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    imagination, which is more appealing, but fiction can just be a relatable story and results in being less entertaining. In the short parable Doubt, the readers are lured in to the possibility of a scandalous relationship between a pastor and an alter boy. Their curiosity is ignited because they are not given all the details. Therefore, their mind wanders further than the plot to create a story and characters that acted on one’s imagination; thus, the story became entertaining- flooded by the questions

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    more appealing, but fiction can just be a relatable story. In the same way, Books and movies are very different entities. In the short parable Doubt, the readers are lured in to the possibility of a scandalous relationship between a pastor and an alter boy. The readers’ curiosity is ignited because they are not given all the details. Therefore, their mind wanders further than the plot to create a story and characters that acted on one’s imagination; thus, the story became entertaining- flooded by the

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    Spilt is a movie about a man named Kevin who is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as he has 23 alter identities. He kidnaps three teenage girls and holds them captive in the cell basement of Philadelphia Zoo. The movie plot revolves around Kevin, Dr. Fletcher who is his psychiatrist, and how the girls try to break free. After kidnapping, Kevin’s one of alter identity, Barry, a sketch artist, is shown in Dr. Fletcher’s office. The psychiatrist does take note of his unusual behavior

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    How did all the boys and girls survive the South Sudan war? In A Long Walk To Water, Linda Sue Park uses history, and alters it by including how the lost boys go to the United States, just like in The Lost Girls of Sudan. She alters history by changing the number of times it took to get to refugee camps, compared to the amount of time used in The Lost Boys of the Sudan. Linda Sue Park uses and alters history by comparing Salva to other lost boys who went to the United States, and contrasting the

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    are pronounced. Both short stories include a man and boy that were both looking for forgiveness. The boy in “Salvation” was crying out for forgiveness for lying to the people he loved and believed in. Where the man in “The Grunt’s Prayer” was asking Jesus to forgive him for he was unable to turn against his men and had to follow them in war to kill others. As a young child, we are told many stories from people we love and believe in. The young boy in “Salvation” was told from his Auntie that he would

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    This movie exercises the principal of critical thinking when attorney Martin Vail takes on the case of an alter boy who got accused of brutally murdering murdering the Archbishop of Chicago. Vail

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    Alter Ego

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    Alter Ego Alter Ego began as a little boy name that had great characteristics and a lot of talent in his life and he grew up to be a adult. Alter Ego had a very different personality and he was a very great person and he knew a lot of things that he tell's in the story. Alter Ego was also another thing to find a stage name and he used some of the best as examples and he used Elvis Presley as a example. Alter Egos also refers to characters and there different works and what they do. Alter Ego demonstrates

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    this level of evil that is shown, varies in each character among the island. Even in the kindest of boys among the Island, all of them display some form of savagery. After the boys had hunted down a pig, they got in a chaotic circle chanting “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!" (114). These energetic, savage, and chaotic dances would carry away even the most innocent boys. Even Ralph thought that “the desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering” (115). Ralph, among the most

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    about a groups of boys who are stranded on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere. The story highlights the boys as they lose their sense of civilization and order. One of the major symbols throughout the story is the beast. The beast is a very powerful symbol throughout the story. The beast is made up, but represents fearing the unknown. That fear of the unknown takes over the boys mind, and the boys even believe "the beast" is a fellow boy among them. All the ages of the boys believe in the beast

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    between alters. The only difference is how the different alters act, there may be an alter who will stick up for “himself”. Not only is DID/MPD linked to childhood trauma and abuse but to high levels of stress. Its quite rare that an adult develop the disorder, but it can happen. For all the same reasons a child can get it being physically, sexually and emotionally abused. It takes a while for MPD/DID to become obvious in an adult because adults tend to try to keep in together. Especially being

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