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    isn’t able to. In The Catcher in the Rye, innocence is important to Holden because he associates innocence with Allie being alive, and the loss of innocence with the death of Allie. Through the static state of the museum and the preserved memory of Jane and Allie, Salinger displays that Holden can’t accept that losing innocence is an inherent part of growing up. There are multiple instances throughout The Catcher in the Rye where Holden talks about liking things that stay the same. When he goes on

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    Holden is constantly holding children on a pedestal and dismissing adults as "phonies." Holden, though he does not know it, subconsciously protects the innocence of childhood within his mind.   In the book, Holden constantly reminisces about Jane

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    goes on a date with Jane, someone who Holden has strong feelings for. Rejection comes into play after Stradlater reads the composition of his dead brother’s baseball glove, and angrily tells Holden that it's no wonder he's getting expelled: he does not do anything "the way you're supposed to”(Salinger 46). Stradlater rejection affects Holden because he subconsciously feels that he is never good enough and that he’s pathetic. After the two of them got into a fist fight over Jane Holden is so isolated

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    times, the memories of the past negatively affect the person. In the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the author develops Holden’s cynical attitude by connecting him to painful memories and events such as Allie’s death, losing touch with Jane, and losing his trust in adulthood. Holden deals with his younger brother Allie’s death with both negative and positive memories. For instance, when Holden is writing Stradlater’s report for him, he chooses the main topic on Allie’s baseball mitt

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    Topic 1 Introduction (prepare for week2) 3 Topic 2 Business process and job re-design 4 Topic 3 Change Management 6 Topic 4 Benefits Management 7 Topic 5 Software and Information Systems Quality 10 References: 13  Topic 1 Introduction (prepare for week2) Define and describe the implementation phase and illustrate with an example. The implementation phase is where all relevant steps and processes are carried out in order to put a planned system into action. Once installed software is tested and

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    Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and Pericles “Funeral Oration” are both speeches that clearly portray similar and diverse components. To begin, Lincoln and Pericles both express tone in similar ways. In order to encourage his frazzled and hopeless soldiers and families, in addition to emphasizing the deceased, Lincoln needed to state his tone in an explicit and benevolent approach in the “Gettysburg Address”. To do this, Lincoln begins his speech with “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers

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    Past president, Barack Obama once stated “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”. This quote means that if we keep pursuing this concept that somebody else is going to do our needed work in the future, then we as a country, society, and even world, will never world, will never be able to take the right steps to be successful. We are the generation that the previous one spoke of, we need to step

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    One of the most widely quoted and upheld speeches of all time was the “Gettysburg address” given by Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. To completely understand the speech and why it was written the way it was you would first need to understand the history of Abraham Lincoln himself. Also needed, would be to understand the specific writing styles and words commonly used in that day and age. The style in particular was largely adapted from ancient Greek literature and

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    In a time in which the United States was facing one of its greatest crises, the President at the time, Abraham Lincoln, delivered a speech that became one of his most famous addresses of all time. His speech carried two primary purposes; reunification and remembrance. The structure of the address was to remind people of the past, get them to reflect on present events, and get them thinking about the future. He filled his words with emotion, asking the people to take the sacrifices of brave men to

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    How the Gettysburg Address Changed the World 154 years ago, Abraham Lincoln stepped out onto a muddy field with the intention of giving a speech meant to change America. Despite all the doubts the Northern States had about whether the cost of the Civil War was worth it, Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and dedicated the land. He called upon Americans to continue the fight these soldiers died for, and in doing this, he required them to redeem the liberty and nationalism that our country

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