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    situation. Our perception of reality is affected by many things; it is important to recognize this and realize that many factors go into our thoughts” (The Importance of History in 1984, Website). Numerous things can make a society great. Then again, in the world of Oceania things like the destruction of the past and the revision of history, and the attack and on the valve of marriage. Still further, the elimination of God and religion from public life are all used to destroy society. The government officials

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    novel, Love’s Executioner, consists of ten case histories where he documents his patient’s dilemmas and well as his own personal dilemmas. Yalom’s dilemma within the first case history is: Should I, under the banner of self enlightenment strip away an old woman’s irrational but sustaining and comforting love illusion? The first case history focuses on patient Thelma, a seventy year old woman who is immensely depressed and who claims to be in love. One of Thelma’s main issues is that she suffers

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    his true love, Daisy. He bought a huge mansion in west egg just to be across the bay from Daisy who lives in east egg. The central theme in the Great Gatsby is that you cannot have everything no matter how rich you are.. In the Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald shows many different sides of the complicated character Jay Gatsby, some good and some bad. While Gatsby shows many different sides of him, the sides that are most prevalent are his traits of having a complicated history based on

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    awarded Scottish born poet has written many poems during her forty-two year career. War Photographer, History, and Syntax are examples of the wide range of topics that show everything from the horrors of war to the first steps of love. Through the use of metaphors, similes, personification, and imagery she brings alive the battlefield, the hauntings of history, and the delicate first stages of love. Although she has been quoted as saying, in universalteacher.org.uk, that “I’m not interested in words

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    modern society, people have seen the development of technology and the improvement of policy. But in George Orwell’s novel entitled 1984, set in a dystopian world, the protagonist named Winston who works for the Ministry of Truth in London. He finds love with Julia, and they begin to question the Party. The author portrayed the world in his novel was oppressive and totalitarianism. However, In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the dystopian world and the totalitarianism state will not develop in the future

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    both locally and globally. With the help of Carroll High School administration, we plan to incorporate these skills in English 11, starting next year, by communicating in various ways to broaden our knowledge of other countries.” Because of our love for history, we made a whole project about connecting to different cultures around the world. In the end, we couldn’t find a teacher willing to develop the idea into a course curriculum, however I am very proud of this project and the work I put into it

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    country of love, further emphasised in Walt Disney’s “The Lady and The Tramp”, where two mutts fall in love at first sight. Italy has touched the world, well known for the birth of our modern pizza, and its variety of pastas and sauces, but there is so much more to this country than its abundance of love and food. Outside of the fact that it is shaped as a boot, Italy is a one of kind country that has made great strides in history in order to become what it is today. Exploring the history of Italy

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    Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, is a rhapsody of joy and triumph: the triumph of one woman’s crusade against racism, sexism and socially imposed traditions. Written in the epistolary form in an incandescently clear and impassioned language, heated with love and rage, it tells the story of Celie, a battered Black woman, who along with a few other Black women stand together to finally emerge triumphant over a world which marginalizes them. Steven Spielberg has immortalized the novel by making it into a

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    A TYPICAL LOVE STORY I am Bennie Cork. My real name is Benjamin Henry Cork, BUT the only people who can call me that is my mother, my “real” father, my great grandmother, or Olivia. If you were to notice me, you are a rare type of breed. I’m nothing special… not extremely tall… not extremely smart...not extremely good looking… and definitely not extremely social, so no one really remembers me. I go through the halls of Glenbrook North High School looking like any other 17 year old guy: brown hair

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    schools. In the article I noticed that some of the students like Reina a self-identifiers Guatemalan who felt embarrassed about who she was and how she wished she was “White American” but with the Chicana /o-Latina/ o studies helped her learn how to love herself and accept who she is as a Guatemalan. I agree with her research that claims resentment of a race or a class of people , if we look at how Reina felt about herself it is because of the environment around her that made her think that she was

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