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    In Toni Morrison's Jazz, one recurring motif is the theme of suffering and the succeeding action of characters attempting to fill the voids in their lives. Characters including Joe Trace, Dorcas, Violet, Golden Gray, and Alice Manfred all suffer from a physical or emotional loss or desire, which they attempt to thwart in different ways. Amid Violet's depression, she eventually sees violence as the answer to her husband's affair; Alice Manfred is overly protective of Dorcas, and in response,…

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    need funding for any form of border control. To prove that the border between Mexico and the U.S. is dangerous and in need of better support, I did some research. Since year 2010, there have been three thousand six hundred twenty-two shootings, stabbings, and deaths by torture. As a journalist in Ciudad Juarez, Julian Cardona has often heard and witnessed beheadings. Julian also quotes that not many white people come through the town of Juarez, because fifty percent of the time they get robbed…

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    The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, presents a striking perspective on the dystopia facing humanity. Through Golding’s extensive use of characterization and symbolism, he reveals the effect that human instinct and society has on an individual’s actions. This concept exists beyond fictive works and is present in the real world as well, in the past but more so within the present. Being a member of the navy during the World War II period, Golding was able to witness many of the…

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    Mrs. Havisham

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    In the book Great Expectations Miss. Havisham has borderline personality disorder. Mrs. Havisham shows signs of being extremely harmful, not only to herself but too her daughter. How she is harmful to her daughter is she has destroyed her daughter's perception on men. She persuaded Estella to pursue Pip, to break his heart. Mrs havisham whispered “Break their hearts!” into Estella's ear. Another reason is she is very anti-social, this is a sign of this disorder. She has no friends, no life, she…

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    Kelly Renee Gissendaner was charged with malice murder, and she was convicted in 1997 by a jury of murdering her husband Douglas Gissendaner. Douglas Gissendaner was the husband of Kelly Dissendaner, together they had two Daughters. Douglas and Kelly were married in 1989, the following year Douglas joined the army. Soon after their first daughter was born, and Douglas was stationed in Germany. Douglas was a Desert Storm veteran, shortly after returning from Iraq Douglas left the military.…

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    negative, however it could take up to an hour to see the color change. SIM test then performed using inoculating needle in semi-solid media contains casein, amino acids, iron-contain compound and sulfur in form of sodium thiosulfate. Inoculated by stabbing technique and incubated for 24 hours, if the organism could reduce sulfur, a black color would be seen. To test for indole production, four or five drops of Kovak’s reagent was added into the cultured, a red color indicated a positive…

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    Juveniles As Adults Essay

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    For many years charging juveniles as adults has been a debating topic. To be considered an adult you must be 18 years old or older. So juveniles who are seventeen or under may have the possibility of getting the easy way out of serious crimes they committed. Murders, rapist, arm robbers could potentially come at any age but should always be charged as an adult even if they are still a juvenile. Many juvenile murders are only serving short and lenient sentences in which they don’t deserve. So…

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    deciding? Why did Brutus spend hours trying to convince himself that it was honorable? Brutus didn't have to join the conspiracy. Caesar would have been killed whether he did help or not. There was more options than just joining the conspiracy and stabbing his best friend in the…

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    Pedestal In Oedipus Rex

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    and eyes, we used red to symbolize passion and love in his heart and blood in his eyes. The things in his heart are the things he loves and cares for, which is why they are surrounded by red. The red around his eyes is for not only his blood from stabbing his eyes out, but for his fathers shed blood. The last color we used was black for the outline to represent fear and misery and dead. Oedipus had always been followed by misery (that is the theme) so we made that his outline to show how it is…

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    The blazing hot, gritty sand, felt like a million fire ants, stabbing at his skin. The sun's blinding rays beamed onto his face, and all of the others that had washed up with him, on the rafts. Two out of five rafts, were the only ones that had made it. Cabeza de Vaca, was among the Narvaez expedition, that set sail in the Spring of 1527. They had set sail to Northern Mexico, but they were blown off course by tricky currents, and according to the background essay, made accidental landfall near…

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