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    their fate. The characters are forced to deal with people who seem simple and friendly, but are devious and are almost always out to get them. The flock and the Baudelaires are constantly moving from place to place, seeking a place of refuge from the continuous…

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    Count Olaf Essay

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    The Baudelaire children have been in and out of foster homes, trying to find a parent who will take good care of them. Unfortunately, they don’t exactly have close family. So they were taken in by this man named Count Olaf who is absolutely evil and trying to take the children’s fortune. These children aren’t your average 14,12, and 2 year olds.They have managed to escape him each time. Violet, the oldest has an amazing brain to make up inventions. Klaus is able to read and obtain all of that…

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    Kylin Munger Intro to Literature Poetry Analysis Due: 2-23-18 Poetry Analysis: “Daddy” and “How Do I Love Thee” Sylvia Plath was an author in the Modern Era in which she wrote her poem entitled “Daddy” (Plath). In her poem, Plath reflects the Modern Era in which her attitude and words convey the relationship she had with her father. The second author, Elizabeth Barrett Browning with her poem, “How Do I Love Thee” (Barrett Browning) was a poet in the Victorian Era. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s…

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    In the nineteenth century, Paris became the epitome of the modern city, at least in the eyes of its upper class bourgeois elite and the tourists who visited the modern marvel. This “modern vision” of Paris was developed by people willing to look at and into their surroundings and themselves critically. In fact, it is those people looking at themselves and others in a critical sense and being conscious of the effect their way of seeing the world can have on others that drove who Parisian…

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    My Hero's Journey

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    My dear friends that have travelled with me so far are on this journey are Nellie Mclung, my grandmother and my mom. Nellie joined us awhile back after she fought for women’s rights. A woman like that is a true hero to have travelled with and her strength has helped me become stronger along the way. I believe a girl can do anything a boy can do but we can do it better. Nellie helps enforce these attitudes in me constantly with her spirited personality. My grandmother joined me after she passed…

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    Violet Baudelaire undertook her mission to escape Count Olaf. Count Olaf undertook his mission to get the Baudelaire fortune. Ahmedi undertook her mission to get her and her mom over the border to Pakistan. All three characters have something in common. They all wanted to accomplish their missions because of the motivation for a better life. Violet Baudelaire was a bright teenage girl whose parents died in a fire, but she made it her mission to protect her and her siblings. It is stated that,…

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    book starts out when the Baudelaire children are on Briny Beach where they receive terrible news about their parent’s death. They had to live with the Mr. Poe and his family, people they knew, until Mr. Poe found the relative they were supposed to live with when both of their parents died. The relative they stayed with had the name of Count Olaf. While living at Count Olaf’s house the children met Justice Strauss a neighbor of their new guardian. In her house there was a gigantic library that…

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    American Society have sensed changed from the Leave it to Beaver, nuclear family of the 1950s and sixties. From the suburban household with a husband at work, wife at home and their children, playing in the front yard. Brought upon many changes in the past couple of years to the staple of the nuclear family. Yet the traditional family still survives today, only to integrate and become a category among the varied families that now shape the new American society. This melting pot of families has…

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    Endorsing Gender Norms

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    another, how our families are formed, and what classrooms look like today. I believe more behaviors are endorsing gender norms than challenging them. Language is something we learn at a very young age, what we do not learn is that it is filled with gendered biased words that have become second nature for us, as humans, to use. Other languages have masculine and feminine nouns to help indicate the difference in words, the English language not so much,…

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    just prior to my birth. As a result, I was raised with an English cultural background. However, due to the similarities between Australian and English culture, stemming from the colonisation of Australia by the British in 1788 (Moreton-Robinson, 2003), English culture and its role in colonisation means that it is the dominant and privileged culture in current Australian society (Moreton-Robinson, 2003). Therefore, it is hard for me to identify any cultural differences. Consequently, I began to…

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