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    some change? Because you are black. Actually‚ because your skin is a different color‚ or because you are a different kind of religion. In a way I admire them because they’ve survived for hundreds of years until they were free‚ and now that they’re free‚ the modern white man harasses them and beats them. I mean‚ they even had a world wide organization named for them. The KKK has been around for a while. The KKK‚ or Ku Klux Klan‚ began because of their intense hatred of black and Jewish people. Valerie

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    How significant was Martin Luther King Jr. to the black civil rights movement? There are variations in the exact dates of when the black civil rights movement took place‚ however an agreement has been made upon 1948-1968. This movement was the result of years of tension between black and white Americans and the rights denied them. With slavery eradicated in 1865‚ the black community believed that by the 1900s they would be completely free‚ however‚ they were still subject to harsh discrimination

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    Characters effect the way any novel or story turns out. They greatly influence the story with decisions being made and the way they may handle them. The main character of any story has the main role and has the greatest effect on outcomes in a novel. In the story “The Demon Lover‚” Mrs. Drovers character is very diverse‚ and not in a very positive way to say the least. Her character seems mostly typical and ordinary at first but you begin to see a different side of herself as the story prolongs.

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    her I did not feel good so she told me to lay down and rest‚ so I got into bed. I tried to go to sleep‚ but It was hard. I decided to read a book to slowly make me tired. I grabbed a random book of the shelf and went in my bed. The book was called‚ “Black Death”. The first words were‚ “Sailing through the seas made the ship rock back and forth‚ making everyone seasick.” It sounded boring‚ but It made me think about my dad on the plane that could have crashed on the sea. I started to cry‚ slowly getting

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    In the short story‚ The Story of an Hour and the novel The Awakening‚ the author Kate Chopin uses the characters Mrs. Mallard and Edna to portray the lives of women in the 1800s. Both characters are very similar to one another‚ but the differences though a little abstract balance the similarities. Also the author uses nature to display both of the character’s feelings towards their dreams. Edna and Mrs. Mallard are both victims of the 1800s‚ they both show that by their displeasure in being married

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    involving the social paradigm of the context‚ essentially conveying the consequences of challenging strict class structures placed on individuals through portraying the disastrous effect of upper and lower class interaction. The text’s title‚ “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ which alludes to a disease highlights that the persona is being infected by Porphyria to point where it makes him sick‚ suggesting that inter-class relationships are abnormal and unhealthy. Porphyria is implied to be of higher social status than

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    “Porphyria’s Lover‚” which first appeared in 1836‚ is one of the earliest and most shocking of Browning’s dramatic monologues. The speaker lives in a cottage in the countryside. His lover‚ a blooming young woman named Porphyria‚ comes in out of a storm and proceeds to make a fire and bring cheer to the cottage. She embraces the speaker‚ offering him her bare shoulder. He tells us that he does not speak to her. Instead‚ he says‚ she begins to tell him how she has momentarily overcome societal strictures

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    The character traits‚ fears‚ and personal experiences of Edgar Allan Poe can be seen in the narrator of “The Black Cat”. Within the first page of the passage‚ the narrator describes his wife‚ whom he married early‚ as “not uncongenial” or friendly. Poe is most likely referring to his wife Sarah Elmira Royster‚ who is both his cousin and bride when she was 13 years old. Like Poe’s wife‚ the narrator’s spouse is described as friendly‚ faithful‚ and loving. Moreover‚ Poe’s apparent problems with alcoholism

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    the ground and then you would tie the muka to each stick. Then you would weave in the patterns and animal feathers. Now a days korowai are displayed at museums or they are worn by students on there graduation day. Each and every korowai has a background story to it. Whether it be about the chief who wore it or the tribe itself. At first Maori women used the Pandanus plant for weaving baskets and clothes. Then they discovered flax‚ and found that the flax fibers where much stronger and more reliable

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    Imagine that some of the characters from the set stories (or ghosts of characters) have a discussion about whether the readers should fell sorry fort them or not. Each character says whether he or she deserve pity and comments on the statements of the others. Choose three characters and write the discussion. N - Narrator of the Yellow Wallpaper E - Elisa of The Chrysanthemum R - Robert the Blind Man of Cathedral N: Hello Madam! Are those flower buds raised by you? E: Oh‚ yes. They are chrysanthemums

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