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    The Color Purple I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father

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    Falling Creature Monologue

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    It’s all meaningless. My purpose well this is not my home‚ I’m just passing through and because I’m a falling creature who has fallen from grace and because of his love towards us‚ all of us‚ he became man and laid a new path so we can follow. The real answer to these questions will be answered one day that day is near. As for my morals instead of the one that I

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    Walkers Crisps

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    Introduction In this report we will be looking at Walkers smiths’ long standing market leadership in UK’s crisp industry and the reasons behind their successful marketing strategies in recent years especially after their acquisition by PepsiCo; a global food giant. This report should trace walkers’ strategies on corporate and business level by following a world class performance framework by employing world class manufacturing processes and market research and promotional strategies‚ working

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    HErschel Walker

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    Langston-KirkleyEnglish 3 30 October 2014Herschel Walker: Everyday Hero Although he came from humble and troubled beginnings‚ Herschel Walker won the Heisman Trophy‚ became one of the greatest athletes of all time‚ and now gives back to the community through his motivational speeches. He was an intensely hard worker and a phenomenal athlete. He as overcome much adversity in his life to become the man he is today. Hershel Walker is an amazing man and also a hero. First‚ Herschel Walker came from humble beginnings growing

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    Dangerous Marine Creatures

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    body so that their dorsal fins point forward in a defensive pose. They feed mostly on crustaceans but may consume fish including juveniles of their own species. Threats: These fish are not listed as threatened. However‚ like other tropical sea creatures‚ their coral reef habitats are under threat from the effects of climate change and the resultant ocean acidification. Precautions: Butterfly cod are not aggressive. The long venomous spines are purely defensive. Injury prevention is simple; don’t

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    I chose Percy Jackson‚ due to the fact that he is like Odysseus. He’s like Odysseus‚ because he’s not morally perfect‚ is considered a hero because he saves olympus and this is what Greeks considered heros. Some of Percy’s most pivotal moments in “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief‚” are; his mom is stolen by the minotaur‚ he meets Annabeth‚ they go to the lotus hotel in Las Vegas‚ they go to the underworld‚ and they meet the gods. When his mom is stolen by a minotaur is a crucial

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    Alice Walker

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    Self “Beauty when the dancer is the self” written by Alice Walker is a well written and thought provoking essay that makes the reader reflect the meaning behind beauty. As a young child Walker lost vision in one of her eyes and in doing so lost her confidence and self-esteem. The essay is made up of different memories that come together to tell her personal story of how she learned to accept herself and her abnormality. As a little girl Walker thought beauty was in the attention and complements she

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    Kara Walker

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    Kara Walker Producing mural-sized‚ paper cutout silhouettes to create a dense caustic narrative of nineteenth-century‚ way slavery. She details the black-paper cutouts with stereotypical characters ’ pick of mammies‚ slave mistresses‚ and masters. My first impression of her work is that she elegantly portrays scenes from African American plantation life; however‚ I became aware that sexual‚ violent‚ and mistreatment of the images are represented repeatedly in her landscapes. Her expressions

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    about this living creature amazes me. A soft pitter

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    gods are angry and there’s no telling what will happen next. The genre of Percy Jackson and the lighting thief is fantasy‚ but to be more specific‚ you called call it mythic fantasy. Mythic fantasy has more traditional aspects intertwined in with the book‚ Percy Jackson has a lot of ancient Greek mythology in it‚ this is why Percy Jackson and the lightning thief is considered a mythic fantasy genre. The setting of Percy Jackson is not directly centred in one place; however‚ an important setting

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