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    letter in response to Ms Jacob’s recent article. After reading her story‚ I’ve changed my mind about slavery. I knew it wasn’t okay‚ but I didn’t know exactly how it was. Now that I understand more about this‚ I feel the need to speak out about it. Ms Jacobs is a former slave who chose to share her experience as a slave. She explained how hard it is to be one‚ and the things they have to go through everyday: abuse‚ fear‚ sexual harassment and exploitation. I know many of you don’t usually think of slaves

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    In the 1999 blockbuster hit The Matrix an absence of a public sphere is expressed through three different dimensions of human consciousness. Neo‚ otherwise known as Thomas A. Anderson has always had some type of unorthodox feeling about the world he lives in and therefore is on a hunt for a cyber-program called “the matrix.” The rising action of the story doesn’t begin until a man who goes by the name of Morpheus concludes that Neo is the ‘One’ that can save the seemingly oblivious and asleep humans

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    Harriet Tubman was one of these women. Harriet was asked to help the Union army so she did. She went to South Carolina where she helped blacks escape and also went behind the lines to be a scout and spy. She often wore disguises and dressed up as a man to help fight in the war. She also pretended to be a old women sometimes when needed. Harriet was never paid to work but lived by “ wits” buying and selling vegetables‚ baking

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    Self Destructed by Evan Jacobs is about high school love going down hill. Ashley Walters and Michael Ellis both attend the same school‚ Willmore High School. The first day of school Ashley bumped into Michael‚ and he fell in love at first sight. The author‚ Evan Jacobs‚ makes you think that this book is going to be about high school love from the beginning of the first chapter. The cover of the book start to make more sense as you read farther into the book. The way the author wrote their feelings

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s intention was to convince the audience that slavery should be abolished by having Americans evaluate their perspectives on the institution‚ providing the views on slavery of the characters‚ and giving the life stories of slaves. Towards the end of the book‚ Stowe addresses the groups that exist in America in order to convince the readers that the institution of slavery should be terminated. Stowe first describes the experiences and treatment of the slaves in the story as

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    person in their life encounters problems they have to fix. In the short story The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs‚ three characters‚ Mr. And Mrs.White and their son herbert experience a series of unnatural events that involves fate and a magic talisman‚ a monkey’s paw. The use of the monkey’s paw grants only three wishes‚ which causes the family to suffer. In the short story The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs‚ the author uses characterization to show human nature is inherently good. To begin with‚ Sgt. Major

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    Doctor of philosophy Diane Wysocki also felt‚ Jacobs was very worried about telling her story because she did not want the people she was working for to know she was writing. Jacobs knew that if they found out she was writing about them that she would be killed and her work would not see the light of day. So‚ writing secretly and at night‚ Jacobs completed Incidents where she was both candid and emotional about the sexual abuse‚ harassment‚ and total control of slave women by their masters. So when

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    What exactly is The Monkey’s Paw and what is it about? It’s a supernatural short story written by W. W. Jacobs. The short story is based on fiction and was published in England in 1902. It’s based around a mummified monkey’s paw that works as a talisman and grants three wishes to whoever owns it. What some people might not know‚ is that when you make a wish‚ you’re messing with fate‚ so the wishes never go as expected. The Monkey’s Paw takes place in the White’s family home. This can be

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    W.W. Jacobs story The Third Wish take place where a lonely men live at his home how one day when he was driving. How he heard a noise coming from the forest he went to check it out and he find out it was a swan. Then he help the swan because the swan was trap. Then he see a lithe men with a golden crown all he wanted third wish. Then he got them and the men warn him the third wish will ondo his two wishes. Then his first wish was to get a wife. Then his wife was missing her sister. Then he told

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    must defend their ideologic view of how a man should act in society. Certain types of appeals‚ created by the greek philosopher Aristotle‚ are most likely to prove the general efficacy of the defendant’s argument. These appeals include logos‚ ethos‚ pathos‚ and kairos. To consider which of these appeals is the most effective for proving demonstrable qualities of masculinity‚ one must take into consideration the time the argument is being presented. The timeliness of the argument can be directly paralleled

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