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    “Promise me you’ll always remember you are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem & Smarter than you think.” A familiar quote by A.A Milne. Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh was first published in 1926. It was written by Alan Alexander Milne and illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. The characters in Milne’s stories are based on his son’s toys and Ashdown Forest in Sussex, near Milne’s home, served as inspiration for Hundred Acre Wood (“Winnie). The following characters in the story have mental illness. Winnie the Pooh has an eating disorder, Piglet has general anxiety disorder, and Rabbit has OCD, Tigger ADHD, possible substance abuse, Eeyore Major…

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    validity of the judgment of experience signifies nothing else but its necessary universal validity” (Pierris). Ultimately, Kant determines through the idea of experimental judgement that if one observation is true then all other observations have to be true to one another, so human reason does in fact understand the Law of Causality. While Piglet never says that phrase, he makes many observations and holds that they will continue to be true. “Then suddenly [Piglet] remembered a story which…

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    A. Milne. Thus, introducing anthropomorphic characters that we well know, which include Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Roo, Kanga, Owl and Christopher Robin. Where each of these characters is unique to the story due to the types of characteristics/personality. We are able to see that the main characters of this story is Winnie-the-Pooh and that the only human character is Christopher Robin who is approximately five years old. It is important to note that Christopher Robin is a…

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    Do you struggle to find anything in your closet? Maybe you’ve gotten rid of those sweaters and dresses you never wear, but your closet remains challenging, overflowing, or unsightly. If so, you’re not alone. That’s why Don Seipel, Rochester’s certified organizer extraordinaire, devotes his time to making your life easier. There's a reason why Seipel’s business, Get Organized, has been New York’s trusted organizing service for decades. The reality is that most people don’t have the natural and…

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    EDWARD BEAR, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to himself. He had made up a little hum that very morning, as he was doing his Stoutness Exercises in front of the glass: Tra- la-la, tra-la-la, as he stretched up as high as he could go, and then Tra-la-la, tra-la--oh, help!--la, as he tried to reach his toes. After breakfast he had said it over and over to himself until he had learnt it off by heart, and now he was…

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    Ad Analysis Essay As we know advertising has been used by many companies, campaigns in the marketing industries for many years. It is a form of propaganda which tries to grab the viewer's attention in order to persuade the viewer to buy the product or be part of a service. The advertisement I chose to analyze is Smokey the Bear. Smokey the Bear was first seen in a 1944 poster in which he is asking American folks to help prevent human-caused wildfires. Wearing just dungaree jeans and a ranger…

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    Pooh goes to see Christopher Robin and asks him if he has a balloon about him - a balloon, of course, being a thing that would enable a small bear to float up into a tree without fear of gorse bushes. Christopher Robin happens to have two balloons, having been to a party at Piglet's house the day before. This is, to put it mildly, a rather troubling plot development - has Piglet had a party and not invited Pooh? He has invited Christopher Robin, and allowed him to take a total of two balloons…

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    Christopher Robin Milne said, caressing the golden bear's head. "That's right, son." Christopher's father, Mr. Milne was listening intently to the interaction between his son's toys, carefully writing every detail he could catch, and as the day drew on, Mrs. Milne sauntered up the stairs. "Dinner is ready, you two," she called to her son and husband. Mr. Milne was silently observing and placed his index finger to his lips when she entered, before standing up himself. "But Mommy, we're…

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    Winnie The Pooh Analysis

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    correlation between its characters and societal institutions such as entertainment and manufacturing. Tigger is a prime example of the entertainment industry. In “In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast,” Eeyore requests Pooh to “ask [Tigger] to do his exercises somewhere else? I shall be having lunch directly, and don’t want it bounced on just before I begin. A trifling matter, and fussy of me, but we all have our little ways.” Statistica.com shows that the entertainment…

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    Milne v Harrower Milne v Harrower tackles the crime of threatening or abusive behaviour in s. 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. Within this section it is stated that a person has committed the crime if their behaviour “would be likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm” , as well as the accused “intends by the behaviour to cause fear or alarm or is reckless as to whether the behaviour would cause fear or alarm” . This definition was clarified…

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