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    the disciples were exaggerating which is hyperbole, to explain Jesus’ fame that was spreading. Bible readers can greatly benefit from knowing how and when the writers of the Bible used hyperbole. Everybody knows that amazing literature always uses figures of speech such as hyperbole to deliver its…

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    Colin Wilson a self-educated man, who was a writer. His first book was "The Outsider." Everyone loved the English writer, and most of his booked touched deep in postwar Britain. His book was an instant hit about an "outsider" who was capable of surviving life in an ordinary world. He was born in Leicester, [The United Kingdom] on June 26, 1931. He was highly educated, at Gateway school in Leicester, he worked many other jobs before becoming a writer. He was known to be the "the major literary…

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    I heard a rumor that if you are in his senior honors English class he takes a day to answer any and all personal questions you have about him, but only for that class. Now to me this sounds like reason enough to make you work through this class, but unfortunately I didn’t make myself do it. One of my friends Kali Smith took the class last year and apparently knows everything there is about McGee, but apparently also was sworn to secrecy with the punishment of a tortuous death because she isn’t…

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    into the Internet world. I still remember talking to my parents about growing up with technologies, back in my parents’ time, they did not have that much access to the computers, they simply learned everything from school, teachers was the central figure in the classroom, the teachers were the transmitter and all the students was the…

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    Creator Mindset Essay

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    How To Be The Best You Can Be In College There are two different types of mindsets in this world. You can have a creator or a victim mindset. A creator mindset is where you find solutions to your problems, they have what you call personal responsibility. Victim mindset people are the ones who make excuses for themselves to make it feel like they are not at fault for their actions. These two kinds of people are usually in a different time period in their life, either they are not mature enough…

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    In Death of a Salesman by, Arthur Miller, Willy has a desire to be a good father to his son were his dad was not. Willy believes that if he can instill the correct values into Biff so he can be like himself or more successful. The problem Willy is confronted with is that he cares too much as if he is trying to emulate his life in Biffs. Compared to Willy Charley takes a position of hands off while still teaching Bernard to be a good student and by working hard because it will pay dividends later…

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    . to make us his slaves. But it wasn’t what he wanted.” "OK genius, so how does that help us?” Sonny stepped in front of No Neck, almost on his toes, and stared down on the shorter man. “What’d your moron cousin want?” "He didn’t know. We had to figure it out --" “Well we don’t have all night. Why don’t you just tell us?” “A hooker. To prove he was still a…

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    Scott and Sharon 's Similar Style No two humans are exactly the same. With seven billion people on Earth, a person’s personality is what sets them apart from everyone else. Everyone has a different experience of life, perspective and mind. It is how a mother tells her identical twins apart and what makes an applicant stand out in a job interview. As personality expresses who a person is, in literature an author’s writing style express themselves. An author’s writing style is what makes their…

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    Mei Vandervelde, the author, develops the thematic conflict by using rhetorical devices to emphasize certain points, project the feelings of the character and to keep the reader moving through the piece in a way that they end up focusing on key, intentional points. The authors goal in this piece is to build to a specific climax. In the beginning there is a small climax, a foreshadowing of what is to come and to show the conflict between the character and the river. Vandervelde uses polysyndeton…

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    to the viewers by only including males in boy’s toy commercials and females in girl’s toy commercials. The settings for boy’s toy commercials were usually outside and consisted of darker colors. In addition, they included toy weapons and/or action figures (males with large muscles) that provoked thoughts of violence. On the other hand, girl’s toy commercials we usually inside a home and consisted of bright colors. Most toy advertising consisted of pretend cooking sets, playhouse sets, and beauty…

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