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    Location- Charlotte, North Carolina Description of Area- The Charlotte Metropolitan area ranks 22nd largest in the US. Charlotte, North Carolina 's largest city and the seat of Mecklenburg County, is located in the southern part of the state near the South Carolina border. Charlotte is also home of the NFL Carolina Panthers, and the NBA Charlotte Hornets which play at the Bank of America Stadium and the Time Warner Cable Arena. Along with hundreds of restaurants and attraction throughout the…

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    Feminine heroes like Charlotte Corday, Claire Lacombe, Pauline Léon, Olympe de…

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    Perception Versus Reality The novel, The Outsiders and the play, Sorry, Wrong Number, talks about the misperception of Ponyboy, an orphaned kid who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Stevenson, a woman who lives in a house with her husband and maid. Mrs. Stevenson also thinks she is ill and adored by others. Mrs. Stevenson and Ponyboy both have a misperception of the people in their lives. They also believe differently of, or about, the people they live with. Ponyboy believes Darry, his…

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    Autobiographic or personal writing’s The narratives by Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, and Olaudah Equiano are all autobiographic or personal stories that have been the landmarks of the early American literature. Both Rowlandson's Narrative and Knight's Journal track the solitary encounters of real puritan women who move past their familiar place in the pioneer property. Although the fortuitous distinction between Rowlandson's and Knight's goes from which their accounts were created, the…

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    Charles Dickens once said that “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” This theme is present in Orphan Train a novel written by Christina Baker Kline. A beaten, broken, freezing little girl and a warm-hearted, lively individual. This is the relationship between a little girl and her teacher. Miss Larsen noticed a problem with a little girl’s life and did everything she could to help. Throughout this novel there is a progressing relationship between a little girl…

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    Throughout the book, Austen takes us through two main friendships within Elizabeth's life. One that is shared with her sister Jane and the other with her neighbor Charlotte. These relationships offer different insights into what it takes to be in a female friendship. With Jane, the bond shared is much more supportive and valued, while with Charlotte, their relationship is noticeably less prominent and more of a competition. Elizabeth and Jane’s friendship can be argued as the most important…

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    Narrative Nonfiction Michaela DePrince´s complicated, problematic and painful life from war orphan in Sierra Leone to a star ballerina in the United States is a story worth telling. Michealas life in Sierra Leone was devastating. Both of her parents passed away at a very young age, and her cruel uncle took her under his wing but he claimed she was ´unsightly´, so brought her to an orphanage to get rid of her. Things were not any better at the orphanage for Michaela in the beginning, she was…

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    Feminist is what the character Hester Prynne represents in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. To be feminist is a woman who is independent, strong and who is self determined. A person who doesn’t count on anybody else but themselves and that moment when they do show hopelessness to somebody that somebody will have a strong connection with the feminist. A woman who even in their darkest moments can pull through to see the bigger outcome of the problem. For example, Hester Prynne…

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    Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” illustrates the unequal distribution of wealth in America which causes the protagonist, Sylvia, to lose her innocence and reevaluate the social class spectrum she lives in. Miss Moore, who is the only person with a college degree in the area, wants to teach Sylvia and the other children a life-changing lesson in an outing to a toy store. From the group of children, Sylvia shows she is a naïve and stubborn child who does not value anyone’s opinion.…

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    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the life story of Elizabeth Bennet, a young girl from an aristocratic, yet not wealthy family. Elizabeth places utmost value in five core qualities: knowledge, intellect, humility, judgement, and integrity. She only respects people who exhibit these values, and who also see these values in her. Elizabeth believes that men and women are equals along these qualities. Even though she believes this, she does not act that way in social situations. In fact, the…

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