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    Disney’s adaptation of this scene is much less sinister, and reinforces Alice’s youthfulness in several ways. Firstly, the film uses visual euphemism to make things less threatening. The “Eat Me” cakes and the liquid in the “Drink Me” bottle are all pastel colors, and do not have any of the visual cues the viewer might associate with poison, despite this association in the novel. The “Drink Me” bottle has a translucent liquid in it, and the font “Drink Me” is written in is a simple script font, again

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    to finally be able to do everything is a force nearly as strong as the force that yearns to be young once again, to go back to the simpler idealities of childhood. These yearnings are common throughout the natural never-failing process of aging. In Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland, the young female protagonist, Alice, faces these dilemmas as she journeys through the mysterious Wonderland in a search of her identity. This journey would have been made impossible if not for the power that has

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    The Unfortunate Benefits Of Go Ask Alice “Life is really unbearable ,Now time seems so endless yet so fast’’(Sparks ,1996, p.35).Go ask Alice is a story that explains the life of a girl that went down a path she never wanted to end up on all due to drugs. She can barely get back on the right track, but with the help of her family and friends by her side she might be able to come back. This would explore the ways this book is a good way to teach people the outcome of drug abuse. It will also

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    “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll “Jabberwocky” is an adventurous short poem about a boy who slays a beast. The poem is comprised of many words that are inexistent. Many of the words are combinations of two existing words combined together to create a new word that gives the reader a more vivid image. An example is the word “slithy” which is a combination of the words slimy and lithe. The poem also features mythological figures of the author’s imagination. This also adds to the enjoyment of the reader

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    mainly written to entertain the children audience, but it was also meant to give the adult readers laughter at the hidden jokes. I believe that it is so because of the art, the characters, the description of the characters, and the story. As with Lewis Carroll or Charles

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    Javier Sotomayor

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    On Tuesday, July 27 1993 in Salamanca Spain, the world of Track and Field was revolutionized in less than 20 seconds. Not in a 200 meter sprint, but because of a 2.45 meter unassisted vertical jump. Javier Sotomayor is the only person in the world to have ever cleared 8 feet with a jump of 8’0.5” breaking the 2.44m record he had set the previous year. Javier Sotomayor is iconic in the High Jump as a result of his record which has not been surpassed in its 22 years and only recently has been challenged

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    From talking rabbits to many other strange and unusual things, Alice has a very memorable trip through wonderland. Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,takes place in the victorian era. He wrote it for the Liddel family, he then published it and it is now a famous children book. There were many events that we can see Alice’s background from coming from the Victorian Era throughout the text. Although Alice enters wonderland as an immature and inexperienced child, throughout her adventure in wonderland

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    Peds In Sports

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    PEDs In The World of Sports Around 20% of professional athletes are caught using PEDs, or performance enhancing drugs. But, CHarles Barkley, a NBA basketball player, says the number is way higher. The sports world needs to put more time and money into anti-doping efforts because PEDs have many bad side effects and are cheating. Doping is cheating, and gives players an unfair edge. For example, blood doping can increase endurance by 38%, and in one test, a person ran eight kilometers 44 seconds faster

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    The winter of 1881 was a spectacular time for Alice Le’Plore. She had just graduated from Oxford the previous spring and was waiting to finally do something grand with her life. As she was so used to only working on school, not once had she ever thought of what she would like to do with herself. Ever since she was a little girl, Alice dreamed of traveling the world since she had grown up in the small town of Prestigne, England. Each person who lived there knew exactly their place in life and

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    Kurt Fearnley is a three time gold medal paralympian. He was born without the lower part of his spine and from then became intent on getting into the paralympics. Starting in the 2000 Sydney paralympic games he became a silver medalist when he received two silver medals. He became a gold medalist in 2004 when he won the 5000m and marathon races. Kurt completed the treacherous 96km kokoda trail which is a challenge to even the people who can walk. “It's amazing, it's a very special moment for me but

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