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    The Destruction Caused by Isolation According to Biblical accounts‚ God created the world and humankind. One of the central elements of this creation was the establishment of community and relationships within humanity. Genesis tells of relationships between humanity and God‚ between man and woman‚ and between humanity and nature. When Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit‚ they were isolated from God‚ in conflict with one another‚ and repelled from the Garden of Eden. This isolation was

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    Second of all‚ in the Nazi culture‚ they achieve their goals by violence and force. The aftereffect of these actions comes with the destruction‚ hence‚ the Nazi culture taints the setting and the landscape with violence and death. Their negative acts and influence provoke pain through the Jewish community as they experience loss. For example‚ on November 9th‚ 1938‚ Nazi leaders conducted a progrom in spite of the Jews‚ “In two days […] over 7‚000 businesses were trashed and looted‚ dozens of Jewish

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    Creating My Own World with My Own Purple Crayon Harold and the Purple Crayon‚ to this day‚ is figurative example of how I look at obstacles in life. I truly live by the fact that nothing is impossible. Harold does too. We all have our own purple crayon‚ but in Harold’s case‚ it is literally a crayon. He drew what he wanted‚ lived how he wanted and did all these things whenever he wanted. On a surface level observation‚ the goal that this book is trying to accomplish is to express that children

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    What makes a person choose a one-sided relationship? Obsession? Love? Why would anyone want to torture themselves knowing that their partner can never truly love them? What is insanity and why is it so popular among the gothic community? Wuthering Heights is a classic gothic novel by English author Emily Brontë. This novel deals with the passionate and ultimately doomed love of Catherine Earnshaw and the gypsy orphan Heathcliff and how their masochistic love destroyed themselves and the lives of

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    Fire Within I hated reading‚ but in the fourth grade my teacher mislead my parents telling them I was illiterate because I refused to read their stupid book about a velveteen rabbit. I didn’t like reading and refused to do any read in class or for a teacher. After a meeting at the school consisting of my teacher‚ my parents‚ and my favorite principal; my mother took me to the school library to get any book I wanted. It took me thirty min. to find a book that I personally wanted to

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    the story of young‚ beautiful‚ 19th century housewife Mathilde Loisel aspiring to be a luxurious white collar. Even though it is human nature to want more‚ Mathilde ravening desire to appear as higher class blinds her of what she has and becomes her own downfall. Loisel is rendered sightless of what she has by her desire for luxury. One must remember that she is not necessarily poor but is of the middle class and perceives herself as being poor because of what she could have

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    Security Control Organizations that do not have IT oversight managing its employees’ mobile devices unintentionally consent to making their assets vulnerable to attack from uninformed user behaviors like improper configuration and risky wireless connections (Search Consumerization). With the mobile market’s flux state adding new emerging technologies rapidly‚ companies have had to adjust from having their networks only accommodate few devices. Initially‚ laptops accessed the network through limited

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    Corruption of Love within the Innocent Within the works of William Shakespeare’s Othello‚ Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein the concept of love is found within characters that are innocent and filled with good intentions. In all three works‚ love fills specified characters with joy and gratefulness towards the other characters who they claim to love. Unfortunately‚ the characters that experience love are only satisfied with its graces until it somehow gets corrupted. The minds

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    in a seed to breaking out and becoming a little stem. There are many factors that affect the germination of seeds which include the PH level of the soil‚ the amount of water in its environment‚ the amount of ATP the seed can generate in order to grow‚ the temperature of the environment and the amount of sunlight the seed receives (Ghaderi-Far et al.‚ 2010). The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of different concentrations of sodium chloride have on the germination of lettuce seeds‚ Lactuca

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    Medical Experiments on Prisoners Biology October 19‚ 2012 Good and bad exist in every society. No one or thing is perfect whether one is referring to inanimate objects‚ plants‚ food or humans. The movie “The Bad Seed” was based on the life of two children. One child was “good” and one theoretically bad. It made the statement that some people are predetermined to be “bad” or evil. The value of an object or person is determined by who is looking. Even when one makes bad choices

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