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    Literary Analysis Lewis Carroll was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, England. Lewis was the oldest child out of his ten siblings and yet was always very bright in mathematics and won many prizes throughout his youth. Carroll was always known for connecting with children within literature and even the way he spoke was more perceivable to children in the mid 1800’s. As Carroll enjoyed and connected with the young minds of the youth he connected greatly with Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry George Liddell, Alice and Lewis spent most afternoons sitting around as Lewis told tales that formed in his mind to spark the young girl’s interest. Alice in Wonderland is a story illustrating the wonderful journey of Alice growing up into an adult from…

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    Lewis Carroll was an English logician, mathematician, an ordained minister, a photographer and a writer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He was born on January 27, 1832, with the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Many people don’t know that the Alice stories were based on a real girl, Alice Liddell. Carroll first met Liddell on a boat trip. She asked him to tell her a story and he did. It was such a good story he wrote it down for her and from there the Adventures in…

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    His father was a clergyman and was a large influence on Lewis’s career of becoming a Reverend. Carroll came from a large family of elven children, and he often took on the duty of amusing his younger sisters. He was the eldest boy in the family and was often put in charge of entertaining his siblings. Carroll had many careers which included being an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. Lewis was a very talented and accomplished photographer. Photography…

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    physically or mentally. However, the transformation causes individuals to lose their purity and morality that make them unique. In the same manner, Carroll suggests that people should enjoy their early years of life because it is the time where they can freely dream and do whatever the desired without committing to anything in life. In contrast, the adults have much accountability in life, such as how to manage their time, take care of their families, and find a job. Therefore, they do not have…

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    house or walking around with neighborhood kids. G.M. Young said, “Lewis Carroll exemplified a ‘new unpietistic handling of childhood’” (British Writers). This means that Carroll expressed a new meaning of childhood to adulthood while up keeping imaginative thought. We often see Alice as someone who follows the rules, “but there is nothing goody-goody in the treatment of her adventures” or in the way she handles herself (British Writers). This shows that Alice is growing up as anyone would, but…

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    As far as student athletes are concerned, the RC hockey team sets out every game to be well rounded Christians competing in a sport they love. Some of these athletes, after further observation, are very talented. Unfortunately, I was unable to speak with them. Yet, I was able to see them to be much like Liddell’s character from the film Chariots of Fire. Personally, I see a lot of these players to have his attitude while playing in a game. They may not be as open or enthusiastic about it as he…

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    the nature and character of war. Each of them could certainly be credited with providing insights in statecraft and military power. Each also had insights limited by the context of the conflicts of their times. Subsequent theorists had the advantages of not only reading the works of their predecessors, but also the perspectives of understanding such areas as geopolitics, economic and cultural globalization, global powers, and nationalism. Two such theorists, B.H. Liddell Hart and Sir Julian…

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    Henry Ford is an example of how economic and social policies of successive Republic Governments contributed to a world of inequality. Henry Ford Henry Ford the genius behind the successful assembly line mass production of products; in his case; the motor car. Born in Dearborn Michigan in 1893 into a farming family. Henry was educated at the local school. At the age of sixteen he became a machinist apprentice. Henry was raised as an Episcopalian. He had very strong views, he believed in…

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    Exploitation Leading to a Worse Tomorrow A new president is elected every four years to run our nation, represent the country, and uphold the Constitution of the United States. The President of the United States acts as the most powerful man in the world and therefore, we must place our trust into his hands. When the society discovers that their elected president becomes untrustworthy and secretive , a bond is broken. The Watergate Scandal of Richard Nixon and the most notorious political…

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    “Ever’body’s askin’ that. What we comin’ to? Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way. Always goin’ and goin’,” Casy stated in chapter 13 of the Grapes of Wrath. The end of the novel is strange, and incredibly open-ended. It is never revealed what happens to the Joads or who finally makes it in the end. It isn’t even known if the starving man actually survives. The final act and image in the novel is also a bit out there, with Rose of Sharon suckling this grown man to keep…

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