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    Crake; from numbers to words Oryx and Crake is a story that takes place in a not-so-distant dystopian future that Margart Atwood believes we’re heading towards. The world has been taken over by corporations who are driven purely by greed and profit. These corporations have built giant “compounds” where they house their scientists‚ who are referred to as “numbers people” by Jimmy‚ the main protagonist of the story. These “numbers people” are using genetic engineering to “improve” humanity. Anything

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    I hope this letter finds you doing well and enjoying your holiday season with your family. With the mix of school‚ family travel‚ family complications and‚ off-season training‚ it has taken me a bit longer than I had anticipated before I was able to write you. But‚ I wanted to write you and say thank you. In all honesty‚ this season turned out almost completely different than I had originally hoped for and anticipated. I didn’t really picture coming off the first play of our first scrimmage tearing

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    September 19th‚ 2011 Wes Moore Maryland House Correction Rd. Jessup‚ MD‚ 20794 Dear Wes Moore‚ A. Problem Assessment There are many issues that have led to the outcome in your life‚ from an absent father‚ instability in your living situations‚ your brother being influential‚ yet participating in negative activity‚ and your mother’s lack of involvement. When you sum all of these issues up the main issue that stands out is the lack of support and mentoring that is needed to foster a child’s

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    Title: Brokeback Mountain Director: Ang Lee Type of text: Visual/oral text Date Completed: 27/2/2014 Whilst watching the film Brokeback Mountain‚ I became frustrated at the main characters‚ Jack and Ennis. This frustration was because of an evident idea in the film that I agree strongly with‚ ‘sexuality is not a choice.’ This idea made me realise how lucky I am to have been born in an era where society is much more accepting of individuality than in the past. And I felt frustrated because the

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    “Ordinary People” Term Paper I feel the most related toward Conrad. As he has problems with being social and has some built up anger from over the years. To me Conrad plays a roll of a person who fights and struggles. Not with just his friends and other people‚ but with his family. Conrad feels apart from his mom as do I‚ for me my mother neglected me when I was younger and paid more attention to my younger brothers. And I feel how Conrad felt when his mother didn’t visit him in the hospital. That

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    “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus‚ by Derek Bok I read about a situation that happened at Harvard University. At the campus there was two students who hung Confederate flags in public view. The article describes the amazing effect that it had on the college as a whole. A remarkable majority of the article includes a discussion by Derek Bok. Bok discusses the argument on whether students genuinely have free of speech at Harvard. Derek

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    Personal-Response Criticism of “The Road Not Taken’ Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” incites a personal response from the reader to help them think critically of the work. This type of criticism allows the reader to relate to a literary work. As Muller and Williams explain‚ “…critics hold that we construct meanings from what we read based upon our own individual experiences‚ our cultural background‚ and the “community” within which we operate.” A reader is able to relate to “The Road Not Taken”

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    Summary and Personal Response: “On Becoming a Writer” Naomi Cranfield Prof. Denise Ogden ENG 115 28 October 2012 Summary and Personal Response: On Becoming a Writer Mr. Russell Baker is a professional writer whose writings have earned him the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. The excerpt “On Becoming a Writer” came from his memoir “Growing Up” (Baker‚ 1982). In this section of his memoirs‚ Mr. Baker is explaining that pivotal moment in his life when he realized he wanted to become

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    The accounts for personal identity‚ thought up by John Locke‚ were skeptical for several philosophers throughout time. Locke believes that we are the same person as we were yesterday because of our personal identity. He says that our personal identity is founded on consciousness namely‚ a continuity of conscious memories‚ but that the substance of the soul or body does not affect our personal identity. First‚ I will discuss what Locke believes to be a person. Second‚ I will explain why Locke believes

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    Introduction “...the caseload of the area’s mental-health center tripled within a decade‚ The city built four prisons in the mid-1990s- a rare growth industry” (Thompson). After reading Derek Thompson‚ a triple major in journalism‚ political science‚ and legal studies from Northwestern University’s article “A World Without Work”‚ I was concerned as to how the increasing number of incarcerated laborers were being treated as well as their quality of life. Subsequently‚ through investigating the topic

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