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    How can a war between one state be called a “civil” war? How can it be “civil” if people are beheading‚ blowing up and starving each other? How can a country let another larger country divide its people like that? In Half of a Yellow Sun‚ Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie writes about the Biafran War‚ or Nigerian Civil War. Adichie recounts this through the lenses of the Igbo people trying to secede to create their own state of Biafra. Adichie wrote this with a political purpose‚ one of the four motives of

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    Running Head: THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF THE SUN AND THE MOON The Similarities and Differences of the Sun and the Moon Kelsey Linder Marion Technical College The Similarities and Differences of the Sun and the Moon The solar system is one of the very first things that a child will learn about in school. Children will learn why there is night and day‚ why there are seasons‚ the different shapes of the moon‚ and all of that important stuff that is

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    As I read and studied the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ it really engaged me and exposed so many issues that were relevant in black Chicago of the late 1950’s. The play written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is about the Youngers‚ a black family living in poverty in the slums of Chicago. There is segregation at this time. They are faced with a big decision on how to spend the $10‚000 of insurance money that was left to Lena the matriarch of the family by her late husband. After an encounter with the

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    our history not only in Vietnam but also on home ground. Gary’s Paulsen’s short story‚ “Stop the Sun” has a character dealing with Vietnam Syndrome‚ now known as PTSD. His behaviors confuse his son‚ Terry‚ and Terry tries to help his dad. In this story Paulsen uses figurative and literal examples to illustrate the impact of life after the war. For this reason I prefer and enjoyed reading “Stop the Sun” more than Tim O’Brien’s‚ “The Things They Carried”. Some of the figurative examples Paulsen uses

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    Yolanda Meneses Mrs. Toth P.6 November 29‚ 2012 Temple of the Sun By Jorge Perez De Lara Archaeology November/December 2005 Thinking about Mexico’s Pre-Columbian past one might think about the enormous Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan. In 1905‚ is when Mexico had their first official excavation. The nation’s icon has also helped mirror how the country itself has changed and developed over the years. The Pyramid of the Sun is one of the tallest structures in the Americas. Teotihuacan was

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    A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is a play that portrays the life of the Younger’s‚ a poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The play opens as Mama‚ the elder of the family‚ is waiting for a $10‚000 insurance check from the death of her husband. Once the check arrives‚ the family struggles to decide how best to use it‚ but every adult member of the Younger family has their own idea as to how they think the money should be used. As the play progresses

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    In this play A Raisin in the Sun‚ shows a lot of gender difference and by being a female or a male they are to act and do things a certain way. Walter is the only male adult in the house. He is a strong hearted man who believes that everything he wants to do should be supported by his wife‚ sister and mother‚ but the way he acts just makes them not want to support him. For example‚ Walter has this idea of going into business to build up his own liquor store with the money his mother is getting from

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    A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about the Youngers‚ a poor black family living in the south side of Chicago. They all have dreams and aspirations. In some cases‚ their dream is so powerful that it is about to explode and in other cases‚ they let their dream lay dormant‚ but every member of the family does have a dream. In the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ Walter‚ Beneatha and Mama are dreaming about a better life in the future; through the achievement and failure of their dreams

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    The play "A Raisin In The Sun"‚ by Lorraine Hansberry is a perfect embodiment of the Langston Hughes’ poem "A Raisin In the Sun" because each of the characters experiences the reality of their dreams being too big to achieve in a country dominated by the white Americans. One of the earliest and most obvious examples of this is Walter Younger‚ who feels misunderstood throughout most of the play. For Walter‚ everything has always been about money and he believes that wealth is the solution to everything

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    0817 General Assessment of Sunchips’ test market results. Pros A pro would be that Frito-Lay knows where the majority of their sales are happening. Due to about 90 percent of them being in supermarkets and convenience stores. It is also a pro that they have determined what percentage of each size package and flavor they are selling. In addition they have also determined the percentage of cannibalization that will happen. Another pro is that the cumulative repeat percentage steadily rose every

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