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    see this through Goodman’s wife “Faith, as the wife was aptly named” (Hawthorne 1835 ) representing Browns faith here on earth. Just as a young girl would wear a pink ribbon in her hair to show her innocence Hawthorne uses Faith’s pink ribbons to represent her own faith. We also see by wearing and “letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap” ( Hawthorne 1835) that Faiths innocence is easily swayed. The truth of her innocence comes out as Goodman sees one of the members in the…

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    The “pink ribbons” symbolize innocence, purity and youth, and her name, Faith, symbolizes Brown’s spirituality at the beginning of the story. As the story goes on, Faith becomes a symbol of her husband’s lost hope. When he says “My love and my Faith,” he is actually…

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    Young Goodman Brown is a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is filled with symbolism, allegory, and many different themes. In the story, a man, Goodman Brown is going to go on a journey into the night. His wife faith does not want him to, but he must. He goes into the forest and meets a strange man with a staff that resembles a snake. The stranger attempts to persuade Brown to go along with him, He is reluctant. The man then says he knew his father and grandfather and helped them in their wicked…

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    Descriptive Essay On February 10, 2017 Senior High School hosted a pink out basketball game. As I have mentioned before my mom was diagnosed with cancer in the middle of November. She had to go to the hospital a lot so our family was struggling financially. For a couple months people all around Dubuque were raising money for the pink out game. The money that was raised would go to my mom. My mom and I had no clue that they were raising money and when we found out we both started crying. We both…

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    As I motioned for the pink fire trucks to park in the middle of the pink-themed festival, I could not help but feel pride in what the team and I had been able to accomplish. After months of planning, designing, and promoting; Naperville, Illinois was about to witness their very first Guardian of the Ribbon fundraiser for breast cancer survivors. Cheering and supportive crowds gathered around the stage set in front of the fire trucks as those who had been afflicted with breast cancer shared brave…

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    weaknesses of the Puritan faith by utilizing symbolism through the character Faith and her pink ribbons. First of all, Faith, Goodman’s wife is seen as everything good and pure in…

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    Pink has traditionally been considered a color associated with innocence and girlish youth. At the beginning of the story, Faith is described with thouse characteristics by Brown. The ribbons appear again, when Brown is struggling in the forest and Brown assumes that his wife has lost her faith in god and turned to the devil (“My Faith is gone!”)…

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    His faith is presented in many ways but most importantly as his wife, aptly named Faith. Faith is a very pretty woman who wears a pink ribbon in her hair and the pink ribbon can symbolize her innocence in the world. Faith also symbolizes Goodman Browns faith, He thinks she is good, like the rest of the world. He thinks his family used to be good people, but in reality it turns out they weren’t. They…

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    Breast Cancer Advocacy Assignment 1) On the first line of the article “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer”, the author illustrated that she did not believe a mammogram could save her life anymore. It will attract readers’ attentions why the author does not trust a mammogram now although it is a good method to detect cancer. Using the personal story about the mammogram, the author leads to the main focus of the article whether the mammogram will decrease women breast cancer or the mammogram will…

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    The world is a vast place filled with many different people that have different appearances and different abilities. However, on the inside, all humans share specific traits such as the fear of the unknown, the fear of death, and even a certain amount of evil that is impossible to erase. For example, in the Bible, Moses who led the enslaved Israelites out of Egypt, which was a very brave and chivalrous thing to do, as he was risking life and limb, had some evil in him as he had committed…

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