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    Upon first glance the princess bride may seem like just another “hero-saves-the-girl-and-helps-all-his-friends-achieve-their-goals” type of story, which it is. However what the book and movie both accomplish is to recognize the irony in itself. The book is basically a “Book within a book” and the movie is “A book within a movie”. Both of them achieve their goal in showing this. The book starts with a boy being read a book, his grandfather stops reading because he sees that his grandson is…

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    The overall structure and organization of this movie is really impressive. It starts off with the story being told by the narrator to his sick grandson. The movie The Princess Bride is a fairytale adventure about a young girl and her one true love. The story begins with Buttercup, a young blue eyed girl, that lives on a farm. On the farm there’s Westley, a poor farmboy. Buttercup spends most of her day bossing Westley around ,until she realizes she's in love with Westley. Lucky for her, Westley…

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    In the novel The Princess Bride, William Goldman illustrates the theme that “Life is not fair, it is just fairer than death” by “abridging” S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventures. Firstly, Goldman satirizes the romance genre to reveal a collective idealism embedded within human nature. Then, he uses metafiction to contrast the parallel stories between Westley and Buttercup to Goldman and Helen. Lastly through Domingo, Yeste, and Inigo’s stories, the author illustrates…

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    The Princess Bride From climbing up seven hundred foot cliffs, to fighting off unusually large rodents, and a climactic resurrection, The Princess Bride is the story of an adventure keeping viewers on the edge of their seats. The story surrounds the cliché: the hero always gets the girl. We follow the protagonist Westley as he sets out on an action filled journey driven by his love for a woman named Buttercup. The manipulation of tropes, commonly recurring literary devices, give a comedic feel…

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    bring order for an effective life (P251). He lists them as sustaining clarity about what is important, accepting with grace the limitations of life and, creating and embracing the spaces in your schedule. He further states: “There are several leverage points available to us by which we can strengthen our capacity to know and embrace our vocations. One of the most critical is the way we order our lives. Order brings freedom. “(Smith, 2011, p.…

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    Delroy Paulhus says, “‘There are stereotypes out there about birth order, and very often those stereotypes are spot-on’” (qtd. in Kluger 405). It seems that to this day and age that there is a great deal of talk regarding the order that we were born in. Jeffrey Kluger suggests in his article, “The Power of Birth Order” that birth order matters. Since evidence shows that firstborns are more intelligent, the differences between earlier and later-borns, and that younger siblings’ like taking risks…

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    Smith and Tabak claim that monitoring of employee e-mails “may result in less engagement in organizational citizenship behaviors due to the negative impact on employees’ perceptions of privacy and fairness as well as employee resistance” (43). Although the fact that when employees work under the company, they are using the company’s resources wins over the argument of the invasion of employees’ privacy. Therefore, as the company owns the e-mail system and has to protect its interests, they are…

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    In her article “Victorian Values For the 21st Century” (Globe and Mail, October 5 2013), Margaret Wente addresses the topic of success among females and males; and how both genders differ in terms of aptitude and attitude. She believes that to be successful in a profession, one must possess 19th century qualities. Her purpose is to argue that males lack the required qualities to be successful. Furthermore, she argues that females have a better work ethic than males; and that females possess the…

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    My Bible Experience

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    This summer as been a blessing and I want to share part of my journey. I want to start off my thanking my bible study leader, Yoly and Lisa along with everyone else at Appleton Alliance Church. Going back to when I was in middle school and high school I would go to AAC but sadly never considered what I was learning to be meaningful, in one ear and out the other. I was to focused on what time is it, how many more songs are we singing, how much longer until we get home, and so on. I never…

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    Email is the oldest digital medium still in use. It started gaining traction in the 1990’s, and it’s still relevant today. Businesses use email to connect with consumers, promote their brand, and sell their products. Despite (or perhaps because of) email’s longevity, two obstinate myths are circulating about email marketing. The first myth is that email marketing is dead. The second myth is that email marketing has a 4300% ROI for the average business. These two myths are dangerous for small…

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