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    daughters of a poor country parson” (James 6). This immediately invokes an image of a woman who is of simple upbringing and is thus naïve and susceptible to psychological influences. She meets her potential employer, who is described as “a bachelor in the prime of life[.] [S]uch a figure as had never risen, save in a dream or an old novel, before a fluttered anxious girl out of a Hampshire vicarage” (James 7). He is also described as having “charming ways with women” (James 7). Immediately…

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    From the prosperity of the 1920s and the poverty of the Great Depression, the Modernist era in American literature brought an end to the sense of optimism that reigned earlier. The disillusionment and uncertainty led to bold new ideas and ideologies that affected each individual differently. The modernist poems in American literature captured the sense of uncertainty through the challenges of segregation and nativist attitudes toward immigrants. Within The United States, the country was in a…

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    is engulfing. A life is torn away all too soon and suddenly, family and friends are left to pick themselves back up again. This despondence causes certain individuals to grasp helplessly onto religion as their lifeline. In A Death in the Family, James Agee showcases several characters with attachments to religion, most notably among those, Mary Follet, Aunt Hannah, and Father Jackson. In this novel, these characters turn both to religion and away from it. In trying times, religion can be a…

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    Everyone loves a good laugh every now and again….. There are three main humor theories written by Freud, Hobbes, and Bergson covering everything from we laugh as a release mechanism to we laugh out of superiority. Sigmund Freud’s theory over humor serves the purpose to explain why we laugh at the times we do. In Freud’s theory he explains laughter as a release mechanism to let go of tension you may have. In his theory he describes how when a joke is being told tension builds up behind a…

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    The Founding Fathers is the generation of men who intellectually made significant contributions to the Constitution. Many of them like George Washington and James Madison were present at the Constitutional Convention during the hammering and ratifying of the Constitution. They wrote the model document. Those, who were not present made significant contributions in several other ways; Thomas Paine wrote “Common…

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    _ Female reader; 01 The berserk family that belonged to you consisted of five human beings, including you. In first place was your father, the noisy bald-headed man acted more like a moonstruck fitness coach for someone who was about to enter the olympics rather than an actual Dad. Even though your father acted like a coach with no chill, he still managed to treat your three other bothers- I mean, brothers, with more respect than you ever received. Thus you diligently worked hard ever…

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    around the world having billions of followers and it’s one of the most popular sports in history. Origin of the Sport It was the 891st year of the 2nd millennium and the 91st year of the 19th century, when a physical educator, and sports innovator James Naismith invented the game of basketball. He first called it “peach basketball”, it came to him when he needed to find a game his students could play indoors during the winter. Naismith used peach baskets as the nets and set one at each end of…

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    Nike Footwear Essay

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    Nike footwear has been a huge success since its existence and each year they improve their footwear in order to attract more clients; although to be in this position of success Nike has applied propaganda such as bandwagon, testimonial and glittering in order to attract more clients. That had help since clients constantly acquire their products instead of the competition, and makes the competition footwear brand seem “useless”. How has Nike been able to be a huge success during all this years?…

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    Somber, cheerless, regressive; typical personalities of rural Irish. In“Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics”, Nancy Scheper- Hughes, discovered a great amount of revelations. From questioning mental illness to making connections in human behavior, Scheper- Hughes’ discoveries of rural Irish were controversial to say the least. While some of her discoveries were easy to fathom, others such as the similarities in personalities were not. Due to the fact that I was raised in a diverse and…

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    Albert Einstein blossomed with the knowledge that “[s]olitude which is painful in youth, [is] delicious in the years of maturity” (Babauta). The term solitude is a diversion for the traditional definition of isolation, it added a favorable approach which initiated the gratification of being alone and the beneficial outcomes it has to offer. Gabriel García Márquez also reckoned with the idea that solitude can contain contrasting perspectives. Márquez was a famous magical realism author from…

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