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    Ashley Buffton Mr. Borthwick AP Literature 18/2/14 A Farewell to Sexism and The Female Also Rises Ernest Hemingway has a reputation of being a complete misogynist. People have analyzed his books‚ specifically A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises‚ and attacked him for being sexist towards the main female roles‚ Catherine Barkley and Lady Brett Ashley. Other analysts argue that Catherine and Brett are strong female lead roles. Through these two characters‚ Hemingway disproves the misogynist

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    The Sun

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    The Sun The sun is the largest object in the solar system. It is a middle-sized star and there are many other stars out in the universe just like it. Even though it is only a middle-sized star it is large enough to hold over 1 million Earth ’s inside if it were hollow. The temperature on the sun is far too much for any living thing to bear. On the surface it is 10‚000 degrees Fahrenheit and the core is a stunning 27‚000‚000 degrees Fahrenheit. But don ’t worry we are over 90‚000 million

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    The Old House on the Hill Crimson rays of sunlight speckled through and glittered the autumn leaves‚ making their colorful silhouette seem to dance on the mountain horizon. These fluttering hills rise up from the back of a vast plateau like pasture as if they were titans‚ peacefully awaiting the turn from day to dusk. A calm breeze feathers the tall sun spotted grasses with an inconsistent motion making the ground appear alive. In the back corner of this field lies a large and seemingly mystifying

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    NOTES ON SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT 1) colonialism in "Shooting an Elephant." * George Orwell wrote this essay when England ruled Burma as a colony---much like it had ruled America during the colonial period. Colonialism occurred when many European nations simply took over countries because they believed their culture was superior to the native culture. The ideas of social darwinism‚ or survival of the strongest nations and/or people‚ played a large role in the domination and subjection of countries

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    White like me is a documentary tracking Tim Wise detailing the history of racism in America and how it still affects us in the present. Tim Wise attended a school where the teachers and students were mostly black‚ and he said he had learned to respect the “black authority figures” from a young age. During college Tim realized he was privileged as a white person: by having the choice to speak out against racism from a distance and not doing anything about locally. The white privilege included having

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    1. Introduction In this report I will be comparing the livability between two streets in Brisbane‚ Hawthorne Road‚ Hawthorne‚ and Wyena Street‚ Camp Hill. In this comparison I will be taking into consideration the amount of traffic‚ access to bus stops‚ shops‚ schools‚ parks‚ the litter‚ the noise‚ how nice the houses are‚ and how nice the trees and gardens are. Take into consideration how nice the houses are and how nice the trees and gardens are‚ is my personal opinion‚ and others may rank the

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    Shooting an Elephant A price is payed to save oneself from humiliation‚ but‚ being pressured into doing something that one doesn’t want to do‚ makes people feel lost and pushed into a big problem. In the story "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell‚ he himself goes through a struggle in being the one to shoot an Elephant. In the beginning he knew what he had to avoid of being laughed at from the Burmese people that surrounded him‚ since he is an imperial policeman. Throughout the story‚ Orwell

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    Shakespeare’s Mistress Was Only Human In William Shakespeare’s [My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun] he talks about his mistress as being less then all the things that he compares her to. In some ways this is a good thing‚ but yet again it is a little hurtful and actually a bet cruel. However in the last few stanzas he states that if this woman was not a human‚ they would not be able to love each other. Even though Shakespeare is in a way insulting his mistress it is more heart felt

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    The Sun

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    The Sun (Star of the Family) Planet word comes from Greek ‚which means „wandering star“. Sun is the heaviest among Solar System. If we take total mass of whole Solar System‚ the Sun would be 99.86% of the total. Sun is a ball of hot‚burning gases. Sun is the nearest star to the Earth. Sun is the source of all energy for life on Earth. On the Sun’s surface‚ there are dark patches known as sunspots. These are patches of gas that looks dark since they are cooler than their surroundings. The light

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    Note on Project Elephant Project Elephant (PE) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1991-92 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with following objectives : • To protect elephants‚ their habitat & corridors • to address issues of man-animal conflict • welfare of domesticated elephants Financial and technical support are being provided to major elephant bearing States in the country. The Project is being mainly implemented in 13 States / UTs ‚ viz. Andhra pradesh ‚ Arunachal Pradesh

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