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    be famous or just be the average teenager? Although many people say they do not want to be famous‚ I would love to. I would like to be famous for many different reasons. The main reasons I would want to be famous is all of the following: you would have lots of friends‚ get to travel around the world‚ be a role model‚ and also be a millionaire. AH‚ the glamorous life. Celebrities have it made. First‚ I think being famous would be awesome because of the money. In the business of being famous the

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    It provides licensed‚ branded‚ and private-label casual‚ dress‚ and athletic footwear products to women‚ men‚ and children (About Us‚ 2012). As of January 2012‚ the company operated 1‚323 retail stores under the Famous Footwear and Naturalizer names (Trends‚ 2012). The company’s Famous Footwear retail stores offer products under numerous brands including; Nike‚ Skechers‚ New Balance‚ Converse‚ Puma‚ Adidas‚ DC‚ Asics‚ LifeStride‚ Dr. Scholl’s Shoes‚ Reebok‚ Vans‚ K-Swiss‚ BOC by Born‚ and Naturalizer

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    course and Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough‚ an enormous collection of folktales and myths that inspired modern American literature. In Frazer’s work‚ she used the guideline of using a scapegoat in a story: Jackson’s lottery conforms to the four aspects of a scapegoat ritual laid out by Frazer. First‚ the scapegoat itself serves as the individual‚ tangible representation of the entire community’s less tangible evils-Tessie is sacrificed for the good of the community. Second‚ a

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    I selected this article because it explains how China uses a group of students as a scapegoat‚ similar to how Napoleon uses Snowball as a scapegoat. I thought it was interesting how Animal Farm and this article compare and contrast. This article describes how Hong Kong‚ a former British colony was returned to Chinese control in 1997 and “placed under a semi-autonomous administration” that many consider to inreality be under Beijing’s control. The author states that “Since the handover‚ China has

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    Anne Hutchinson: Scapegoat Imagine being sent away in disgust from a society founded on the ideals of religious freedom for practicing just that. In 1638‚ Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony for spread of independent theology amongst men and women outside of her expected submissive societal role. Anne Hutchinson worked to better understand her religion as an independent mind‚ which resulted in her exile and exemplifies the negative responsiveness to woman existing outside

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    Introduction The Scapegoat is a painting by William Holman Hunt that depicts the "scapegoat" described in the Book of Leviticus. The painting was commissioned in 1854 by the Dead Sea‚ during his stay in the Holy Land‚ but wasn’t finished until 1855 in London. It is oil painting on canvas with the dimensions of 33.7 cm × 45.9 cm. It is being held at the Manchester Art Gallery. Inscribed on the frame are two quotes from the Old Testament. The first come from the book of Isaiah ’Surely he hath borne

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    some of the animals and the farm is run by a dictatorship once again. The pigs‚ who take control of the farm‚ use scapegoats to deflect the blame while they gradually take control of all the animals and the farm. At first Mr. Jones‚ the farmer‚ is the common enemy‚ then the scapegoat shifts to one of the pigs‚ Snowball. This story was based on the Soviet Union when Stalin used scapegoats to take control of Russia. Scapegoating is a tactic used by both the pigs in Animal Farm and by Stalin to take control

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    the fate of the person picked. The scapegoat of the story was a mother and wife named Tessie Hutchinson. A scapegoat can be an animal or person that is unjustly blamed for something or used to take on the sins of others. It was quite controversial because no one questions the ritual and just accepts what is to come. On the other hand it was quite remarkable that the whole time in the story she was standing

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    Audelia Garcia Professor Thweatt English-102 April 26 2012 “Scapegoat” For centuries scapegoating has exist‚ as a society we use it in order to blame somebody else for our own mistakes it is also seen as a human habit. Scapegoating has been as an escape form for human beings‚ when something bad happens‚ society look for a person or victim to blame on‚ instead of them to be blamed. As people we discard the idea to be blamed‚ therefore we adopt scapegoating as a habit‚ unfortunately as humans

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    WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BEING FAMOUS? If you are a famous person all the people believe you have a wonderful life with no worries or problems. But‚ to my mind being famous have both advantages and disadvantages. The greatest advantage is that celebrities are usually very rich and they have easier lifes than other people. They live in beautiful enormous houses mantained by housekeepers‚ gardeners‚ cooks and many servants. Secondly‚ being a celebrity bring them such privileges

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