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    Heroes are people with a kind heart and strong mind, standing for what they believe in and putting their life in harm’s way for the rights of other people. Whether their fighting in a war, Marching for civil rights, saving people from fires or singing on a stage; all heroes have a purpose and that’s to save lives and that’s why heroes are needed and extremely important. Beowulf and Sir Gawain are both literary heroes we have studied and Beyoncé Gisselle Knowles Carter is my personal hero.

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    Piper Chapman Characters

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    The pilot script introduces the protagonist Piper Chapman and shows the beginning of her prison life. Piper is engaged but has to leave her fiancé Larry to serve a prison term, because she once helped Alex, her college girlfriend, carry drug money. She knows little about the prison and has fear for the prisoners. On the first day, she offends Pop who runs the kitchen; next morning Pop pays her back. Facing that situation without any help,Piper is almost in despair, and at that time Alex shows up

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    Tuesday- Breakfast: French toast sticks with milk and orange slices. Lunch: Spaghetti and meat sauce w/ texas toast or chicken nuggets w/ fries and a choice of grape juice; cranberry juice or assorted flavors of milk. Wednesday- Breakfast: nutri grain breakfast bar w/ mixed fruit and a choice of milk. Lunch: Turkey and swiss sandwiches with banana and apple slices and baby carrots & ranch or Ham and swiss croissant with pineapple slices and baby carrots and ranch with a choice of strawberry kool-aid

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    Leaving Las Vegas, directed by Mike Figgis and based on the autobiographical novel by John O'Brien, is an emotional story about an alcoholic who rejects life and wants to drink himself to death in Las Vegas, and an unselfish prostitute who loves him the way he is. Ben, played by Nicholas Cage, was a former movie producer in Los Angeles and has obviously crumbled in the glamour world of Hollywood which is shown in the opening scene. Here Ben is already an alcoholic when he disturbs former colleagues

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    blend of rhythmic clapping and Spanish style guitar music with various fast changes in tone. As the opponents look at each other the horns kick it to very high gear. At 1:34:02 they immediately are silenced as soon as The Bride is first hit with a slice of the sword of O-Ren Ishii. This action initiates the complete silence as the bride falls down. The music ending seems to symbolize both the first real danger The Bride has been in and the fact that she has literally

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    Kill a Mockingbird Exam Essay Throughout the story of the classic American book To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme of justice and injustice is presented in many instances and in a variety of different ways through the eyes of a young girl named Scout, who is living in Alabama during the time of The Great Depression and segregation. One of the largest instances of injustice in the book was the trial of Tom Robinson, which was also the climax of the story. At the end of Tom’s trial, the jury finishes

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    Analysis Of The Help

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    of Stockett was to portray the work environment for colored people in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights movement; The Help received not so favorable criticism. It was understable that in the film, The Help, the picture painted was just a slice of the genuine actuality of  the realism of the south.     The film revolved around the characters: Skeeter, that plays

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    Gene Weingarten used multiple rhetorical strategies and devices such as lists, anecdotes, and metaphors in order to appeal to his audience’s sense of credibility, emotion, and logic. The audience he is aiming to reach is people that don’t believe they are capable of killing their child by leaving them in a hot car. He is trying to show that anyone is susceptible to doing this, as well as introducing the possibility that killing your child in that manner, isn’t always a crime. Everyone is at mercy

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    Leaving Las Vegas, directed by Mike Figgis and based on the autobiographical novel by John O’Brien, is an emotional story about an alcoholic who rejects life and wants to drink himself to death in Las Vegas, and an unselfish prostitute who loves him the way he is. Ben, played by Nicholas Cage, was a former movie producer in Los Angeles and has obviously crumbled in the glamour world of Hollywood which is shown in the opening scene. Here Ben is already an alcoholic when he disturbs former colleagues

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    Chopin 's Artistry in "The Story of an Hour" To be in the struggle with conventional society 's convictions is troublesome for some to do; in any case, writer Kate Chopin battles that fight to bring readers the absolute most interesting writing that a man can get their hands on. Utilizing further bolstering her good fortune traditions of stories, for example, character improvement, plot control, and incongruity, she can bring the readers into a universe of feelings that society would laugh at.

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