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    In a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highest floor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table covered entirely with a model. The model is a miniature of the city she kneels within, and contains scale replicas of the hundreds of houses and shops and hotels within its walls. There’s the cathedral with its perforated spire, and the bulky old Château de SaintMalo, and row after row of seaside mansions studded

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    Pesticides Problems with formatting There are many important issues in the world regarding the environment and it's affects on the average person. Though, the one that hits closest to home, worldwide, is the trust that individuals have in the food that they consume. Yet pesticides are still found daily in foods all around the world. Pesticides are toxins that are used by produce growers universally to control pests that can destroy crops. These toxins are being ingested by humans in the

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    Swimming General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose Statement: To inform my audience about the history and development of swim along with its applications. Central Idea: Swimming has a long and rich history that dates back way before our generations and is not always as beneficial as we may think. Method of Organization: Topical Introduction I. (Gain attention and interest) I remember joining the high school swim team back in my sophomore year. I remember struggling to catch

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    In The Alchemist, Ben Johnson's treatment of the self works to maintain a conservative worldview where identity is intimately tied to one's social standing. The permanence of the self is shown to be dependant upon both continued performance and ongoing social reinforcement. Character traits are treated as stubbornly enduring coping strategies rather than as signs of a coherent, internally unified self. Johnson's treatment of his characters' fantasies as vices to be exploited rejects the idea of an

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    The study will encompass the compare and contrast of two great writers’ literary works. It will take comprehensive discussion on “Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist” and “William Shakespeare’s The Tempest”. Jonson and Shakespeare were contemporaries with more immediately recognizable common ground between them than difference. They shared the same profession and brought forth their works from the matrix of common intellectual property. They appealed to the same audience and both gained popularity and esteem

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    Leonato were the cause to bring Beatrice and Benedick together through another playful deception. This was explored when Don Pedro stated “that your niece Beatrice was in love with Signor Benedick?” In return Benedick said “I should think this is a gull, but that the white bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot sure hide himself in such reverence.” The use of soliloquy illustrates to the readers the emotions and feelings of Benedick which reveals the playful deception that occurred as Benedick

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    in the heaven (Reaching out). As a result, apart from finding his purpose in life, Jonathan thought that he would return home and help his fellow birds find their lives’ purposes as well (Building a community). “You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it themselves". He managed to love the people who initially despised him and mostly importantly to work together with them in order to change their primitive/birdy mentality (Coalescing and Creating

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    The Fog Monologue

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    himself, what do, I know. I know the streets in my village are nameless. I know name of my village disappears before the conquering hoards. I know the village’s flowers are dry and crack like the memory of my wife, who is buried in the hills. As gulls fly overhead, he turns to watch the fishermen join in the brotherhood of nets, oars, and sails. One of the fishermen lifts his anchor off the boat’s floor. Swinging it, his hands become dark shadows over the water. The anchor consists of a short log

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    Mook Mook Performing Arts Company, the theatre program through Gull Lake, is an okay place to be. People get to show off their talents, express themselves, and there’s obviously an awful lot of messing around. When we aren’t being absolutely and completely productive and professional, we play, and screw off as most clubs do. There's dozens of inside jokes that if most people heard them they would completely question what even goes on at PAC. My two favourite running jokes are from the Mook

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    Crane chooses a mixture of third person objective and limited-omniscient narration to detail the events of “The Open Boat.” In the beginning of the story the narrator uses an objective point of view to detail the setting. Also, the men’s conversations are told as if there is an outside observer communicating the predicament as it transpires. The story later transforms into limited-omniscient as the reader sees into the thoughts of the correspondent as he is solitarily rowing while the others sleep

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