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    Sean O Faolain The Trout

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    world with wonderment, in conflict with her maturing realizations of the real world. The fantasies and childhood games are essential for maturity because it teaches the difference between right and wrong, builds independent thinking, and promotes kindness and compassion. Every fairytale has a strong moral code, a fight between good and evil, and these lessons tend to gradually imprint on children. Fairy tales help children gather a better understanding, not through direct teaching, but through implication

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    Random Acts of Kindness is a non-profit organization designated to promote and encourage random acts of kindness and charity around the world. He also created GISHWES, or Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, a worldwide competition that revolves around random acts of kindness, creativity, and charity. GISHWES holds world records in the largest media scavenger hunt, most pledges for a campaign to complete a random act of kindness, largest gathering of people

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    The story of Isis and Osiris analysis The story of Isis and Osiris shows that hard work and kindness will always come through to aid you in your troubles. Osiris, the ruler of egypt realized that the people were savage and brutal, so Osiris spent his years teaching his people how to live and work together as a society. Osiris had many people behind him and on his side because of his kindness and care for his people. Egypt loved Osiris which made Osiris a hard target for the few who disliked him

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    significantly better than the men. To Edgar, men were figures of abandonment and cruelty, but women were angelic figures of kindness and grace, and this greatly affected his life and his writings. In Poe’s own words, “Women have been angels of mercy while men have sat at the edges and mocked,” and there are several examples of this throughout his life, whether it be the kindness of his aunt, his adoptive mother, or his wife. First and foremost, the primary example is when the Biography of Edgar Allan

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    different but in the end, we should choose kindness over everything else. August may have had a deformed face but his face that he thought was his flaw turned out to be one of his greatest strength next to his personality, and his positiveness. Also, the book showed us a lot of different perspectives, the fact that they all showed kindness was spectacular. Like for the character Summer, she decided to sit with August and the fact that she did it out of the kindness in her heart and no adult asked her to

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    committed a sin and have made a mistake, they can still engage in redemption by completing acts of kindness. The concept of sin and redemption is shown through Chillingworth and Hester's characteristics in “The Scarlet Letter”. The moral repercussion of Chillingworth and Hester's sin has the outcome of the destruction of their humanity and sanity, but they can experience absolve by showing acts of kindness.

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    Markus Zusak in his novel, 'The Book Thief', explores ideas about human beauty and human brutality using the narrative voice of Death. Beauty expressed through the power of words and acts of kindness. Brutality is illustrated through the concept of Nazi leadership as well as the destruction of society. Death narrates the novel and is perplexed by humanity's attitude to beauty and brutality. In Markus Zusak's novel 'The Book Thief', human beauty is displayed through the actions and words of Hans

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    people are just like everybody else. They should be treated as such. According to Katie Dowd (2016), “the thing that stands out the most — other than the heartbreaking family circumstances that so often led to homelessness in teen users — is the kindness of strangers.” (para.2). This article Dowd wrote explains how when asked the question of “what can we do to help?”, homeless people state the thing they remember most from being homeless is the people who saw them as people. They remembered the people

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    motivation to spread her love and kindness. Legree, on the other hand, is angry after receiving his mother’s hair and is stuck in the past, drinking to forget. He is haunted by the golden curl of hair and becomes bitter and angry toward everyone in his life. Stowe uses this character foil to contrast two characters, one that embraces the past, and one that is haunted by the past. She alludes to the dangers of getting stuck in the past and shows that moving on with kindness is important. Harriet Beecher

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    pointed reminder to me of the pivotal role that kindness, or in some cases unkindness, plays in each of our lives. Compassion is a powerful quality with the ability to transform people. Genuine, sincere kindness lifts downtrodden spirits, enables valuable works of service to be accomplished, and brings happiness if we utilize it. More profoundly, caring about others makes us human. Granted, being compassionate is not always easy. Because kindness is most effectively demonstrated through actions

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