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    Lewis Carroll          Ever curious about the author of  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? That person would be Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, his famous alter ego. Carroll has written many books that have transformed the art of literature. His work has appealed to an abundance of children all over the world. Lewis Carroll contributed to fiction literature by creating a story that was the ultimate adventure to children everywhere. Carroll was born on January 27, 1832

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    Through the Looking Glass of the Twenty-First Century Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly known as Lewis Carroll, rose to fame from the birth of Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass. While he became a celebrated author among children and adults alike, conspiracies arose concerning his life outside the glamorized, innocent light from which the Victorian masses viewed him. Many modern critics have called into question Dodgson’s relationships with young girls, specifically holding a microscope

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    Richmond Grammar School while contributing prose, poetry and drawings to a series of family magazines. Later, he moved to many different schools. Dodgson also knew mathematics really well. His academic record and mathematical skills won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855. But he continued to publish his works under name, Lewis Carroll. One Of the most famous Carroll’s books is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll also wrote poem “Jabberwocky” in 1871. “Jabberwocky” by

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    Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll, a man who is most remembered for his ability to explain the simple mind of a child in wondrous ways. Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, was born January 27, 1832, and died of illness January 14, 1898 (Biography 1). Within his sixty-six years on this Earth, he had managed to sway the hearts of both the young and old, leaving a legacy behind. Thus being, he has become one of the most appreciated writers in history thanks to his literary masterpiece, Alice’s

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    beliefs in Alice, it is important to understand what actually constitutes Lewis Carroll’s beliefs. Notably, other than being an author, Lewis was an Anglican clergyman, a mathematician and a talented formal logician. Other than studying at Christ Church Oxford, he went ahead to lecture at the same institution (Auerbach, 1973). Indeed, this brief history presents an individual whose life is deeply founded in religion. Conventionally, religion is founded on three fundamental principles, that is, the

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    this significant place is a church. By attending church services weekly, or sometimes even daily, more common among extremely devoted members, people give meaning to the church itself. Without the church community, meaning the people who belong to the church, the church could be just any another brick building at the end of the street. This is not the case, however, as active church members, and even just visitors, like myself, each instill their own meaning into the church, and the sum of all of these

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    CRISPR is a genetic engineering tool that uses a sequence of DNA and its associated protein to edit the base pairs of genes. The word ‘designer’ usually referred to an upscale and fashionable handbag or clothes, but with this technology that alters the genes of children to make super babies that are immune to genetic diseases. The word ‘designer’ now refers to these super children that are believed to have a better chance of succeeding and a longer lifespan with their genes engineered. This might

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    Christian Science Essay

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    Christian Science (officially, the Church of Christ, Scientist) is a religion that spotlights on otherworldly recuperating through prayer. Its expressed reason for existing is to reestablish the mending works of the early Christian church. Established in the late nineteenth century C.E. by Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science lessons concur from various perspectives with Protestant religious philosophy while additionally essentially varying from that philosophy. Some particular Christian Science lessons

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    Religious Liberty Paper

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    Is our society’s strict adherence to religious freedoms costing the lives of innocent children? The Christian Science Church rely on the Establishment Clause and The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment as granting themselves and their children exemption from medical intervention. But because of their insistence in relying solely on prayer for the healing their sick children, approximately one child a month in the U.S. is known to die from an illness that would have been curable had they

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    lexis, and a threshold level of members (220-2). The group I chose to study St. Luke Church of God in Christ, St. Luke COGIC, bears the qualifications to be a discourse community. Founded in 1925 by Millissis Shannon and her husband Charles with only twelve members, pastoring St. Luke COGIC is Elder E. A. Shannon with over eight hundred members (St. Luke Church of God in Christ). This church is a great church to attend and has several activities, groups, departments, and ministries for any person

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