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    Rest is as vital as workouts or diet, in no case should you neglect it or act as a miser when it comes to giving your body proper rest. Also when we say rest we don’t mean the rest between sets or reps. Ideally you should be taking a week off after training for 8 weeks a part of recovery process. First of all, this rest provides your

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    story has endured, teaching themes such as: family and friends are the meaning of life, it is greater to give than receive, and money doesn’t buy happiness. In 2009, Disney released an animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic novel Victorian Era miser taken on a self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. The film stays faithful to the novel, but does depart for creative difference. Watching the movie I noted that the script stays faithful to the text. In Stave 1, Scrooge

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    Audio or Play? The Christmas Carol is an exciting tale about an old greedy miser that gets visited by three christmas spirits - Past,Present,and Future. In class,we listened to the audio version and we also read the play. Each person got to read a part in the play if they wanted. Then we would listen to the audio. The play version of “A Christmas Carol” is better than the audio because I can visualize the characters,imagine the actions, and hear the tone of voice. One reason that the play is much

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    “Bah! Humbug!” (Dickens, Page2) Is what Ebenezer scrooge has to say about Christmas. Scrooge was a rich miser who hisses to everyone he meets, Giving off a miserable eerie feeling to others. Written by the Famous novelist Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, is a Well Known christmas story about The greedy, ungrateful, lonely man who doesn't Enjoy the activities of christmas. In the past few weeks we read the play as well as watched the 1984 Movie Of A Christmas Carol. The play and movie had many

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    Books are written in different time periods and are read by the people during that time and the following generations to come. The way that each book is interpreted may differ depending on the time period, because there will be changes in the ways of thinking depending on the historical or cultural context. In A Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens during the Industrial Revolution, the belief that everyone should become charitable instead of miserly is represented throughout the novella. In

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    MACHIAVELLI’S LIVED WORLD: SETTING CONTEXT Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince was written in a time of political and civil unrest in Italy. For decades the city-state of Florence suffered several political uprisings and the establishment of new governments. From tyrannical rule to the creation of a democratic republic, and finally the re-establishment of the Medici family, The Prince comes from Machiavelli’s lived experiences in these political regimes. Machiavelli blames the division of Italy into

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    Brown (2013) states that the most commonly given advantages of homeschooling are the control of curriculum which parents can decide where their children can focus, the preparation of how long their children can occupy a subject, the right of religion which parents can teach on their children where public schools don’t have, the avoidance of situations like bullies, peer pressure and even boredom, the control of food their children are eating since there is no cafeteria, the exclusion of expensive

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    John, had stolen from the Navy Pay office and fled to Isle of Man. Charles had never had a stable home. Him and his family moved a lot. (Dickens 12-13) The Christmas carol is a story about 2 men Jacob Marley and Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is an old miser and hates Christmas every since his business partner died 6 years ago on Christmas. Marley is the ghost trying to explain to Scrooge that if he keeps acting the way he does his fate will end up like his. This story is also about 3 ghost, the ghost

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    filled with immense and glorious joy. My first, was the day I wed my Henry in the June of 1836 when I was at the ripe age of 18. He was always an honest and hardworking man and never was there a moment that I believed him to be a fop, a spendthrift, or miser, all of whom I was told to avoid as potential suitors. I, being a well educated and poised young woman back then, had many marriage offers, but Henry’s proposal was the only one I accepted. He was truly the perfect husband, and I fall into a melancholia

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    In London, during the time of Ebenezer Scrooge, money meant a lot. If you had a good share of it, you were able to enjoy things that others weren’t, and spend it on not only needs, but wants as well. Scrooge was one of the few people who had a good amount of money. However, his lifestyle was inconsistent with his wealth. In the novel, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is a cold man that is on a journey to a better, more humane life. However, his need for

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