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    fight evil. The speech reads as a piece of persuasion, dedicated to convincing both the legislative and executive branches of the United States’ government not to get comfortable in the relative peace that marked the Clinton years in the white house. Wiesel’s perspective was forged in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and he speaks as one who has known the evil he now speaks out against.…

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    within Hill House on people for a summer. Although Eleanor’s feeling is conflicted by the death of her mother, she is extremely contented with the fact that she is freed from her imprisoned life. It is time for self-discovery. As she approaches Hill House, she excitedly imagines a different her with a different family, in which she would meet many great people and would be enjoying her simple life. Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House incorporates the idea of family into a haunted house.…

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    Introduction Housing needs vary according to family life stages or person’s perception of what they need in a house. The very first phase in finding a home is considering what type of shelter suits the household. There are factors that affect housing needs: climate, location, cost, aptness and lifestyles. Those aspects should be considered in order to satisfy the needs for a home. This paper investigates the states of mind and opinions of utilized inhabitants of the public housing…

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    is not a recent development; Americans have been apathetic to tragedies since before World War II. Elie Wiesel, a man who became a human’s rights activist after residing in Buchenwald and Auschwitz for two years at age fifteen, spoke at the White House about The Perils of Indifference during the 1999 Millennium Lecture series. His speech urges the audience to take action against injustices rather than remaining indifferent to human suffering. Wiesel takes advantage of the timing of his speech…

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    by which that person will live their life by. The concept of private and open is created, and as the world expands outside of the confines of the routines of an adolescent, the person begins to categorize what is assigned to the interior of their house and what is acceptable for external presentation. As a child grows, they discover things that are now even more limited. As sexuality develops an interior within the human develops, and private is a bodily thing, limited to the intellect and…

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    A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is a realistic prose play set in 1870s Norway. A Doll’s House revolves around Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald Helmer and mother to three children. Nora is described as a living doll. She does as she is told, and makes sure to please her husband. Nora has her secrets though. Torvald is a soon to be bank manager, and cares a lot about how others view him. Nils Krogstad is the antagonist of A Doll’s House. He is a former employee of the bank and soon to be blackmailer of…

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    Following the publishing of Barry Blitt’s 2008 caricature The Politics of Fear, The New Yorker faced immediate backlash in the midst of a presidential election. The officials of Obama’s 2008 campaign denounced this illustration as “tasteless and offensive”; an attempt to separate their candidate and his spouse from the prevailing image of an extremist, pro-war, and anti-American couple that sought to support insurrectionist forces in the Middle East. This image stems directly from controversies…

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    south was ruled by racist laws, while segregation spread across the north. At the time, Roosevelt was considered mild-progressive. He accepted African-Americans, but believed they were behind Americans. He invites Brooker T. Washington to the White House for dinner. He is then later criticized, and he never invited an African-American again. It was during this time, when the heads of the industrial trust controlled the United States, instead of the President. Soon after Roosevelt became…

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    handles and windows. Also, be sure to make a barrier that they can 't cross through without making noise. Each person should wear a whistle around their neck that they can blow in case they need help too. 4. Safe Room At night, all people in the house should sleep in the same room if possible. It is easier to guard one room than it is several different ones. The room should have a door with a deadbolt to it and no windows. A supply of food, water, and toiletry supplies should be kept in this…

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    complicated character despite the fact that at the beginning of this play it seems like quite the opposite. At the beginning of act one, Nora is whimsical and gleeful and very much like a child. She is very much living in a fantasy world or a doll’s house as the title of the play suggests. Nora has been taught since birth to be similar to a doll. Her father treated her as such in the past and so does her husband at the time the play takes place. However, once her illusion of this perfect world…

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