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    Jennifer Whitcroft WMS 487-01 Essay 3‚ Option 2 Pearl Cleage’s novel‚ What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day gives a glimpse into the life of Ava Johnson‚ a recently diagnosed‚ HIV positive‚ middle-aged woman. Ava begins the novel as a single woman in transition from a fast paced‚ close-minded life in Atlanta‚ to a more open-minded‚ life of opportunity in San Francisco. The transition brings her to her hometown of Idlewild‚ Michigan to stay with her sister for the summer. Ava’s transition

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    The Catcher In The Rye is set on a weekend in December during the 1950’s. It takes place in several different locations in and around NewYork City. The story begins at Holden Caulfield’s prep school in Argerstown‚ Pennsylvania and then follows Holden’s travels to Manhattan where he spends three days wondering around to different places such as Penn station where he gets off the train from his school‚ the Edmont hotel‚ the lavender room‚ Ernies bar‚ the museum of natural history‚ the lagoon central

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    Maynard Keynes be compared to Adam Smith? Both of these men are considered to be the molders and theorizers of the economic era‚ yet they were very different in their theories and ideas. It takes more than a pretty face to identify an individual as the “father” of a particular subject‚ but considering the fact that economics was not even an area of study prior to Adam Smith’s contribution‚ it is easy to say that he‚ in fact‚ is the “father of economics.” Smith was a wide-ranging social philosopher

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    Afghan Girl

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    The World’s Most Famous Photograph Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young woman with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion

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    Pocahontas/Smith relationship vs. what we know about the “real” Pocahontas because of numerous protests that procured when the Disney movie came out. The Disney version of the story puts the relationship in good light and doesn’t seem to depict some of the brutality that was going on between the two groups. I have reason to believe that the relationship between Pocahontas and Captain Smith was not any where near as “romantic” as what was displayed in the movie clip due to the fact that Captain Smith did

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    Mean Girls

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    almost a decade since the classic teen movie "Mean Girls" hit the silver screen and this 30th of April 2014 would mark its 10th anniversary. The film has become iconic for its amazing comedic screenplay‚ written by the talented Tina Fey and its realistic portrayal of high school drama. From backstabbing popular girls to the art-nerd revenge‚ Mean Girls characters has surely taught female movie-watchers few important life lessons about high school‚ girl world and womanhood in today’s society (Cills‚ 2014)

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    they found a diary that Alex wrote over the whole time. But they have to use flashbacks because Alex died so there is know why he can sit down and tell what happened to him. In a way flashbacks can be bad because in this case it is someone else telling Alex’s stories from his diary and often people will dramatize the story. But over all I really like the book and I am excited to see where Jon will take it next.

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    In the article‚ What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy by Susan Dominus‚ the girls all claimed to not be stressed out‚ yet they had triggers that could be the root cause of their condition. Most of the girls had strained relationships with their father‚ if any relationship at all‚ and worried about their family’s financial stability. Both of those situations could

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    What Life Would Be Like If I woke up one day and I was in the early 1930’s living with 2 kids‚ a slave and a single father that was a lawyer‚ I think that it would not take me long to realize that the household would be hectic. During this era the great depression was happening which is not good for a single father. Even though he is a lawyer it would still be hard to make enough money during the great depression to feed 2 kids and a slave. Even though slaves don’t usually get fed much or fed as

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    John Smith Contributions

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    of America made many contributions to the development of a distinct American identity. Some of these contributors included John Smith‚ William Bradford‚ John Winthrop‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ Mary Rowlandson‚ and Cotton Mather. These writers all expressed their unique views through their writing. These contributions will be further explained throughout this paper. John Smith‚ an English soldier and author‚ was born in January of 1850. He is known for founding the first English settlement. Along with

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