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    In the black cat Edgar Allen Poe uses setting to make horror. The setting of a horror story is important. Horror stories can take place anywhere, somewhere like a haunted house, graveyard, or camp. In The Black Cat the setting is mostly his house. This shows that setting in The Black cat makes the story a horror story. Edgar Allen Poe uses anger in his story this creates the mood. In the story the character gets drunk and takes his anger out on the cat and then later his wife. The mood in this…

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    the ability to use their creativeness to express themselves. In present time, society drew a fine line between art and science to distinguish the indistinguishable. The idea of which technology is a form of cheating that is available for artist is nonsense. Art and science intertwine regardless of all efforts to separate the two. After watching Tim’s Vermeer (2013) documentary film, I was astonished by Tim’s ability to replicate Vermeer’s painting. Although Tim denies the title of calling…

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    Isaiah Summary

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    Summary: Isaiah is an 8 year old boy, who is currently in the third grade at Sunkist Elementary school. He is receiving intensive small group support daily through the school’s reading specialist for 45 minutes. Isaiah struggles with limited reading strategies and lacks sight and high frequency words knowledge. His initial reading assessment revealed that he only uses visual miscues and lacks monitoring for self-corrections. Throughout the sessions, Isaiah has been introduced to multiple…

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    Treitschke argues that war is what has made progress in a nation without no change would occur. It brings out the best in individuals, encouraging them to what is better for the nation as a whole. Individual’s selfish is a pushed a side and people start to think as one. In the tone of Treitschke passage readers can get an understanding of his strong belief of the benefits of war in his writing. He states, “the bliss of sharing with all his fellow citizens.” He describes uniting a nation is a…

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    Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is an inherited recessive disease, this means two recessive alleles are present in an individual from their parents. This disease impairs the ability of the body to repair DNA which is damaged mainly by Ultraviolent light as well as various chemical Carcinogens. ” The most common forms of DNA damage occurs via the cross linking of adjacent pyrimidines resulting in the formation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs)” (1) for example UV light will often make two T 's…

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    In the short story, “Three Skeleton Key” written by George G. Toudouze the character Le Gleo can be described as delusional. This character trait eventually gets him sent to an asylum at the end of the story. In the beginning of the story, it states, “Watching her sailing dead for us, a white wave boiling under her bows, Le Gleo cried out: ‘What’s wrong with her crew? Are they all drunk or insane? Can’t they see us?’” (pg. 51) To explain, this quote illustrates Le Gleo as delusional because…

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    takes the sweater and puts it right on my desk, but when I open my mouth nothing comes out.” Mrs. Price asked no questions and just believed what Sylvia said. What she should have done is asked Rachel if it was hers. If she did that, none of the nonsense would have happened. Except, Rachel probably would have been to scared to even say anything if Mrs. Price…

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    knowledge economy you have known if you are here." Jia Baoyu said: "Sister Lin never say nonsense; if she would say what you just said, and I had always had a distance with her." Lin Daiyu overheard the remark and had mixed feelings of grief and joy. She thought "she is truly right that she always thought he was a friend in daily life and it is sure enough a bosom friend." It is because they do not say such "nonsense" to each other, which becomes the basis of their friendship. Xue Baochai, Shi…

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    In a play with themes as serious as most Shakespearean ones hold, it is difficult to include comedy. Often a few key characters are used as tools in the deliverance of humor. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream the two key gateways used to integrate humor are Nick Bottom, the weaver and Robin “Puck” Goodfellow, the fairy king’s jester and well known trickster. The two characters share minimal similarities outside of arising laughter from the audience, however they are both key elements of the play.…

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    What Does Austin Mean?

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    1) In Lecture 5 of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, Austin claims that Blackstone’s legal naturalism is, on one interpretation, “stark nonsense”. First, what does Austin mean? Second, how would a naturalist like Blackstone respond? In William Blackstone’s Commentaries, he provides three principles to live by. They are, “we should live honestly, should hurt nobody, and should render to everyone his due” (Arthur & Shaw, 2010). He refers to human law as municipal law and defines it as “a…

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