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    Alone in a room. Quiet. Motionless. Suddenly she walks into a room,puts her blinding gold bag down, and begins to pace. Back and forth. Back and forth. Is she angry? Upset? Confused? It is possible. But take a closer look. Her face shows no sign of defeat. Instead, the girl is smiling, But why? Then she stops dead in her tracks. Grabs her phone puts on headphones, then resumes pacing. Back and forth. Only this time around she starts convulsing, with unusual jerking movements. To the untrained eye

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    The Glass Menagerie is arguably the most symbolic and deep plays ever written. The Glass Menagerie isn’t just a story of Laura’s disability, it has a deeper meaning behind it, and it can be easily overlooked by mediocre minds. Although the story revolves around the Wingfield family, Tennessee Williams throws in symbolism that corresponds with his childhood. In a way, he found closure for the loss of his sister Rose through writing The Glass Menagerie. One of the symbols is the play that holds a different

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    The Fox’s Struggles. I was eating the pancakes Shadow Foxy made. They were surprisingly good for his first time making them, but he probably learned from the champ. “These are really good! I’m surprised you made them this well,” I exclaimed. “Thanks, honey. 408 did help me a bit,” Shadow Foxy said. “He didn’t know that you had to flip the pancakes,” 408 stated, “so it was a burnt surface on one side, and a gooey, sticky surface on the other.” “It was bad,” Phantom Foxy said in a direct tone

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    perspective the book gives a feeling of relation to what happens now. Arthur Miller in a sense tried to put forth a message through this book beginning with McCarthyism, which was happening around the time it was written, but relating to the present it definitely sends a message even if it was written in the past. Miller does just what is needed to explain human nature and our behavior. The first thing that you could say Miller expresses them to do is the act of only having a certain way do to do things

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    Human Nature For hundreds of years people have written countless books about war. Some have chosen to write simply about the events that took place during the war, in the form a historical account, while others have chosen to write about their own, or other people's experiences. However, many of them have portrayed war as being glorious and associated it with valor and honor, suggesting that all participants of war were heroes. In a way these kinds of writings were

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    also known as the dead poet’s society. Authors from the past heavily influenced everything that was created in a poem. “Sweat” written by Zora Neale Hurston was written during a time period women didn’t have an opinion and it was frowned upon to disagree or go against your husband. This woman in the story over comes the current times cultural norms. The “Awakening” written by Kate Chopin, speaks out against societies gender roles and says women are evolving to hold more than the titles “mother” and

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    The song “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” by Sly and the Family Stone is a catchy song that represents the move to a brand new style of music. It represents a style of music that incorporates both R&B and rock elements. In “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”, the band incorporates aspects of R&B by having the entire song built over a repeating riff in the bass. This repeating riff in the bass, according to chapter 9 of the book establishes “the song’s rhythmic feel or ‘groove’.” This

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    television any longer, being tortured by old pictures of Jaime. Liam flicked off the TV and logged into his twitter account, “ LIAM.HENDLE.” He began to look at pictures that Jaime was mentioned in. He ran across one that concerned him. It was written by “that.computer.kid”, and it read,” everyone has that one person that is constantly picking on them, for me it is Jaime Lockwood. You better watch your back.” Liam tried to tell himself that he had nothing to worry about, and that whoever this was

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    At the start of NASA’s astronaut training, there was ten of us, the only people that I knew at the time was Alex and Parker. The three of us, me being Mark, had gone to school together and all had ambitions to become some first selected to go on the first trip to Mars. We knew that NASA’s selection process for astronauts was extremely difficult and the chances of us being together were unquestionably slim. Somehow the three of us made it. A while later the three of us were brought into a meeting

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    Jackie to solve written math problems requiring addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. This subtest measures untimed, written

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