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    which can quite often lead to revolution. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez‚ four sisters Minerva‚ Patria‚ Mate‚ and Dede revolt against Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo‚ in hopes of making their country a better place. When power given is used unjustly‚ citizens are forced to resist‚ this can be reflected through literature‚ history‚ as well as personal experience. In Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of The Butterflies‚ Minerva Mirabal

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    Another winner of the National Youth Arts Artist of the Year Award‚ Julia Davis is a staple at the Musical Theatre of Anthem. Some of her favorite roles in the past couple of years have been Cosette in Les Miserables‚ Jellylorum/Griddlebone in CATS‚ Cinderella in Into The Woods‚ Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat‚ Carrie in Carrie the Musical‚ and Ronnette in Little Shop of Horrors. She has won Upscale Singer’s Scholarship awards for both 2013 and 2014 and was runner-up for

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    Lizzy Rosa LCS Book Review Summary: In the Time of the Butterflies is an award-winning book written by Julia Alvaraz‚ a famous Latina writer. This is the story of the four Mirabal sisters during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The sisters make a political commitment to overthrow the Trujillo regime. Throughout the book you can see the family being prosecuted‚ humiliated‚ tortured and imprisoned‚ all for going against the government in secrecy. When they are caught

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    Give me Liberty The theme of liberty is a common value‚ which has always inflamed human’s hearts in all historic events. But what do we mean by liberty? It is a complex concept‚ but in this essay we will sum up this idea as the ability to do no matter when or what without any abusif oppression of someone else. People are always ready to defend this abstract concept with words and‚ if necessary‚ guns. However‚ even if this idea of liberty is common to everyone‚ it does not mean that everybody have

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    On October 9th‚ 2012‚ then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a speech to Parliament in reaction to the movement of Tony Abbott‚ the Leader of the Opposition‚ to have Peter Slipper removed as Speaker‚ due to some sexist and crude texts. She uses appeal to logos and ethos‚ second person pronouns‚ and ad hominem—yes‚ a logical fallacy‚ but one that has proven to be very influential to political audiences—to persuade her audience to discredit Abbott and understand her reasoning for defending

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    I am a police officer and more times than not‚ I find myself dealing with school ages kids. Usually they range between the ages of 13-18. Most of the time I feel like a counselor because when we deal with juveniles‚ the juvenile judicial system has tied our hands in what they will incarcerate a juvenile for‚ so we usually give them a stern talking to and release them back to the custody of their parents. I also work closely with the middle and high school administrators. Sometimes we are in the

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    Kerr Connections 10 7 October 2014 Liberty University (L.U.) Liberty University started out by a preacher‚ Dr.Jerry Falwell‚ challenging his congregation to establish a Christian college in Lynchburg‚ Virginia. That challenge became Lynchburg Baptist College. In 1975‚ Lynchburg Baptist College changed to Liberty Baptist College. In 1980‚ the college became fully accredited with the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Liberty is the seventh largest university

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    In the “Hunter” by Julia Leigh a man goes into the wilderness to hunt the mysterious Tasmanian tiger. The story is about the inexplicable thylacine and it is set in the wilderness of Tasmania. The story is told in third person‚ and it is in present tense it is a simple story. Leigh’s central character‚ Martin Davis is sent to Tasmania to harvest a rare and elusive species he is hired by a pharmaceutical company to hunt the last thylacine cat‚ an animal many believe to be extinct. His journey brings

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    Julia Kristeva’s quotation from Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia provides an interesting piece of observation in regards to the rampant depression apparent throughout literature. Kristeva points out that melancholy and depression can send writers into an “abyss of sorrow‚” (Kristeva). However‚ she believes that so long as a writer avoids collapsing into the “noncomunicable grief‚” (Kristeva)‚ extraordinarily powerful pieces of literature can rise from ashes of depression. The melancholy experienced

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    Thought and Discussion: On Liberty of Thoughts and Discussion By: Pamela Noble For: Professor Brad Bell Ethics and Media‚ The Arts and Society Excelsior College August 11‚ 2013 Thoughts and Discussion: On the Liberty of Thought and Discussion Abstract In the second chapter of John Stuart Mill’s essay‚ On Liberty‚ Mill presents reasons why he believes silencing people ’s opinions‚ even if there is only one person with a particular opinion‚ impedes the ability of people to make truly

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