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    On Tuesday morning, you get to work early so you could enjoy a little time to yourself before the bell rings and your students start to rush in the classroom. You have your coffee and everything else that you needed ready for the day. A couple of your students have been misbehaving in the classroom, and talking to the parents or guardian didn’t help at all. The way it has been going you came up with your own plan to help them learn about character traits. Character traits are all the aspects of a

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    The Holocaust was a genocide that occured from 1933-1945, and one of its survivors was Simon Wiesenthal. Wiesenthal was an architect before he was captured by the Nazis. After he was set free, he dedicated his life to finding Nazi war criminals and persecuting them in court. Later on in his life, he wrote a memoir, The Sunflower. It was about one of his many experiences at the Lemberg concentration camp where he got roped in to listening to a dynig SS soldier, Karl. Right before, Wiesenthal leaves

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    Hugo Chavez called his government The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. After me! That is hilarious, because I utterly disagree with his beliefs, his government, and what he is trying to do. I was the liberator of South America, I wanted social justice, I wanted everyone, every class, to be equal and have equal opportunities. Chavez shares none of these ideals. He attempts to help the poor, but in reality he hurts them. For example, Chavez imposed price controls on basic necessities, to help the

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    John and Owen are considered best friends in the Novel, “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” but may actually be less than that after all. Johnny Wheelwright and Owen Meany are the main character in “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving. The novel is about Owen, a midget, and his journeys with Johnny. They take of many challenges such as the mistreatment of Owen, finding Johnny’s father, and demonstrating heroics to save multiple people. While only looking at the surface of the plot, the two seem to work

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    ways in which forgiveness is seen, they all conclude that it leads people towards happiness and peace. In Simon Wiesenthal’s book The Sunflower, forgiveness is an important concept. Forgiveness is shown as an important concept to the story as it makes the reader question the forgiver’s role, the importance of forgiveness, and the reason people ask for forgiveness. In The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal, he shares his story of when a dying Nazi soldier asked him for forgiveness. After that incident

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    In “To my Dear children” Anne Bradstreet describes her physical, spiritual and emotional struggles in life and how she applied the solutions. She states many claim, but her main claim is how her religion or Puritan faith has helped her to overcome many things in her life. She uses diction in order to support the main claim. She also wrote this poem in order to guide her kids through their struggles. When she was young she had a very strong connection with god. Bradstreet claims, “In a long fit of

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    Anne Bradstreet was born in England in 1612. At the age of sixteen Anne married her beloved husband Simon Bradstreet. In June 14, 1630 Anne and Simon along with her parents immigrated to America. Once in America, they lived in Pioneer Village in Salem, Massachusetts. Anne Bradstreet was one of the most prominent English poets of North America and also the first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She is also the most prominent Puritan Figure in American Literature

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    The Forgetting Theme

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    Silence - the natural sound of the Universe. If you were to board a rocket and travel to the unnerving and unforgiving black ink of space, you would hear one thing - Silence. But in the universe of “The Forgetting”, silence is not common. Young Nadia lives in a city that has a supposed “gift” that forces you to lose your memories every 12 years, but when she finds her long lost friend Gray after one of these “forgettings”, she starts to uncover secrets that turn her world upside down. But even with

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    Csci 311 Unit 5

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    /*Program Name: Menu Driven Doubly linked list Name: Akshay Prakash Joshi Course number: CSCI 311 Project Description: This program is for menu driven doubly linked list. The menu has various options to select from, the program uses different function calls to do the specific task. It has a node structure which contains integer data, pointers for next node and previous node of doubly linked list. It has a Head node initialing pointing towards NULL, and uses two temporary pointer nodes

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    For my first Song I picked ordinary human by One Republic. I picked this song as When Jace and Clary first see each other. In the book they are both surprised. Jace is surprised because he saw that Clary could see him kill the blue haired boy. This is shown in the beginning of the song when it says today I felt a switch in my veins meaning that today something irregular happened. Then it says I used to be a shadow implying that someone can now see him which is Clary who can not only see him but later

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