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    An Inconvenient Truth

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    Climate change‚ to put it simply‚ is a change in the world’s climate. In Al Gore’s documentary‚ An Inconvenient Truth‚ he talks about the dangers society faces from climate change. It is a slide show that Gore has presented over 1000 times worldwide. In this report‚ the keeling curve that Gore showed will be discussed and so will the glaciers‚ temperature‚ hurricanes‚ personal stories and the CO2. Figure [ 1 ] Figure [ 1 ] The Keeling Curve (Figure 1)‚ as Gore presented in the film‚ is a graph

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    Truth in the Crucible

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    Truth In The Crucible The play “The Crucible”‚ written by Arthur Miller contains many underlying truths about human behavior and thought. One of these truths that seems particularly relevant to the play reads‚ “To explain the unexplainable‚ the human mind reaches into a supernatural domain.” This statement is one that explains much of the dilemma that occurs in the play and in the real town of Salem Massachusetts. The aforementioned truth is exemplified even in the very earliest stages of the play

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    Truth and Facebook

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    become involuntarily a part of your life. Also pictures can be printed out and saved. So you have to be careful what kind of information you share. Furthermore you can’t control which person is in front of you and if he’s telling the truth or not. On Facebook you can pretend to be another person and give yourself another name. Sure the 100 million users have the total control over who can see what but you can’t be sure if people you have accepted as friends are really friends

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    Oracle of Truth

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    Some were left wondering if this could be the real thing‚ given what is known of Ellison’s famed ego‚ and because the wide circulation of the 1997 Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech hoax had prepared the way for this piece to sound plausible. In truth‚ Ellison did not give a such a speech at Yale‚ nor anywhere else. The article was the fanciful creation of Andrew Marlatt‚ a writer for the satire website‚ SatireWire. It was reprinted (with SatireWire’s express permission) on BBspot‚ another satirical

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    The Story of an Hour

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    Ayodeji Ilesanmi Ms. Pape English 1302.626 February 23‚ 2012 Part One: Alternate ending to “The Story of an Hour” “Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey‚ it was Brently Mallard who entered‚ a little travel stained‚ composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident‚ and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine ’s piercing cry; at Richards ’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife” (Chopin‚ 16).

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    The Truth of Hamlet

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    The Truth of Hamlet Hamlet the Prince of Denmark is a play consisting of a lot of revenge. This masterpiece of literature was created by William Shakespeare. Hamlet the Prince of Denmark is a tragedy. The play Hamlet is most likely written between 1600 -1602‚ which is a period when tragedies were very popular. Hamlet the Prince of Denmark is a realistic play. This means that the events that took place in the play could take place in real life. Since this play took place in the 1600’s‚ many things

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    supported the family. Many wives could not leave their husbands‚ because they did not have the financial independence that was needed to survive at the time. With these obstacles‚ many women were forced to stay in unhappy marriages. In the “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin‚ the author conveyed a negative progression of marriage from love‚ oppression and freedom. Love in marriage could be defined in two ways; romantic love which is the feeling of incredible attraction to someone and caring love which

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    Irony in "The Story of the Hour" Summary: Dark irony plays a major role in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. A long-suffering wife who celebrates her husbands’ death dies from the shock of discovering he is still alive. In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin‚ there are many moments when Chopin’s craft of writing feeds the irony of the story. One perfect example‚ "assure himself of its truth by a second telegram" (772). This sentence subdued me into believing that Mrs. Mallard’s husband

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    Mrs. Mallard In "The story of an Hour" Kate Chopin describes a young women ’s response towards her husband ’s death. The opinions that the reader will have from the story will vary on person to person due to personal experiences. The experience and wisdom that I have gained throughout my life help me understand‚ relate and even despise Mrs. Mallard ’s character. On the other hand I feel pity for Mrs. Mallards. I think she felt trapped in a situation that she found to be inescapable. She felt lonely

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    Intertextuality in the Hours

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    In The Hours Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author‚ but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text‚" she argues‚ "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com‚ Kristeva: Word‚ Dialogue‚ and Novel‚ 1966). The Hours is a piece

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