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    In the story we read from Robert Frost called, “Mending Walls” we visualized the interaction between the Narrator and his neighbor. In other words, the narrator says, “We keep the wall between us as we go”, “ I let my neighbor know beyond the hill”, and several more quotes from his short story that relates to the mutual connection between the narrator, the wall, and of course the neighbor. Likewise, there are certain events in our real world where the walls were beneficial and cruel to our society;

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    to help people cross the world faster.The brothers are smart to come up with that idea.They worked in a bike shop in ohio. THe wright brothers were brothers in ohio.They worked in a biked in Ohio. THey had to kids or no wife. They has other siblings they had brother and sisters.Some of the brothers and sisters had kids and wifes and husband . And they kids. The wright brothers was very smart. They invented a glider. There first glider attempted went 300 feet in 12 seconds. The brothers

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    Flying shuttle Have you guys ever been doing something that felt like it was taking forever? Don't you wish that there was a way that you could finish whatever you doing faster? Like when you're doing a project, wouldn't you want to just put everything together in a couple of minutes instead couple of hours. Things would be easier right... we would stress less about not having enough time to do whatever we're doing . Well John Kay thought the same thing when he came up with invention of the flying

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    The story Black Boy, written by Richard Wright, is a story about a boy’s struggle with himself and the world around him. A large part of this struggle comes from Richard’s loss of innocence as a young child. Throughout the story Richard shows he must be independent to continue living in his abstract life. Richard loss of innocence is shown consistently throughout the book and other articles relating to the book. Four different situations that portray this loss of innocence are as follows; separation

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    Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh, two men who have great accomplishments underneath their belts. First you have Christopher Columbus who was the man to discover the new world and Charles Lindbergh who miraculously traveled across the Atlantic ocean by himself without stopping, both having to conquer insurmountable obstacles. Though they come from different time periods they are still similar in a variety of ways, for example both of them as kids enjoyed their future occupations from the

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    Early within the novel Wright establishes Bigger as a force to be feared when Bigger causes his younger sister, Vera, to faint by dangling a freshly killed rat before her face. As his mother, Ma, tends to Vera she sobs, “Boy, sometimes I wonder what makes you act like you do” (Wright 7). This shows that Bigger has a history of acting in an insensitive manner towards members of his own family. If his lack

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    In the novel Native Son, Wright constantly demonstrates that restrained fear, stemming from racism and oppression, can boldly manifest itself through uncontrollable actions. Throughout the plot, Wright focuses on Bigger’s fear to act in a dominant white community which had continually restricted him and his ambitions. Due to the racially segregated Chicago that surrounded him, Bigger was afraid to live his life for fear that he would further be limited by the white society. Therefore, in moments

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    The novel Native Son, written by Richard Wright, is a book that deals with a poor, black man named Bigger Thomas growing up in a rat-infested one-bedroom apartment on the South Side in Chicago during the Depression. This book It deals with the racism between blacks and whites, the poor and the rich. Racism is one of the world's problems, since it existed many years ago, many people think that racism only occurs between "white" and "black" people or between "rich" and "poor" people, As we all know

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    Have you ever heard of Wilbur and Orville Wright? The Wright brother are the people who constructed the first motorized aircraft, and the Wright were also the first to ride the motorized aircraft. Did you ever wonder if the brothers had any challenges during their invention? Well, through the process of making the first aircraft the Wright brothers faced many difficulties, such as, having issues with weather, family and religious problems, and the bros had technical difficulties the their aircraft

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    The Native Son by Richard Wright took place in Chicago, Illinois during the nineteen-thirties. The protagonist, Bigger Thomas, is a twenty year old African American boy who hates white supremacy and racism. He is involved with gangs and is constantly disappointing his family. Since Mr. Thomas (Bigger’s father) died, Bigger’s family has lost everything. The family of four lives in a tiny rat infested apartment, and has barely enough money to survive. Bigger’s mother wants Bigger to get a job as a

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