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    opinions about the article about Mark Duggan. Some of the facts and opinions were controversial because there were many issues which you wrote about in the article which effect his race, for example you have wrote about the way he had a curious hybrid accent and the way you wrote that Duggan was a gangster not Nelson Mandela. This manipulates many readers into making judgments about people by the way they look, without even knowing how the person really is. Firstly, in the headline it states;…

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    Facts About Vikings

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    It is common in modern films, almost cliché, to give barbaric characters heavy Scottish accents, so much so that I myself didn’t question whether or not the Scottish accent of the adult Vikings in How to train your dragon was out of place, which it was. Not only this, but the Viking children were given American accents, when really the Vikings had no contact with America whatsoever. Now, obviously this is an animated film, set in a fictitious world inhabited…

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    As I walk through the halls, a distinguishable feeling tends to overwhelm me, tending to feel as though a cold knife carves away at my brain, a pang of slight sorrow yet with an accent of justification to offset it. This feeling of cold fame, notoriety, may become an addiction for some people; or it may even develop into a rusty gnarled cage that gnaws at its prisoner’s skin. A lesson that these people may learn from their imprisonment may come in the form of an idea, and now they just need to…

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    By using that specific verb and pairing it with her “grave, almost sad accent,” Amy is able to make a quiet but poignant point. She goes on to ask him if he is “ashamed” of himself, implying that he should be – and that she is. It is also in conversation with Laurie that Amy reveals what exactly it is about his behavior…

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    Kleophrades Reaction Paper

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    These two classes and those higher were able to afford pieces like this as either grave markers, storage or serving vessels. Like I stated before, this particular stamnos was likely to be a storage or serving vessel. The Greek symposium was the largest social event in Ancient Greece. Symposium was a social gathering where men came together…

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    Rain drops heavily, clouds are gathering, winds are blowing. The first night when the Starks had set foot in Maycomb, the weather frightened the young girl. Surely, she does miss her home country. She came from a far land, green as jade, but separated from it’s another half. Her name is Visenya. She is 16 years old, migrated with her parents to Maycomb. Her parent’s names are Robert and Olenna Stark. They originate from the Northern Irish capital, Belfast. The rain slightly stooped and the…

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    In Literature, the authors tend to create symbolic figures that the reader often catches, but it represents something totally different for everyone. The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte can be characterized as Gothic Fiction with a hint of Romanticism, and the Victorian Ideal. The novel centers around a “gypsy” like kid named Heathcliff, who is adopted and raised in Wuthering Heights, where he endures pain through abuse, the ideas of revenge and casting it on others, and finds love but…

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    Despite them being late and missing some parts the Seamstress appreciated the film, this was a rare treat for her to leaves the house and do something that she was interested in. “Luo and I remained standing while she knelt down by her grandfather's grave. Suddenly she swung her head round to face us. 'About those books of his— what if we stole them'”(86). This shows the Seamstresses personality change, she went from grieving for her grandfather to getting the idea of stealing Four-Eyeses books.…

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    Stretching out approximately 2000 miles long, the U.S.-Mexico concrete border has its own loopholes where at certain points the security is not tight. This enables people to cross the border without papers. However, this is not to say that those people will not find any difficulties in crossing. A note to remember, the unauthorized border crossing means risking everything it may take because the spots are not considered comfortable to be crossed such as crossing through abandoned tunnel (El…

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    “Hey…” Visenya looked at him with a smile on her face, she walked through the fence and reached the backyard: “Hi there…” Scout asked her a furiously: “Are you from this Town?” Visenya replied with an Irish accent: “Aye, I’ve moved recently” Jem began asking Visenya: “Your accent seems a bit British, are you from there?” Visenya: “No little lad, I’m from Northern Ireland” Scout responded rudely: “How come your eyes are…

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