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    o Children: sons Adam Offit, David Offitt and Yoni Offitt –all three sons are in their early-to-mid-twenties. o Siblings: Suzanne’s five siblings- Holly Altman, Peter Altman, Howard Altman, Julie Altman and Rim Meirowitz (step-brother). Andy’s sister: Margaret Offit Gold works for the Office of Administration at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and active member of her synagogue, B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville. Andy’s brother Thomas Offit is a social studies teacher for

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    The Sin City film was filmed by several directors led by Frank Miller. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino also took part in the work on the film. These two directors often collaborate throughout their career, so this was not the first project they worked on in tandem. In this case, the analysis of the directors' work should take into account the efforts of each of this triad because the film comprises many elements of the author's style of each director. Like every provincial teenager in America

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    occur. Life is and always will be filled with unexpected surprises. Robert Frost, Billy Collins, and Maya Angelou are able to portray these surprises in an abundance of aspects throughout their poetry. Frost, through his demonstration of universal themes, Billy Collins, renowned for his unique approach to otherwise ordinary subjects, and Maya Angelou, eminent for her words inciting political uprisings. “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, “Weighing the Dog” by Billy Collins, and “Harlem Hopscotch” by

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    Bayard Rustin, a noteworthy civil rights activist who put forth brilliant work in organizing equality marches. Bayard Rustin was known to have a stand-out energetic personality that contributed to his success. Rustin believed in a non-violent philosophy, he pushed for peaceful conflict resolutions.  Later in his life he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to promote civil rights and peace movements. That award did not come easy for Rustin, he faced many challenges along the

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    Some of the most renowned sonneteers express their love for another person in terms of the magnitude of that person’s beauty, especially during the Elizabethan era. But, the most powerful form of love is loving someone for who they are instead of what they look like. Loving someone for love’s sake allows love to last a lifetime because love is true and the truth does not change. This differs from loving someone for physical features in which both the love of looks and the beauty fade with time. While

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    Thesis: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel which tells the story of conflict between the "greasers" and the "Socs," captures the voice of ponyboy and his friends in a realistic way that relates to boys and their gangs even today. This story has a lot of issues that are going to be talked about in this paper such as the realism, the conflicts, the characters, Hintons style, the themes, etc. This book is pretty interesting and brings up a lot of good issues. There are a lot of reasons for reading

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    to be disturbed straight away in the poem, Macbeth’s mental deterioration takes place and develops as the play proceeds. ‘Macbeth’ written by William Shakespeare and set in 1050 contains themes of status, power and death while ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning written in 1842 shows how status, wealth and the marriage market can affect a man’s life. Macbeth at first is a well-respected and liked character. He shows himself to be ‘brave’ and is given the position of the ‘Thane of Cawdor’.

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    Explore the ways in which Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth and Browning presents the speakers in Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and the Laboratory Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in such a way that she is shown as a strong and powerful woman. Her ability to manipulate Macbeth to murder Duncan in order to get more power is a key example of this aspect of her character. Browning also presents his speakers in a similar way to Shakespeare through their need to control. The main way that both

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    procedures, tools and termination procedure for the Robert Mondavi Winery,

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    considered possibly the most important female figures of the Romantic Era. Both women were friends living with the struggles of trying to make a name for themselves as musicians and composers while living in the shadows of their famous male family members: Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. Clara Schumann Clara Josephine Wieck was born on September 13, 1819 in Leipzig, Germany into a musical family. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was “a first-rate piano teacher.” Her mother, Marianne Tromlitz, was a soprano

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