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    Sunday night, after trying to be productive all day, I finally sit down and put my hands on the keyboard, and start typing the essay that I should have started a couple days ago. Yeah, you can call me a procrastinator, and I admit that. I have never been good at writing essays. Even if it’s just a small paragraph of summary, it will usually take me much longer to finish it. One reason is it just takes me forever to figure out what I want to write about. I can be writing about rocket science…

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    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia on 22 April 1899, was a Russian-American novelist who was also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin. Nabokov originally began writing in Russian and wrote his first nine novels in Russian. However, Nabokov achieved international prominence after he started writing in English. Vladimir's finest novel Lolita is also considered his most controversial work because of the criticism it received due to its deep and warped erotic theme.…

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    COMPARATIVE ESSAY ON ANGELA CARTER’S COMPANY OF WOLVES AND A.S. BYATT’S BAGLADY Milada Curtner Highlights of British Literature: Final Essay December 20, 2014 We all grew up loving fairytales told by our grandmothers who shared with us the ancient myths. That is why post-modern fairytales “Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter and “Baglady” by A.S. Byatt were selected for this essay. Although the heroines in The Company of Wolves and Baglady are two very different women and experience very…

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    Fan Shen began as a good little revolutionary. Revolution was his birthright, a heritage passed down to him by his family. A legacy denoted in his name, “’Fan,’ my given name, means ‘ordinary—one of millions of working people,’” because only working people could be true revolutionaries.” The indoctrination of the Chinese Communist Party caused generations of Chinese to partake in unnecessary violence and hardship, and Fan Shen was no exception. However, he resisted the Communist Party. Fan Shen…

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    Alienated From the Community In our normal life, we see those people who never like to communicate. They always sit by a side never do anything, never participate. We never know their stories, there may be lots of reasons that they are the way they are. J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Stephen Chbosky's Perks of Being a Wallflower are both of the books that introduces this kind of characters (Holden and Charlie) who don’t feel close to the community they live in and they both have…

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    Steve another policeman that was best friends with my dad would drop me off at school and my mom would pick me up. That was great except who was there to protect me in school. I was still being bullied on a regular bases and my mom was in school all the time fighting for me. We even pressed charges on some of the kids so they would take bullying seriously. So we thought! One day Mr. Stevenson was out due to the passing of his mother. Chris one of the kids in my class who was there .Chris was…

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    Authorial Intent Essay: Arthur Miller As a man thrusts himself across the world he must figure out his inspiration for the work he has dedicated his life to. When looking at Arthur Miller's theatre writes, he uses visualizes real world events and human tragedies in his work. When looking back at Arthur Miller's early work “The Death of a Salesman”, the story hinges on a man who is betrayed by his own moral values, and the repercussions of society. In a famous quote, Arthur mentions…

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    possible esp in war. - 1900, cables linked to all continents & telephone by Alexander Graham Bell (1876) ( Other inventions : Typewriter (1867) , cash register (1879) , calculating machine (1887) , adding machine (1888) , Lewis E. Waterman’s fountain pen (1884) , George Eastman’s Kodak Camera(1888) , King Gillette’s safety razor and blade (1895). b. Edison & Westinghouse. ~ Thomas Edison started as young telegraph operator & first invented machine for recording votes (1869) then he got…

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    No one is perfect. People are flawed therefore government is flawed. Sometimes the choices we make as a society, with what may be the best of intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. In the Book “Overthrow: A History of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq” by Stephen Kinzer presents chilling insight into clandestine practice of overthrowing a government by the United States. It serves to show people what policy makers were thinking when these monumental decisions were made. His message is…

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    DANCE WITH ME: A COLLECTION OF DRAMATIC POETRY TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Prologue CHAPTER I: RECOLLECTIONS OF A LITTLE BOY & SOJOURNS ON THE BEACH So You Want Subversive Eh? " Outdooring—A Naming Ceremony For An Eight Day Old Respect Not So My Brother?—A Tribute Last Day The Kelewele Seller The Man On The Beach Life Through The Eyes Of A Ten Year Old A Mango Thief Searching Water CHAPTER II—WORK ETHIC: Adinkra Symbols A Vagrant The Drum The Son Of A Coffee Farmer Hands Of An…

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