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    protect them. Mothers know that no matter how hard they try, it is not always possible to protect their children from the cruelties of the world. The tone that Randall uses to carry his message is somewhat depressing. The reader realizes that even a place as sacred as a church, is not always a safe haven from the…

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    The author of this article about the pink flamingos’ effect on U.S. culture is Jennifer Price. In this article she uses simple but effective diction to inform you on her view. Price’s syntax uses short, simple sentences surrounded by a few longer descriptive sentences. She also involves figurative language in this article to give a visual aid of what she is trying to convey. The use of three tools help to express her negative and sassy attitude towards the effect of pink flamingos on America’s…

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    Whitman loved to explore. Both writers loved poetry and expressing their feelings through them. “324” is a poem written by Emily Dickinson where she talks about a person who learns to understand God in their own ways through nature rather than going to church. Walt Whitman’s poem, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” is about a person who learned about astronomy in their own way by exploring nature instead of listening to a teacher lecture in an astronomy class. Although the purpose of these…

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    applications. The prompt for University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Stevenson Univeristy was “Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?” (Common Application) The essay prompt for Towson asked me to describe what a YouTube video about me would be. I knew I could easily write about when in the future I become a nurse practitioner, the story of how I fell in love with nursing. As soon as I…

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    Allegories are always very thought-provoking to read. The book, The Pilgrim’s Progress is a very long, descriptive, and fascinating allegory that was written in 1678 by John Bunyan. It takes the Christian walk, and demonstrates it by having the main Character, Christian, travel a pathway, called the King’s Highway, to the Celestial City, which is Heaven. All of the places and Characters along the way have names that have significant meanings to how they play into the story. I can compare…

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    that influenced me to choose the book that turned out to be The Chronicals of Narnia series 2nd book, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. This adventurous, fantasy book was written by C. S Lewis in 1950 making it 67 years old. The story takes place is a magical land called Narnia. Unfortunately the evil snow queen has put a curse over the land causing it to be winter forever. When 4 children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy find a portal in a professor's wardrobe they find out that they have…

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    narrator— who by the emotion in the poem appears to be the daughter of the abused woman—now orders and recalling the original scene in the judge’s courtroom. This is indicative of the fact that the narrator is speaking to the judge in the past tense about her mother, as she began the poem with “Your Honor, when my mother stood / before you…” (1, 2). I believe the narrator is female because of how she startlingly interrupts her own narration with an emotional response to the injustice done to her…

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    Hawthorne deeply imbeds his meanings between all symbolism imposed on a character, item, or place leaving the reader to figure out what said symbolism means. Hawthorne’s very way of giving out details through symbolism is what makes his reading “Young Goodman Brown” extremely detailed and very relatable to the themes set forth. Hawthorne enables the reader to interpret the reading in accordance to symbolism put in place, but also steers the reader with the symbolisms meanings. Much is left in…

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    strange I found myself getting extremely bored while reading. Because I got so very bored I learned what I liked and what I did not like in the romantic movement.I wasn't interested in some hippies feeling about…

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    Compare and contrast Amelia’s First Flight and I am Amelia Earhart. 2. What are three other places could Amelia have visited? Evaluate: 1. If you could change any part of the story what would it be? 2. What is your opinion of the story? Why do you feel this way? Create: 1. If you could rename the title of the story, what would you call it? Why…

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