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    Imagine if everyone around you considered you a hero‚ but in order to become a hero‚ you had to murder somebody. Not just anybody either‚ but Captain Torres. A murderer‚ who has killed many of your people. Given the option‚ would you kill them? This is the same scenario a Barber faces. In the story “Later and Nothing Else” by Hernando Téllez‚ the protagonist faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide to either kill‚ or not kill‚ Captain Torres. He must weigh the pros and cons of his reputation

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    Harper Lee‚ author of the novel‚ "To Kill a Mockingbird" exploits various textual features which are used to make characters like Aunt Alexandra marginalized. Throughout the novel she is illustrated as a foil to Atticus’s attitudes and beliefs; additionally she symbolizes high-class society during the Great Depression. These techniques position the reader to view Aunt Alexandra as an antagonist. There are many reasons for the marginalization of characters and these are expressed through different

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    In my six weeks at Port Elliot Primary School I feel that I have excelled past my own expectations and gained vital experience and knowledge. In my Personal Learning Plan I addressed the need to further my experience with Shasta my student with severe birth defects‚ improve my ability to tweak lessons as they are unfolding and improve my recording strategies. In the weeks following my Personal Learning Plan I spent most mornings with Shasta getting to know and understand his morning routine I also

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    In “Introduction to Poetry”‚ the writer Billy Collins sends out a message to all readers‚ implying that when reading a poem‚ one should be patient in finding the meaning to it and be open minded. Billy Collins uses metaphors and personification as a different way of sending out his message to the readers. The poem contains both syntax and diction. The type of syntax that is in the poem is more of a free verse rather than a sonnet structure with meter and rhyming. “I want them to Waterski across

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    Summary And Characterization Summary The story “Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen is a short story about an elderly Chinese grandmother living with her daughters family in America‚ trying to help raise their child Sophia. She struggles watching Sophie grow up in a culture so distant from the way she raised her daughter‚ and even further from how she was raised herself. She does not fit into the western culture‚ and seems to find flaws and lack of moral everywhere‚ especially in her daughter’s husband

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    Billy Beane had made his decision to base his drafting of position of players hitting on certain statistics. The two that he had decided were important were the on base percentage and slugging percentage. Together those form on base slugging. Billy Beane didn’t place any type of emphasis on power. Whereas before power was a main focus point. Although Mr. Beane thought that power could be developed. A player had the ability to develop and gain power‚ but the ability to master patience at the plate

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    Allentown by Billy Joel was a song that described the troubles of the late 20th Century blue collar worker. As workers moved away from cities and jobs moved overseas in the 1980s and 90s‚ the typical blue collar worker was hurt as their unions and workplaces were closed to make way for the new serviced based economy. Specifically‚ Billy Joel is describing Allentown‚ Pennsylvania. Of which was affected by the economic turn of the 80s because most of its residents worked in Bethlehem‚ PA at a steel

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    Regarding lies‚ those about history are worse than those about popular culture. In Billy Collins’s “The History Teacher”‚ the teacher lies to his students about historical events. He tells them that wars that killed so many were only small kerfuffles. He says‚ “the Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom on Japan”. This is a big deal. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed thousands and still has repercussions today. while the kids might not believe that it was only one atom‚ hearing this version of the story

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    When Billy McFarland founded Magnises‚ he envisioned millennial members in major cities using their distinctive black Magnises card to buy discounted tickets for social events sponsored by brands that were eager to reach his 21 to 30 year-old members. For an annual fee that excluded people who were unemployed‚ but was easily within reach for those just starting their career‚ McFarland imagined that young professionals would be eager to network with people in other industries and make contacts that

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    Characterization Fahrenheit 451 Short Response Fahrenheit 451 is set in a dystopian future when all books are required to be burned. The story is about Guy Montag‚ a stoic fireman whose job it is to burn books. He wears a fire helmet with the numbers 451‚ which represents the temperature at which paper burns. Montag takes pride in his job and does what he has been told without questioning it. In the beginning of the book‚ he thinks of himself as being happy. There is always a “fiery” smile on

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