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    a culture, subculture or community. When thinking of traditional values one thinks about religion, marriage, schooling, and overall the mores of a family. Fascism relies on these values and controls them in any way possible. The government controls every aspect of your life and of society. They impose strict regulations on businesses and on the family life. Many times denying women and minorities to be a part of public life. This is all seen as a way to take control. In both Camus’ The Plague…

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    “When you lose your face [...], it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.” These words of Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, perfectly describe Fugui’s character development throughout both the novel and the film adaptation of Yu Hua’s To Live. To Live follows the sorrowful life of Xu Fugui in a time of great change in Chinese society (the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution). Despite his character development and desire…

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    In the next 500 words I would describe two characters that were up here and a new Contacts each character will relate to his or personal tell in the first respective in the dialogue. I am writing I will consider how to maintain recognizable characters which consist with chancellors original pilgrims and when they are placed in a new Contacts you'll be able to understand the dialogue of the script and how it is a narrative is revealed once upon a time there was a lonely boy he grew up in a very…

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    Question My Response 1. How would you describe yourself? I am a kind and outgoing girl. I like to make friends with everyone, because I think each person has something that I can learn from them. I like to talk with different kinds of people and different ages. Also I am a girl, who has a lot of hobbies, such as Chinese painting and hip-hop dance. I like Chinese painting so much that when I am free I will spend an hour on painting. Besides this, I am a hard working person, because I think…

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    For a long time people have been fascinated with what their destiny is, and how they can shape it. However, more often than not it has been found that people cannot control their destiny, it controls them. In the story, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne destiny controls Young Goodman Browns’ actions even though he does not want it to. In the story, the Gun by Mark Haddon although Daniel tries to control his destiny, it ends up controlling him as well as the story. Destiny controls…

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    to persuade northern women to fight against slavery. Readers will experience her realization of being a slave, unbeknownst to her due to the sacrifices of the women in her family; how she felt about her maternal figures (i.e. mother & grandmother) truly selfless beings and her own self-preservation skills that built her family. We will follow Jacobs’s childhood where she was shielded from slavery until the death of her mother, her self-preservation to cope with her new reality of slavery and her…

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    Boo. This act would be one that a nice and loving person would commit, not the monster he is believed to be. This results in Scout and Jem looking at Boo Radley in a different way. (Chapter 8 Question 4) The metaphor that Aunt Alexandra uses to describe the role that Scout should play in her father’s life because she is a girl is, “…she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants” (Lee 108). Her repeating this to her every time she sees her shows us that Aunt Alexandra wants…

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    always easy for the couple as the wife’s father was not a huge fan of the husband in the beginning of the relationship. The wife explained, as they would spend more time together, she started to bring him around the house to become familiar with her family, but her father was very strict and did not like the fact that the husband had more freedom. This aspect became an issue because if the husband wanted to do something more adventurous, the wife would not be able to go, sometimes leading to…

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    My Relation to the Family I have a relatively small immediate family. I grew up with two sets of grandparents, maternal and paternal. My paternal grandparents were Lou and Gladys Neitling. Lou was in the Air Force and as he aged his health declined. He and I had a wonderful and close relationship when I was a child, but he died at the age of 76 when I was in middle school. Lou would hide treasure maps and fake treasure for me to find and dig up; he enjoyed having his grandchildren around. Lou’s…

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    David Livingstone was born on March 19, 1813 in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. He had come from a family with several siblings and a small one room house. Livingstone worked from a young age in a cotton mill before going to school in the evenings. He went on to study medicine in Glasgow before eventually studying with the London Missionary Society. Livingstone had finally finished his studies in 1840 in London England. Words that David Livingstone lived by were “Nothing earthly will…

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