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    My Academic Experience the Past Nine Weeks The long term results and value of completing a degree in higher education are many folded and range from financial to cultural. It is true that those of us who complete a degree benefit from higher paying jobs‚ but also can be said that we gain more acclaim and esteem among our peers as well. It seems that when you are educated and people are able to tell that you are educated you are treated differently than if you don’t have an education. You are able

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    Thanksgiving is one of my most favorite times of the year‚ besides Christmas. I love spending time with family and friends while enjoying the delicious Thanksgiving meal. My aunt’s husband is a culinary chef‚ so with that being said‚ our meals are always homecooked and taste heavenly. My entire family gathers on Thanksgiving Day at my aunt’s house where we spend the entire day eating‚ catching up with one another‚ and enjoying each other’s presence. Most importantly‚ we all get to see my cousins who range

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    sports stores with the equipment. I see the new on the market brand that is tested to best quality and the same price as the old not as good brand and I move to it. My friend hesitates and follows with resistance. One need‚ one purpose‚ and one responsibility‚ but different viewpoints. The newer brand got us that jump and many more for my friend. You know‚ biases are the stories we make up about gear before we know what they actually are. But how are we going to know what they are when we’ve seen

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    com/entertainment/movies/2055342-dear-john/>. * "The Last Song (novel) - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia. “Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia. 21 Jul 2012. Web. 12 Aug 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Song_(novel)>. * "Book Review of “The Last Song” By Nicholas Sparks | Sonia reviews." Sonia reviews | Just another WordPress.com site. 3 Mar 2011. Web. 12 Aug 2012. <http://soniareviews.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/book-review-of-the-last-song-by-nicholas-sparks/>. * "The Last Song Quotes By Nicholas

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    The Shape of Things and The Birthmark have a lot of similarities and differences. Both pieces of literatures characters focused on a couple. A main character each piece of literature have the common objective of changing human imperfections to become more desirable and in the end‚ achieve similar results. However the Motives and other aspects differ in both pieces. The Shape of Things the story is about an graduate student in arts named Evelyn and an English major named Adam‚ who works at a museum

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    also evident in the story of The 

Birthmark. Hawthorne’s dark romanticism story mainly focuses on his belief of science‚ nature and 

religion. It illustrates how the attempt of changing a human being to your

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    Compare and contrast the attitudes and values of the two speakers of the poems and how the poets have used language to convey these between “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning Both the poems have the theme of love‚ written from a man’s point of view‚ and explores the way men treat woman in relationships. The former does this by a male narrator writing a poem to a female‚ using imagery to entice her. The latter by using

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    Georgiana’s birthmark represents her grasp on humanity as shown in its shape as a hand. The hand symbolizes humanity’s role in nature and the continuous struggle between nature and science. Georgiana is someone who Aylmer sees as created “nearly perfect from the hand of Nature” (Hawthorne 1). Her birthmark is an imprint left by nature and is representative of humanity’s ties to it. Altering nature isn’t something that humans should be able to do because it is more powerful than any creation made

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    Aylmer does not quite understand the quote by C.Joybell because he loses sight of his love of Georgiana for scientific perfection. Moreover‚ Aylmer’s want to get rid of Georgiana’s birthmark produces a change in his feelings toward her. When discussing the birthmark and a possible removal with Georgiana‚ Aylmer said‚ “you [Georgiana] came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature… as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection” (11). Additionally‚ Hawthorne states “this one defect [grew] more

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    Controlling Nature: A Losing Battle In the story “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ science versus nature is an essential source of conflict. This theme becomes apparent through Alymer’s persistent desire to interfere with what is natural through his passion for science. This obsession becomes most apparent when Alymer attempts to change his wife Georgiana’s natural appearance. Soon after marrying her‚ Alymer is shocked by the smallest of imperfection‚ and expresses desire to remove it‚ as

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