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    Ushers

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    The most common type of deaf-blindness disease in the world is Usher Syndrome. Usher Syndrome is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disease. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. Worldwide‚ the chance of a baby being born with Ushers Syndrome is approximately 1 in every 25‚000 babies. To date‚ there are roughly 50‚000 people with Ushers Syndrome living in the United States. As stated above‚ Ushers Syndrome is an inherited disease characterized by hearing impairment

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    A DOLL S HOUSE

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    In the play “A DOLL’S HOUSE”‚ we are presented with a very idealistic version of life in the late 1800’s‚ and along with that‚ the very confined roles both men and women were placed into. “A DOLL’S HOUSE” lends proof to the fact that women do not always enjoy the freedom to say‚ do and choose a lifestyle that they find fulfilling. The story that the play presents sheds a very domineering light on males as heads of households‚ and in society in general‚ and portrays women as dependent and subservient

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    A DOLL S HOUSE

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    A DOLL’S HOUSE As Modern Tragedy BY Henrick Ibsen _ Henrick Ibsen Father of Modern Drama _This play was written in 1879 in Italy. _The original language is Norwegian. _The setting is around the 1870s. _The themes are the sacrificial role of women‚ the unreliability of appearances‚ and parental and family obligations. _The symbols are New Year’s and Aristotle: According to Aristotle‚ a tragedy always centers around a high-ranking person‚ such as a noble or king. During the course of the play

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    The Doll s House

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    Katherine Nansfield “The Doll’s House” is short story that observes the class structure of the 1920s in New Zealand. Though the Burnells use the arrival of their doll’s house to show off to their friends and exclude the Kelveys‚ Kezia is able to see beyond the constrictive social structure and invites the Kelveys in regardless of their social background. An idea‚ presented in this story‚ that is relevant to people in today’s society is the innocence and imagination of youth contrasted with the cynicism

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    Burke Sublime Analysis

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    Burke would describe this image as sublime because of the power‚ vastness‚ and difficulty in which it represents. To be more specific‚ Burke believed that all things sublime hold some type of power. He says‚ “I know of nothing sublime which is not in some modification of power” (Cahn and Meskin 116). He also explains that the sublime must make us feel a type of fear. The sublime cannot just be strong and unable to hurt us. “Whenever strength is only useful‚ and employed for our benefit or our pleasure

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    The first references to physiognomy occur in the narrator’s initial description of Roderick Usher. The narrator discusses almost every distinct area of physiognomy‚ stating‚ “an eye large‚ liquid‚ and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model‚ but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin‚ speaking‚ in its want of prominence‚ of a want of moral energy; hair of a more

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    Edmund Burke gives us his version of the sublime in his book‚ "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." He links beauty with pleasure and sublimity with pain and terror. He views the beautiful as what is aesthetically pleasing and well formed. From Burke’s point of view‚ the sublime is not corporeal‚ it is a generated plethora of sensations that are attached to the experience of being in the presence of the sublime. There is a predominant feeling of astonishment

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    Noah's Apocalyptic Flood

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    God saw that the world had become an evil and corrupt place‚ so he decided to destroy mankind by creating an apocalyptic flood. However‚ God saw that one man‚ Noah‚ who was worthy among all of mankind to live. God told Noah to build an ark for him and his wife‚ three sons and his three sons wives‚ so that they could survive and prosper among the earth. God also told Noah to gather animals of all kinds but they had to be male and female of each kind. After building the ark ‚ Noah and his

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    My Grandma´S House

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    My grandmother´s house My favorite place has always been my grandmother´s house. This is the place I would have to go before and after school. I have always loved my grandma´s house because it made me feel safe and warm. There was a smell of coffee in the air all the times. It seemed to be like all my grandma did was make coffee. When I smell coffee‚ I instantly think of my grandma´s house. She lives on a street called Hillcrest. It is a beautiful street where each house seems to stand on its

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    Briefing COOK v. COOK Citation: The name of the case is Cook v. Cook. Rose Elsten is the plaintiff. Donald Cook is the defendant. The Arizona Supreme Court decided this case in 1984. The citation states that this case can be found in Volume 691 of the Pacific Reporter‚ Second Series starting on page 664. Facts: As Cook was finalizing his divorce‚ he and Elsten moved in together in 1969 to Arizona. They lived together for the next twelve years until 1981.They never married but Elsten used Cooks’ last

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