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    APRIL FOOL? A young couple in the area received a shock this past April 1st when Dawn Schiavone Merola went into labor with her second child with husband John Merola. The two welcomed their first child in September of 1998. Haylee Dawn Merola, their new April Fool’s baby, was born on April 1, 2001 in Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Hazleton, PA. RARITY REVEALED Over the past several years, local teen Haylee Merola has grown immensely as a person, setting herself apart from her peers in the…

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    “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” is a personal memoir of John Holt’s recollections of being an English teacher. Holt remembers the times when he was the teacher that made children dissect books until their minds no longer held the real meaning of them. Their minds were drilled into finding the ‘correct’ answer and moving on as fast as possible. After multiple arguments with his sister telling him his approach to teaching reading was wrong and hurting the children's love for reading, he…

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    That which moves had power. This was the belief that the Native American people of the Plains carried in many of their traditions. But the one element of Native American art and culture that best expressed that saying was their creation of war shields. War shields, best expressed in the Plains, were often designed with this concept of what moves has power, so the Native Americans grabbed this power and put it on and in the shields. This power gave war shields not only a physical defense for the…

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    CARITA MARSILI 'S WORK SUBMITTED ON SEPTEMBER 30 2016 TO PAPERRATER.COM NOT PLAGARISM Adams, Marianna, Moreno Cynthia, Polk Molly, and Buck Lisa. “The Dilemma of Interactive Art Museum Spaces.” Art Education 56.5 (2003): 42-52. Web. Accessed 26 September 2016. This paper analyzes the conversion of contemporary interactive art through its intentions to influence youth culture with creative play, but ultimately sacrifices the deeper excruciation of art and its representations. The author…

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    As it relates, New Historicism, which developed in the 1980s is an approach to literary criticism/theory that seeks to find denotation in a text by viewing the work within the context of the prevailing concepts and postulates of its historical era than as a solitary work of art or text. Historicist charge themselves with the political function of literature and with the notion…

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    A question arises whether the media is biased against liberals. The answer is yes. Another question comes around whether the media has biased news over conservatives. The answer will be yes. Many people would think that these questions and answers aren't interesting at all, due to its probability of searching evidence-anecdotal or they have to provide evidence of media bias as one stripe or another. The interesting and instructive part of studying media biases is inherent or structural biases…

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    Almost all or at least the majority of the citizens in the United States, would agree that they deserve the rights they are granted by the government. The opportunity to wed and marry the love of your life being one of those rights. Same-sex marriage has been a widely debated topic throughout the United States over the past couple of decades and has been unsolvable. Same-sex marriage is defined as the marriage between individuals or partners of the same sex. Same-sex marriage laws vary by…

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    Introduction If a real estate agent and a farmer are given the same piece of land, it is likely that the former will perceive it as a potential space for building, while the latter will see it as a land for growing food. Therefore, being the piece of land always the same, it derives that people might have different perceptions of nature according to their identities. To this extent, this paper will address the question of whether it exists a nature ‘out there’ as maintained by Positivism or if…

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    Literary Device Quote Explanation Metaphor “My own house was an eyesore,” (Fitzgerald 5). When Nick Carraway, the narrator, is comparing his house to some of the houses in the neighborhood, including Jay Gatsby’s house, Fitzgerald, through Carraway, employs a metaphor by relating his house to an eyesore without the use of like or as. Through this quote, Fitzgerald illustrates Carraway’s intentions for traveling from the Middle West to New York, money and power. Carraway’s greed leads him to…

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    What Is Normal?

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    In the world there are many labeled groups of people, normal should not be one of them. Unfortunately, cultures still strive to create a “normal”, which can affect how we feel about our minds, our bodies, what we own, and other people around us. That can also tie into how psychology and culture are too reliant on society to define the word normal. In this case, the “emotional and behavioral characteristics of an individual, group, or activity” not the “science that deals with mental processes…

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