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    list of people who have influenced my life and possess the five traits of emotional intelligence‚ my high school soccer coach comes to mind. Andrew Douglass—my former math teacher and soccer coach—has aided in my personal development throughout high school. His trustworthiness‚ integrity‚ and humility‚ has enabled me to reach out to him when I needed a mentor and guidance. His openness and concern for others are two distinctive traits that I will always remember him by. As humans‚ we all have our

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    appearance is described? You paint a picture in your head how that character look‚ sounds‚ acts‚ and speaks. Then finally when the movie comes out to theaters‚ the actor the movie producers cast looks nothing like what you had in your head. Let’s say the character in the book has brown hair but the actor they cast has blonde. It changes your whole viewpoint on that characters‚ but it doesn’t change the way you related to that character. Somewhat like that‚ I had an idea of how Drew Westen looked. Drew

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    I am writing a Character Analysis on The Book Thief. The author of the book is Markus Zusak. This book takes place at Mulching‚ Germany. The book takes place in 1939 and 1943. Some of the main characters are Liesel‚ Rudy‚ Max‚ Rosa‚ Hans. Liesel Meminger is one of the main characters. She has a couple positive characteristics‚ how she always gives max a weather report. One more thing is how she is always reading to Max. A fatal flaw of Liesel is how she steals and does not get in trouble. Lesel

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    Fitzgerald wrote a story that comments on American Ideals. The story is very Ironic because Gatsby lives the life that every American dreams of having‚ except for love. This book was written as a satire that comments on American ideals in the 1920’s. In “The Great Gatsby” there are two themes. One is “the American Dream is unattainable because of the desire to be rich” and the other is “the search for the American Dream is more enjoyable than attaining it.” Those themes are how it is clear the Great

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    n discussing Citizen Kane‚ Charles Higham mentioned "artistic cheats‚" flaws in credibility whereby characters in scenes gave information about which they couldn’t possibly have full detailed knowledge. Sunset Boulevard’s entire point of view is based on a gimmick. Whether one considers it an "artistic cheat" or a valid and audacious device depends up his ability and desire to suspend his disbelief. The problem of point of view in Sunset Boulevard is especially germane. Sunset Boulevard begins

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    The American Character

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    Trying to define "the American character" is like trying to describe water. The American has been shaped by years of war‚ mistakes‚ immigrant experience‚ and national culture.  As America grows ever more diverse‚ the question of what it means to be an American yields an increasingly complicated answer. How do Americans really see themselves today‚ and how does the world see Americans? Do we have a culture that is based on well accepted American values‚ or is our culture now a battleground among competing

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    The character we chose to discuss is Jo March. We were mostly drawn to this young woman‚ since she has a passionate‚ stubborn‚ impulsive‚ and vivid personality. Jo has little patience and likes to see things go her own way. An example for 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

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    Rationale This written task will be a therapist report on character Logan Thibault‚ U.S. Marine Sergeant‚ from the movie The Lucky One‚ written by Nicholas Sparks and directed by Scott Hicks. The report will analyze and focus on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that Logan suffers from his time served in the Iraq War. It will look at his perspective on the war and the after effects‚ as well as emphasize his journey through love post war. This task will focus on the topic of language and identity

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    Mifflin paper company‚ or the beet farmer who inherited his family’s sixty acer beet farm in Pennsylvania. Though these are main portions of Dwight’s life‚ he had many other different parts that made him into the person he was. Dwight is a beloved character on The Office‚ officially known as assistant to the regional manager Michael Scott when the show begins the first of nine seasons. Dwight strives to be an authority figure within the office and often times refers to himself as “assistant regional

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    Tom Buchanan is a super-rich‚ hyper-masculine‚ aggressive thirty years old married man‚ who inherited his money from his parents. Not the most likable of the characters of the book and we don’t get a chance to see him in a more sympathetic way. He belongs to a so-called "old money" group of people‚ class‚ which families are well known and respected. When tom was young‚ he moved to east in order to attend Yale university‚ where he also met his wife’s cousin Nick Caraway at the University’s social

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