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    profound footprints where they made appearances or came true. In recent research‚ 37 out of 51 premonition dreams came true. A premonition is a forewarning‚ or intuition of what is to come. Although it is undecided whether or not they are accurate by chance or by a supernatural force‚ premonition dreams often come true. Premonitions happen spontaneously and as of now‚ there is no explanation for why or how they occur. The science of dreams is not a clear-cut. While many people believe dreams hint

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    In Zora Neale Hurston’s wonderful coming-of-age novel Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ we follow the protagonist Janie through her evolving journey from a dependent‚ young girl who searches far and wide for love and respect to an independent‚ strong woman no longer defined by anyone else but herself. To add color and meaning to Janie’s journey‚ a number of everyday imagery from nature is sprinkled throughout the story to symbolize Janie’s growth and mirror her life experiences. Plants that bear fruit

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    the same family. It was explained to the jury that there were factors that were suggested as relevant to the chances of a Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS) death within a given family; namely the age of the mother‚ whether there was a smoker in the household and the absence of a wage earner in the family. None of these factors were relevant to Clark’s family so he stated that the chances of a baby dying from SIDS are 1 in 8543. He also then stated that the risk of two infants dying of SIDS in the

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    different. The Mayor in “One of These Days” seems to be rather domineering. So if he were to somehow be placed into the community in “A Rose for Emily‚” where all those characters are rather lenient‚ things would become a lot more intense. Additionally‚ if Mrs. Turpin from “Revelation”‚ was to be brought into to live in the same community with the ladies in “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”‚ opinions of things might have changed. There are only a few things said about the Mayor in “One of

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    Thomas Hardy. The context. The novel itself. The wealth of a nation. Social unrest. Spiritual crisis. Late 19th century. The one major fact to be remembered is that in those days Britain was the richest nation in the world. It was only very recent that this was so. It’s been agreed that the birth certificate of this new era is a sad date for the french people‚ Waterloo in 18 June 1815. Napoleon was defeated and this marked the end of a 20 year long war between the English and the French

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    death and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14‚ 1865 surfaced. That comparison pointed out some amazing coincidences. Apparently Lincoln had a dream several days before the assassination that he had been killed. He told his wife that he had seen himself in a casket. Some skeptics say that you could take any two famous people and find a number of similar-type coincidences between them. The only problem with that theory is

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    Earth Day Earth Day is an annual holiday‚ celebrated on April 22‚ on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. In 2013 the day is 43 years old. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network‚[1] and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.[2] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco‚ the date proposed was March 21‚ 1970‚ the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in

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    Romeo and Juliet as a tragedy of Fate It has always been the dearest hope of mankind that the twists and turns of life‚ a seemingly random progression of sheer coincidence‚ are in fact a part of the designs of some higher order. Somewhere‚ we reason‚ there must exist an emergent pattern to the chaos of our existence. To this intangible being who directs our course we have assigned the name of fate. It is fate‚ and not humble human choice or character‚ that steers Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy

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    Block:7 Brad Blackburn Summer reading assignment letter c Literature often shows coincidences‚ accidents and tragedies that completely change the course of the story. In Shakespeare’s romance Romeo&Juliet if the word from the Friar had gotten to Romeo before the news of Juliet’s death‚ they would never suffer from such a tragic ending. Accidents and coincidences are very present in throughout literature works. In Ethan Frome the novel by Edith Wharton‚ the main character

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    similarities and many involving the men’s assassinations. To start of with‚ there are many numerical coincidences dealing with dates and names. Lincoln was first elected to congress in 1846. Kennedy’s first time elected to congress was exactly a century apart in 1946. Although both men’s experiences with getting there are different‚ the dates being a century apart continue making the coincidence even more interesting.

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