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    George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, a son of a British civil servant, was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India and died on January 1, 1950 at the age of 47. He spent his first day in India where his father was stationed. A year after his birth, his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England and settled in Henley-on-Thames. George Orwell was known as an English novelist, essayist, and critic in Great Britain. His work is marked by ordinary language,…

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    Gentrification has been a controversial issue, when arguments are powered by feelings and incidents on which to happen are supposedly improving the people in the community. As big businesses move into an area that was normally populated by small businesses, the mom and pop shops are flat-out disappearing one by one. Thus, relocating into a new area is challenging for a store owner since they 're founded on a low-income community. These questions have been wrestling through my thoughts as I…

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    So, the first week I got yelled at by another business owner for parking on the wrong side of the street. When I was shown the storage room, you just pointed out the items in the room, instead of walking me up to each one. When being shown around the building I was not shown the big garages in and out of the building or the main storage rooms we allow the customers to use. On top of that I was never informed that there is an entire upstairs part to the building. Upstairs hosts…

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    Foolish Winston Winston’s psychological demise is caused from the people that surround Winston, leading him to believe that he is in control of his life but the truth is that the party is always in control. Winston’s love for Julia caused Winston’s psychological demise as Julia made Winston do things that he normally won’t do, Julia brings Winston from rebelling in a small way of writing in his diary to more extreme ways of rebelling, Winston sees the signs that something bad about to…

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    While there is a belief that humans have evolved from apes, religion has an explanation. Evolution is the theory that modern life has descended from a common ancestor, through the process of natural selection. Faith on the other hand, claims that life was created in the form it is today with some alterations from God. Since evolution was found it has been debated by all faiths. Evolution generates an explanation for the origin of life which is not necessary when there is religion, logic, and…

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    Willy Loman's Story

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    On a warm fall day Willy Harrison, sat building a campfire waiting for his grandchildren to arrive. Today he planned to tell them the story that they had been waiting to hear since they last met. As he heard the rumble of a car on gravel he lit a match and dropped it in the fire. As Kelly and Billy ran down the hill towards the barn, the fire roared to life. Waiting for them to reach him, he pulled out candies from his breast pocket. Finally reaching him, they gave him a quick hug and thanked…

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    as a finite dimension and everything around it is on spherical orbits. Finally, he finished with the universe as a great big interconnection. The importance of Hayy's cosmology is that everything relies on the other. Without the air, wind and water, there would be no snow or rain. Without the orbits and spherical shapes of the sun, moon, and stars, there would not be equal days, nights, months or seasons. Without the universe decomposing, it would not be able to supply the needs of the next.…

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    Superstition In Dracula

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    A large portion of the population base their entire lives and existence around the ideas discovered through science, doubting the supernatural or the possibility of higher life. What about the ideas science cannot prove or attest to? Sure, the Big Bang Theory is probable with the ability to potentially explain how the universe came to be, however it does not disprove a God or much else for that matter. Moreover, many previously widely believed scientific discoveries have proven to be incorrect.…

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    for thousands of years the human race have looked into space and wondered what is really out there, thanks to advances in electromagnetic radiation detection it is now possible for humans to study the universe in depth to develop theories such as a heliocentric model of the universe instead of the earlier believed geocentric model. Humans have also been able to observe never before seen phenomena such as the effects of black holes. The national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) are…

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    Hip Pain: A Short Story

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    October Wednesday in Pillager, MN. Eli was awoken from his deep slumber by his Dad at 9:00 am, just like every other day of the week. Once he finishes climbing out of his deep slumber, Eli grabs some clothes and gingerly heads up the stairs. Now Eli isn’t like most kids his age, which at this time he is 15 and in 10th grade, he has chronic hip pain and sleeps close to 18 hours a day. He has visited many doctors, been diagnosed with Lyme disease and many other things. Up until now, nothing has…

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