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    happens everyday and my paper proves even in literature there is discrimination. One way that the topic of discrimination appears in literature is in the poem “All Summer in a Day.” The little girl in the poem has seen the sun, and the other kids haven’t so they locked her in the closet when the sun came. I know this because in “All Summer in a Day” it says, “The biggest crime of all was that she had come here only 5 years ago from Earth and she remembered the sun and they had been on Venus all…

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    In the short story “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury tells the story of a young girl living on Venus who is determined the sun will come. On Venus, it has done nothing but rain for the past seven years and the children have lost all hope, except Margot. Margot heard the prediction from a scientist that the sun would come out that day, but none of her classmates believed her and put her in a closet. After she was put in a closet, there was a blast from outside and the sun appear. One main…

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    Another example of a pitfall of technology dependence is depicted by the sci-fi film, Summer Wars. This film, to me, was a representation of a potential future. Humans have consistently been developing new programs to automate tasks and viewing summer wars and seeing the development of computes and artificial intelligence made me realize that, while we may be hundreds of years from a society like OZ,(the completely virtually society in the film, where traffic, emergency services, banking and…

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    The night before heading back to Reno, Nevada Adam give Kristina a homemade tattoo of a heart to remind her of their summer together. Kristina, now back in Reno, finds it hard to cope in her old life, She tried to find a connection to “the monster” Summer is almost over now, which means Kristina 's step-dad Scott, has a company picnic, which the whole family has to go to. At the company picnic Kristina struggles to hide her tattoo. Staying…

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    Summer Holidays this 2016 – go the best way Summers are the time when every kid is waiting to bug their parents down with the variety of demands they want it to get fulfilled. Come summers and you would not mind taking few days off to take your family for an outing, and you know very well you cannot be bogged down with home works, classes and activities schedules of your kids. London throws at you a plethora of options; it hardly disappoints you and feel free to choose the best option for…

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    David Fromkin argues in his book Europe’s Last Summer that Germany would manipulate the events leading up to WW1 for a war to have Austria as an ally. A major component to this argument is the idea that WW1 started with a minor war in Serbia against Austria and Germany gaining Austrian assistance to help them in their war against Russia. (Fromkin, pg271-273)) If anyone could delay if not prevent WW1 it would be a diplomat from Germany. The events that if changed could prevent a world war and…

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    March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He father was a dentist and army officer, which gave her the chance to also grow up in New York, Pennsylvania and Japan. She is now 79 years old, and has written at least 48 books. She published her first novel, A Summer to Die in 1977. This story was a fictional account of her sister's passing. After the serious novel, Lowry showed her funny side with the book about a suburban preteen and her family in Anastasia Krupnik. This was written in 1979 and became…

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    The Corporate Veil In the Law and Order episode “The Corporate Veil” the standard of morality is cheapened by the insatiable need for easy money. Many characters throughout the episode displayed that behavior in varying degrees. In addition, we also see how laws not being in place allow such activities to go on. In the episode we meet a young boy named Roberto Martinez, who two years ago had an operation for the installation of a pacemaker. Tragically Roberto dies and the police are called…

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    Josh Way Professor Jo-Ann Campell GRA-K131 - Digital Photography 12 May 2016 Peter Lik “Panoramic Landscape Master” I found it quite a difficult task to find a photographer that would inspire me, beyond just one photograph, but with an entire portfolio. Since I’ve taken photographs, on and off, with varying degrees of amateur equipment for the past ten years, time and time again, I’ve always been drawn to bright colors, landscapes, and water. So with this project, I wanted to find a…

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    Ever since he was a child, Milo Thatch believed in Atlantis. He dedicates his life to the study and discovery of it, no matter who tells him it’s just a legend. When presented the Shepard’s Journal: a book of Atlantean history, language, and culture, Milo is ecstatic. The man who gives it to him, Preston Whitmore, says the book is gibberish and is most likely worthless. Milo responds with, “I've spent my whole life studying dead languages. It's not gibberish to me. If this were a fake, I…

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