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    Touched with Fire: Behind the Curtain exhibition. Touched with Fire: Behind the Curtain featuring uplifting and life-affirming art alongside words and journal entries that reveal a harrowing darkness. See this piece from October 5th to November 20th at the Art Gallery at CCBC Essex. Elisif Bruun‚ daughter of New Day Campaign founder and director Peter Bruun and inspiration for the New Day Campaign‚ is one of five artists featured in Touched with Fire: Behind the Curtain‚ an exhibition that opens

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    Just like the story Confetti Girl‚ the story Tortilla Sun has tension between the remaining parent and child. This tension is caused by the different point of views between the two. In the story‚ Izzy and her mom seem to have a very close relationship. The author made it seem like nothing could ruin their special bond in the beginning of the of the passage. Shortly later‚ Izzy’s mom brings up that she is leaving for Costa Rica on Tuesday so she can finally get her degree. She says that it will change

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    Frankenstein - Commentary

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    ‘Frankenstein’ - Commentary The extract from ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a narrative of Victor Frankenstein‚ a scientist‚ who has created life from dead matter. He has made a promise to his creature that he would create another monster – a female – for his companionship. He has been working hard on this task alone in his laboratory. Victor contemplates the ramifications of his work on society. He fears that the new monster may become wicked and treacherous‚ maybe even worse

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    Commentary on “The Blindfold Horse” This passage is an early memory that appears to be rather memorable. The blindfold horse creates a striking image‚ and the passage is portrayed in a cinematic way by bringing the reader into the memory‚ then lifting them out again. The first paragraph is purely descriptive. It draws the reader into the scene of the memory by building up the image piece by piece. It starts with a rather broad statement of “It is winter.” allowing the reader to picture a

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    and the soviets‚ was named the “Iron Curtain” made by Winston Churchill who was former wartime prime minister of Britain. This speech descended across Europe‚ separating the free west from the communist east and further divided the two groups. The Truman Doctrine of 1947 stated that the Cold

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    In The Red Convertible Louise Erdrich uses the foreshadowing and the symbolism of boots and water to show the death of Stephan and the car as a symbol of the loss of a lifelong brotherhood in the last 40 lines. Louise Erdrich uses the symbol of boots to show the weight of the PTSD from war in Stephan’s life to the point where he was alive‚ he was truly not living a healthy life because he was weighted down by the war and his experiences this is shown when he first arrived home and would not leave

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    Data Commentary

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    Queenie 1097300104 E5B Data Analysis First Part Personal information: including the participants’ gender‚ age‚ educational background‚ marital status and monthly income. Gender As Figure 1 showed‚ there were 45% of female participants and 55% of male. The numbers of the participants of each gender were very close. Age The respondents were all my friends on Facebook; as the result‚ the majority (73%) of their age was in the range of 16-20‚ as seen in Figure 2. Figure 1: Gender

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    HIV became known in 1983‚ it was then that scientist and the government became interested in knowing where this epidemic originated from and how. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a lot like other viruses‚ including those that cause the common cold‚ but it is important to know that over time‚ your immune system will become weak as the severity of HIV increases. What HIV does is attack your T cells‚ which help your body fight infections‚ it them takes over them to make its own. A person will only

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    Commentary On Kindred

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    If different people started transporting between the past and the present which raise would mostly like be able to survive easier? Kindred was an interesting book about a black woman‚ named Dana that started transporting between the past and present periods. She would always transport to the past to help a white boy named Rufus before he did something that would kill him. Each time she would transport to help Rufus he would be a few years older and she would be there for a longer period of time

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    “Life is short‚ have an affair” is the slogan for the website AshleyMadison‚ which is an extramarital dating site established in 2001. The business‚ AshleyMadison‚ connects married users to secretly have an affair through this social networking service and claims itself as “the most successful website for finding cheating partners”(Avid Dating Life Inc. ). The website has rapidly grown in popularity in the last couple years‚ reaching an anonymous user base of 16‚350‚000 people recently. However‚

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