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    has to watch what he says. Then next morning a carriage arrives with a package for Franklin, which contains a letter from Hutchinson which pisses off Franklin. Next back in Boston Adams gets word of the letters that Franklin received and is discussing them with Samuel Adams, the letters say the governor is independent of and representative and will do what he pleases. Also in the letter is that if colonists won’t behave that they should use stronger force. A few weeks after he and his wife take…

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    more uncertainty and dread crawl into his brain. When he at last takes part in his initially fight, he indiscriminately fires into the fight dimness, never observing his adversary. As the following adversary ambush methodologies, Henry's feelings of dread of death overpower him, and he keeps running from the field. Henry proceeds with his withdraw for quite a while, even after he catches that his regiment repulsed the adversary. When he at last moderates and rests, he hears the sound of a…

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    works and its pros and cons. Instead the areas that needed improvement were, the icebreaker, it wasn’t supposed to be assigned a letter, but anyone had to keep going with the alphabet being careful to not repeat the letter, but my partner forgot about it. Then, the grammar wall, maybe needed to be easier, less words and still sending the same message. Also, I believe the last topic was a little too long to follow with no activity or questions. What surprised me was how kind and willing to…

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    Hoping that their own daughter would exhibit those traits, the couple chose 晴 as the last component of Karen’s Chinese name. Lastly, providing a Chinese name allowed Karen’s non English speaking relatives to still communicate with and refer to her. Soon, her grandparents, aunts, and uncles coined a new pet name for the lively girl in their hearts, 晴晴. While her classmates identified her as Karen Cheng, the folks at home invariably called her 晴晴. Although some may think of Karen as an old lady…

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    Lover appear to revolve around the same concept. The short story is about a woman that was once in love and engaged to a soldier, who fought in World War II. When she returned to her former home she was blindsided by a letter she found on her table.No one had known that she would be visiting her home. The letter forced her to recall a promise that she had made to her former lover. Along the lines of the Demon Lover, the ballad is about another woman who was once engaged, but her lover was…

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    Chapter 1: Lockwood is the story’s frame narrator who is introduced to Heathcliff in the first scene. Lockwood is the tenant of Thrushcross Grange, and Heathcliff is his landlord. Heathcliff is not very friendly, and the second man he meets, Joseph, is not either. As Lockwood enters Heathcliff’s residence, Wuthering Heights, he describes the rooms and furniture. Soon after, he is attacked by Heathcliff’s dogs, but they are called off. Chapter 2: Lockwood has a difficult time accessing the…

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    together. After transporting his father to work, he swiftly went back home to complete all his chores and headed straight to the movie theater. It was 6:00pm when he remembered that he was to pick up his father. By the time he picked…

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    century. During this era in American history, the religious Puritans had no tolerance for those who did not live by their rules and punished those individuals in an effort to keep Puritan morals in line. In the historical fiction novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne writes in satire about the iron spikes of Puritan law and conforming to such a society. Three of the main characters, Hester Prynne, her daughter, Pearl, and her lover, Reverend Dimmesdale, stand out from Puritan…

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    in nursing homes should be a must in today 's society. Teresa A. Allison said, "Over the last 20 years, we have seen a growing interest in creativity and aging." (Allison 1). Sometimes older people do not have families to take care of them or visit them in nursing homes. There are…

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    And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron.” (520). Another theory is Miss Grierson killed Homer because he as the town folks may say “because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was…

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