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    “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try and win” (Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 76). Harper Lee has the main character, Atticus, say this to portray his heroism. Harper Lee was raised in Monroeville which is in Alabama, just as the novel is set. Her father, Amasa, was a lawyer just like Atticus. Harper is even a model for Scout, and Truman Capote is a model for Dill. Lee wants to paint a portrait of a man who stands up for what is right. In the…

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    resulting in an undesirable end. Jay Gatsby’s American dream is to recreate the relationship with the idea of Daisy he has imagined for the last five years. Gatsby creates an ideal world in which they are together, and will stop at nothing to achieve this platonic ideal, something he will never be able to attain. He believes that Daisy is attracted to Tom because of his wealth, and thinks that if he gains the same amount of wealth, Daisy will come back to him. Gatsby will stop at nothing to…

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    If And Then Play Analysis

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    produced by Proof Productions, Inc. The play opened with Elizabeth holding something, talking to herself about what would have happened if she had never met someone very important to her, whom she had obviously lost. While walking in a park many years before this moment, she made two decisions that would greatly affect the rest of her life: to go to a protest with her college friend Lucas or to stay in the park with her new friend Kate and the decision to pick up a phone with an area code she…

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    Speech On Self Evaluation

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    can help with your credibility a lot more than stating a survey about that medicine or just one research about it. Another example, is talking about a sickness and mentioning a story about someone you know or yourself having suffered this sickness before which will keep the audience’s logos with you as well as their emotional side with you. Giving facts from reliable sources is an excellent way of keeping your arguments valid as well as believable. Looking at both sides of a topic and discussing…

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    Salem, reputation plays a huge part especially during the witch-hunt. A reputation is a belief that is held about someone. For example in the Crucible John Proctor is recognized as a proud strong and honest man. The town sees him as a good citizen. Before the play begins we find out that John Proctor has committed adultery with Abigail Williams. Here John is as his punishment-avoidance and obedience stage. The affair made Abigail jealous of John’s wife, Elizabeth, who later on in the play is…

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    Motivation Research Paper

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    Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes. N – Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game. O – Open your eyes. People should learn the horse attitude and horse sense. They see things in 2 ways – how they want things to be, and how they should be. P – Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation…

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    He was exposed to writing at a very young age when he attended to St. Paul Academy at the age of thirteen. Later in his life, he attended to Newman School, where he met the man that encouraged his ambitions for personal distinctions, Father Sigourney Fay. Fitzgerald entered the army in 1917, and when he was assigned to Camp Aparicio 2 Sheridan near Alabama in 1918, he met Zelda Sayre and fell in love with her which motivated his desire…

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    church heard of the pearl, he thought of ways to get money for the church. The priest wondered if he had baptized the baby or married Kino and Juana. When the doctor heard of the pearl,…

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    Saint Maybe Analysis

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    middle child and Ina the youngest. Danny marries Lucy, a divorcee with two children Agatha and Thomas. Lucy was pregnant before meeting Danny so Danny’s daughter Daphne is maybe someone else’s baby. Danny may know Daphne is not his daughter, but ignores the fact. Ian suspects Lucy cheats on his brother while Ian babysit the kids. Ian wants to have sex with his girlfriend Cicely before marriage. No family should pretend their life is perfect, one should live to confront the struggles since life…

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    all. Around the middle of the story is when it was revealed Beowulf was not a hero. Beowulf always thought of himself as the best and that no one could defeat him, that nothing could defeat him. Beowulf was a great warrior but he was no hero. Beowulf was not a hero because he wanted fame for his deeds, was born a noble, and only thought about himself. Beowulf wanted fame and fortune for his deeds. The definition of a hero is someone who does an honorable deed for someone without wanting a…

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