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    George Saunders once said, “When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you” (Quote). This quote is absolutely relatable because short stories are filled with wisdom and advice that one can typically compare their own life circumstances to. Short stories can have multiple life lessons hidden within the text, requiring the reader to dig deeper and reread the story until the messages are clear. While reading them, it is important to

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    Hurricane Katrina Hurricanes are powerful and dangerous storms that involve great rain and win. When a tropical storm has a wind speed greater than 75 miles per hour, it is considered a hurricane. The United States of America has dealt with many hurricanes that have cost a substantial amount of damage. However there is one hurricane that occurred in 2005 that stands out among the others, Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive of the Atlantic Hurricanes during

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    La Grande Jatte Analysis

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    George Seurat created a Sunday on La Grande Jatte in 1886. Its medium is oil on canvas and it is a painting of scenery using a technique known as pointillism. It is currently located in New York, New York on display at the Museum of Modern Art. After a year and a half, Seurat quit school. Following one year of compulsory military service, he returned to art, but worked on his own, producing small-scale paintings and drawings. His work in black and white bears the earliest mark of his artistic maturity

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    Liberty Road Once something is out there, it can’t always be taken back. Sometimes it’s put out there on purpose. That’s exactly what Susan Browell Anthony did. It’s impossible at this point to take her life back. She worked hard 60 years, almost up to her death. She was a speaker, author, editor, abolitionist, labor activist, women’s rights activist, and a women’s suffragist. She lived from 1820 to 1906. She moved towards social justice by working, petitioning, and writing books on women’s

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    Family Assessment and Life Cycle The purpose of this paper is to enrich the familiarity and understanding of how a family’s values are impacted with regards to family health and wellness. Upon completion of the family assessment utilizing the Calgary Family Assessment model, the paper will reflect lifestyle changes, socioeconomic status, as well as a combined theoretical outline. Within this assessment there are three categories, structural, developmental, and functional. The structural element

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    I don't know what to answer when faced with the question of whether or not I believe in the afterlife. To be quite frank, I don't have a definite answer to give, as I find myself constantly turning those same type of questions over and over in my mind. What would it be like to die? Which way would I choose to go? What happens after? Day after day I hear the murmur of the questions in the back of my mind; pushing back the answers I might face, too scared to deal with what my mind might come up with

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    along with just one of his fantastic masterpieces. (Jason Robert Brown, about) One of Jason Robert Brown’s biggest inspirations is Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim is another composer who did “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and “Sunday in The Park With George,” which are two shows that shaped him as a composer. Brown started his musical fame with a revue, a composition of his own songs. It grew in popularity for the way each lyric had a story of its own without the need of its own show. “The

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    Cartierville had become a suburb of Montreal in 1898 it also became the northern terminus of the Montreal Park and Island tramway line; which was also know as the “17-Cartierville”. The village was named in honor of Sir George-Etienne Cartier one of the fathers of confederation of Canada. In the winter of 1912 it achieved official city status. In 1914 the agricultural side of Cartierville was granted independance

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    One 2016 Lecturer: Kat Ralph-Triebels Student Name: Xiaochen Gong Student I.D.: 99138745 Submission date: Monday 13 June 2016 1. Event Title and Description The event I have observed was the Canterbury Japan Day on Sunday 6 March 2016. The event took place at Riccarton Park Function Centre, Riccarton Racecourse from 10 am to 5 pm. The Canterbury Japan Day is an annual event organized by The Japanese Society of Canterbury. Its aim is to share Japanese culture with all New Zealanders. The Canterbury

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         Diana Frances Spencer was born July 1, 1961, at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk. She was the youngest daughter of three (Sarah b. 1955 and Jane b. 1957), and she had a younger brother Charles (born 1964). Her parents were Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, now the late (8th) Earl Spencer, and the Honorable Mrs. Shand-Kydd, daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy. Earl Spencer was Equerry to George VI from 1950-1952, and to the Queen from 1952-1954, when he married Diana's

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