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    CRISIS World War One broke out in 1914. As a loyal ally to Great Britain‚ Canada became involved instantly. Prime Minister Robert Borden declared that "when Great Britain is at war‚ Canada is at war‚ and there is no difference at all." (Historica). Some nations had more soldiers than Canada. Volunteers were becoming harder to find. When Borden returned home‚ he was convinced of the need to establish a forced conscription system. The system forced men into service at the battlefront

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    In the book‚ Lizzie and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt‚ Willis and Turner don’t get along very well‚ but as Mrs. Elia Hurd gets moved into the house for the feeble minded‚ they find a friendship. Willis and Turner start to connect because they both like Mrs. Hurd‚ they both like Baseball and they both want to be special and set aside from the normal. Baseball was very popular back then and it was a way to show who how cool you are‚ When Turner moved to Phippsburg‚ he didn’t make quite an

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    ROBERT BORDEN When WW1 started in 1914‚ Britain controlled Canada’s foreign policy. As the war raged‚ Canadians disagreed over Canada’s future role in the British Empire. But some people sided with the Conservative Prime Minister Robert Borden‚ who wanted Canada to remain in the British Empire. His government used Propaganda to keep Canadian patriotism at a high pitch‚ during the War. To maintain the strength and numbers at the front lines‚ Prime Minster Robert Borden passed the Military Service

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    Facing Your Fears: Becoming an Over Comer: By Lizzie Ducking- In the book of Job Chapter Three verse Twenty-Five it states‚ for the thing I greatly feared has come upon me‚ and what I dreaded has happened to me. I’m pretty sure that Job spoke his fears and by doing so it came upon him. In other words‚ he spoke it into existence. Is there a different between Job and us? No if we do what he did. If we speak our fears‚ it’ll come upon us just like it did him. When I say speak it I mean to speak it

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    Compare and contrast “Lizzie‚ Six” by Duffy with “Quetzals only come once” by Pugh. In the poem “Lizzie‚ Six” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ a young girl is being questioned by an abusive adult. Every time the child answers‚ the adult gives a negative or threatening response‚ in an almost cruelly sarcastic manner. Similarly‚ the poem “Quetzals only come once” by Sheenagh Pugh describes a young child speaking to an adult. The adult‚ whom we are told is the child’s mother‚ is creating shapes through a

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    and heroes are the fabric of human culture. These sides of good and evil are seen in books‚ films‚ and everywhere in-between. For example‚ an iconic figure in American pop culture is the superhero‚ Superman. On the other side‚ villains such as Lizzie Borden‚ and the narrator from The Tell-Tale Heart allude to humanities dark side. The significance of villains and heroes are they encompass society’s hopes and fears. The rise of a hero represents a possible bright future‚ but an evil villain entails

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    Blood Relations Notes * Make us feel sympathy for Lizzie * Actress (Nance O’Neil) was believed by Emma to have a bad reputation for Lizzie * 6 years after Jekyll and Hyde * Major Theme – Oct 25 * Identity + identification (sympathy) * “What goes around comes around” **MAJOR THEME * Circularity + repetition + reciprocity * Justice * Criticism of how the domestic is overlooks * Gender/social expectations and critique * Related

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    participate in sexual practices that are not in alliance with commonly held notion of heterosexuality. The focus of this paper will be to use Nikki Sullivan’s writing‚ A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory in order to identify the ways in which Lizzie Borden’s 1986 film Working Girls‚ ‘queers’ heterosexuality. Analyzing heterosexuality through Sullivan’s writings and Borden’s film‚ allows for the universal understanding of heterosexuality to be challenged. Heterosexuality is consistent with

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    Rodeo‚ two other de Mille ballets are performed on a regular basis‚ Three Virgins and a Devil (1934) adapted from a tale by Giovanni Boccaccio‚ and Fall River Legend (1948) based on the life of Lizzie Borden. Jerome Robbins: He was an American theater producer‚ director‚ and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance. Among the numerous stage productions he worked on were

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    others but it’s not enough to make them aggressive‚ DNA is only one piece of the puzzle. James Fellow has studied violent killers‚ when he found inside his own family history there has been 12 killers over three century’s‚ in fact Lizzie Borden is a cousin. He had his own brain scanned and found his brain scanned like those of killers. The difference was he had a very positive and lovely childhood‚ his environment was

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