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    I must to say, Arthur Hinds is a man with great passion, always enthusiastic about his job and his career, independent and a lot of freedom. He is a solo artist who enjoy spending rest of his life playing music with his band and finding ways to promote his music by using social medias. He is a man with a lot of humors, which it gives him a great strength to approach audience from all around the places. He also has experiences in marketing as well as the music. He understands how young generations

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    Bod's Treolation

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    The focus then shifts onto elaborating the relationship between Scarlett and Nobody using the song “You’ve Got a Friend,” by Carole King. Due to his isolation, Bod has never had contact with another living being. Growing up in an abnormal environment and exposure to a fragment of the real world (fragments of reality) aroused an interest in life outside the graveyard. Bod at home with the dark and the supernatural, therefore has to realize the trepidation normally associated with those things and

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    Rey Valerio Gholdoian Per.2 21 Sep. 2016 Illusions of Success For years now, many students have thought “How do I grow up too be successful?” but the truth here is that the people asking this, don't know what success really means to them. Accomplishment can be defined in a variety of ways, such as the amount of money a person makes, how happy an individual is by themselves, or even achieving in the simple things in life. You can, however, gain the characteristics needed to be successful in the

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    Why Do We Go To War?

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    other war that had ever been seen before. It changed how wars were fought by introducing trenches, tanks, machine guns, chemical warfare, and planes into combat. The war caused disillusionment and uncertainty in society. The accounts written about by Gabriel Chevallier forewarn of the consequences war can have. Chevallier questions why we go to war and what sense of nationality gives the right to fight and kill for your country. Before World War I France had not been at war since 1871. Forty-three years

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    After many long hours of planning, researching, contemplating, and pleading, I had finally talked my dad into helping me buy a new car. However, it was not just any car. My dad had found me a zippy, shimmering gold color, 2006 convertible Volvo. It was beautiful! The tan leather was in pristine condition. The exterior had no scratches, dents, or marks of any kind. The gold color glistened in the sunlight as if each speck of glitter was a flame. The cream colored carpet was spotless. The speedometer

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    Two Worlds, Two Choices, Two Boys In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield struggles to leave the real world around him which he constantly fails to fit in. He is expelled from three schools before going to Pencey. He then leaves Pencey for New York before Christmas. After experiencing the coldness of society in New York, He decides to hitchhike to the West alone, escaping the society and leaving his family behind. Instead, he chooses to dream about living in the fantasy world

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    - [Alex Brightman] One of the interesting things about this Broadway season is that the two most nominated shows are Hamilton and Shuffle Along, which feature big and almost entirely non-white casts. Additionally, there 's Eclipsed, the first Broadway production be written, directed, and performed exclusively by black women, and The Color Purple, which centers around black actresses. The list goes on. What can Hollywood, learn from Broadway because they are obviously having their own struggling with

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    It is interesting that Raymond Williams creates a division between high class culture and lower class culture, suggesting that culture is ordinary, shared and common. If this is the case why does he emphasise a division in light of this concept? And if we all share a common culture can there be a division? It is difficult to understand the term culture. What is culture? Is it a utopian dream, is it a shared group of interests that bring a community together, or is it just simply a way of life

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    Imagine, you are a seven year old boy living in an Chinese orphanage where there are nearly a thousand other children, and you were found on the side of the road wrapped in a yellow blanket. Out of all of the children you are the only albino. Your skin and hair are white as snow, and your eyes are red or lavender depending on the light. It is impossible to fit in because albinism is feared in the Chinese culture. One day someone tells you that you are moving. No explanation why or where you are moving

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    Sir Philip Sidney argued for the positive value of imaginative literature in The Defence of Poesy, in which he claimed that literature should ‘teach and delight’. The influence of Sidney’s claim can be seen in John Skelton’s work ‘The Bowge of Courte’ and Thomas Nashe’s ‘The Choise of Valentines’. Skelton’s ‘The Bowge of Court’, has been described as ‘a fifteenth-century dream vision built on the model of the morality play’ and ‘The Choise of Valentines’ as ‘an Ovidian erotic poem’, which elaborates

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