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    Iliad, is an ancient Greek epic by homer. The epic sets by the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by Greeks. The epic start with the events of argument about rage between Agamemnon, the king of Achaeans and Achilles, the great warrior of Achaeans. During the epic, Homer engages different type of gods including Zeus to make the epic special. During the war, there are many incidents happen among different characters including gods. On the other hand Dante, the divine comedy, is…

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    Atonement Analysis Essay

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    her and identifying herself in society at adolescent stage as living with a vascular dementia and regret of her past life at maturity stage. Finally, one can maintain that Ian McEwan is very acknowledgeable of psychoanalysis which enables him to portrait his character within the borderlines of…

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    crisscrossed everywhere, and all turned on in the daytime. Old Phoenix would have been lost if she had not distrusted her eyesight and depended on her feet to know where to take her. She paused quietly on the sidewalk, where people were passing by. A lady came along in the crowd, carrying an armful of red, green, and silver-wrapped presents; she gave off perfume like the red roses in hot summer, and Phoenix stopped her. 'Please, missy, will you lace up my shoe?' She held up her foot.…

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    All you see is her portrait of when she was happy I can hear malady of her voice from fond memories of the past. She asked me if I could fix her broken heart as I replied the void you filled was black tar as I can only fill love if your heart has not stopped. A silent heart…

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    SELECTED TEXT CHAPTER IX. Second Report of Dr. Watson THE LIGHT UPON THE MOOR Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th. My dear Holmes: If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us. In my last report I ended upon my top note with Barrymore at the window, and now I have quite a budget already which will, unless I am much mistaken, considerably surprise you.…

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    found in an article by the Dove Self-esteem Project, 91% of teen social media users have posted a selfie of themselves, and the top answer among girls to the question of what they would like to be described as, is “pretty”. While merely taking self-portraits of yourself is not essentially a harmful thing to do, in their adamant attempts at being perceived as attractive by their followers, these pictures are becoming exceedingly revealing and provocative…

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    Emma and Moll, Breaking the Mold The 18 and 19th centuries are remembered for the literal and art creations as depicted in the Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders of 1722 and Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary of 1856. The two pieces are novels exploring the lives of heroines Moll Flanders and Emma Bovary respectively. Similar to other pieces of increasing critical thinking such as law and philosophy at the time, the two novels were based on societal changes…

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    Disclaimer: JKR owns her characters, plots, and world. But not mine :) Extremely long AN: About people accepting Harry as being from the future so quickly… the students didn’t and neither did the ministry. The teachers were one over by the contract as the magic that created them is considered deadly in the extreme. Not quite black but the type of magic that if you tinker with it legend states your soul will be collected by the Wild Haunt, a myth that came pre-humanity. Soooo yeah that won over…

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    Edward Scissorhands Analysis

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    The film, lovingly directed by Tim Burton, is a darkly sweet (self) portrait of adolescent angst. We can all relate on some level to Edward's social awkwardness, and Depp's deer-in-headlights self-consciousness is adoring enough to soften the sharpest of pointed appendages. The pastel-colored township cuts a drastic figure…

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    The ingenuity of the individuals involved in the Harlem Renaissance continues to have an effect on modern culture. The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of African American culture. Slavery and the Jim Crow Laws had oppressed Africans Americans for hundreds of years. The idea of white supremacy was popular quickly becoming popular in the South. Unfortunately, most African Americans lived in the South and were treated horribly. In 1890, the Great Migration began, in which many African…

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