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    Foreshadowing is the composition of layered hints or clues about what may happen in the future of the story. Early in the story‚ these lines or events suggest a wide range of possibilities to the audience. But as the story progresses‚ the range narrows. In order for the impact of foreshadowing to be effective‚ the audience has to be both surprised by the climax of the story and find it logical. The logic comes from foreshadowing. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in the course of "Of Mice and Men" by

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    that seemed so alien and remote to me. To me and my close-minded five year-old worldview‚ France was a land where people wore what my kindergartener self would call “painter hats” and ate stinky cheese with long‚ stiff bread. However‚ my myopic and narrow-minded view of other cultures and started to mellow when I took a life-changing trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. When I entered that monument to color‚ I was instantly captivated by the sheer beauty of all the art that surrounded

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    Laocoon Group Analysis

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    The Laocoon Group Agesander of Rhodes‚ Polydorus of Rhodesm Athenodoros of Rhodes Western Governors University I chose to analyze a sculpture from the classical era “The laocoon Group.” Looking at the pictures of the sculpture I can’ help but be drawn into all the small details of each piece of the sculpture. They went into grave detail to make sure every aspect of the sculpture was as detailed as it could be to almost bring it to life. The characters muscles and tone are outlined and use

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    They contained both primary and secondary documents. Secondly‚ I researched him on the internet; and I don’t mean googling “Frederick Douglass.” I searched specific things like “Frederick Douglass as a slave” and “Frederick Douglass’ escape.” This allowed me to narrow the “millions” of results one always gets when using Google. I received plenty of good websites that I could use that summarized his whole life. I picked multigenre as my presentation category and its obvious why. Frederick Douglass’

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    The Count of Montecristo

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    The Count of Monte Cristo: One love‚ a betrayal‚ one revenge Alexandre Dumas‚ one of the most widely read French authors in the world‚ wrote during the late 19th century a prominent romantic historical novel; love‚ betrayal‚ revenge‚ and redemption convert the story of The Count Of Monte- Cristo in one of the most renowned classics of all time. It is considered an extraordinary novel because of its shocking characters‚ theme‚ and drive to vengeance. Alexandre Dumas was born on July 1802 in

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    Puritan aspects

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    The scarlet letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses the aspects of relationships‚ religion‚ community‚ discipline and punishment in the puritan community of 17th century Boston. Relationships between men and women were very constrained and that is what made adultery such a bad sin in the eyes of everyone in the community. Religion seemed to govern over all‚ people would look up to reverends and the community believed that fate was their destiny. Public discipline and punishment

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    What Is a Nerd

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    You know the tone. You know the look; the large destroyed thick-framed glasses‚ the pleated shorts that exposes some thigh‚ the childlike laugh‚ the intense self-seriousness (Nugent 11). Wikipedia states that a “nerd‚ as a stereotypical or archetypal designation‚ refers to somebody who pursues intellectual interests at the expense of skills that are useful in a social setting such as communication‚ fashion‚ or physical fitness.” (Wikipedia) To many people who are not “nerds”‚ this definition sounds

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    In the novel Beloved‚ Toni Morrison demonstrates an extremely important and controversial events during the American Civil War. The main character in the novel is Sethe‚ a former slave who managed to escape slavery but is constantly haunted by the an anomaly tragedy that was once presented. Morrison‚ through the use of stereotyping‚ slavery‚ storytelling‚ emotions‚ and ethnicity is able to engage the reader to the African American voice. The use of stereotyping gender roles of black men and women

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    Maintaining a Balance

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    Maintaining a Balance 1. Most organism are active in a limited temperature range The role of Enzymes in metabolism‚ their chemical composition and specificity on substrates Role of enzymes * Enzymes are organic catalysts. They are protein molecules that increase the rate of the reactions in living organisms. * Without enzymes‚ metabolic reactions at body temperatures would be too slow to produce sufficient energy to maintain life * Intracellular enzymes are used in the cells

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    Desai‚ K. (2006). The inheritance of loss. New York: Grove Press. “The Inheritance of Loss” opens with a teenage Indian girl who is an orphan named Sai. She is living with her grandfather‚ a retired judge‚ in the town of Kalimpong part of the Indian Himalayas. The grandfather is a Cambridge-educated Anglophile. Sai is romantically involved with her math tutor‚ Gyan. He is the descendant of a Nepali Gurkha mercenary so their love seems uncertain from the beginning. He eventually recoils from her

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