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    Gatsby frequently uses weather to describe a situation to intentionally cause and change the mood at any certain time. Daytime and sun are generally seen as positive, and so often lead to positive events. On the opposing side, nighttime, clouds, and rain are often seen as negative, and therefore may lead to death, pain, secrets, and betrayal. There are exceptions to this, but exceptions often also have different sets of language associated with them to paint them as opposite. Even without the…

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    Puerto Rico Geography

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    About 60% of the territory is mountainous, apart from the coasts. Puerto Rico offers Varity of amazing rain forest, deserts, beaches, caves, oceans and rivers. Puerto Rico has three major Geographic regions: Mountainous interior, coastal lowlands, and the karst area. Mountainous interior is formed by a chain of central mountains generally known as Cordillera Central, The largest mountains are Cerro La Punta (1,338 m) in Jayuya; Rosas (1,267 m) found between Jayuya and Ciales, Guilarte (1,205 m)…

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    To elaborate on this argument further, it will be necessary to highlight key contextual information. During the 1980s and 90s, significant changes happened to men. As previously mentioned, President Reagan, during the 1980s, aimed to bring back unambiguous and traditional male values, as he, and society, believed males had ‘gone soft’ (Boon, 2003; Vogel, 2015, p.464-465); and it is argued that males were unhappy and felt they lacked an authentic masculine role model within popular culture. As a…

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    As Kevin reached the front of the stupefying storm he noticed that the rain didn’t seem to have a particular direction. The rain seemed to have a mind of its own. Moving chaotically and disorderly, but it moved as if it had a purpose. Every step Kevin took seemed to cause a wave, as if he was walking on water. A great ocean of land mass. Everything around Kevin became more and more surreal. The shades Kevin had put in his pocket began to tempt Kevin, as if they were communicating to him. He had…

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    down and hit a tree right next to the sonic parking lot. All I saw was bright purple and white for the next few moments. Within these few scary moment I went back 10 years, when I was only a little boy standing at my grandmother's funeral. As another evening thunderstorm boiled up in the distance, I stood there holding mom's hand, hoping…

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    Rap Music Analysis

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    Before, this assignment I really only knew what rap music and what it brought to the world. For example, Pete Seeger was an American folk singer and listening to a couple of his songs they brought  laughing,joy, dancing, loving, embracing, and peace. During a concert he mention that “ you can make a combination between the best and the old and new” and starts to play You gotta walk that lonesome valley which brought joy. As I can observe with a couple of concerts that I saw on Youtube,  they…

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    idea in specific detail was shown in the quote, "The knife hated only the purple jacket." This was shown with personification, that showed the realisation while being isolated that he had been killed because of his gang. This also showed symbolism with the purple jacket only representing the gang and got him into dying insolation. Another quote that should the change of perspective is, "The rumbles, and the jumps and the purple jacket had always seemed so important." This list shows that what…

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    serve at the King 's side, and little did he consider the King his boss or ruler, but more like his friend. Pepe gathered his essentials and swiftly but carefully stowed them into his satchel. Pepe lumbered out of his room pushing through the golden purple curtains draped over the entrance. Stumbling down the front steps he galloped through the marketplace in which he stopped at the sight of a delicious looking cactus. Pepe simply picked it up in his teeth and continued on route to the palace,…

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    calls of vendors selling red-purple bananas and jungle oranges in their stalls.” (Paragraph 21). Freeleigh acts as if he was experiencing this in person, and not as a telephone call. Bradbury also is…

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    but that 's not why we moved there. That 's just the generic answer I give everybody because I don 't what to get into the whole kingdom thing. But since you 're here," I said and laughed, "I guess I can tell you." She smiled and I noticed that the rain had stopped. "When my dad was a kid he spend the summer with my grandpa in the orchard and found a way into the kingdom." "He was here?" "Yep, a long time ago. He tried to help banish Gordok, but he became sick and couldn 't figure out how…

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