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    If my friends bothered to notice how different I looked, they didn’t say anything about it. I only wore giant, comfortable sweaters, I had large bags under my eyes, and I had stopped wearing makeup after that first week. I could barely sleep because all I could see when I closed my eyes was the shadow. I was a walking corpse powered by coffee and energy drinks. The one positive change was that I had started listening to My Chemical Romance again, which was the one string of sanity I had left. I…

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    It was up to her to investigate how certain things had really happened close to two years ago as far as Nora Arellano was concerned. Of course, if it was really up to her, she would have kept it forgotten, just some minor slip in her mind as she went about her life being herself and living a life with a name that didn’t whispered any link to her past. Nevertheless, this alias was recent and uncontaminated than the others. It was a lickety-split patchwork of her mother’s given name and a last…

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    Jenny Han

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    For my quarter 3 choice reading book, I choose to read the book ¨To all the boy I’ve loved before ¨by Jenny Han. Which was publish on April 15. The Genre of this book is Young adult Fiction. Jenny Han was born on September 3.1980 in Richmond Virginia, before she gained popularity she attended the University of North Carolina before she had earned her Masters in Fine Arts at the New School. Fun fact about Jenny Han is that she is a New-York bestselling author for many of her books including ¨To…

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    Ghosts In Ancient Culture

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    Ghostology has a long and vivid history. Ghosts were first heard of in the sixteenth century until now. The word “ghost” originated from an ancient term, “gast”, in the evolved modern German language. As time went on, “ghost” became a significant for the disembodied spirit of a deceased person. The people of the ancient time where culturally brought with the understanding that the soul of a human's being survived bodily death and deserved a kind of sustenance in the afterlife based on the kind…

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    a scream and I ran to see what happened and I saw a guy spraying water on a girl saying demon release her. The girl didn't actually look posessed to me but she was enraged. I was hiding behind a tree was roaring with laughter. This was the first exorcism I've witnessed. Sensing something bad was gonna happen I turned around and saw one ugly cat sweater next to me. The guy was tall, slender, pale and quite handsome. Please God help me ! I thought to myself. I'm not a demon I said, but he just…

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    American and Americans is their Catholic beliefs. Due to the differences in the way people practice religion can come with disagreements and disputes over what is ethical and what is not. For example, one of the customs of Vietnam is practicing exorcisms during mass. In my hometown in Texas, this practice was frowned upon. People in my town thought that we were doing conjuring spirits, but we were doing the opposite. Our practice was a healing process, basically a cleansing of the soul from…

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    camera. On the right hand top corner with the black mark and sky blue it saids FXXX. Under the word FXXX it has a couplet with purple and green color. The black mark traditional words are gan mo qu gui qu zheng yi. It means get rid of the devil, exorcism and take justice. On the bottom of the couplet, there has a red with orange crab. Not only the left side have the pink slip, but also this side have the pink slip with black ink four Chinese words. And for this time I can see some of the words…

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    debility and disease” (Miner 1956:503). This belief caused the Nacirema people to create rituals to avoid being ugly or weak. One of the rituals is the mouth-rite, in which, they visit a holy-mouth man that inserts objects into their mouths for “exorcism of the evils of the mouth” (Miner 1956:505). This ritual was created because the Nacirema people believe that the condition in which they keep their mouths influences their relationships (Miner 1956:504). Another ritual is preferred by the…

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    coming from Nazareth during his ministries and gospel. He is portrayed as a miracle worker, a healer, a feeder of the people and a great minister. He goes on to appoint twelve disciples to travel with him along his journey to perform miracles and exorcisms of demons out of people. Overall marks accounting of Jesus can be said to be also shrouded in mystery, that mystery being shown in the vague description at the end of Mark when they go in the two and only see the cloth of Jesus but not him…

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    “Munchhausen (1943) is a Nazi fantasy. The apotheosis of a virile and vital hero goes hand in hand with the exorcism of the female initiative. The ultimate journey takes him to the women on the moon, whose divided self defers to her husband’s authority” Rentschler 207). On the moon, they are amazed at how time moves so quickly: while Münchhausen does not age at all, Kuchenreutter ages rapidly. They meet two people of the moon, one of whom moves about as a disembodied head. She explains how no…

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