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    Emily Dickinson is an exceptional poet so much so that it is extremely difficult to place her in any single tradition she seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. Her poetic form, with her customary four-line stanzas, ABCB rhyme schemes, and alternations in iambic meter between tetrameter and trimeter, is derived from Psalms and Protestant hymns, but Dickinson so thoroughly appropriates the forms interposing her own long, rhythmic dashes designed to interrupt the meter and indicate short

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    Meeting: Amy will be planning moving Lola and Stripe but it will depend on them.   Nothing for the other areas.   Danyelle will need to leave for a short time tomorrow, so we need to pick up a few things for her. I went with Debbie for the first part of my morning and went with Amy to clean Tamarin Complex. I went with Debbie to do morning checks.  I saw B/W’s before she did.  Jasper was in the middle of two palms and Tatum was bouncing on the shade hammock.  Gibbon got paper bags with pepper and

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    I literally started laughing at myself. Looking on the bright side, I made a fool out of myself and enjoyed it for a moment and I at least got one thing done from my bucket list. I think the main reason I was embarrassed was because of the fear of being judged by others. I was afraid of people seeing me as a fool. I was so concerned about thy self so much that all I could think about were the consequences of my actions

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    Perseverance also helped Babe Karasawa when he was sent to an internment camp. His barrack was disgusting and falling apart, but instead of feeling bad for himself and giving up, he decided to work hard to make the best out of life. He said “We took buckets of water and washed all over the walls—we washed the dust and the grit” (Oppenheim, Joanne). Also, a small Dutch village saved many Jews, and they couldn’t have done it without persevering through the hard times. During the Holocaust, “the Germans

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    as buffere state between British controlled area and Burma. Noe a days the total population of Thailand is approximately 68,272,740. This is thickly populated area is equivalent to 0.91% of total world population. Thailand rankes number is 20 in the list of countriesin population. The population densityin Thailand is 134 per kilometers square. It means that 346 people live in mi2 . The total land area

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    actually had bible study once a day. Two teachers taught all the kids for each subject. (List) Instead of the children switching classes, the teachers had to move rooms. The kids ages ranged from 8 to 16. It did not even matter what their age, they could be in any grade. An example of this, a student listed as a fifth grader could be fifteen years old. School had four sixteen year olds in the seventh grade. (List) Adrian Cumings, one of the teachers, remembered as nice. She sold kids candy bars for

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    suffering and dying at the hands of the VA’s irresponsibility. Due to delays at clinics and hospitals everywhere causing massive waiting lists of approximately 7000 , our veterans are waiting around 273-327 days for medical help (Bronstein). Even compensation of modern veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are waiting around 2-3 years with a waiting list of around 550,000 (Brown). These wait times are affecting the mental and physical health of our veterans. This type of treatment is unacceptable

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    The birth of a girl has never been a cause for celebration in China, and stories of peasant farmers drowning newborn girls in buckets of water have been commonplace for centuries. Now, however, as a direct result of the one-child policy, the number of baby girls being abandoned, aborted, or dumped on orphanage steps is unprecedented. Adopting Internationally Adoption is procedure by which people legally assume the role of parents for a person who is not their biological child

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    The Salem Trials Introduction - The Salem Witch trials was a time of hysteria and confusion. People were being accused and giving false confessions of witchcraft being performed on the people of Salem, Massachusetts. Personal Statement - The delusion of witchcraft stemmed from fear. Fear of savages, fear of women gaining control and ultimately fear of the unknown. RoadMap - It allowed for the town 's imagination to run rampant and to make up these far fetched ideas of how bewitchment came to be

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    Music Reflection Paper

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    The second concert I attended was a performance by the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra at TAMU’s Rudder Theater. The performers were wearing black suits with a white button up shirt for males and black, full sleeve button up shirts for females. The audience was dominantly senior adults with a miniscule amount of students. The four pieces that caught my interest are the four movements from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, OP. 55, Eb Major which is also called Sinfonia Eroica. The first movement is called

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