and forgiveness she cares about is Dimmesdale’s. She loves him so much that she can accept that the world cannot accept her

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    this may be a bit early for them, but it’s better for students to be introduced to death early then later. In this excerpt from Hamlets Soliloquy, “The undiscovered country form whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all…” Act 3 Scene 1 Lines 85-90. In this quote from Hamlet, Shakespeare is describing how we really don’t understand what’s waiting for us after death

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    point of begging the fleas in the doorkeeper’s coat to grant him access to ‘The Law’ If only the man would have realized from the beginning that the gate was placed there for his own personal self-development. The lessons he could have learnt by pushing beyond the initial doorkeeper would have built him into a totally new

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