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    Big Dee and plans to continue on with it as she says “’I can ‘member Grandma Dee without the quilts’” (par. 74) showing that she will always remember the times they had together. Mama is also seen as a character of symbolic importance because of her ways of seeing situations throughout the story. She talks about a dream she had, going on a game show and re-uniting with her daughter when she herself weighs one hundred pounds lighter. Farrell reminds us, “It is important to remember, thought,…

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    Racial Celeberties

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    of two things who we are and were we came from this just a normal way that humankind has always thought of themselves. Firstly they ask who they are as if there very exsitence may not be valid even though there right in front of you flesh and bone. Everyone has a purpose in life but believe that if they dont do anything remarkable that stands out that there mere life is just that nothing. We as homosapiens believe in a convaluded way of reasoning and since the dawn of time imiagine that without…

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    written contract and signed it” (Spence,24) furthermore since Foucquet was short on time he had no other choice than to bring Hu. Hu was literate and able to do manuscript part of the deal was Hu had to work for Foucquet for 5 years and have his voyage back home be paid for Foucquet even though this was all done in secret since they didn’t want a scandal of a Chinese man dying in Europe. Foucquet also treated Hu like a child and a servant as “He makes tea for Foucquet without being asked, and…

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    There are hundred ways that you can die while behind the wheel, but I believe there is one specific way that is easily the worst way; while on the cell phone. There are many deaths that cannot be controlled while behind the wheel, but if your death is due to lack of attention to the road that is easily the worst way of death. This picture shows that talking on the phone while driving causes of your own death. This picture is a perfect way of showing how pathos is used. The way that it is…

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    As a child, having rules to follow wasn’t unheard of with my family. There was always a way to behavior with friends/family, at school, at home and out in the street. Often I found myself getting into trouble because I didn 't listen and also the fact that I always found some kind of way to slipping out of having to doing something that I knew I was supposed to do. But out of all the people in my family my mom was the strictest. When expectations set high, not meaning them meant my siblings and…

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    St Helens Narrative

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    “Go north of St. Helens, no turns, just follow the satin flowers’ I read the remaining guidelines and proceeded as I made my way outside the discarded forest. The time was specifically 10:45, you could tell by the decreasing temperature that it was late, I glanced some more over the crinkled piece of paper ‘there will be an unoccupied vehicle approximately 300 meters from the north entrance from where you exited” I scanned around until my eyes fell upon a black tented 1963 Chevrolet Corvette…

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    what animals got to do with this. I’m going to get in into this a little deeper and with detail. I know we are humans at least I think you are I know I am here’s what I know from reading. We humans all have the same tendencies we all have our special ways to allow us to have baby’s sorry guy’s ladies can have kids only so with baby’s we know baby’s cry a lot they aren’t thought to cry. Hmm How…

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    The everyday social norm that my friends and I were trying to violate simply had to do with the way that people act in a general retail store. Putting a little twist into just taking things from peoples carts, we instead would be walking by a person with a cart and purposely trip over their cart and dramatically fall to the ground. Also we would run into isles of pretty much anything that couldn’t break open. Generally just making a scene, something that you wouldn’t see on an every day basis.…

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    because of the way they think they act or because they're different it really causes many problems in the world. Humans should get to know each before making such assumptions. Everyone, although they may seem different, almost everyone is the same when it comes down to the basics of being human . Everyone has emotions, feelings, fears and pains. Although, everyone is basically the same, people have different unique details, characteristics and quirks that make them unique in their own way…

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    Your parents are the ones who teach you to walk, talk, and everything else we must learn to do in life. I feel that all of my habitual ways of dealing with conflict come from my family members. I learned that both my mother and father handle conflicts in different ways. They both try to avoid conflicts, and I do the same. I feel that my parents raised me in a way that fighting is never the answer to a conflict. When a conflict does arise, I search for opportunities to work through them and end…

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