Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet Character Analysis

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UULOs in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet The novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford tells the story of the character Henry Lee. Henry’s relationships with his family and friends, from his childhood to his adulthood, demonstrate how past experiences shape what he finds to be most important. Henry’s emotional journey is better understood with the context of the University Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (UULOs). Intellectual Breadth and Lifelong Learning and Citizenship and Ethics are skills and tools that Henry uses to make sense of his choices and accept the path his life took. The UULO Intellectual Breadth and Lifelong Learning help explain the fathering skills Henry grew up under and the ones he took with him

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