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    In the stories, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, and By the Waters of Babylon, by Stephen Vincent Benet, each of the main characters posses a desire deep within themselves to discover things that they do not already know about. Equality and John both live in societies where almost all knowledge of the past has been forgotten. These communities are enveloped in superstition, which causes them to fear the unknown. The desire within Equality and John, however, brings them past these fears and leads them to learn

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    Pi was forced to alter aspects of his identity in order to overcome his hunger and the threat of death while stranded, and altering these morals led to him discovering new aspects of his identity. For example, an aspect that Pi was forced to alter was his morals. One of his morals was being a strict vegetarian, and avoiding killing innocent animals. However, after his emergency rations of biscuits and chocolate ran out, he was forced to start killing fish, turtles, and other sea life in order to

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    characterization of the protagonist and antagonist, and through Equality 7-2521’s first person point of view. Throughout the plot of the story, we see Equality 7-2521 slowly begin to break small rules, then move on to break bigger ones because of the discoveries he has made from

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    The process of discovery is often, a rigid and gruelling journey which leads an individual or group to formulate new perspectives as truth is uncovered. Exploring new worlds, people and places, thrilling the individual to reevaluate their understanding of the world and society transforming perceptions. This is explored in the reality documentary series directed by Ivan O’Mahoney’s ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ which encapsulates the hardships of asylum seekers catalysing the participants emotional

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    Equality states on page 96 that,“I shall choose my friend among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither common nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire”. In other words, Equality 7-2521 briefly outlines the theme of the novel. In this dystopian society that Ayn Rand portrays, individuality has been completely abolished from the language and aspects of daily life. Not

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    Snow Globe Accident

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    Did you know that the snow globe was made by accident. The snow globe was invented in Vienna, Austria by Erwin Perzy in 1900. Perzy was a fine instruments mechanic, when a surgeon came to him with a problem. Although the surgeon had electric light bulbs in his operating theater, the newly invented bulb didn’t cast great light. He wanted to know if Perzy could make the bulbs brighter. So, he got to work. As Perzy hunted for inspiration, he noticed that shoemakers had found an interesting trick

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    In Julia Alvarez’s poem “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries”, the poet uses poetic devices to conveys the speaker’s discovery of a poem that catches her attention so much that she feels a rush of excitement that wants to hold on to as long as she can. She discovers about herself how captivated she can be from a poem and how she would even stoplift to keep the rush. The exciting tone is revealed through the entrancement of the girl.The smooth, calming imagery shows how impacted

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    about the discovery of North America by the European explorers, yes? But did you know that the Europeans were NOT the first ones to sail to the unknown lands that we live in now? It was ancient people, like the Vikings, for example. While we could say that it was discovered twice, that would be dumb. There was simply a lack of communication. So with that in mind, the whole point of this is: Discoveries can never be truly repeated. We’ve seen so many things, and we have records of discoveries from even

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    In this section we will introduce the background knowledge of our topic, and we will show the motivation of this paper by discussing related prior literature. A disclosure is additional information attached to an entity's financial statements, usually as an explanation for activities, which have significantly influenced the entity's financial results. In the United States, this disclosure is usually found in the notes of financial statements, and many also can be found in the notes section of the

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    the HC 100 class. While both Robert Kurson’s Pirate Hunters and A.G. Riddle’s The Atlantis Gene contain similar themes such as choices, fear, persistence, and exploration, they differ due to the fact that Pirate Hunters focuses mainly on personal discovery, whereas The Atlantis Gene emphasizes on more generalized and important themes like power, secrets, and making sacrifices to help others. The two novels are similar in the aspect that they both include themes of fear, persistence, exploration, dedication

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