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Choosing Ones Own Courses In Middle School
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... this area and maybe if they wanted to, would have a greater chance in being employed as an accountant, and succeeding in life. If someone always dreamed of becoming an artist, and that was their goal in life, they would want to practice art. This student would like the most experience and training he could get throughout his years in school so they would be prepared to take more advanced courses and become very skilled. Second, if Middle School students had their choice of courses, it would reflect on the faculty as well as other students, making it more enjoyable for everyone. When the student is choosing his or her courses, they are choosing it for the reason ...



Frankenstein 6
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... parts and animates it one night. However, the creature appears so horrible that he runs away, allowing the creature to escape. Shortly afterwards, Victor is preparing to return to Geneva when he receives a letter from his father telling him that his youngest brother, William, has been murdered. Victor hurries home and, on the way, sees the monster in the woods and becomes convinced that the creature murdered William. He arrives home to find that Justine Moritz, a girl who had lived for some time in the Frankenstein household, has been accused of the murder. She is tried, condemned, and executed, despite her assertions of innocence, and Victor becomes despondent a ...



Diversity Within English
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... of variations usually occur because of immigration and settlement patterns. People tend to seek out others like themselves. Regional variations tend to become more pronounced as the speech community is more isolated by physical geography, i.e. mountain ranges, rivers. Linguists have done extensive studies on regional dialects, producing detailed Linguistic Atlases. Many linguists can tell where a person is from just by knowing whether a person carries groceries home from the supermarket in a paper bag or from the grocery store in a paper sack (Yule 184). And the person who comes home from the supermarket with a paper sack serves to remind us that language varia ...



Antigone-Higher Law Vs. Laws O
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... Age of Greece(1150-800 bc.). Problems of this sort were probably commonly debated in city-states during the time Sophocles wrote "Antigone". In the play "Antigone", Antigone is faced with an extreme example of this conflict. Her Brother, considered a traitor by the king, has died, and she must decide whether to give him a proper burial or yield to the king's wishes and allow his body to be desecrated. She chooses to bury him, citing the will of the gods. "I will bury my brother, and if I die for it…convicted of reverance-I shall be content" , she remarks to her sister in defiance. Later, when captured and brought before Creon himself, Antigone continues to push ...



Hector A Fiction Tale
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... they had fought through it and earned an overwhelming victory that had dealt a vicious blow to the North landers, hopefully quelling their raiding parties for at least a couple of months. These creatures, though very weak, produced large quantities of offspring making them very difficult to destroy completely. This was Hector's 52nd battle as lieutenant of the militia and he was proud of himself for such a flamboyant victory. Hector was an odd man who had overcome many odds. He was born into the world as Adam Growling, the second son of sir Luke Growling IV the king's overseer of the treasury. Fate dealt him a devious blow, however, for at the age of fifteen h ...



The Awakening
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... the most (Encarta). Like Chopin, Maupassant’s ideas were looked at as "immoral" and "mature," dealing with ideas such as "sex," loneliness, and "depression" (Jones 385). He questioned the standards of the day, and was therefore rejected by many people as an immoral person (Jones 385). Kate Chopin’s interest in Maupassant began after her mother died (Toth 181). At that time she had moved to a new location in the city where she lived and began to make new friends who were interested in the writings of Maupassant (Toth181). She described vividly how she felt upon reading Guy de Maupassant for the first time: His writing un ...



Much Ado About Nothing
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... this before my notes; there’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting." (53-54) However, Don Pedro retorts, "Note notes, forsooth, and nothing," playing on Balthasar’s words, and also demanding that he pay attention to his music and nothing else. In addition, much of the play is dedicated to people "noting" (or observing) the actions of others (such as the trick played on Beatrice and Bene*censored* by Leonato, Hero and Claudio); they often observe and overhear one another, and consequently make a great deal out of very little. Author The political and cultural events of the 15 century had a large influence on Shakespeare’s work. In , Don Pedro, Prince of Ar ...



Sir Gawain And The Green Knigh
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... court, the party that was being held was in celebration of Christmas and New Year’s. The idea of the start of a new year suggests the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new. Gawain’s testing is a passage rite, giving him the chance to move him from a realm of inexperience and youth into the new cycle involving maturity and bravery. By accepting the challenge of the Green Knight, he takes the first step towards this new cycle. Gawain’s choice to behead the Green Knight shows bravery in the highest degree. He knew that if his action did not kill the Green Knight, his fate would be death in one year and one day. He was prepared to face ...



The African Queen
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... that village. Merciless, without any warning, these troops invade the village, they burn down the huts and the church. Livestock, poultry, pots and pans and foodstuffs even the portable chapel had been taken by the German soldiers. Only the mission bungalow was spared. Samuel goes on praying the awful calamity of war which has descended upon the world would soon pass away, so that slaughter and destruction would cease and that when they had regained their sanity men would turn from war to universal peace. Because of this war they were cut off from all communications and the rest of the world. Samuel thinks the Germans responsible for the outbreak of the war an ...



The Seeled Train
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... the rebels with weapons, and were fighting against him themselves. A new democratic government was established. Soon Russia’s people were impoverished. Again Lenin took action and this time he seized the government. He established a communistic/ socialistic government. The people were happy and no longer hungry. Opinion of book- This book was hard to follow. I have studied Lenin in the past and I still couldn’t quite follow the book. It was written in short ineffective sentences. It also failed to go into great detail. In a sense it almost seemed to try to blow up the events of Lenin’s life. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. Over ...




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