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    Joyce Carol Oates “Where have you gone, Where have you been” demonstrates a dysfunctional relationship amongst a family towards a young lady, Connie, bringing about a dispute as to whether the “Where have you gone, where have you been?” includes biblical references and irony. Using prior knowledge one may conclude that the short story may sounds as if a person is searching for themselves on a journey unknown to take past experiences and learns to use them as a future reference in where to go next

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    It’s Not Easy Being Green The Wizard of Oz is one of the world’s most well known and cherished stories. It shows how the heroic Dorothy fights against the Wicked Witch of the West, making it one of the most popular good versus evil tales. The novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire, tells the unknown story of the Wicked Witch of the West named Elphaba. Following her childhood, the story recounts Elphaba’s struggles growing up because she is green. Maguire

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    The ending of Dorothy Must Die is not the best ending. The book ends with Dorothy and Amy going head to head before Dorothy escapes from Amy's grasp escaping. Then, Amy goes to see the wizard to get advice on what she should do. She still wants to kill Dorothy, but the wizard says Amy cannot at the moment. Instead, Amy has to wait. The Tin Woodman then appears out of nowhere. Amy is agile and brawls with the Tin Man. Amy wins by taking the Tin Man's heart from his chest. Amy takes the heart realizing

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    the cyclone! The conflict in the Wizard of Oz is person versus self. In the story, Dorothy just wants to go home. She is sent on a quest to go to the Emerald City to ask the Wizard to take her home. The movie demonstrates that when she gets to the Land of Oz she is confused and

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    The Wizard of Oz is a movie about a girl who wants more then the life she has in Kansas. The Protagonist is Dorothy, the antoagonist is the wicked witch, and the conflict was person versus person. The protagonist of the Wizard of Oz was Dorothy. First of all, in the text it said that Dorothy was the person going through change. At first she was wanting to leave Kansa because she wanted more than her life now had to offer but throughout the book she changed and all she wanted was her regular life

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    discuss the effects of the Crusades I first must explain exactly what were the Crusades. In 1095 the first crusade began, when thousands of Christians from Christendom responded to Pope Urban II's plea to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land. Pope Urban II was responding to messengers sent by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, stating that he needed troops to help defeat the Turkish threat. Urban II also wanted to use this opportunity to combine different parts of Europe and mend the relationship

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    Joshua was excited and eager to show God his desire to complete the task of conquering the Promised Land. He sent some men to spy out the land of Ai. The commanders, full of enthusiasm over their battle at Jericho, recommended that they send only two or three thousand men. He agreed and the army left. The men began their attack with confidence and determination to clear the land for Israel, but soon in utter shock they were forced to retreat. Thirty-six of the men died and in fear Joshua fell prostrate

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    This paper will explore the various impacts the crusades had on medieval history.  Starting with a brief explanation of the crusades themselves the paper will go into detail in regards to the aforementioned impacts, which range from banking to changes in social perception. The Crusades, which took place between 1095 to 1487, were a series of military campaigns sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church. Their creation can be credited to the 1095 conflict between the Byzantine empire and the Seljuk

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    “All You Zombies,” by Robert Heinlein, is a famous science fiction story that entwined one of the best paradoxes. The idea of one person being everyone, including her own mother, father and daughter and has to continuously leap through time to be able to exist. Despite that paradox isn’t revealed until near the end of the story, it is symbolised through the bartenders ring of a snake eating it’s own tail. Heinlein also shows how the paradox might affect a person’s view of the world through the idea

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    2. Why do you think this language motivated people in the audience like Fulcher of Chartres to join the crusade? What did the crusade have to offer them? This language motivated people because it was persuasive and gave the crusaders benefits like being redeemed. It would motivate people because it declares that the crusades are what God would want for the Christians to fight against the Turks and Arabs. The crusades offered them with being pardoned from sins and criminal actions such as robbery

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