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    The book is “Series of unfortunate events the Austere academy”. It is about the Baudelaire children Violet, Klaus and Sunny. The story is about how the they go to prufrock preparatory school. But they are faced with a strange set of challenges. When the children get there they find it to look like a nice place but the go to see the vice principal whose name is Nero. He explains the rules of Prufrock Prep, reassuring them that his advanced computer system will keep their enemy, Count Olaf, away

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    Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are the ages of fourteen, twelve, and an infant of an unspecified age. They each have their own specific things they enjoy and are gifted in. Violet loves inventing things and she’s always thinking of some creative invention. The middle child, Klaus, is very intellectual and loves books. Sunny, being very small, loves to bite things with her tiny sharp teeth. Their very rich parents die in a fire that burns down their house. Mr. Poe, a banker who is friends

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    Count Olaf is known to be a dangerous criminal in the book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. His main target is the Baudelaire orphans, who were left extremely wealthy after the passing of their parents, and Olaf has shown throughout the books that he is willing to do anything to get their money. In the work The Bad Beginning, the author Lemony Snicket uses the character Count Olaf to show that being greedy can get you into trouble and villainous acts can sometimes bring people together. Count

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    The approach of change is at allowance with the angle of abounding religions, and many humans wish to acquiesce a religious appearance of creationism to be accomplished in the public academy system. The foundation of change is based aloft the accepting that the agent of all ordered circuitous systems, including active creatures, can be explained by accustomed laws after the admission or action of God. A person who believes in the biblical archetypal of conception is beheld by some non- believers

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    Teacher and apprentice asleep in Sweden ache advance by masked man A knife-wielding masked man stabbed four humans at a academy in southern Sweden, killing a abecedary and a apprentice afore getting attempt asleep by police, authorities said.Pictures taken by acceptance and circulating in the media showed the aggressor cutting atramentous clothes and a Darth Vader-like mask, with academy accouchement initially cerebration it was a antic or a Halloween costume.A masked antagonist stabbed several humans

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    ability to paint a storyline in my head and to envision what another person thinks. For fiction, I have a slight bias towards the gothic and existential works, especially when I was younger. It was in the sixth grade that I read Lemony Snicket’s Austere Academy, and when I learned the phrase memento mori, or “remember you will die”. A rather macabre phrase, it reminds me both of an inevitable fate and my need to make the most of my life, regardless of where I have started. Growing up, I didn’t know

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    how humans should interact. Many of these writings reference the vile society composed of conforming populations. The film Dead Poets Society also discloses the pressure society has specifically on younger generations. Teenagers enrolled at Welton Academy, are in essence - perfect. They are expected to be intelligent and follow as instructed, but a new teacher challenges his students to break away from the sequence and satisfy their lives. Dead Poets Society and Transcendentalist thinkers express the

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    Welton. Our quick-fire glances of attendance at Welton, is similar as to how the boys only manage small peeks of the freedom of which they should be receiving. The threatening nature of the school stops students from making any impact on how the academy is run, and therefore their views and ideas are never heard. Charlie Dalton, for example, who takes it in his stride to ask Welton’s administration for the admittance of girls into Welton, finishes with severe beatings from his headmaster. The use

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    discord existing between romanticism and realism as these conflicting movements are conferred upon the students at an elite all boys school. Welton Academy, its teachings, administration, and ethos represent realism, it provides exacting austere teaching. At the beginning of each semester, parents hand over their sons to the trusted hands of Welton Academy in the hope that their sons will become doctors, lawyers, and politicans. When a Welton alumnus, Mr Keating, arrives as a new English teacher, he

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    readiness capabilities. However, the leadership aspect of training within the Sqn is nonexistent and in my opinion, is a crucial factor that must addressed. Although our leadership is very successful at maintaining the operational tempo (Canadian Defence Academy, 2007, p. 14), it currently only focuses on daily operations and not on developing our future leaders, leaving them ill prepared to handle the operational challenges they will be faced with.

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