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    Hundreds of people risked their lives to stop segregation in America in the 1960’s and, finally, they earned their desired freedom. The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis is a historical fiction story that talks about a family that goes to Birmingham and experiences racism. It is an excellent example of an allegory because it relates to America during the Civil Rights Movement in many ways by facing issues that they must resolve or overcome. An allegory is a story, poem…

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    For this week’s assignment I chose the Terry Watson the agent and UNC scandal. Terry Watson was indicted on13 felony charges related to the North Carolina Uniform Athlete Act. Watson was also charged with obstruction of justice .The Agent provided three former UNC football players’ gifts and money; which included travel expenses for Greg Little that totaled $1,574 and $683.24 in hotel expenses. Little was also provided $18,200 in cash between May 2010 and October 2010. Robert Quinn was alleged…

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    n in Flint Michigan they are a black family. Kenny the middle brother he is the narrator in the story The Watsons go to Birmingham. There is five people living in his family in flint Michigan. Kenny had a rough The book the Watsons go to Birmingham is a family that lives childhood because of people making fun of him at school. Kenny goes to school at Clark elementary there is a kid there that bullies him all of the time his teachers say he is a smart kid people make fun of him because he looks…

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    your own. Annotated Bibliography Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963. New York: Delacorte Press, 1995. Annotation: Christopher Paul Curtis’s, The Watsons go to Birmingham- 1963, is narrated by a fourth grade boy Kenny, who is the middle child of three. The story starts off with problems that…

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    Who was Cecile Watson? Watson was an artist in which she practiced as a painter, sculpture, and illustrator. Her painting Romance is very eye catching and something about the painting I find really interesting. When I look at the painting there is a since of joy but maybe some tension as well. The title of this painting also catches the eye, because when you see the word Romance you are expecting the typical love paintings with a man and women. If someone were to tell me to close my eyes and…

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    In both Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Corpse Bride (2005), the characters were relatively ‘different’ from those that they were surrounded by, therefore making them strange and considerably odd in the eyes of people they came in contact with- there was sympathy, pity, indifference, sacrifice, attraction, jealously, repulsion, understanding, fear, and prejudice surrounding both these characters as they discovered the real world. Both films are extremely fairytale-like, which…

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    In the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, author Mark Haddon tells the tale of a young Christopher Boone, and his journey to uncover the mystery of who killed his neighbor’s dog, Wellington. Christopher narrates this story in a unique way, giving readers a glimpse into the mind of a fifteen year-old boy who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a type of autistic disorder. Christopher uses unconventional quirks, such as his excellence in mathematics, his keen photographic memory, and…

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    Rational: The Curious of the dog in the night-time is a novel written by Mark Haddon. This book, published in 2003. The main character is Christopher, who has a mental problem suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome. I am going to write a day, Christopher’s diary when he finds out his favorite teacher (Siobhan) has left and she sends a letter to him. I will start a Christopher’s diary with a quite good day and when he receives a letter, which the color of this letter is his favorite. Then I’ll show…

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    The Imitation Game and mathematician stereotypes The Imitation Game was produced in 2014 and was directed by Morten Tyldum. It was set during the Second World War and it was based on a true story of Alan Turing, the genius mathematician that cracked Nazi codes, including Enigma, which was thought to be unbreakable. Turing loved codes and ciphers, which is a very hard category to enjoy and understand. The movie depicted Turing as mentally ill, having no sense of humor, and being disrespectful,…

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    Article 1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is better called master consulting detective Sherlock Holmes' founder. All these reports appeared within the String magazine from 1891 to 1927, several created by Sidney Paget's famous images in serialised form. There's been a contemporary meaning of the investigative duo using the BBC Tv series Sherlock, starring Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Series 1 was televised in the next sequence as well as in 2012, with recording of the third currently underway…

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