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    What is love? As a Christian my definition of love isn’t based on feelings‚ or physical attractions. It is grounded in how you live‚ ultimately it is grounded in your actions. Love isn’t changed by the opinions of the masses. Love is sacrificial‚ it is defined by what you are willing to do for others not by what you want them to do for you. For example one of the short stories “What‚ of the Gold Fish‚ Would you wish” shows us that Sergei’s all three wishes are dealing with helping others rather

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    The Strength of a Woman Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the compelling story of an African American woman‚ Janie Crawford‚ and her journey to find herself. In the time period of this novel‚ women are stereotypically seen as inferior to men. They do not speak their mind‚ they are reliant on their husbands‚ and they do as they are told. However‚ this is not true of Janie‚ the novel’s protagonist and narrator. Janie is a strong female role model who defies the

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    identity. Alice begins in the novel as a respectful and naive child‚ one typical of the Victorian Era. She struggles with adjusting to the new situations‚ as well as the growth and changes of her body. Alice’s escapades in Wonderland allow her to change her views with regard to authority as well as to understand different life situations. Alice’s time in Wonderland compels her to become more independent as well as to stand up for herself‚ ergo becoming a mature‚ self-reliant young woman.

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    One of the major challenges migrants are faced with in Australia is communication barriers in terms or learning and understanding English and preserving their own language. Many migrants are not familiar with the English language when they arrive in Australia‚ causing language barriers‚ and have to learn a completely new language in order to be able to communicate. In ‘Learning English’‚ the main character Tom Cho talks about his experience with English: “When I first arrived in Australia‚ I did

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    Opposites attract‚ similar to how magnets are drawn to each other. This tragic love story sheds light on Romeo and Juliet‚ a pair of star-crossed lovers. The play Romeo and Juliet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ features a love story between the two main characters‚ Romeo and Juliet and takes place in Verona‚ Italy. There are two rival families‚ the Capulets and the Montagues‚ and Juliet and Romeo are the “star-crossed lovers” from the two opposing families. In Act II Scene II‚ Romeo is talking

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    appreciated by society but in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the novel‚ context must be explored. Letters to Alice: on First Reading Jane Austen (1984) by Fay Weldon evokes a deep appreciation of Austen’s social conventions and incorporates her own context so the reader can appreciate and understand the progression of social values. By reading Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice‚ an enriched holistic appreciation of social values such as education and the role of women can indubitably be achieved

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    The Old bird‚ A Love Story‚ a sad tale about a heartbroken man named Mr. Newman‚ Mr. Newman has faced many adversities throughout his entire life‚ after having to work for most of his life time and reaching the age of retiring he still needed financial support in the early 60’s‚ when many kids didn’t attend school and worked for money or food‚ just to feed their families‚ even though it was hard enough to get a job at a time where jobs were decreasing due to the fact that the country didn’t have

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    Jack woke up‚ feeling tired as ever‚ as his alarm rang. It was the cold month of December and the sun was still down. With no lights on and so much snow‚ the town of Fort Good Hope would seem desolate and deserted to an outside observer. Jack drudgely rolled out of bed and managed to stand up. Leaning up against a wall and barely conscious Jack got dressed and brushed his teeth. Even though it was snowing extremely hard outside he had to walk to school. He couldn’t complain though‚ he lived very

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    and wife to Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth‚ many could say that Alice Roosevelt was set for life. It would have been very easy for her to conform to the societal ideal as the respectable and demure daughter‚ and later wife‚ to politically powerful men. It is extremely unlikely anyone thought she would become known as the most rebellious first daughter or to continuously gain international headlines (Donahue). Alice constantly challenging tradition and what society expected from her is why

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    (357). “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is the perfect example of this hypocritical period. White people saw themselves superior to everyone else‚ but were still kind of other races. The South’s status was very troubled in which the races‚ social class‚ and the religion were discriminated very often. The grandmother in the short story is a misfit herself‚ seeing herself superior to others‚ but relies on religion when she is in a difficult situation. The grandmother‚ who is unnamed in the story‚ is a very

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