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    Music blared from my alarm cloak, I groaned and poked my hand out of my blanket and blindly patted the top of my nightstand, there was a loud crash before Justin Bieber finally shushed up. I brought my hand back underneath my blanket. As the noise was replaced by silence, sleep overtook me. I woke up again but this time the singing was, if possible, worse than JB's. "Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know! Well now they know!" A nasally, high pitch voice sang. I grunted and turned over accidentally

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    Setting is important in novels because it is like a theme to a book. It is necessary to have a setting to write a good book. The setting of Alice in Wonderland is a crazy world in a rabbit hole. Alice discovers this other world by following him down his hole. This world she entered is a dream world. The animals talk and act like normal people. Alice can never tell apart reality from fantasy. This is a world through a child’s eyes. The setting of Harry Potter is two worlds. The muggle world, and

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    Curiosity through Poems and Songs in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland In Lewis Carroll’s novel titled Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the plot revolves around the main character, Alice, who is undoubtedly curious and who pulls the reader along with her as she explores her constant urge to know more. Throughout the story, there are various bits and pieces of artistic elements such as songs, poems and riddles which delve into the imaginative world of Alice. While Alice’s creativity and vivid curiosity

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    The book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is about Alice and her adventure down a rabbit hole. In the book she portrays very poor judgment and makes awful decisions. She may also be dreaming throughout the book thus the reasons she makes very bad decisions. Alice has very poor judgement, she makes awful choices throughout the book. Some of the choices she makes puts her in bad positions but she somehow finds a way out of them. In the beginning of the book Alice sees a rabbit wearing clothes saying

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    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, is a classic novel that introduced a new form of imagery in both popular culture and literature. This is a story about a young girl named Alice who falls down a tree hole into a world known as Wonderland. In this world, every animal and plant is personified and is truly what no one would expect. Readers find out however, that Wonderland is just a figment of Alice’s imagination and she is actually dreaming the whole time. In the novel, Alice’s Adventures

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    The Buckeyebill Bullet wins again! Jesse Owens was also known as Buckeyebill Bullet and he was notorious for winning races. Owens shaped the world in many ways. Jesse Owens was amazing from his years growing up and all the way until when he died. Owens will forever hold a legacy and an impact on the world. Jesse Owens had very interesting years growing up. He was born September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama. Owen's birth name was James Cleveland Owens, but he changed it to Jesse Cleveland Owens

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    In Lewis Carroll's, "Jabberwocky," the unique way he gives us narrative and descriptive anchors, and both his chimerical and more serious aesthetic create a poem with lasting appeal. This poem appeals to both children and adults through an aesthetic that is both whimsical and humorous as well as complicated and dark. Carroll creates that sense of whimsy with lines that present imaginative descriptions such as ““Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub

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    Humpty Dumpty Identity

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    Alice takes on the relationship between naming and identity when she declares “there’s another little girl in the garden, somewhere!” (p.26) as she is agreeing with the other characters that she is to be known as being young and a ‘child’ and not by any of her actual attributes such as her actual name or any actions she has undertaken. According to Yaguello “to name, in other words, is at the same time to categorize, to organise the world” (p.71) Alice is given herself a category based on her

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    The Buckeye Bullet “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself- the invisible, inevitable, battles inside all of us- that’s where it’s at (BrainyQuotes).” Born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama. Owens was a son of a sharecropper and a grandson of slaves. Owens suffered as a child from many illnesses such as, chronic bronchial congestion and pneumonia. Throughout his life, James Cleveland Owens developed the nickname J.C. which

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    Introduction In the novel Alice in Quantumland, Alice dozes off into a dream world. This dream world has all things to do with Quantum Physics and mechanics, it is smaller than an atom itself. Alice learns about many different things while she is in the dream world, taking on things such as, electrons, particles, atoms, the Pauli Principle, and the Uncertainty Principle. Electrons “Electrons are very small and show no distinguishing features, being all completely

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