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    Now this might not seem like something that would make her uneasy‚ but trust me‚ it does. The girl expected me to be super nervous‚ so seeing me smile so confidently and at ease probably made her a little nervous. That little moment of nervousness is all I needed. The ref blew the whistle to signal that it was okay for her to shoot. I got set‚ and everything seemed to go in slow motion from that point on. My eyes were trained on the ball as she slowly jogged up to it‚ cocked

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    Nicole Lantz 2-18-14 12:15-1:30 My Most Successful Moment to Date Through all my years of high school I was homeschooled. This was due to the fact that my mom was taking care of my grandparents in Florida‚ at the time we lived in North Carolina‚ and my dad traveled for work; therefore‚ there was no body to take us to school. Online school became the only option in that situation. As a way of staying busy and getting out of the house I always worked odd jobs that would hire

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    The Use of Pauses and Silences in the Homecoming Harold Pinter is a British dramatist who was known of his economy and simplicity of diction in his works‚ but some situations in his plays must to be associated with many social and cultural elements in and out the text. For example‚ the vulgar and dirty interaction between the father and his sons is strange for the conservative society in the west before WWII and to the Arab readers who by traditions and religion highly respect their parents

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    Jessica’s Silence Within Shakespeare’s tragic comedy‚ The Merchant of Venice‚ one is exposed to yet another one of his works that has an intensely packed storyline full of different characters with their own complex subplots that contribute to the main plot. One of the main characters‚ Jessica‚ is daughter of Shylock‚ who is a wealthy Jewish moneylender in Venice. Shylock is characterized as a villainous type of character within the play‚ partly because of being a Jew and partly because of his

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    Silence Silence‚ as the title suggests‚ recites in the great part of the poem that represents the culture which has long taught the daughters to be silent. " ’Superior people never make long visits‚ ’" as Moore ’s father points out. In the poem Silence‚ Moore addresses when facing a father who manipulates the powers language confers‚ she needs to convert the powers to her own restraint on silence as her father recommends. This work has long been read as a sincere appreciation of a father ’s dictum;

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    Haley Zrnchik Mrs. Hawkins Honors English 1‚ Red 1 13 December 2012 Silence Kills In George Orwell’s Animal Farm‚ Benjamin‚ a soft-spoken donkey‚ finds his once peaceful home transformed into a tyrannical dictatorship led by a power-hungry pig named Napoleon. Because of Benjamin’s reserved nature‚ he ultimately was able to lead Animal Farm into its oppression. Benjamin’s silence‚ his ability to follow without question‚ and his inability to share his wisdom with the other animals turned him

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    From Silence to Voice‚ a Book Report Michael Hager‚ RN‚ NREMT-P Nevada State College NU 408 Transitions in Professional Nursing Linda Jacobson‚ MSN‚ RN‚ PHN‚ COI Abstract Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon have written a sentinel work for nursing that addresses the misrepresentation or absence of nursing in the media and the public consciousness. This book is more than a call to arms for nurse activism. From Silence to Voice is an instructional aid for shaping dialogue to disseminate

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    © Connotations 2.1 (1992): 16-33 N.B. For purposes of citation‚ page numbers of the printed version are inserted in square brackets. Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet JOHN RUSSELL BROWN Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies have had an even more durable life than comedies. Especially at the Globe Playhouse‚ a varied audience crowded to see the rise and fall of kings‚ or the working out of revenge and passion. They watched horrific stories concluding with an ultimate test in which

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    Rebellious Silence is a photograph by Shirin Neshat‚ who is also the subject. In the work‚ Shirin Neshat ’s face is covered by Islamic calligraphy and is divided (left to right) by a rifle (assumedly but not necessarily held by herself). The calligraphy covers the parts of a woman ’s face that one must hide in Iran ’s theological state. The photograph is black and white‚ adding to the already serious tone of the work. The first impression received is one of oppression‚ it seems as though the woman

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    Silence Killing Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”‚ Suzy Clarkson Holstein and Judith Kay Russell give almost the same aspect of the story‚ one of the stories talk about the play being “dramatic and deceptive” and the other of being “artsy and silence justice” which both represents the story uniquely the same; which I agree with both articles meaning. The story is one about a woman who felt like a prisoner in her own home. The story is a play that becomes one of the most fulfilling of a nineteenth century

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