Recently‚ an artist appropriated Wall Street’s Charging Bull and added a statue which changed the very nature of the installment. While this in itself is not revolutionary‚ the fact that an image can be spread so quickly is. Viral photos of “Fearless Girl” were spread through the web even before anyone knew anything about it‚ where it came from or why it was there. It popped up on Snapchat‚ Instagram and other forms of social media. Millions of people saw the image and equated it with surrounding current
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Symbol | Meaning | Example | | delete | | | close up | | | delete and close up | | | caret | | | insert a space | | | space evenly | | | let stand | | | transpose | | | used to separate two or more marks and often as a concluding stroke at the end of an insertion | | | set farther to the left | | | set farther to the right | | | set as ligature (such as ) | | | align horizontally | | | align vertically | | | broken character | | |
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The Conch and Civilization The conch in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a symbol of civilization. Both the conch and civilization are fragile‚ vital‚ and extremely intricate. At first‚ the conch is respected‚ but throughout the course of the novel it slowly loses its value. Eventually‚ the conch is smashed to pieces along with civilization. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies‚ the conch is valued by all of the boys because civilization is still fresh in their minds. For instance‚ when
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6 years old Kudanta‚ a girl from Sahel‚ Africa‚ has to travel back and forth 8km to get one bucket of water for her family. The Earth is drying up‚ and the more it does‚ the life expectancy of the Earth decreases‚ and nobody can ever predict it. Climate change is the greatest environmental threat humanity has ever faced and the biggest challenge. No one knows how much warming is safe‚ but we do know that climate change has already harmed people and ecosystems around the globe; seasons are shifting
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remember‚ I always had more guy friends than girl friends. I am not sure if girls intimidated me‚ or if I just got along better with boys. Hearing this from a girl might sound strange. Being older‚ I realize the reason I prefer to surround myself with boys is because they can be more laid back and less dramatic. While I do have a couple of close girl friends now‚ I still have a bigger group of close guy friends. Middle school is when I first realized how mean girls could be‚ forming cliques and teasing
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Why did WW2 Start so soon after WW1? WW2 began very soon after WW1 ended‚ this was due to many reasons and problems but some of them played a big part in the outburst of WW2. In this essay I will explain the main reasons that WW2 started so fast after WW1. After WW1 European economies were unstable and in great loss‚ but a boom in the USA throughout the 1920s sustained worldwide trade although in 1929 stock market crashed resulting in a great depression in the world and its roots all began in
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Boys and Girls – Gender Stereotyping in Society Throughout our lives‚ society attempts to place rules on us as to who we are and who we will become dependent on whether we are a boy or a girl. We must decide ourselves whether to accept these rules and follow the image society has set for us based on our gender‚ or whether to go against these rules and create our own self-image of who we want to be. In Alice Munro’s “Boy’s and Girl’s” Munro shows that a person’s experiences and relationships
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Symbols are useful tools authors often use to allow the reader to track characters’ changes throughout a novel. In Lord of the Flies‚ author William Golding’s extensive use of symbolism allows readers to easily track the change in the characters‚ their personalities‚ and their morals. The novel begins when a plane crashes on an unknown island where boys are left with no adults to lead them; a eboy named Ralph steps up with the help of his intellectual ‘Piggy’ to help the boys survive and‚ eventually
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Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” both use symbols to highlight significant meanings in the characters’ lives. This essay will examine two differences and one similarity in the authors’ use of symbols: * O’Connor uses a gun to symbolize fear‚ whereas Munro uses a gun to characterize shame. * O’Connor uses a specific animal to signify death‚ while Munro uses a specific animal to represent freedom. * In both stories‚ the house symbolizes
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‘Run Lars! Run!’ Lars played those words over and over in his head as he slept. They are the last words his dad said to him before he was killed. He had been a Christian pastor‚ and because Caesar Augustus did not follow Christianity‚ it was wrong. And as a result Lars’s dad was murdered. And Lars has no idea where he is now. All he could see were loads of men sleeping in a large prison like room. “Where am I?” Lars whispered to himself. “We’re in a training camp.” The voice was so quiet that Lars
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