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    if there ever was a time to do a good deed‚ this was it. Besides‚ as I neared the figure‚ I could tell that it was an elderly man‚ and I thought there was little chance he’d do me any harm. So I slowed down and pulled over. “Need a lift?” I asked. Now that I could see him clearly‚ it was obvious the old man was already in trouble. He’d only walked a hundred yards or so‚ and he looked as if he was going to pass out any moment. “I’d be most grateful‚ young lady‚ if you could help me get to

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    Love over words Julia Alvarez knocked socks off of hundreds of american and Dominican Republic lives by her novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents‚ which was published in 1991 but the book starts in 1960 in New York‚ The novel is “told in reverse chronological order and narrated from shifting perspectives(“Alvarez‚Julia.”ProQuest). The Garcia girls are first introduced in the novel when they have established lives at age 30 and goes through their experience of having to go from a small

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    Roanoke The Lost Colony What happened to the Roanoak Colony This is the question asked by John White when he found the colony abandoned in 1590‚ and this is the questions asked by historians ever since. There are many theories as to what happened to the colony and are backed by differing facts that dont match each other so that when looking at the situation as a whole there was no one answer. A new study‚ however‚ sheds some new light on the subject and shows that the colonists at Roanoak Island

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    Who is the Hero in Paradise Lost? In John Milton’s epic‚ Paradise Lost‚ Milton retells the story of Genesis and the fall of man. One might think that because of the Bible‚ the hero would most likely be God or Jesus‚ but there are other possibilities in this story. A basic description of a hero would be‚ a man‚ a fundamentally good person confronting challenges and overcoming them successfully. Satan‚ in this epic‚ confronts many challenges and battles severe character flaws‚ thus Satan is the

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    Book Report on "The Lost World" Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm‚ a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration‚ Richard Levine‚ is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the

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    lityThe construction of sexuality in Paradise Lost is an intriguing debate amongst scholars and critics to this day. One of the central issues surrounding the discussion of is in relation to pre-lapsarian and post lapsarian sexuality. Some critics such as C.S Lewis and St. Augustine argue against this notion and say that any argument supporting this is entirely hypothetical and to debate further on it would only create false imagery. However the general view supports the concept of there being some

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    The Captain Forrester and His Roses In Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady‚ Captain Daniel Forrester is a gardener at heart. His lifetime is spent encouraging growth‚ whether of railroads‚ personal lives or flowers. His philosophy is to dream "because a thing that is dreamed of in the way I mean is already an accomplished fact" (44). Close friends described the Captain as clearly looking like "… pictures of Grover Cleveland. His clumsy dignity covered a deep nature‚ and a conscience that had never

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    Seminar Report Sniffer for Detecting Lost Mobiles www.seminarsonly.com Seminar Report ABSTRACT: The main scope of this paper is to detect the lost mobiles. Each and every day thousands of mobiles get misplaced or lost‚ though effective way for the blocking of the lost mobile to prevent unauthorized person from making and receiving the calls has been done by the manufacturers of the mobile with the help of International Mobile Equipment Identifier (IMEI) has been done but however there has been

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    Critics abroad have argued about who the hero is of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost:” Satan‚ Adam or Christ‚ the Son? Since Milton’s overall theme stated in the opening lines of Book I is to relate ‘Man’s first disobedience’ and to ‘justify the ways of God to men’‚ Adam must be regarded as the main hero. John M. Steadman supports this view in an essay on “Paradise Lost:” “It is Adam’s action which constitutes the argument of the epic.” Steadman continues: The Son and Satan embody heroic archetypes and

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    The Lost Cause is the name given to the reconciliation of the Southern white society in Confederate states after the Civil War. The Lost Cause was a movement led by White Southerners in an attempt to restore their society in the harsh Reconstruction era. The movement affected America not only emotionally‚ but politically as well. Limitations and challenges that the Lost Cause movement faced were numerous and overpowering‚ which tell people why the Reconstruction era was so difficult. Some Lost Cause

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