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    "I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have." Alice Walker is one author that isn't afraid to be blunt with the readers, an author that doesn't sugar coat things that happened or things that can still happen even in today's world. Most people find her novel The Color Purple quiet awkward and disturbing. Alice Walker wasn't always good at writing or anything along those lines, until one of her many brothers had shot her in the eye with a BB gun causing her to go blind in that eye.…

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    George Campbell is a rhetorician born on Christmas day in 1719 in Scotland. Campbell would attend Marischal College where he would gain proficiency in metaphysics, pneumanology, ethics, physics, then called natural philosophy, and logic. He would graduate in the year 1738 and become an apprentice at law. While he was learning law he also picked up an interest in theology attending lectures at Edenburgh. After completing the apprenticeship Campbell decided to dive into the world of the minister.…

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    Jesse Owens Research Paper

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    Jesse Owens was an african american runner. He was an amazing athlete who faced so much in a time of inequality. Jesse Owens story begins like all others. It began with his parents. They were Henry and Mary Owens. His mother was called Emma. Jesse had six brothers and three sisters. He was born September 12, 1913. His parents had originally named him James. For the beginning of his life he lived in Alabama. The early parts of his life were pretty normal for him. A big part in his life was…

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    Lance Armstrong Satire

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    Like a virus that is ever evolving, impossible to contain and highly infective, performance enhancing drugs continue to destroy the essence of competition in sports at the highest of levels. For an athlete who runs the gauntlet of cheating via performance enhancing drugs to with a win at all costs mentality, and I mean "at all costs" then it because a very slippery slope one competes on the conscience of such an athlete must be linked to entrapment. Accusations about the once American hero…

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    Harland Bartholomew is one of the original municipal planners that influenced the city planning profession from 1914 to present day. Bartholomew’s influence and notability in city planning has three distinct areas (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas include the education of planning professionals, civil service at both the city and national level, and his private practice and advancement of a systematic comprehensive plan (Lovelace, 1993). These three areas tell a story of an individual that had…

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    There are an array of fascinating secondary characters in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Many of whom have been able to capture various generations’ imagination over the years and inspire countless different adaptations. One character seemingly shines and stands out above the rest, and that is the Cheshire Cat. The Cheshire Cat plays an important role in storyline, but also to Alice herself. Throughout the novel the Cheshire Cat is a representation of Alice’s conscious mind in…

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    dream is actually reality. This is the case for Alice in Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice falls into a large-rabbit hole and finds herself in a whole other world. The classic novel has won many awards and has been the inspiration to many movies, plays and comic books. Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, portrays direct correlations between the author’s life and the Victorian era. Lewis Carroll was born January 27, 1832 in Cheshire,…

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    In Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been, the understanding or initial misunderstanding of characters, are pivotal to the reader’s roller coaster experience of the plot. The story revolves around the character of Connie, a fairly typical 15-year-old teenage girl, who comes to be confronted with a dangerous situation. This story and the character of Connie were particularly interesting and engrossing to me. As Oates illustrates Connie’s character and her motivations, I was…

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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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    Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2009) and Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat (1871) are works of literature that both use “nonsense” to convey a story. In what follows I will argue that nonsense is significant, especially in children’s literature, as it is a useful tool for education, and promotes individuality of thoughts. The use of nonsense in literature challenges rules and it allows for the brain to think outside of the restricted boundaries of teaching, which…

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