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    1. In “For Esme with Love and Squalor”, the first half of the story is just the meeting of our narrator and Esme. It sets up the second half of the story, which is really the core of story, chock full of literary themes, such as isolation, death, ignorance, friendship and recovery. The second half of our story our narrator who is a soldier in WW II, just like most soldier in wars, is greatly effected in a negative way by the horrors that he witnesses. The threat of death creeping over his…

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    no shortage of hypocrisy throughout history; and all the same for literature. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is rich with characters harboring this undesirable trait. Characters such as Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale are motivated to act hypocritically by vengeance, fear, penitence, and even hypocrisy itself. Hester Prynne’s estranged husband, known in The Scarlet Letter as Roger Chillingworth, acts hypocritically on behalf of vengeance. After arriving in The…

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    need me..” Hack into your parents phone: share their location with you, so you always know where they are. This gives you a practical amount of time to clean up the red solo cups and kick everyone out before their blue dot gets to the red pin. The last thing you want is for your parents to crash your party; that circumstance belongs under “how to kill a buzz 101” If you ever get into trouble with one of your good friends, make sure not to mention their name, you don’t want your parents to start…

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    care homes is an ongoing process and same as to other perspective of managing a care home. The recruitment process is governed by various legislations, regulations and companies’ own policies. First of all Data Protection Act 1998 has specific requirement in terms of recruitment and selection process. The Act requires the information collected from applicants are relevant to employment and the information need to be treated as confidential which only the accessible to who are relevant (home…

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    There are many holidays throughout the year. Holidays can represent different things depending on a person's religion or culture. They are generally made to celebrate, appreciate or admire a person or object that is important to that culture. There are many cultural differences and similarities in holidays with Spanish-speaking countries compared to the United States. Spanish speaking countries have specific holidays that are important to their country, a few are the Day of the Dead,…

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    some of the other guys try to lighten the mood by coming up with some ridiculous phrases like “Offed, lit up, zapped while zipping” (123). After the incident, he decides to burn the pictures of his dear Martha to eliminate the distractions, but “the letters were in his head. And even now, without photographs, Lieutenant Cross could see Martha” (125). Yet, the way he decided to handle that traumatic event was to become a much better leader. He decided to become strict and do everything properly.…

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    As leader of the New Democrat Party his platform touched home with promises of “an affordable plan to give families a break”._ This solidified his followers as average Canadians looking for change for the better. During his run as leader, the party saw a surge of popularity. During the last election the party doubled its amount of seats and became the Official opposition for the first time in history._ Unfortunately, after…

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    have been terrible and treacherous. Making friends has always been easy for me but that is not the main part of school, it is about learning and showing your intelligence with letter grades. My experience with education has been negative because of family issues, uninteresting teachers, and constantly moving schools and homes. My rollercoaster started at Montessori, my mother is the bread maker in the family, so I had to have somewhere to go while she was working. I remember having fun with the…

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    The Apprentice “How long have you been employed, Miss Baxter?” questioned the man who'd previously claimed to be employed by the New York gazette. He'd arrived last night with his expensive shoes and pristine garments, asked for his share of salted pork, then requested the cleanest cot in the whole infirmary. Now he sat with Margaret Baxter, still clothed in her apron that was once as white as snow but now stained with dried blood. Originally, the reporter wanted to pester Miss Clara Barton,…

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    the message that the home front was also a battlefield and every aspect of life was going to be affected by this war and they’d need to step up.There were posters created in order to encourage Americans to conserve energy and resources by making their own food. Victory garden’s were promoted as a way to do your patriotic duty. The purpose of propaganda at this time was for financing the war,recruitment, conservation,factory production of war time materials and unifying the home front in order…

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