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    The Importance of Secondary Characters in Macbeth Literature requires the creation of main characters to be heroes or villains, but necessary to these characters are secondary and sometimes seemingly incidental characters. Minor characters complicate plot and introduce important elements of theme and imagery. Without minor characters, the main players in any narrative would lose dimension. The plays of William Shakespeare abound with "great" characters, as well as essential secondary characters…

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    A reliable narrator is one who documents a story with accuracy and precision, leaving out their own personal opinions, omitting no details and showing no bias. In The Great Gatsby, published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, narrator Nick Carraway participates in and records the story of a disillusioned Gatsby and his transcending of the class structure to win the love of Daisy. In spite of Nick’s declaration of a judgement-free character, he makes racist and classist evaluations of others for…

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    Bettelheim’s about sibling rivalry. With her siblings kept in higher regard then her, Cinderella is excluded from achievements in life. Kolbenschlagg also shares the acceptance that this degraded sibling has. Subject to living in the ashes by the chimney, the child will have a longing to be rescued from her…

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    Tonight Aiden, you will sleep. For by and by an epic battle will rage, and magic and warfare will return to our kingdom. “But—” “Go now,” he ordered. The ground spit and I was free-falling through a muck-filled tube like Santa Claus sliding down the chimney. I would love to lie and say that I had some profound epiphany on my way down. That I laughed in the face of danger while singing “Que Sera-Sera.” But my only thought was Eeeekkkkk as a landslide of beetles, gnarled roots, monstrous purple…

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    What I Believed Yesterday is Different Than Today When I was younger, I believed in a lot of things that I later found out to be either untrue or ridiculously childlike. I was raised in a family that originated from Africa to the Southern parts of the United States. All of my grandparents and great grandparents were born in Mississippi or Arkansas. For this reason, I was raised by a family of people that believes in superstitions. When I was younger, I could not comprehend why things happened…

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    Product Lines________________________________________________________ Gable Vents: The real benefit of Onyx Exteriors gable vents is its manufacture and its material. Our gables have an expected lifetime of fifty years which far exceeds the ten years of vinyl gables. As vinyl vents age they become outdated, no longer look good, and do not vent the attic adequately. Consequently, they need to be replaced. Galvanized gable vents offer limited improvement. They do perform better than vinyl ones…

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald starts off paragraph two with a fantastical solemn dream, “This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke…” (Fitzgerald, 23). The houses of the valley of ashes are not literally made up of ashes, and ashes cannot grow like wheat, and this imagery of the entire valley, and its buildings, being made up of ashes is used to create an image…

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    Harold Bloom, the author of Modern Critical Interpretations of the Great Gatsby, said “Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby”. According to “Studies in in Literature and Language” of CSC Canada, symbolism emphasises the expression of subjective spirit and personal inner world. Through the symbolism in a work, readers can get insight into the writer’s creative realm. Fitzgerald uses symbolism…

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    Have you ever judge someone because of their appearance, social status, or handicaps? Did find once you learned more about them they are completely different from your initial judgments, and the things you saw as flaws in them have actually helped them in aspects? One major take away from understanding the focus of “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, is that you should never judge somebody or make presumptions about who they are or their lifestyle until you’ve truly understood what it is like to see…

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    Although scientists have speculated about intelligent life on Mars, it comes as a complete surprise to England when Martians land, having been shot to Earth in flaming cylinders. At first the projectiles are mistaken for shooting stars or meteors. Then Ogilvy, the first to discover one of the cylinders that has landed, realizes that it is hollow; as it cools, he can hear something inside unscrewing the cylinder’s top. Ogilvy informs a local journalist, Henderson, and soon a crowd, including the…

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