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    Barron disappear but after the relatives left town he was saw once again and after no one ever saw the men. She had killed Barron with arsenic and put his body ina room that remind closed for forty year. Here is clearly that Miss Emily was fair of been alone again make her victim denial of the reality. All in all both short stories The yellow wallpaper and A Rose for Emily are marked by…

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    Christiana the Killer Love, jealousy, and poison are an all too familiar tale in Victorian society, but the story of Christiana Edmunds is an exceptional one. Christiana Edmunds was a 33 year old, middle class woman living in Brighton when she became the patient of the local physician Dr. Charles Beard in 1869. During the course of the next few months Christiana and Dr. Beard began to exchange love letters but unfortunately for Christiana Dr. Beard had a wife. As reported in The Derby Mercury,…

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    Agricultural activities, including commercial farming and livestock production, has always been a priority for food availability. The countries around the world are getting many pressures on food supply as the world's population grow every second. This results in some countries expanding farm yields and some increasing the quality and quantity of crops by using more fertilizers and pesticides. It should be noted that agriculture use a global average of 70% of freshwater resources and the…

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    The Black Death was a very painful disease, as if you contracted the plague you would have symptoms such as black buboes (Buboes are painful masses that appear in the groin and armpits) which would have continued for approximately a week. There was always a tiny chance of living if the buboes did burst. What caused the “Black Death?” Stuart doctors said that dogs and cats, pigs, pet rabbits and pigeons could spread the plague. The government believed them and tried to prevent the plague by…

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    I used to live on Irving Street, right on the border of Queens and Brooklyn. The Mexicanos and Puertorriqueños called it el barrio— the neighborhood. A place where they could hide from white supremacy and racism while enjoying themselves with their people, and, boy, did they know how to party. Coke, pot, meth, whatever your debauchery required. This was the place to get it. It was a paradise, that is, if it was your barrio. If you weren’t a part of them, you were nothing and nothing does not…

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    With the rate at which our planets population is growing, what are we going to eat when we run out of room to plant crops, raise animals? There is always the option of genetically modified organisms or GMO’s, meats that are grown in labratories, algae, or even insects, but all of these are “temporary fixes” to the real problem. How can we sustainably survive on this planet at all if we continue down this path of over consumption? According to the Non GMO Project, GMO’s are defined as living…

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    Do you know how it feels to be alone? If yes, you know it gets very depressing when you have no one to confide in. Can you imagine what Emily was going through? I cannot even fathom what she was going through, but I can try to see why Emily was so single-minded and scared to try new things. In the short story “ A Rose for Emily” we are introduced a character named Emily Grierson, right at the beginning of the story author William Faulkner, tells us Emily is dead and everyone from the town is at…

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    Cigarettes: The Silent Killer Cigarettes are considered a normal part of society. Cigarettes are seen every day at gas stations, convenience stores, and even grocery stores. Most know of someone who smokes whether in the family, or friend group. Cigarettes cause many problems, most of which society already knows about. People know these cigarettes cause major problems to their health and to the health of others around. Even though the producing and selling of cigarettes is a huge source of…

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    The Liberty Bell is a monument of the United States of America. The most significant and recognized feature of the Liberty Bell has a crack running up the side. The Liberty Bell was ordered in celebration of the Declaration of Independence and the 50 year anniversary of Philadelphia's original Constitution. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is home to the Liberty Bell and will forever be its home. You really need to see the Liberty Bell. The Liberty Bell may be old and worn like other monuments in the…

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    on the other hand, is set up as an enigmatic tale that borders on a mystery; on the surface, the signs to read are the clues put there to induce the reader to the truth of the story," (Harris 171). In the story, Miss Emily asked the druggist for "arsenic" to "kill rats" (Faulkner 224). Her actions foreshadow a tale of horror because she bought a poison that could kill something large, to kill something as small as a rat. Foreshadowing through her actions can also be seen when she bought all of…

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