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    differences between them. Through the three different versions, a showcase of the comparisons and contrast between the three was compiled. The story of Alice stayed generally consistent between all three media’s. The classic white rabbit with the looking glass, vanishing into a small hole…

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    Have you ever read a book and then thought: "What does this even mean?" Well, the book, Alice' Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, brings up the same question. Did Carroll have a point he was trying to make, or did he write his story for pure entertainment? I believe that he wrote it for entertainment purposes. Though no one but Carroll actually knows the answer to this question. The reasons supporting my thesis are: the original story was told for the amusement of three little girls,…

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    Alice is turning a non-sense world into reality. For this reason, when your imagination takes over the real and makes believe world. It is considered to be one of the best examples of literacy nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by…

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    Book Summary: Go Ask Alice

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    Go ask Alice is book written in diary form. The author is unknown. The main character is Alice, which is the one who write the diary. Throughout the diary, Alice talks about the challenges with she faces and how she copes with them. Alice’s dad, who is a college professor, takes an offer to teach at a different college. Alice and her family have to move to a new town at the beginning of the next year. Alice has problems fitting in at her new school, but soon makes a new friend, Beth. Alice…

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    disfigured after being shot in the eye by her brother who asks Alice to go against her faith, and lit to cover it up. And finally, we rejoice with her and God, because she spiritually matures when the glob is removed from her eye. After six years of looking down with one eye, Alice is ready to face the world head on. In the first stage of this profile writer’s year of 1947, pre-civil rights era of being black in the south and poverty shed. She never experienced poverty; because of…

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    Richard (Dick) Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, the cold blooded killers of the Clutter family in In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. When you describe them like that, they seem one and the same, they’re murderers. But, there is way more to them as people than just that, they are similar and they are very different. Dick and Perry are character foils, although they possess a few similar characteristics and experiences. Both men met in jail for petty crimes (Dick for bad checks and petty theft, and…

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    Looking Out From Within: An Analysis of "To Althea From Prison" Richard Lovelace was charming, handsome, and affluent. He embodied the disposition that any woman could fancy during his time, but outwardly that was all there was to him. If you were to ask around you would be told that he was well-off and distinguished and seemingly that was where his persona had stopped. So the question posed becomes, “why would a man so forgettable, be remembered for such a long period of time?” The works he…

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    He was actually so good at playing football that the NFl was looking to recruit him. Gerald Ford had jobs all over the place: he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, the chairman of the Republican National Convention, House minority leader, and he also served in the United States navy during World War 2 where…

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    A Time of Change: America from 1960-1980 The death of President John F. Kennedy had a major impact on the United States of America. This president did not only die, he was assassinated, and his killer remains unknown. The day Kennedy died America wept. There are still so many questions that are left with no answers. What produced this “crime of the century”, why has there been so much controversy over it, and how did it affect the next presidents? John F. Kennedy wanted peace. In June 1963…

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    The 1974 Scandal

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    in their leaders. How has such an important institution lost the support of the people it represents? When the New York Times published the first papers of the infamous “pentagon papers” outlining America’s involvement in Vietnam, Then President Richard Nixon demanded that the publication be stopped. The Supreme Court ignored the request, citing the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Americans were surprised to discover the…

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