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    A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen contained only a handful of characters but all the characters had a big impact on the story line whether they were very abundant in the scenes or not. The characters and their dialogues were the reason the story progressed. The conflicts, themes and character development was shown when the characters interacted with one another and took action within the play. Two characters within A Doll’s House that created parallels and contrasts included Krogstad and Nora…

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    This chapter takes an in depth look at the literature on diversion programs,the different types of programs, its effectiveness, and participation requirements. Youth in the juvenile justice system often reflect a variety of high-risk elements that include inadequate family support, school failure, negative peer groups, and lack of utilization of community-based services(NCJRS). In order to address some of these high risk elements, we typically divert the youth through the use of diversion…

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    While democracy is present in much of the modern world, it is difficult to define exactly what democracy is due to the varying ways of governing present in the world. In this paper, I will compare England and Germany according to Lijphart’s models of majoritarian and consensus democracies. In Lijphart’s model, there are two main ideas in which these two systems differ: how easy it is for a single party to take control of the government and how much a party can change policy once they have…

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    A Doll’s House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. This play revolves around Nora Helmer who is hiding a dangerous secret from her husband, Torvald Helmer. Krogstad, a man that is aware of Nora’s big secret, threatens to sell Nora out if she does not save him from being fired by Torvald. Different events unfold throughout the play. We see that Torvald treats Nora as a child -almost as if she were his doll, but it is obvious that Nora is much more than who her husband thinks she is. Act 1 The…

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    going to look old.” he said in a joking tone but an underlying tone of hesitation. “ I 'm still excited to meet your parents, even though the house is not at all what I expected.” Trevor was quiet for a minute “Well what did you expect?” he asked quietly. “ I don 't know a big house what was kept up well and looked more… alive” When we got into the house it was big and grand, The walls were the better side of the same stone outside and there was a double staircase with a red runner rug down the…

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    non-defeatist attitude that seemed to resonate with everyone after him. How could you look at a house that dwarfs its surrounding and not think about the hands and mind that allowed its structure? His road to a better life showed me that he thought less about himself and more about impacting the people he loved. He could have given up, abandoned my mom, or been like the many people surrounding my grandparents’ big white house: stagnant. But he did what he felt was…

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    Deinstitutionalization is the movement of large numbers of people from self-contained institutions to community-based setting, such as halfway houses, family homes, group homes, and single residential dwellings (Woodside 38-40). When deinstitutionalization began a need to provide services to those affected became apparent; therefore, the field of Human Services was developed. Clients had multiple…

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    Many African-American successes would not have reached the point they did without Ruby Bridges. John Pope writes, “It was on display in the White House in 2011, when Bridges met with President Barack Obama, the country's first black president. Speaking of her and other civil rights icons, Obama said ‘I think it’s fair to say that if it wasn’t for you guys, I wouldn’t be here today” (1). Ruby Bridges…

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    People make mistakes. It’s a natural part of life; none of us are perfect. However, if heard about a public figure making one, this philosophy no longer applies. We’ve all heard of those nights were a public figure/congressmen/ or celebrity forgot that they were married, and their mistress comes out to the public. And I’m even surer that soon after those same people have admitted to being a terrible person, publicly apologizes to their family and etc., and now is going to work on being a better…

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    Nora In A Doll's House

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    Every little girl dreams of having a big doll house and dolls to play with, but one will never dream of being the doll of the house. In the short play A Doll’s House Hendrik Ibsen portrays women as their husband’s playmates. The question is whether or not he gives women the role of a playmate tittle by introducing the main character Nora. Nora the mother and wife of the short story is portrayed as a doll because of the way she acts. She does everything her husband says and do not have a mind of…

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