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    Throughout the story of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ Frederick discovers personal growth through the areas of courage‚ intelligence and racial pride. First‚ Frederick has courage to move to a different city and leave all he had behind. Second‚ Frederick displays intelligence through several instances including the ways in which the way he preserves his life and remembering his past in great detail. Lastly‚ Frederick discovers racial pride by being a former slave‚ inspiring other

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    Real Life Loyalty and Betrayal As Seen In Macbeth Like in the real world‚ in Macbeth William Shakespeare reveals loyalty is not possible if there is a betrayal. Loyalty is the quality of being loyal to someone or something.The state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Loyalty is like a bond that can’t be broken unless there is betrayal in the mix of it. You can’t gain loyalty if you’re a betrayal person because betrayal is similar to lies and once you lie it

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    The American Dream "America has long been known as a land of opportunity. Out of that thinking comes the "American Dream‚" the idea that anyone can ultimately achieve success‚ even if he or she began with nothing." In the Death of a Salesman there are many characters that are in the pursuit of the American Dream‚ so far in the story not many of them have reached this goal. The characters that are in the pursuit of the American Dream include Willy‚ Biff‚ and Happy Loman. There are also characters

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    Of Mice and Men is full of characters whose dreams have been crushed. Write about how Steinbeck portrays two of them. Wednesday 4th December 2013 The novel is set in 1930s America‚ the years of the Great Depression. Many people at the time had so many similar dreams‚ mainly of having homes and families. These dreams were extremely important for people living in the 1930s America‚ because many people lost what they have because of the Great Depression in hopes of getting those things back. Curley’s

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    out of what he saw as too artificial. In John Green’s book‚ Paper Towns‚ Margo Roth Spiegelman‚ the main character’s curiosity and friend‚ talks about how a “paper town” to her is a superficial place‚ and artificial. Fake and uniform‚ too much like every other town around it. I think Chris is trying to say the same thing. People don’t often notice how similar they are. All working toward the same goal and desiring the same things. He leaves society because he is tired with what the world has become:

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    Does everybody dream? There are two types of dreaming. The type where you dream of swimming in the clear blue waters of Greece‚ or hiking Mt. Everest in the winter time. Everybody has dreams and plans of what they want to be‚ or what they want in life. And then there is the kind of dreaming as a person sleeps. A dream is a succession of images‚ ideas‚ emotions and sensations that occur in the mind during different stages of sleep. Have people ever thought that sometimes they do not dream? The brain

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    Courage is having enough bravery to do something out of the normal. Speak by Laurie Anderson is about Melinda Sordino struggling through freshman year‚ she called the cops during a summer party and is afraid to tell the truth of why she did. But once she does reveal the truth‚ everything changes. Courage pushes people go farther in life‚ helps people do things they don’t want to do‚ and makes change. Courage can help people do things they normally wouldn’t do‚ things that they once thought were too difficult

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    Honor- someone who did something to earn high respect. Honor to me is someone who put others first before thinking of themselves who is also respected. Albert Einstein is honored for the laws of nature he has discovered‚ which truly change the way we look at science. Einstein created one of the most famous known equations which is known as E = mc2. The equation says that mass (the m) can be converted to energy (and the E). A little mass can make a lot of energy‚ because mass is multiplied by c2

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    If life is but a dream‚ do we ever wake up? Or are dreams just a fragment of our imagination? Do they hold any relevance to our inner most desires and thoughts? Revealing one’s character or repressed feelings can be known by in our dreams. In the totalitarian society of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell‚ the main character Winston Smith relies on his subconscious mind to maintain his sanity. Winston works for the Party rewriting the past in a department called the Ministry of Truth

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    critical of her prejudice and view of others. Only strengthened by Wickham’s proposal and engagement to Lydia‚ Elizabeth continually reflects on how wrong she was about Wickham’s personality and continues to change thereafter‚ understanding that to avoid making the same mistake‚ she must immediately believe what she sees. Steadily‚ she becomes more critical of how other characters present themselves‚ and her own views of them‚ improving her ability to form opinions of others. The changes that have taken

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