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    Richard III: Transformative task Note for parents For the parent/s of the child who now owns Richard III: a children’s novel. I decided to convert Shakespeare’s Richard III into a children’s book due to how much Shakespeare’s Richard intrigues me and the moral lessons that I believe a child can learn from his story. In Shakespeare’s play, Richard is portrayed as a Machiavel, he is unapologetically manipulative yet a smooth-talker with a sense of humour. This combination of characteristics, along

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    Louise Mallard has been at all unfaithful to her husband. One sentence within the article suggests that some readers have sensed an extramarital affair—or an attempted one—between Mrs. Mallard and Richards, which, given its inclusion, the authors appear to agree with (Chongyue and Lihua). However, Richards is mentioned by name in the text of the short story three times: at the beginning when he confirmed the news of Brently Mallard’s death, toward the end when he awaited Josephine and Louise at the

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    The beach 1.     people - Richard: a british traveller, who comes to Bangkok and gets a map to a secret hidden beach. He has seen every movie about Vietnam, and he sometimes believes being there. He also is addicted to video games. - Daffy Duck: the man who gives Rich the map; he had been on the beach before and had left it for some reason. After his death, he often appears in Richs daydreams. He always speaks about Vietnam, and he knows everything before it happens. - Etienne

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    Detective Wilde, am being assigned the opportunity of a lifetime! Solving the murder of Richard Webster is what's going to determine whether I receive a spotlight in the newspaper. Business has been slow lately so this will help pick it up. Ahead of the interrogation, I gathered data on the victim and each of the suspects. Some background research shows that the Webster Network of co-workers are troubled: Richard, a class A jerk, Hugh, a broken businessman, Rita, in a troublesome relationship, H.T

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    ART CRITICISM PAPER

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    ART CRITICISM PAPER “The Grafin von Schonfeld with her Daughter” by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-LeBrun       In the University Of Arizona Museum Of Art, the Pfeiffer Gallery is displaying many art pieces of oil on canvas paintings. These paintings are mostly portraits of people, both famous and not. They are painted by a variety of artists of European decent and American decent between the mid 1700’s and the early 1900’s. The painting by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun caught my

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    Genesis 1 and 2, it explains how the world and it’s living inhabitants were created from God’s touch. From Genesis 1 we see how the sky, seas, land, animals, and mankind were created. However Genesis 2 focuses more on the first of mankind, known as Adam and Eve and how they are made to be. In this paper I will compare Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 and what the main idea for creation is in each one, however in my opinion there is no contradiction between the two. Genesis 2 merely fills in the details that

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    In the Bible, God creates the Garden of Eden. In this Garden, God protects Adam and Eve from evil. But Ever disobeys God, and God banishes them from the garden. Once banished, Eve and Adam face consequences and hardships of the real world. The Garden of Eden is common in popular culture with many associating it with paradise. God gave Adam and Eve paradise with Eden. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses many allusions and metaphors to create his point. The Grangerford feud is metaphorical

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    One of the pieces of stimulus material was an excerpt from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. In this piece of stimulus material, he broke down the different factors that affected wages and profit in Europe. Adam Smith concluded the best economic solution is a free-market economy where there is little to no government regulation. Moving forward a couple hundred years, in a different piece of stimulus material, Richard Nixon addressed a different idea. In his Address to the Nation on Labor Day

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    King Richard II In King Richard II, Shakespeare attempts to reflect on the real nature of England at the time of its publishing. The play is characterized by nobility, lordship, royal disputes and frequent wars. Notably, history evidences that such traits were associated with England in the 1500s. Particularly, Act 2 Scene 1 of the play has demonstrated a significant prophecy involving discomfort of an elderly member of the royal family towards the abuse of power demonstrated by King Richard II.

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