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    Discover Your True North, by Bill George describes the expectations for today’s leaders have drastically changed from traditional views. The financial crisis a few years ago occurred in part because leaders consumed themselves with fame, fortune, and power. These self-serving leaders ultimately did not benefit themselves or the companies they led, making today’s leaders take notice. A great number of today’s workforce is comprised of the Millennials, who have very different expectations for…

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    a means of having him forever, but she did eventually let go of him through her own death. Death is a natural part of life and although it is often hard to the best thing one can do for ones self is to let go of what is already gone. In a “Rose for Emily” and “The Monkey’s Paw” it is shown that a refusal to let go only results in more pain for those still alive. Miss Emily cast a black mark on her family name through her actions and the Whites had to experience the death of their son. If they…

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    Old South Symbolism

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    In this story the author Faulkner uses Emily and her house as a symbol of the old South. In this story Emily’s house and how the people in town treat her is resembling the past and the South. Her house used to be on the best street in the town and the house itself used to be decorated extravagantly. Now it is an industrial area with gas stations and buildings are all around it and the house is out of place just like the South's old values are out of place in this changing society. The house…

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    Locker-Personal Narrative

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    money in his hand. Everybody knew that Marcus was the biggest jerk in the school, but they never knew how to stand up to him I got up and took my binders from my locker. No more lunch today, I thought. I trudged to room 16, hoping that I could get this say to become better somehow. “ Hey,…

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    In anticipation of her relationship with Homer, Emily purchased a full wardrobe of men’s clothing as well as “a man 's toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece” (Faulkner PAGE NUMBER). Emily, having very little else to offer to a man than her wealth, dotes all of her resources on Homer through material goods. This attempt to welcome in Northern progression through treasured items of…

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    she told her family The Misfit was heading towards Florida in an attempt to persuade them to go to Tennessee. Instead, the plantation house she wanted to visit was actually in Tennessee. By venturing to a house that was not in Georgia, while, on their way to Florida, she and her family were killed by The Misfit that the grandmother said is heading towards Florida so that she could visit Tennessee. When the grandmother says to The Misfit, “I know you come from nice people!” she is using her…

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    Narrative Essay Soccer

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    was at my peak. Then we get to the sideline, and I found out that I don 't get to start, man was I angry, but I contained it. Eventually I got in, within 2 minutes of when I entered, there was a Cesa girl coming down the field on my side, I charged her as hard as I could. I pounded the ball away, we had a huge collision, and my ankle was laying a few inches lower than it should. The referee stopped the game and I got up and went to the sideline. Emily’s dad was there, he is a Doctor, and he told…

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    life changed completely after her father’s death. Emily is forced to enter a completely different lifestyle, one where she finds difficulty adapting to thus, isolating herself from the townspeople. Furthermore, Emily appears to be a troubled woman who is in a great of denial and living in a world where she feels trapped while desperately searching for love. Therefore, let us examine her denial with reality, her isolation, and her journey of searching for love. After her father's death, Emily…

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    After the boys’ mother passed away, the narrator asks Sonny what he wanted to do with his life and the response was to be a musician. This does not go over well for Sonny, because the narrator believes that a person cannot make money off being a musician and thinks that his brother is being crazy, “I simply couldn’t see why on earth he’d want to spend his time hanging around nightclubs, clowning around on bandstands, while people pushed each other around a dance floor. It…

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    Denny's Short Story

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    Denny needed a drink. That’s what he decided. But he thought better of it. Too much was happening to be getting drunk. Yes, it was his vacation—classic drinking time—but even so. He felt like he’d been pretty much cleared by this Detective Washington, but the fact of the matter was that the scumbag who killed Rashida was still out there. And Denny was determined to help find the guy. Then again, he remembered Jimmy Clarke. He didn’t want to end up a fall guy like Jimmy had. Thirty-six months in…

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