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    Ghost Stories

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    fiction. Ghost stories range in topic from people, places, houses, and more and the superstitions include ghosts and how people live their lives and beyond. Humans as a group are always intrigued by that which they cannot explain with the roots of folklore and ghost stories going farther back than can be traced. What causes this fascination? Are these stories true? These are questions that are asked whenever a ghost story is told, a haunted house visited, or a scary movie watched. In Appalachia…

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    whereas the Divine Right of Kings protected at least the institution if not monarch. The Social Contract protected neither. According to many a serious breach of a nation’s social contract by the monarch, entitled the ‘people’, to revisit the terms completely. In all three Revolutions, the Crown fought for its ancestral rights and privileges, it lost every time. The crowns victorious opponents regarded these offensives, as attacks on the Social Contract by the Monarchy. With the ‘contracts’ null…

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    Power In A Doll's House

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    reading analysis, to help understanding, and much more. Questions could be: "Who has the power?" "Who doesn 't have the power?" A short story with powers has been shown. A Doll 's House is a short story (3 acts to be exact) that was written by Henrik Ibsen. The power slides from at least three people in A Doll 's House. While some power may be in between multiple people, the story mainly focuses on one powerful person at a time. As many main characters usually have, Nora is a main character…

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    At a masquerade party, people are expected to wear masks. The masks are meant to hide the wearer 's true identity. The people around them are only to guess who the person truly is. In the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen the characters also wear masks. However, their masks are constructed to hide the character’s real personality. Throughout most of the play the character’s disguise their true nature when speaking to each other, and often switching their “masks” often. These are emotional…

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    Alcott, L. M. (1997). A long fatal love chase. New York: Dell Pub. Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women and her other juvenile fiction, but she also wrote gothic thrillers. A Long Fatal Love Chase is one of these and has been referred to as a "bodice-ripper" by reviewers. Originally written for serialization in 1866, after her travels in Europe and about two years before Little Women was published, her manuscript was rejected as "too long and too sensational". Several years later,…

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    To understand the meaning of A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen we read the whole script. To go deeper into the meaning we used our own drama abilities to explore. To understand the meaning of A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen we read the whole script. To go deeper into the meaning we used our own drama abilities to explore. We used Hot-Seating, Collages, and Still Image. All of these three things helped me understand the meaning of the play and explore the characters further. The script…

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    Rhetorical for Analysis on “Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee” The well-known and public "Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee." from William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton was approached in a way that caught both the empathetic and ethical listeners’ ears. The speech, meant as a request for forgiveness from the 399 African American participants in government run study that failed to disclose to its participants that they were infected with syphilis and subsequently, denied the participants treatment…

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    Does Race Still Matter

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    Joshua Weg Professor Guevara POLS 197 (FRI 8-10:45AM) 3 March 2016 Why Does Race Still Matter? 2016 is going to make history again regardless of whoever is elected into office. This election, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 will not be fully enforced for the first time (Goodman). This leaves many people concerned about the possible disenfranchisement that can occur, especially for minorities. My thesis is that race is still matters because whites are interested in maintaining their power over…

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    In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll House, Nora Helmer is the first main character introduced. She plays the role of a stereotypical housewife. She has many negative and positive traits. These traits help to build and develop her into either a flat or round character. Nora is a round character because she has a very complex personality and her character becomes more complex as the story progresses. At the beginning of the story Nora seems to be completely happy and content with her life. She is…

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    One of the most important development period in human history is the Renaissance. It allowed for humans escape the dark and desolate world of the Middle Ages to enter a society that illustrates the wonders and possibilities of humankind. One of the major cities in the creation of the Renaissance is Florence where influential people such as as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Dante gained inspiration from. However, many scholars have wondered how this one city was able to assumption what…

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