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    According to Gauby and Noone, L.L.C. (1996), legal counsel for Smith System Consulting, states these contracts to be fair and just to the company and their customers. (University of Phoenix). Smith System Consulting has rare copyrights and patents, since most of their business is believed to be work for hire basis. Based upon the nature of Smith Systems Consulting's business and the information provided by the company's legal counsel, some of the legal issues that the company may face are…

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    see how greatly the girl is affected as she states that her best friend is a white girl named Denise. She has been affected by her best friend simply because her family culture is completely different from her friend Denise. The little girl in the story also sees herself as part of the american world because she states activities that an American would do with her friend, Denise. For example, her and her friend watch boys together. The little girl "feels funny using chopsticks" because it's…

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    Furthermore, symbols play an important role in the short story “The Lottery”; indeed, they inflate the theme of the story and make it more impressive. First symbol in the story is the lottery, which stands for the certain ritual and tradition presents in society. “‘Some places have already quit lotteries,’ Mrs. Adams said” (144). ‘“Nothing but trouble in that,’ Old Man Warner said stoutly, ‘Pack of young fools”’ (145). Although there are places where the tradition of holding the lottery has been…

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    Short stories are a great way to escape into literature, without having to spend hours on end reading. I’ve recently heard about your hate against the idea of all short-short stories, not only did I find that tremendously disappointing but I cannot seem to comprehend. Seeing as I am taking a short story class at the moment really surprises me, not only can short stories spark a reader but it can show them different aspects of writing longer novels cannot. A few stories I will recall are…

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    Jamaica Kincaid, the author of the short story “Girl,” was raised on the island of Antigua. During the time in which she was raised, Antigua was influenced by the British government. Because of the British control, Kincaid was raised in a culture immersed in the ideals of oppression and slavery. Being an African American woman in Antigua during the rule of the British government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New…

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    reading, it did not mention clearly what the ceremony is. Firstly, let talk about the repetition of the story. In the reading, it keeps repeating the band playing the music. Theo…

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    The Gothic short story is a literary genre that although brief, is thought provoking. It is a genre characterized by several conventions including a simultaneous attraction, yet repulsion to a particular thing, the magnification of a given element as well as an archetypal setting such as an abandoned church or a monastery. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark”, Hawthorne uses several of these conventions and presents the reader with Aylmer, a man of science who forms an obsession…

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    makes sense it does not ring true in: “Solace of Open Spaces” by Gretel Ehrlich, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by Scott Momaday, “They All Just Went Away” by Joyce Carol Oates, and “A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails” by Donald Hall. Each of these stories has the overlaying theme of space, causing loneliness, which leads to one becoming an introvert. The characters in all of these books either live in the middle of nowhere, or have secluded themselves away from society for so long that they are…

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    Set in 1948 and published in The New Yorker, the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes an annual ritual, in a small village that leads to death for an unlucky winner. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” follows the genre conventions of a classic dystopian short story through the use of symbolism and connection between specific themes from the story to many common, yet profound and complex characteristics of dystopian literature in order to implicitly and thoughtfully convince the…

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    the last name. For instance, I stated the same statement from the original essay of “What Are The Facts and Lies About Present Day Texas?”, but with different words: “The third major idea Molly Ivins presents in her essay is the economic diversity within the state of Texas” (3). The quote shows my writing previously used the full name of the author which could be annoying to the audience if repeated more than once. From the original essay and the revised essay of “What Are The Facts and Lies…

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