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    Body cameras for me personally is not an issue. I was pulled over by a police officer with a body camera recently. It happened at a McDonalds around 11’o clock at night in my hometown Reading, PA. As I was leaving the drive thru and making a left out of McDonalds I hear and see red and blue lights behind me. I pull over and shortly he comes over and introduces himself and his body camera. Then he explained why he had pulled me over. I ran a light that was above me at the exit over McDonalds…

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    Phillis Wheatley was an African American woman born in West Africa in the year of 1753. Enslaved and brought to America at only age 8, Phillis Wheatley served as a house slave to the Wheatley family in Boston. After converting her to Christianity, the Wheatley family gave Phillis a formal education, and when Phillis demonstrated a talent for poetry the Wheatley family encouraged her artistically. Phillis Wheatley’s poems mainly dealt with her Christian faith and won her fame in both America and…

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    shown to cause transient decreases in blood pressure and/or heart rate” (524). Furthermore, humans’ urge to pet animals is biological. We see dogs as an attachment figure that needs to be protected and feel reassured by their touch or touching them (Sable 95). Moreover, even the presence of an animal helps lower responses to conditions of stress. There was a study conducted where the presence of a dog or cat was found to lower heart rate and blood pressure while completing an action that was…

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    his birthplace. He has provided a newer addition to the reader, and to defend what others have said about him. He says this about the new edition, “hoping it may still be the means, in its measure, of showing the enormous cruelties practiced on my sable brethren, and strengthening the generous emulation now prevailing in this county, to put a speedy end to a traffic both cruel and unjust” (Equiano, pg. 5). There are several letters that are mentioned from different people. They are arguing that…

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    situations; this opportunity will also help either confirm my choice to one day perform research, or else it will guide me in a different direction. I also hope to spend at least one summer break studying in other country or at the Pacific campus of the Au Sable Research Institute. Because I want to travel when I transition into my career, studying in unfamiliar locations will be an excellent preparatory experience for me. Additionally, studying at institutions other than Cedarville will allow…

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    The speaker articulates that blackness is not inferior to whiteness in 10, where he describes the black sky as “no less lovely being dark.” In this same comparison, the speaker asserts a sense of pride in his blackness in saying, “the night whose sable breast relieves the stark/ white stars” (9-10). Specifically through the word choice of “relieves,” this symbolism articulates a need for black culture and ideas in a…

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    The Scarlet Letter in The Scarlet Letter The Puritans during the 1600s did not take sin lightly, anyone who disobeyed the law was heavily persecuted. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this is depicted through the character, crime, and punishment of Hester Prynne, who has committed adultery and is sentenced to wear the scarlet letter to publicly show her shame. This scarlet letter A plays a key role throughout Hawthorne’s novel as it is vividly described throughout it, it…

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    Passion for social class, desire for knowledge, and love of the material, captures the essence of the characters in The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Set in the 1920’s the novel explores multiples characters’ journey through Paris and America. From minor characters like Sophie and Gray to main characters like Larry and Isabel. In The Razor’s Edge, Gray’s weary character is used as a foil to amplify Larry’s vibrant character to emphasize how a person is not derived from wealth and social…

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    Descirbing Pomeranians Do you know what a Deutscher Spitz, Zwergspitz, Pom, Pom Pom, Zwers, or Tumbleweeds are? They are all different names for a Pomeranian. They have a great attitude that would meet expectations. They are not very big, so you could push them around in a stroller or you could move them around, or you even carry them in a purse if you really wanted to. They love exercise so you could take them to a park or outside for some fresh air. If you’re looking for a friendly,…

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    Symbols In Scarlet Letter

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    Symbolism of The Scarlet Letter “A” “On a field, sable, the letter A, gules” (Hawthorne 259). The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story of a woman named Hester Prynne who overcomes the pestering punishment of wearing the scarlet “A”. This letter is given to her by the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester changes the symbolic meaning of the letter “A” from her sin of “adultery,” to being an “able” woman, to gracious, ultimately defining her own…

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