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    Harriet Tubman was a Black-African American ‚ who slaves honored for inspiring the slave community ‚ to never give up. Also her brave role of intelligence motivated a 100 plus slaves escape with her  to freedom. Later‚ Harriet’s legacy became the founder of the Underground Railroad . Harriet Tubman’s character traits played a role in her deciding to escape from slavery. Harriet’s honor for inspiring the slave community encouraged many people to never give up and they admired her how confident she

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    AMERICAN IDEALS AND VALUES I. Ideals: 1. Freedom: “The notion that America offers freedom for all í an ideal that unifies Americans and links present to past. Yet this ideal has not always corresponded to reality.” - Americans commonly regard their society as the freest and best in the world Proud when thinking that their country a heaven destination for those longing for freedom and opportunities. all people are equal all people are equal - Americans’ understanding of freedom is shaped

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    As a first generation‚ American‚ my family always had high hopes and expectations of my cousins and I. We were dictated on how to act thing and believe. To always keep our morals true to home‚ yet stay integrated into the American culture in order to stay prevalent sand become successful. Since I was the youngest of them all‚ my family is expectations of my cousins were further expected of me‚ and I feel as though this is an ideal that is consistently set on younger generations in families. We are

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    government has bloomed into an extremely invasive party on the lives of American citizens. This “big brother‚” who watches over and regulates our every move‚ masks itself as a democracy. We Americans take stride as if we’re living it large with a freedom unknown to the rest of the world. However‚ our country is not run “by the people‚ for the people” as President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address claims. On the contrary‚ Americans live in a nation under the false presumption that we are indeed free

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    William Kamkwamba Character Analysis William Kamkwamba was a boy from Malawi‚ invented his own windmill from nothing but scrap and junk‚ this caught the attention of a lot of people in the world and led him on the path to a better life. Today William works with non-profit WiderNet Project and the WiderNet@UNC research lab at the UNC School of Information and Library Science. He made his way there because he was innovative‚ and determined to bring his family out of the famine that spread his country

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    Myrtle Wilson represents a female character that failed to gain the American dream. In contrast to Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker‚ she was poor. Through the choice of clothing and becoming Tom Buchanan’s mistress‚ she attempts to enter the elite. She clearly enjoys‚ however briefly‚ the feeling of well-to-do. She is behaving like a wealthy lady‚ despite the fact that she is not. Through Myrtle’s secret relationship with Tom‚ not only did she gain power and dominance‚ but also a glamorous life that

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    necessarily character. We both have embarked on a new adventure across the atlantic with no knowledge of the language. Just like Fr. Mazzucchelli I always try to leave everything to God no matter what happens good or bad. I think that Fr. Mazzuchelli probably had a much deeper faith that God would provide what’s best for him‚ but I can strive to get better at placing my trust in God. We can all make a difference through our God given character traits. I think that my character traits are: I am easy

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    choices. How long would it take for them to break down to savages and lose all of what was left of civilization? Could it only take one bad character trait to doom everyone on the island? The most dangerous character trait to the well-being of the group is ignorance. Intelligence‚ evilness‚ and ignorance are three character traits that are exhibited by characters in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. To begin‚ Piggy is a lot smarter than everyone else on the island but no one listens to him so that

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    Character Traits Evidence (direct quote) Inference/foreshadowing Jean Louise Finch (Scout) Protagonist - lives with her father and brother and their black cook. Scout is a tomboy character‚ and is also very intelligent. Jeremy Atticus Finch (Jem) Male Character. He is Scout’s brother‚ and acts like a typical American boy‚ always refusing to back down from fights. He matures during the story but still stays close to Scout‚ even though he doesn’t play her games anymore. Atticus

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    Contemporary Literature 2 March 6‚ 2013 Traits shared by many superheroes demonstrated by the two main characters Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay This paper shows that the two main characters in the novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” named Joe and Sam demonstrate traits shared by most superheroes. The novel written by Michael Chabon and published in 2000 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2001. The novel is about the two cousins Joe and Sam who start writing comic books. Joe

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