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    can be seen as a metaphor for Australia as the crimes, which took place in the past against the Aboriginals, still affect the house and inhabitants of the house at the present time. The evil, which is in the house, represents the moral and ethical wrongs of the white Australia policy. The house “breathes” this symbolizes the spirits which inhabit the house, and when Wax Harry is born the house “breathes its first painless breath in half a century”. * The Lambs and the Pickles names are symbolic

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    thinking of things from another person's point of view. However, on the last day of the holidays, the three sneak onto the Radleys' property at night. Nathen, Boo's older brother, shoots at them; as they make their escape, Jem loses his trousers. When he goes back for them, he finds them neatly mended and hung over the fence, as if waiting for him. Chapters 7 - 8 ============== That autumn, Scout and Jem find more presents in the knothole, including a watch

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    it that a piece of fabric can make you look and feel differently. iThere are many in the industry that truly possess great personal style and have major influence in the fashion world. From the red carpets to street style, these ladies can do no wrong. One major movie starlet, Jennifer Lawrence, has become quite the fashionista. What she’ll wear next, there’s no way to tell, but it’ll most definitely be Dior. J

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    It was a few hours before the arrival of the mysterious biker that the harsh blare ripped Olivia Young from sleep. It was the same blare that sounded every morning at six thirty, a blast of white noise filling the air of the dormitory room for ten seconds as the equally harsh, fluorescent white tube lights blinked into life over head. The room full of teenagers weren't exactly springing into life, Liv included. A moan slipped past the slender brunette's lips as she rolled over on to her front, burying

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    Critical Review of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the 1930's in a small, isolated town in Maycomb County, Alabama. The 1930's was a period of great change with new ideas coming to the forefront of the Western world. America

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    Born as Fredrick Augustus Washing Bailey in February 1818, Fredrick Douglas was a very prominent American abolitionist, author and orator. Born as a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. Vivid, daring, and complex, Douglass became a symbol of his age and a unique voice for humanism and social justice. His life and thoughts will always speak deeply to the meaning of being black in America, as well as the human calling to resist cruelty. Douglass

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    equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal."Their yearly allowances consisted of the bare minimum to that the master could lower spending costs. "Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    below his knees. His waterproof trousers were tucked into long wellington boots. He waved his muddy hand, and Clemmie waved back with a smile. Clog woofed. He tried to lick the rain when it ran in drops down the window. He hadn't figured out the rain was on the outside. As Clemmie turned to walk on, Doctor Pax placed a hand on her shoulder. 'Good morning,' he said, ‘Have you seen Mosaic?’ 'G’morning, Doctor Pax.' He looked down at her and sensed something was wrong. ‘Mosaic...he...um...well…’ Doctor

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    Uniform and Its Effectiveness The topic about freedom to express oneself versus reinforcement of discipline is something to debate through the years. The argument about should students wear uniform to school? Even though uniforms are not necessary unacceptable, I personally do not want to wear them. There show some disagreements of about not wearing uniform bring: escalation in crime, bullying and distracting others from education; reducing in behavior, attendance and achievement of students. However

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    Nelson Mandela Analysis

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    Risks. Everyone in society has made some sort of mistake in their life cycle. -possibility... “Insert a quote from Nelson” what this quote means it says. Nelson Mandela’s was the first African politician that the people had come to know that he made his purpose? To be a leading figure for the future. Tom lodge directed the biography of “mandela” a critical life. [Tom found Nelson to be an upstanding figure who knee politics and has felt with African political topics.] ? Others have told and narrated

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