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    As the note, slid to the floor beside her feet. Tear drops slid down Isabella’s face. She stared into the fire lost, confused and alone as she reminisced on the past few months……… Being, the youngest daughter of one of the country’s, most influential men. Isabella never had a normal childhood. Sheltered by her father and three sisters; she felt trapped and never truly herself. Her father, Warth, was a wealthy merchant and was traditional, in every aspect of his life and proud of the customs of his country. Warth found perfect suitors for each of his daughters. When, all four of them were just ten years old. Documents were presented and signed in court, by both families stating that each daughter will marry on their 21st birthday. The years passed by quickly, as each daughter grew, they wed. Isabella, age 16, transformed into a beautiful maiden, but, was very reserved. She felt lost and devastated, for she had just lost her mother three months prior due to bad fever. Isabella felt the weight of the world on her shoulders; for her time will come quickly. She too will soon wed a stranger. “Awake Isabella it’s your 21st birthday!” Her father said with little emotion. “And you have a note.” As the words, are taken into the deepest parts of her mind, the paper slides to the floor and Isabella cries. “I will not see him father!” Isabella shouted. “I am not ready to marry a stranger!” “This is nonsense Bella! You will marry, your sisters have done it and so shall…

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    Disney Channel was quick to recognize females would put their money where “liberation” appeared signifying that third-wave ideals of girl power are related to consumer power. Rather than use girl power as a true political stance, Disney Channel used it as an industrial strategy to cultivate their audience and justify the commodification of young females and the prioritization of consumption over substance. Having now established the feministic atmosphere that would allow for this decade of…

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    The idea of marriage has changed over time, at one time it meant the man having whichever girl he so choose and the girl had no choice, at one time it meant money and ranking, now it means if “love” one another. During the medieval times the women had no say the man would pick her and she would marry him most of the time without really knowing him. Chaucer the author of Canterbury Tales explains this process in the tales of his book. In today’s world choice of marriage is a common…

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    I would be lying to you all if I said that I have always wanted to travel to China let alone spend a semester there. Entering college at Wheaton (MA) two and a half years ago I dreamed of learning a romance language like Italian in hopes of traveling to Europe my junior year to have a picture-perfect semester. After watching the Lizzie McGuire movie a million times, anything seemed possible. If I learned Italian and went to Italy, maybe I could be riding around Rome on Moped with a cute pop star…

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    Yes, I’ve been fortunate enough to have served in a variety of ministries such as a seniors day program, Church choir, respite camps, Best Buddies and so forth. I find working with the SENACA seniors day program to be my favourite experience. This program entails a wide range of responsibilities and duties. Some days it might be doing tasks like cleaning or taking out the trash, while on other days it’s more focused on planning and doing activities with the senior clients. It’s an absolutely…

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    Unstoppable hard rock music band Guns N’ Roses will electrify fans into the fall this November. Presented by Live Nation, the exhilarating international sensation is letting its fans get closer to new rounds of arena shows throughout the U.S. including a Las Vegas show. There is very little doubt that Las Vegas is among the favorite destinations of Guns N’ Roses, the widely famous American rock band from Los Angeles. They are massive fans of Las Vegas because they have staged residencies here…

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    Negative Teachers

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    Personally, I have always thought teachers were inspiring and enthusiastic people, recently I have learned not everyone agrees with this statement. Some believe teachers are extremely positive and overly peppy, others believe teachers are negative people that do not care about their students. I have also learned, a lot of these viewpoints come from the media by over exaggerating a teacher’s role or not giving them enough credit. Teachers in the media are portrayed differently than actual…

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    Freedom Writers’ is an American film, directed by Richard Granvense and based on a true story about a dedicated and idealistic teacher, Erin Gruwell. Ms Gruwell inspires and teaches her class of belligerent and aggressive students, that there is another life outside of gang violence and death. The students are divided into groups based on racial backgrounds, whom all believe that they have no future. Thus, hatred was part of their everyday life at the beginning of the movie. However, this was…

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    Train Go Sorry Analysis

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    Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, written by Leah Hager Cohen, is a biography of the author who has a relationship with Lexington School for the Deaf and a portrait of two deaf students (Sofia and James) throughout their time at the school. She switches her delivery, telling her family’s story and the stories of the two teenagers to narrate the truth about the deaf world. The book sheds light on the deaf school in New York, the stories of the two students, deaf culture, and various…

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    Mean Girls Film Analysis

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    Introduction In the film, “Mean Girls”, a young girl named Cady Harson enters the American School system after being home-schooled in Africa. For the first day of school, she finds herself overwhelmed with fear being surrounded by so many teenagers in the school. She was introduced as a new student to the many different social groups, but she was especially introduced as one of the Plastics. The plot begins when Cady decides to take down the group’s leader, Regina George, in order to sabotage…

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