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    An ordinary morning‚ that’s all it was. At 7:00 I began my short walk‚ just two doors down‚ to my aunt’s house. She was a teacher and her son and I would drive in early with her before school began‚ as we had done all year. The sun was shining bright and my unadjusted eyes had to squint to see. It was a fairly warm day but with a chilly breeze. I could smell the dew from the grass and hear the constant call and answer of the bird’s chirps. I could still taste my breakfast of cereal and chocolate

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    modern society make life altering decisions on a daily basis. Women today have prestigious and powerful careers unlike in earlier eras. It is more common for women to be full time employees than homemakers. In 1879‚ when Henrik Ibsen wrote “A Doll ’s House”‚ there was great controversy over the outcome of the play. Nora’s walking out on her husband and children was appalling to many audiences centuries ago. Divorce was unspoken‚ and a very uncommon occurrence. As years go by‚ society’s opinions on

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    Lizzie Turovsky A Doll’s House The play‚ A Doll’s House‚ by Henrik Ibsen‚ showcases a traditional marriage of a middle class couple in the Victorian Era. The marriages in the late nineteenth century were severely confining; the woman’s role was to be nurturing and submissive‚ while the man’s was to be powerful in both his work and domestic life. Similarly to these traditional matrimonies‚ the marriage of the protagonists‚ Nora and Torvald‚ emphasizes the implausibility of individuals to both meet

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    Braden Jarrell Mr. Dengler English 1010 30 October 2013 The Most Advanced IPhone Yet Get connected with the best cell phone 2013 has to offer. The new IPhone 5s is the most advanced phone out‚ yet apple kept the new IPhone very simple. If you have been a previous iPhone user or apple user this phone would be perfect for you‚ but if you previously used an android the switch of software’s is a difference. The iPhone 5s is an all-around perfect and simple phone for anyone. The users of this

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    The Sublime Lending Fiasco that occurred in the United States was an‚ unfortunately‚ catastrophic example of how the misuse of money and power along‚ with a lack of ethical consciousness‚ can lead to a nation wide crisis that affects a unsettling large amount of innocent people. The mortgage investors involved in this fiasco are a prime example of how greedy and selfish behavior can undercut one’s ethical principles. These mortgage investors used their power to enhance their financial gains without

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    III. Douglass’s apocalyptic theology of Jubilee occasioned hope within an atmosphere of

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    breath of mankind? Post-apocalyptic literature is paradoxical‚ as it grounds itself in an event so catastrophic‚ so destabilizing‚ that mankind should not physically survive; yet‚ against all odds‚ it does. It is from this paradox which makes the genre so interesting‚ for in the process of crippling mankind‚ it clears away all restrictions and social constructions holding mankind from a completely natural state which it’s true affinity can be examined. In such‚ post-apocalyptic literature creates a

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    A Doll’s House In A Doll’s House by Henrick Ibsen‚ money symbolizes what some characters seek or have gotten into problems over. It seems that this whole play revolves around it and drama is created because of it. The common saying “money can’t buy happiness” is proven untrue in the beginning of this play when one of the main characters‚ Nora‚ is always joyous and perky when she convinces her husband to give her more money. Throughout this play‚ money forces characters to show their true selves

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    Mrs. Trosino American Literature Honor Period 7 May 10‚ 2013 Similarity in characters of apocalyptic novels. “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”- said Albert Camus‚ a French Nobel Prize winning author‚ journalist and philosopher. Post-apocalyptic fiction novels usually use the dystopia society‚ in which rules have changed and life get either better or worse. Main characters of post-apocalyptic novel usually reject the society‚ since authors want to give a message of objection against a current

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    their future and their father. This makes the little rich girls “wild with joy.” After Aunt Beryl abuses the Kelvey girls‚ shooing “the little rats” from the dollhouse in the courtyard‚ she happily hums as she returns to the house‚ her bad mood dispersed. “The Doll’s House” is

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