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    involves three main characters; Melanie, Jake, and Andrew. Melanie and Jake were high school sweethearts who got married but eventually separated due to Melanie furthering her career as a fashion designer in New York. There she met Andrew Hennings who’s mother is the mayor of New York. They eventually fell in love and were planning on getting married. Melanie was still married to Jake and had to revisit her hometown in Alabama so Jake could sign the divorce papers. Eventually, Melanie ends up…

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    Breedlove works for a wealthy white family, The Fishers, down by Lake Shore Park, a place where black people are not allowed. She idolizes this family and their white ways. She even adores their little blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter. She treats the little girl better than she treats her own daughter, Pecola. All of this can be attributed to the fact that Mrs. Breedlove does not like herself nor the social position she has been placed into due to her blackness. She dislikes herself so much…

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    Robin. These are pictures of her when she was even a preteen. The pastor was worshiping her? What kind of sick obsession am I seeing here? I turned my flashlight off, as the candle lights were strong enough to light the room in the back. From there, I could see the center of the pastor’s obsession with my former classmate. There were pictures of Robin, from the ceiling to the floor, flowers and lingerie. The was the biggest shrine I’ve seen since the high school. What got my attention…

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    had warned him not to carry the puppy around). George immediately knows what his partner is up to, and sharply tells him to take the puppy back to the barn. Lennie reluctantly pulls out his little pup and leaves the bunkhouse to return him to his mother, and George and Slim briefly renew their conversation. The two men discuss how Lennie behaves more like a young child then a man, and George, surprisingly, does not add any comment about how his partner’s behavior is a bother to him. Instead,…

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    Rican female in a society that is systematically racist, she rose above it to hold one of the most prestigious positions that you can in our country. This is no small feat, and required diligence, persistence, and maturity. She mentions that hurling insults back at those solves nothing, and you must rise above it to make true change. I feel that the main underlying theme, is despite the odds, even if they are against you, be persistent and passionate and you will achieve your goals. Sonia did…

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    In her country when a boy is born it's celebrated and dried fruits, sweets, and coins thrown into their cradle something usually done for boys only but when a girl is born the people commiserate with the mother. Girls were only notice to take care of the house but malala thought “one child, one teacher ,one book ,one pen can change the world”(Yousafzai). Malala was named after “Malalai of Maiwand” a hero of Afghanistan. “Malalai inspired the Afghan army…

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    explains that Tom Sawyer is his best friend. Judge Thatcher has taken Huck’s money and has invested it with a dollar of interest per day and now lives with Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, Huck’s tutor. He lives with these two women because his mother died when he was younger and his father is a drunk, who cannot take care of himself properly. The two women in his life try to “sivilize” him and he starts becoming frustrated at living in a clean house and minding his manners. Huck is…

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    What comes in your mind when you heard someone saying “family”? Most likely, people have their own definition of family because we all are raised in different environment. It is difficult to define family as in one word because in today’s generation there are many types of families. Such as, single parents, same sex parents, unmarried couples, and etc. Culture plays important role in defining family as well. For example, some general public might believe that there needs to be a male and a…

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    Four thousand miles away along the coast of Chile in outside of the port city of Mejillones, a young man sat with his parents in their small European style home eating dinner. Dinner was fish as usual but the young man’s mother could work wonders on the little they had. The young man’s father was a fisherman from America that brought his wife and business to South America after adopting Andrew, the young man. Actually he found Andrew while porting at small uncharted island on a trip from North…

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    fact that they are teenage mothers, which suggests that teen mothers are not a cause of poverty but more so a consequence of it” (Mirsa et. al 53). One could gather from his study that teen mothers are a product of their surroundings. As the national Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy states, “two-thirds of families started by teenage mothers are financially poor” (7). With two-thirds being a high percentage, this statistic alone makes it seem impossible for young mothers to ever be…

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