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    The time of modernism was the time that writes would write in their own ways. The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was about the roaring 20’s at New York. This book is about Nick Carraway becomes obsessed with his neighbor Jay Gatsby that later on they become the best of friends. The modernism area was from the 1920s’ to the 1930s’ which at this point authors wrote like how they talked. A theme from The Great Gatsby is wealth can’t cure isolation and loneliness with is expressed with…

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    Although he goes through many struggles, he conquers his fears and achieves his goal of going back…

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    foreknowledge and backwards causation being false. If both are false through any factor other than the other option then we will not consider that for this paper. The theory of backwards causation will be delved into within its aspect in regards to time travel, Quantum Entanglement, metaphysics, paradoxes, and its relationship to God. The importance of each is vast in its own regards, that is why we must consider all aspects when dealing with its relationship to God. That meaning if backwards…

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    disease really is and what a person living with this disease or even a loved one goes through. Sure, knowing that it’s a type of dementia is key, but alzheimers disease is so much more than that. We live our lives one day at a time and in those days we make memories we cherish the rest of our lives. Imagine someone living with alzheimers disease, their memories begin to deteriorate through time and at the worst of times, a person can’t even recognize them self anymore. This is what happened to…

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    story of a family living during the Great Depression and battling the racism from the residents of Maycomb County, Alabama. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee goes in depth on the social values of respect, sexism, and racial discrimination to show the historical context transpiring during that time period. Harper Lee goes in depth on the social value of respect in To Kill a Mockingbird. According to Scout, “‘Hey, Mrs. Dubose,’ I would receive for an answer, ‘Don’t you say hey to…

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    consequence of her vanity that caused by her eagerness toward fancy things has been visible even before she goes to the dance. Unable to satisfy her vanity, “she suffered continually” (Maupassant 5). Her dismal feeling repeats several times before she goes to the dance, which strengthens the idea of that vanity causes suffering. Her affection for luxuries is so strong that “she would cry for days at a time, from sadness, regret, despair and distress” because she does not own those luxuries. All…

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    science center (children are allow to experiment with magnets), sand center (children are allow to play with sand), cozy center (normally used for time out), house center (children can role play as doctors, chefs, or police man and play with puppets), and block center (it has a lot of building blocks and figures). Centers are used for play…

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    In “The Black Ball” by Ralph Ellison, the narrator John goes through some difficulties with his race, raising his son, and his work. John and his son have to face life as black men and being subjected the metaphorical black ball. As the story goes on he shows his understanding of learning to live with what he goes through in life. Using the plot of the story and characterization the theme of the story can be revealed. First of all is to understand how the plot of “The Black Ball” reveals the…

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    physically, mentally or emotionally done. Throughout Shakespeare's play, there is one character that stands out as the embodiment of revenge. His name is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Prince Hamlet is a young man who goes through some devastating times throughout his life. Those times result a negative outcome. In the beginning of the play, Hamlet loses his father who was King of Denmark. Due to this loss, Hamlet becomes a whole new person. He becomes crazy, insane, and mad. Throughout the…

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    In Kate Ellison’s novel,” Notes from Ghost Town”, the main character goes through a period of her life in a state of confusion. Her Mother is in jail for murdering her best friend, she goes temporarily color blind, she then starts to see Stern, and she doesn’t understand why. To begin with, she starts to get confused is in the beginning of the book her and her best friend, Stern, are packing up her car so she can return to art school, the next day they find his body next to the ocean outside of…

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