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    History 1376- Paper Assignment #1 Dear mom and dad it’s me Wounmee, I know it has been a while, but I just wanted to write to you about how my time here in New England. I moved here because I didn’t like the Protestant church is back home. When I was in England I heard about a group of people who called themselves the Puritans. They were a group who also believed that the Protestant Church was not complete and was corrupt just like the Catholics. The Puritans wanted to clean up the church…

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    mean that it is something that has been either written down or spoken in authority with accuracy and truth (Elwell 2001). Town’s refers to this as “God Breathed”, meaning, guided by the Holy Spirit, to give man the inspired text we call the Bible (Towns 2008, pp. 60). Just like when Moses was given the Ten…

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    they take women and children as their prizes (verses 27-29). The text indicates that the brothers treated the women of the town they raided as objects like captured animals or gold. Although the severity of Dinah's brothers actions are difficult to justify, the case still stands that the massacre occurred as a consequence of the rape. The brothers kill other men, plunder a town, and capture the women and children because the Shechemites participated in the “oppression of their sister” (verse…

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    In The Lottery a town of about three hundred people hold a drawing every seven years on June 27th along with other surrounding villages. The children play and collect stones while the men nervously talk and joke while the women are the last to show up. The lottery begins when Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves show up with the old black box so people gather and stand with their families. The box contains pieces of paper and written on them is the last name of each family in town a man from each family…

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    I stopped. Looked. And listened. New environment, new people, new language and a new beginning for me. I moved here in Michigan back in 2014. I 've heard lots of beautiful things about this state, this whole country actually. And even before I come here, I already surmise believed it. I was exhausted; I grabbed all my bags and lay down on my bed and locked the door. I stayed there for a couple of minutes thinking about what would my life be in this new place. I looked out of the windows;…

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    Truman Capote’s 1965 novel In Cold Blood, was based upon the true events of the Clutter family murder case, that occurred in the year 1959, in the very modest town of Holcomb, Kansas. The story revolves around the two insensitive murderers, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock, whom have had the past of growing up in completely opposite home environments from one another, and the detective Alvin Dewey, who goes out of his ways to try his best to capture these criminals. Although Perry…

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    The causes of the Mexican-American War were due to several reasons and some were the independence of Texas, Nuevo Mexico, California, Sonora, and Yucatan. The new Mexican government led by its first Mexican President, Guadalupe Victoria, was a violent one due to the Anglo immigration to the Mexican northern territories. Centralism played an important role in the subsequent loss of the entire northern frontier to the United States (Meier and Ribera, 54). Texas grew tired of the violent harassment…

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    Goldberger Analysis

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    opened with tragic loss stating, “Is that he died suddenly at Pennsylvania Station”, making the attention grabbed by becoming more relatable with audience. Goldberger goes on about how the death of one great architect could be the rise in something new taken over by another architect to finish their boundless work. Goldberger finally concludes with the importance of always moving forward in design; despite tragedy, greatness can come of it. Contemporary design meets southern charm at the 21c…

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    Walter Mitty Journey

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    The actual circumstances of the journey itself do not have to be exoctic or far away, it can be as simple as Walter Mitty’s excursion in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” In this short story, Mitty travels alongside his wife through their somber town past various physical locations. These locations give the reader a glimpse inside Mitty’s mind as they elicit daydreams about several events, such as Mitty being a world famous surgeon or even his own apparent death as he intentionally steps into…

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    different meanings and sayings. Both of these verses are eternal messages given by the Three Angels. In verse 6 “having an eternal gospel” was taken as a description of the task of the Angels. This gospel was not a gospel of Christ but a message of good news for the audience. Also in verse 6 when it says “to every nation, tribe, language, and people” it is showing that the Angels are sending their eternal messages in many ways. This passage is shown two times throughout the book of Revelation.…

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