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    discovery, the immeasurable scope of the human imagination is limited by the words available to express our ideas. However, Dobson suggests that the desire to express ourselves reveals much about the nature of the human condition. Winton’s, The Turning (Turning), is a compilation of short stories, which explores…

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    Hamlet’s Fear and Fury What does it take to push a person over the edge? And what is the natural human response to that pain? These are questions that are brought up countless times in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. The play surrounds the life of Hamlet, a young prince who is dealing with his father’s death and attempting to avenge his murder. This play is produced into two films by directors, Kenneth Branagh and Michael Almereyda. One of the key differences between the films is the way the…

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    Flight 604 Failure

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    location, and motion relative to their environment.” A common example of spatial disorientation is the graveyard spiral. The graveyard spiral is essentially you going into a twenty second or more turn then retrieving the feeling that you’re not turning anymore when in fact, you still are. All of this is caused by the endolymph fluid in your semicircular canals starting to move with friction eventually catching up to it with the walls of the rotating canal. As this happens, hairs that act as…

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    Another similar painting done by Derain titled “Winding Road L’ Estaque” has some differences, but in many ways is similar to “The Trees”. The medium of this work is oil on canvas and is 4'2.5" feet in length by 6'4.5" feet in width. Derain went about painting this image in a way that is stylized because the objects in the image are painted in Derain’s perspective and are not naturalistic in nature. Although some of the figures are abstract, they are all representational and are recognizable.…

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    disappoints both of his parents at the same time, but at the end when he decides to let a shoplifter go instead of turning her in, not only does he disappoint his father, but also his mother. Dade lets the woman go because he felt sorry for her and did not agree with his father or his mother and makes a decision finally for himself and…

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    Adversity

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    over the setback day after day not realizing they do not possess the control to change the events of the setback. Turning…

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    consumer-driven western culture to go through an unrealistic situation like Kyle did and the possibility of the youth turning into a beast is more than unlikely. So how are they meant to learn to love themselves and appreciate inner beauty? It also frustrates me that Kyle's character comes out perfectly clean and beautiful in the end with no scars or tattoos to be found on his body after turning from the beast.…

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    TJ is a 20-year-old single African American female born April 3, 1995. TJ was born and raised in Queens, NY, where she was raised by both her mother and father. TJ is the middle child out of two sisters and one brother. TJ reports not having a good relationship with her siblings and feels more close to her maternal cousins. TJ resides at Services for the Underserved (SUS) which is an Apartment Treatment Program (shared housing). Apartment Treatment is geared towards providing transitional…

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    immigrants came to Canadian land because of the opportunity. The railways was busy while the lumber and fisheries industries boomed. More automobiles were replacing horses and carriages and broadcast radio made it's first appearance. The most significant turning point for Canada was the roaring twenties. Women were granted the right to…

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    The Color Purple Women

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    How were the women treated during the 1980s? The women who live in the 1980s are tortured to do everything the male asks and the female have no rights, this is shown in the novel “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker. In the novel The color purple the author tries to show how women were disrespected by men, the women were disrespected by their own father, brother, and husband. The male characters in the novel shape, break and have influence over other characters. The male characters in…

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