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    reasons why people are rejected in society even after they have completed their term of punishment. The article “Stop labelling people who commit crimes criminals”‚ by Kimberly Brownlee (2017) talks about the unfairness of labeling people according

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    As more minors are committing violent crimes‚ (Greenwald‚ 1983) the question arises‚ Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults? Based on the following scenario one would agree that minors who commit violent crimes should be charged as adults. In the case of a Middlesex teenager and his girlfriend‚ his punishment was severe and ultimately cost him his life. His girlfriend’s punishment was not quite as severe (unknown‚ www.clarkprosecutor.org‚ n.d.). According to the Journal of Criminal

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    Is The Narrator Insane

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    how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story” (Poe). The unnamed first-person narrator begins by attempting to prove his sanity while confessing to killing an old man. The narrator admits that “he doesn’t recall how the idea entered his brain but it haunted him day and night” (Poe). Insane can be defined as an action or quality characterized or caused by madness. I believe that the unnamed narrator is very much insane. “He had the eye of a vulture. Whenever it fell upon me‚ my blood ran

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    Educational Trip to UP Diliman and PHILVOCS On February 20‚ 2014 we‚ the 4th year students of BS Civil Engineering students of Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University (DHVTSU) had an educational trip on Laboratory of Civil Engineering department of UP Diliman and PHILVOCS. The purpose of this trip is to gain useful and helpful informations about our course‚ to learn how to use and operate laboratory equipment used in the field of Civil Engineering. The first part of the trip was on UP Diliman

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    Cooking Up the Perfect Argument There are hundreds of different genres of writing that exist today. Each of those subcategories has certain characteristics that would make it either a good or bad piece of writing. When it comes to opinionated writing‚ there are several underlying elements that dictate how influential an author is if he or she uses them correctly. However‚ you must also know how to recognize these traits to be an informed reader. Ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos are three distinct

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    Unreliable narrator

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    Unreliable Narrators in Poe’s Annabel Lee and The Tell Tale Heart Something happens when we as readers start to sense that there is a case of an unreliable narrator – we stop reading the story and start reading the narrator or writer. This can make the story more complicated‚ confusing‚ and ultimately thrilling‚ specifically in the case of the famous poet Edgar Allan Poe. In Poe’s Annabel Lee and Tell Tale Heart‚ he gives us reason to doubt the sanity and truthfulness of his narrators. The deeper

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    Chickamauga In the story Chickamauga Ambrose Bierce uses the narrator to tell the story through the eyes of the boy. The reader gets to know the protagonist through the narrator who the author uses to reveal some of the characters directly through disturbing details and others indirectly by describing the reaction of the character to certain situations. The boy in the story is the protagonist. The author introduces you to the boy in the begining of the story. Biecre lets you know the boy is

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    Johnny Lai 07659563 Narrator is the person (perspective) which is chosen by the author to tell the story (literary work‚ movie‚ play‚ verbal account‚ etc.) to the readers (audiences). Traditionally‚ the narrator is supposed to be reliable‚ since he/she/it is the only connection between the readers and the fiction world. But occasionally‚ authors would use unreliable narrator to be the perspective of their story. The concept of the unreliable narrator (as opposed to "author") became more important

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    Prompt: Who is the most sympathetic character in The Great Gatsby? Why? In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ it’s all about parties‚ females‚ and romance. It’s also about life and reality because most of the things that are happening in modern life happened in the book. The most sympathetic character in The Great Gatsby is Nick because of the way he gets treated‚ because of the way he tries to help out the people in the story‚ and because of the way he was there for Gatsby. Nick is the most sympathetic

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    Commit Suicide

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    Commit Suicide is one of the serious social issues in the world. Nowadays‚ suicide rate in Malaysia is become higher and higher. According to The STAR online‚ Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the ratio of suicides was 1.3 for every 100‚000 people from 2007 to 2010‚ but it added that it could be higher. Cases of commit suicide are increasing every year. The majority people who commit suicide were aged between from 24 to 44‚ which is productive age group. From the research‚ we could

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