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    Having perseverance can change your life. Persevering for your freedom can lead to your happiness. Koly, a 13 year old girl that lives in India, just got married to a boy she doesn’t know. She will have to find a way to get her freedom back. In Homeless Bird, Gloria Whelan illustrates that when you persevere, you can do anything. Koly needs to have perseverance to survive at the Mehta’s house. After Hari’s death Mrs. Mehta orders Koly around the house by saying, ‘"Koly, we need water!" "Koly…

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    friends will always be there for you and care for you no matter what you are going through. Three examples that support this theme are when Huck and Tom witnesses the murder, Becky and Tom being lost in the cave, and Tom encourages Huck to stay with Widow Douglas. To begin, Becky and Tom takes care of one another while they were lost in the cave. Going on their adventure in an unknown cave, Tom and Becky loses their path back to the exit. At their last hope, Tom goes…

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    Dr. Heidegger's Study

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    Dr Heidegger invited four of his elderly friends over including Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherley to his rather eerie study. All of them have used up their fortunes, and now they are unhappy. The three men used to fight over Widow Wycherly when they were younger, it was said to be that Widow was very beautiful when younger. When they guests arrives at Dr. Heidegger's house, they go to his study. His creepy study contains, among other things, a bust of…

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    friends, and the townspeople of St. Petersburg. Throughout the book Huck’s morals are influenced by others actions. Huck often questions everything including his/others morals, when Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas are teaching him the Bible, Huck reflects on how their are “Two Providences.” One, the Widows, will forgive and you couldn’t hear enough of it, the other, Miss Watson’s, is unforgiving and made Huck want to forget about religion. Huck doesn’t see the point of prayer but…

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    atmosphere of history shows us a study full of dust, spider web on the walls, different objects such as cameras, shelves, human skeleton, a mirror and portraits. It becomes dimly lit and a bit spooky. The characters are Dr. Heidegger, Wycherly's widow, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew and Mr. Gascoigne. Dr. Heidegger is a guy who is understood to be of legal age. He is a Dr. And scientist with a dark past, where he has a history of dead people. Mysterious and complex person. Expresses the…

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    Genghis Khan Mongol Empire

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    standard dictated that widows were to remarry brothers or relatives of their deceased husbands, but they could decline. Women who were married to powerful men, such as Genghis Khan or the subsequent Khans, would often not remarry, choosing to exercise their power passed on from their powerful husbands. Contrary to the generalized notion of Mongol Women, these women held a great deal of power within Mongol Society, complicating the view that they were solely a commodity. Widows of the Khans, for…

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    This doesn't stop huck from conceiving the survival knowledge that he does, in fact it enhances it. Huck learns from his experiences with the Widow to stand up for himself while when living with Pap, he learns how to survive under abusive conditions and how to survive in the wilderness considering his pap was drunk all the time and huck had to supply himself with food and water. Huck, being influenced…

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    as Haywood put it, “for there could not be a difference in merit, because they were the same person; but the Widow Bloomer was a more new acquaintance than Fantomina, and therefore esteem'd more valuable.”(Fant) Beauplaisir spends significantly more effort on romancing the Widow Bloomer than any of the other personas because he perceives her to have more value. Haywood implies that the Widow Bloomer’s is held to such a regard, mostly, because she is “new.” In other words, Beauplaisir has been…

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    Are we so unwilling to face the truth that we are banning a work of fiction for its vernacular and racism? Why is Huckleberry Finn considered THE American Epic? If so, why are educational organizations and libraries removing it from approved reading lists? The controversy remains. The novel repeats the word "nigger” and portrays Jim as a runaway slave. That is the truth. In the 1800’s, a white man could own a black man and they were looked at as property. Huckleberry Finn is considered THE…

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    the Widow Douglass makes him go back to school and then he starts to like it a little bit, then he learns a little bit from going. Huck learns to read by the time Pap and him leave town. So even though he really starts out not liking school he realizes that it has a purpose. He also realizes that the Widow Douglass wants him to go to school because she actually cares about him and she is not just trying to be mean. As a matter of fact, “he has also learned compassion and love from the Widow…

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