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    Motivation in Learning By Muhammad Haibat Khan Education and learning are one of the most important ingredients to becoming all that you can be. How open you are to learning will help determine your path in life. Education and learning are one of the most important ingredients to becoming all that you can be. How open you are to learning will help determine your path in life. Education does not just happen at school. It is not just about Math and other subjects. Your education and

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    Have you put much thought to that question? I think all of us who are writers hope that the written word will keep us around a long time. I think it is interesting that the author of the original Sherlock Holmes books seems to be immortal. Louisa Mae Alcott will be remembered for a long‚ long time I hope. Though few young people of today have a clue about who she was. Perhaps if Hollywood continues to make Little Women movies every decade or two‚ she will be remembered. We have immortalized poets

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    nineteenth-century did not expect women to work to support themselves. Family obligations and duties take away from the woman’s ability to attend to her own needs and wants. Little Women shows how women struggled in the nineteenth century. In Little Women‚ Alcott analyzes four different ways to deal with being a woman living in the nineteenth-century. Meg marries young and starts a family. Beth is loyal to her parents and family. Amy focuses on her own desires. Jo attempts to live both a family life and have

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    Women in the Civil War Leading up to the Civil War women’s lives were much different than they were during the Civil War. While the men worked away from home in factories‚ offices or shops‚ women were expected to stay at home. Their household was their pride and joy‚ it was their private place. Women wanted to provide a clean and comforting home for their husband and children. This was their job and they devoted all of their time to accomplishing this (history.com). Women’s Roles However‚ during

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    prolonging childhood. The adolescence phase is still very present today‚ but the adolescents of today have many different experiences than adolescents in the past. One such area is within work and leisure activities. The novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott‚ which is also a movie‚ features the lives of four adolescent girls‚ Meg‚ Jo‚ Beth‚ and Amy‚ who are growing up in the nineteenth century during the American Civil War. These four girls had very different experiences in adolescence than the adolescents

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    Jo March Character Traits

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    that we can see when Amy asked her older sisters to join them and Laurie to the theater. As appose to her older sister Meg‚ who tried to decline her request very nicely‚ Jo answered impatiently to her sister‚ "’don’t be a baby and whine about it"’ (Alcott‚ 2004‚ p. 76). When Meg compromised and agreed to take Amy with them‚ Jo determinately stated‚ "’If she goes‚ I shan’t’" (77). As it appears in the book‚ Jo not only declined her sister’s request to join them‚ she did it in a rude and unpleasant

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    If you’re looking for a quick‚ entertaining and juicy read‚ the Pretty Little Liars series could be a good companion for a rainy afternoon. We won’t be chattin’ philosophy‚ science or complex issues by the close of the final (cliffhanger of a) page‚ but that’s not what this is all about. This was cotton candy: fluffy and fun. And with six additional books in Shepard’s series‚ there’s plenty more where this snack of a story came from.Pretty Little Liars is a series of young-adult novels by author

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    I would like to introduce myself; I am William Lloyd Garrison‚ born in Newburyport‚ Massachusetts on December 10‚ 1805. I was raised in a single parent home with my mother‚ who worked incredibly hard to support three children‚ as well as being a very spiritual woman (William Lloyd Garrison‚ 2004) (Garrison‚ 2004). Growing up as a child‚ I set certain ambition and goals for myself to accomplish in life. With hard work and tenacity‚ I was able to become a journalist‚ an editor of Liberator‚ which

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    relationship. The relationships in ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott and ‘Cats in the Cradle’ by Harry Chapin shows many different views of positive and negative relationships. Positive and negative relationships are defined by varied perceptions of the characters. Having both a positive and negative aspect in each relationship assists humankind to develop‚ learn‚ be happy and survive. Positive relationships are evident in ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott as well as negative relationships throughout

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    Social Change Paper Change is an inevitable part of life. Problems arise as people define conditions as undesirable and in need of change (Macionis‚ 2010). Literature can help bring about change in society. The short story‚ In Service by Louisa May Alcott‚ the poem‚ Share Croppers by Langston Hughes‚ and the essay‚ Pablo Picasso: Living in His Own Shadow by Ellen Goodman explores changes within society that affects workers. People at different times in history‚ define different issues as problems

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