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    their objections and judgments‚ opening a room to rethink and explore on the subject. Using two poet’s works as comparison‚ we can see how prosody can be represented in the text. Using selected poems by these two writers‚ Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks‚ also helps us in determining how significant prosody in the completeness of the poems. Born in 1902‚ Langston Hughes was raised mainly by his maternal grandmother‚ who was also a great influence in his life. Though he has also lived with each

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    my dog died

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    (Redirected from Eye of ender) Eye of Ender Eye of Ender.png Eye of Ender Type Items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Network ID 15 Savegame ID EyeOfEnderSignal First appearance Beta 1.9pre3 Data value dec: 381 hex: 17D bin: 101111101 Name ender_eye An Eye of Ender (or Ender Eye) is a craftable item used to locate and activate End portals within Strongholds. Contents [hide] 1 Obtaining 1.1 Crafting 2 Usage 2.1 As a crafting ingredient 3 Video

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    Not Until a Boy Died” the beginning of a worldwide crisis within the homes of small children. “Please do something‚ Grigsby remembers urging. When the plastic building sets broke‚ she told the operator‚ they shed powerful magnets inside her northern Indiana preschool. Grigsby didn’t see the loose magnets‚ not much bigger than baby aspirin” (Callahan 2017 para 2). The fear in this statement started the first real outreaches towards the toy corporations and their dangerous toys they release. Magnetix

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    One night my family and I went downtown to enjoy Thunder Alley. Thunder Alley was tons of fans standing outside of the Chesapeake Arena to watch the big screens. After awhile my brother and sister got to walk off and go find their friends. I continued to walk around with my mother because I was the youngest and couldn’t leave her side. That night there were several disagreements with different people going on so my mom and I left. Once we got home and turned on the TV unexpectedly my brother was

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    Midaq Alley

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    The theme of "Midaq Alley" cuts to the heart of Arab society. Namely‚ it shows how a group of characters living in the same slum neighborhood responds to the combined promise and threat of Western-influenced modernization. Midaq Alley is about the Egyptian residents of a hustling‚ packed back alley in Cairo in the 1940’s. The attempts of several residents to escape the alley and move up in status end with dreams broken and unfulfilled. The opening sentences of "Midaq Alley" points to a world bypassed

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    Midaq Alley

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    Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz To what extent is Midaq Alley an “Arab” novel? Does this add to or detract from the novel’s overall impact on an international audience. The work of literature “Midaq Alley” by Naguib Mahfouz introduces the audience an Arab culture through his descriptions of different characters. Each character is used as an analogue‚ representing people in the alley with different beliefs and ambitions. Moreover‚ the characteristics of Mahfouz’s characters also draw international readers’

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    Tornado Alley

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    TORNADO ALLEY “ A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extend down from a dark clouds and moves over land in a narrow‚ destructive path.”( earth science textbook) That is the definition of a tornado it doesn’t sound fun or cheerful at all. but to the people that live in tornado alley it is something they are used to. There are many factors the cause tornados to appear in tornado alley‚ but the main one is location. But where is the location?? Why is it this location?? Locations

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    Gwendolyn Doll

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    Elizabeth Bishop’s untitled poem that begins with “Where are the dolls who loved me so” is reminiscent of her autobiographical short story Gwendolyn. Throughout her short story‚ Bishop talks about Gwendolyn’s beauty and fragility as a child with diabetes who was consistently on the verge of death until she finally passes at the end of the story. After her death‚ and at the very beginning of the story‚ Bishop depicts her encounter with a doll she was also fascinated with that belonged to her Aunt

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    Tin Pan Alley

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    Tin Pan Alley The 1920s was the beginning of a decade of change in the American arts. Jazz‚ along with such inventions as the phonograph‚ radio and sound movies‚ transformed the music industry. By the end of the decade‚ 40% of all Americans had radios in their homes. Not surprisingly‚ 58% of households in New York City owned a radio. New York became the center of the music world‚ and at the center of New York was a small area called Tin Pan Alley. Radios initially provided the young century’s second

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    Midaq Alley Tone

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    “Man is named only to be forgotten and there’s never a heart that doesn’t change”(Mahfouz 284). The ending of Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz is successful in concluding the novel by using tone and irony in the ending of relationships. Throughout the novel there is a negative tone that is emphasis in the end of the novel through the actions that take place. The actions that take place at the end of the novel also are ironic‚ such as the death of Abbas and Hamida’s situation. Mahfouz ends the end of

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