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    Long Nights Short Story

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    INT. WARNING - THEMES NARRATOR Before warned the content of this story is not for the young or the over religious. It's is a story of fiction, a story my own creation. There are no choices in this chapter. Thank you for your patience and understanding. INT. WARNING - LANGUAGE NARRATOR Welcome to Deadly Sins. INT. ENVY NARRATOR Envy: The desire to have an item and experience that which someone else possesses. INT. GLUTTONY NARRATOR…

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    Miley Cyrus’ Vanity Fair Scandal Miley Cyrus, the renowned daughter of country star Billy Ray Cyrus acquired a passion for acting and singing at a young age. In 2004, Cyrus landed the role of Hannah Montana in a Disney series targeted to young teens. The series depicted Cyrus as a young pop star who reserved her celebrity identity in order to be a normal teenager. Cyrus gained record setting success from the wide reception of the Disney series coupled with her music. However, in 2008 Miley…

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    this suffered a loss of money and success. Vanity was a reoccurring theme that shadowed Franklin’s achievements and only increased with his age. His meager beginnings and rise to importance were a critical constituent to this sense of superiority that surfaced in the way he conducted himself. He goes as far as to credit he is success to his vanity stating, “perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity” (R1, 1). Contrary to Franklin’s belief, the vanity that prompted him to see himself as…

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    Annie Leibovitz Biography

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    Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury Connecticut. She first became interested in art while attending Northwood High School where she wrote and played music. She then studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. After living on an Israeli kibbutz for a short period of time, Leibovitz returned to the United States and started working for Rolling Stone magazine. When she started working for Rolling Stone magazine, she worked as a staff photographer. At the age of 23,…

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    that leaves him utterly devastated. In the short story, “Araby,” the speaker comes to the realization that his first love was based on vanity and displays this revelation to the reader by using a bleak and disappointed tone. Throughout the story, “Araby,” the speaker looks back on his childhood crush and discovers, at the end, that his infatuation was based on vanity. As the speaker describes his feelings for Mangan’s sister, readers are given a glimpse…

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    designers involved with the brand Trashy Lingerie. This corset was chosen for Caitlyn Jenner as the outfit for the cover image of Vanity Fair. This essay will cover the following topics: historical/cultural context, formal elements, and its meaning. This corset which was designed by Maggie Norris was worn by Caitlyn Jenner in her worldwide debut on the cover of Vanity Fair after her transition from Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner. The corset was designed under the label of Trashy Lingerie who has…

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    Anna-Lou Leibovitz was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on October 2, 1949, the third of six children of Marilyn Edith and Samuel Leibovitz. During her time at Northwood High School she became more interested in the field of art and began to write and play music. When her father was stationed in Phillippines during the Vietnam War, Leibovitz began taking more and more pictures. When she attended San Francisco Art Institute, she started to study painting and through those years she developed her…

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    These short stories were composed to fit into a collection that had three categories: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. “Araby” was created to fit into the childhood category, and it demonstrated the loss of innocence with the added twist of vanity. In my opinion, the brilliant idea contained in “Araby” formed a work of art that lead to the next series in the collection. While comparing idealized beliefs with the harsh and inevitable realities of life, this short story illuminates the…

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    while men seem to be better beyond the faults they make in their lifetime during this time period? Within the satire novel “Candide or Optimism”, Voltaire makes the men seem more ideal. By doing this, he is making the women physically weak, full of vanity, insignificant, and unfaithful. First, Voltaire makes a female character physically weak while making not one, but two male characters strong. The female character being Cunegonde, tells her story of how she is horribly assaulted but can’t…

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    nevertheless they were just trying to be heard, and they were freedom fighters with a good cause trying to keep what was theirs, because the government was giving them unlawful punishment if they couldn’t pay their taxes, the government wasted their money on vanity, and lastly the farmers fought back in big ways that may have seemed reckless, and rebel-like, but they were just trying to be heard. The government gave the farmers unfair, and unlawful punishment, that the farmers couldn’t do…

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