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    Emily Guzman Mrs. Jenks English 9H 16 November‚ 2016 Moses: Moses was a like a coyote in the desert. Always caring for the people‚ and always on the lookout. Many people were with him‚ and Moses was there all along the way to lead them. Miracles were also happening‚ with the power of the almighty God. Moses was one of the greatest prophets from the Old Testament because of helping the Israelites out of slavery‚ leading them through the desert‚ and receiving the Ten Commandments of God for the Israelites

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    Modern Footsteps What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day‚ by Pearl Cleage‚ is a novel about Ava Johnson’s personal battles dealing with what life has dealt her; being a successful black woman‚ with HIV. Ava’s life is transformed when she discovers that her glitzy Atlanta lifestyle can no longer continue. She is forces to close her hair salon because of the fear of the public towards her. Her plan was vague‚ to stop for the summer at her sister’s‚ and then find a new life in California. Deciding

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    shore. And the tide rises‚ the tide falls. Pee Paragraph : I think this poem is trying to tell us that when you have got ups or downs in life‚ you can’t do anything to change what has happened and you just to just carry on. I thought this because when he uses ‘The tide rises‚ the tide falls’‚ it makes me think of something that has ups and downs because the movement of the tides at sea is being compared to how humans like us have similar ups and downs. Sometimes we feel very happy (the tides go

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    Hills Like White Elephants and The Girls in Their Summer Dresses: The Couples Hills Like White Elephants‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ and Irwin Shaw’s The Girls in Their Summer Dresses are quite similar in the fact that they both depict a couple’s conversation. Even though the two conversations aren’t about the same thing‚ they both are the result or the expression of tensions felt by the characters. However‚ the characters’ reactions and the future that we can imagine for the couples are different

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    The Black Lives Matter Movement represents an effort to counter the violent racism that continues to transfuse throughout American society today. Alicia Garza‚ a special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance co- founded the Black Lives Matter Movement. This movement against police violence was sparked after many unjust killings of specific African American

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    Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems Infant Joy Notes This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme‚ a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines‚ drawing the reader’s attention to the parent‚ who speaks‚ and his or her concern with the baby. The infant’s words‚ or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant‚ are set

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    goals‚ test scores and what your recommenders have to say about you. What else would you like us to know as we consider your candidacy? There is no word limit for this question. We think you know what guidance we’re going to give here. Don’t overthink‚ overcraft and overwrite. Just answer the question in clear language that those of us who don’t know your world can understand. Here’s the question again‚ stripped of all the surrounding fluff? What else would you like us to know as we consider

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    artwork throughout the city. Pericles loved Athens‚ and Athens loved him back because during his rule‚ was rightly considered the Golden Age. It was during Pericles’ rule that Athens became the monetary‚ rational‚ and artistic center of Hellenism. What makes Pericles special is his ability to persuade by speaking‚ it was very simple for him to change the outlooks of others by just talking to them‚ and that might as well be a super power. He was a very gracious ruler who put his all into Athens and

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    Throughout the past centuries between 1800 all the way through 2017‚ the gender roles between men and women have drastically changed. In the 1800’s it was very common for men to go to school‚ acquire an education‚ and use their education to earn a job that lead to a future success. The men provided a house‚ the food‚ and often‚ the materials needed for day to day life. As the man worked‚ the roles of the woman were to care and nurture the man‚ keep the home clean and tidy‚ and if any‚ watch after

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    Q. Explain how T.S Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes” express modernist concerns Modernist concerns are expressed through T.S Eliot’s poems ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ‘Preludes’. Eliot uses his fragmented childhood experiences and his thoughts on the squalor modern life to express the issues of meaningless life‚ isolation‚ the alienation and loneliness that the humans feel and lastly the damaged psyche of humanity. The issues of meaningless life is expressed through complex

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