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    speak in a distant on their way out to catch fish. But once I got out there in the water I would gradually start to love the ocean. Each time I would get braver and go out further, as my mom sat on the beach and watch my brother and I closely. The farther out I would go the water would get this magnificent blue; for allowing you to see all types of beautiful sea shell with all sorts of colors in them, the tropical fish reminded me of the movie Finding Nemo, little pale pieces of sand dollars…

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    three of them, when he stole the ring when they made it to rivendell and when bilbo saved them from the goblins. The first great obstacle Bilbo and the dwarves overcome is the Misty Mountains. As is the case throughout their journey, the farther from home they travel, the greater the danger. The very name of "the Wild" provides a symbolic contrast with what is familiar, tame, and domestic, and the deserted terrain represents the difficulties they begin to face so far from home. They…

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    prejudice when it comes to someone else’s social status. Women were mostly seen as objects, and anyone other than a white male were seen as comical and ignorant. “A Knight’s Tale” is a movie loosely based off of Chaucer’s Canterbury tales. In the movie along with the tales there are remarks on people from all of English society. The main character in “A Knight’s Tale” is William; a young man born into the lower class. Williams’s father was aware of how his social class would be taken in his…

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    that the British had to split their navy in half. Half was devoted to the cause in North America, while the other half was devoted to the conflict at home. Going along with the geographical aspect, most British ships and soldiers were supplied by trade ships from the mother country to North America. The problem was that the British were farther away and therefore it took longer for reinforcements to arrive. As a result, most of the cavalry and infantryman either starved or were forced to…

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    home in England, and they were correct. As the amount of money continued to grow, the British began to get greed and began using slavery and violence to achieve the successes that they wanted. “While battling against Indians to create forts and ports along the coasts of present-day Virginia and North and South Carolina, the British also managed to increase their status as a world power through the colonization of the New World”…

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    The president of Alert Realty Company was asked by one of his salesmen’s wives to require her husband to go to a marriage counselor, one that the company donates to. Dan O’Brien, the husband, has not been doing as well as he has in the past according to his sales, so this marital problem could be affecting his work. The problem is if the president can intervene within this personal affair or not because it could be affecting his work, and the company’s sales. The first course of action that…

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    the first Continental Railroad was completed. More and more people migrated West, and soon discovered that the trees on the Pacific Coast were much better suited for the construction of masts on ships and other products. Paul Bunyan, who was found along the coast of Maine servers as a reference to the migrating lumber industry from East to West coast as he is a direct representation of the industry in the folklore…

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    used his writings to teach incoming priests. During his time of writing one of his most famous works, Summa Theologica, the seventh crusade was coming to an end. This was also at a time where the Papacy was struggling to spread their claim farther and farther away from rome. Often attempting to accomplishing this through conquests on the basis that it was justified warfare. Thomas Aquinas’ just war ideology has allowed Christianity to expand because it allowed for justified warfare, papal abuse…

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    than what they receive. Jonas displays his integrity through his upstanding morals, as he not only follows the rules but he his thoughts are never to deliberately disobey (Lowry 62). His ability to see beyond goes farther than him seeing color, but also into his ability to think farther than what he is taught. Jonas has the urge within him to stop taking his pills, “Something within him…told him to throw the pill away.” (Lowry 129). Lastly, Jonas has courage. He understands that unless he takes…

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    In the ancient near east, in the time of the Judah and Jerusalem when the Israelites had gone farther from God by each generation and believed that they lived in God’s blessed cities. God provided messengers of His will for the Israelites. Giving them understanding of what will happen and why God was going to allow the destruction of their lives and their communities. These messengers were hand pick by God and were blessed by the word of the Lord coming to dwell within side of them. These…

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