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    Fruit and Tin Foil

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    Page 1 & 2 Question of Interest- Out of tin foil‚ a plastic baggy and saran wrap‚ which preserves a piece of fruit the best after a week? Population of interest- The population of interest is the pieces of fruit we are using. The fruit is what we are experimenting on. Experimental Design- For our experiment‚ we chose three types of fruit to put into the three different wrappings. We did this so that we could have replication. The fruits we used were strawberries‚ apples and bananas

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    Blind Voldemort Foils

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    the connection between the characters and family members is what wins the battle for Harry in the end. At one point‚ Voldemort ironically asks‚ “Is it love again?” as Harry repeatedly brought up that love was what was going to destroy Voldemort (739). Voldemort goes on to say that “Dumbledore’s favorite solution‚ love‚ which he claimed conquered death though love did not stop him falling from the tower and breaking like an old waxwork” on which Rowling uses as the foil to show how blind Voldemort

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    Don John Foil

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    power‚ he creates a paradox between Hero and Claudio‚ and to compound that Don John tries to escape Messina. Eventually Hero and Claudio is married and everything is good. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare‚ Don John serves as the foil character by which Don Pedro’s eminent reputation are Illuminated through Don John’s combatant actions; thus‚ perpetually influencing the resolution of the plot. Don Pedro and Don John both Contradict each other‚ with Don Pedro’s responsible actions and

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    Over 14.5% of Americans are in poverty and affected by what poverty causes. Throughout the novel‚ Great Expectations is about a boy named Pip coming of age and meeting people along his way of becoming a gentleman and learning life lessons. Charles Dickens looks at the effects of poverty negatively and during the novel it illustrates how many people of poverty struggled‚ but the rich got to live lavishly and didn’t care for the poor. Furthermore‚ poverty is a big issue of our modern day society and

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    Jack London Foil

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    Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is a story about knowing your surroundings‚ and listening to your instincts‚ just as the dog in this story did. London’s human character‚ who is nameless in the story‚ is more like a foil; with the main character being the harsh landscape of the Yukon‚ where the story takes place amid -75 below temperatures. The man shows how arrogant and inexperienced he is when he travels to the Yukon Territory without proper clothing‚ the use of a sled‚ or companions. He has no

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    your beach house. These ideas are false though‚ Great Expectations shows us differently from that typical ideal of how simple and easy money can make life. Pip’s life was not made easier or simpler by gaining wealth or becoming a gentleman. Pip grew up through most of his life being an apprentice to his sister’s husband Joe‚ even though he knew he wanted to be more he was content with the job. Pip was then told he has been given Great Expectations‚ and takes it immediately. Now that Pip has money

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    in poverty or sickness‚ or any other seeming misfortune‚ [will have] all things… work together for good to him in life and death.” Plato argues that the actions of just people will produce serenity in their life and goodwill from others. In Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ Pip is kind and caring to Estella; however‚ Estella disregards Pip’s appearance and apparent station in society‚ which she considers beneath her. Pip’s actions and beliefs are vindicated when he lives a happy and peaceful

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    is not always a bad thing. People sometimes tell lies to escape from harsh situations or to utilize it to teach someone a lesson. When people are in harsh situations they often feel that the only way to escape that situation is to lie. In “ Great Expectations” When Pip returns from Miss Havisham’s house‚ he is a little confused. The events that took place‚ and Miss Havisham‚ are “incomprehensible” to him. Pip felt convinced that if he “described Miss Havisham’s as my eyes had seen it‚ I

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    Romeo And Juliet Foils

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    enough to have two mother figures. However‚ these two women create contrast in Juliet’s life. Lady Capulet‚ being her mother‚ and the Nurse‚ being the one who nurtured her‚ are foils. While Juliet is a Capulet by name‚ she was hand over to the Nurse to be raised immediately following her birth. Shakespeare uses these foils to create contrast and complexity to his tragic composition. Juliet is now of age to be married off and Lady Capulet is finally taking an interest in her daughter’s life. When

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    idea. Thrown‚ unaided and ignorant‚ into the world‚ the creature begins his own journey into the discovery of the strange and hidden meanings encoded in human language and society. In this essay‚ I will discuss how the creature can be regarded as a foil to Frankenstein through an examination of the schooling‚ formal and informal‚ that both of them go through. In some ways‚ the creature’s gain in knowledge can be seen to parallel Frankenstein’s‚ such as‚ when the creature begins to learn from books

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