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    Is Seeing Really Believing? Supernatural according to dictionary.com is being above or beyond what is natural‚ unexplainable by natural law or phenomena‚ or abnormal. Shakespeare uses the supernatural in many ways in Macbeth‚ one of which is as foreshadowing‚ secondly he uses it he uses it as Macbeth’s guilty conscience‚ and thirdly he uses apparitions to show what is yet to come. Fear of the unknown is represented by the supernatural in the play because it is not always understood what is taking

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    2010 Seeing Comes First One of the most important senses that we human have is the ability to see things. We see the image of the object first before the image is send to our brain and processes it. The essay “Ways of Seeing”‚ written by John Berger took art as an example‚ to show the way how modern people view art and the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day society. The way people now a day perceives an art image is different than the way it was seen

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    how to take care of the child he was not very happy about it either. The child’s grandfather says that since Victor saved the boy and the child’s parents died in their home fire Victor was to take care of the child. Victor feels as if that is just a way for the grandfather to get out of taking care of the child. At the time of the child’s birth‚ his mother gave him a name but Victor was unable to say the name so Victor as well as everybody else called him James. As you read this story/journal

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    glad to get you back ag’in‚ honey." I says: "All right--that’s mighty good; they won’t find me‚ and they’ll think I’ve been killed‚ and floated down the river--there’s something up there that’ll help them think so--so don’t you lose no time‚ Jim‚ but just shove off for the big water as fast as ever you can." I never felt easy till the raft was two mile below there and out in the middle of the Mississippi. Then we hung up our signal lantern‚ and judged that we was free and safe once more. I hadn’t

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    The Struggle…Is Real I’ve been reading about the hatred in South Africa with apartheid and being treated unfairly. According to Mark Mathabane‚ ways hatred can be treated in South Africa is to follow under the lead of Nelson Mandela. Mark Mathabane stated in the article that “Hatred can be vanquished by humanity”. Which is true because taking out all your hate with violence doesn’t do anything but cause more problems. Mathabane also states in the article “Under the leadership of Nelson

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    In the first extract (Huckleberry Finn) Twain shows the theme of escapism by describing how Huck fakes his own death in an attempt to escape from civilization. In the second extract (Catcher in the Rye) Salinger shows the theme as escapism as Holden is running away from Pencey to go into a Hotel for a few days. Salinger shows that Holden is emotional about staying and leaving Pencey as he had got the ‘ax again’. ‘It made me too sad and lonesome’. This quote shows that Salinger is trying to portray

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    iodide has been converted to iodine (1) (with correct use and spelling of iodide and iodine) The 1st experiment shows that bromine is more reactive than iodine (1) The 2nd experiment shows that chlorine is more reactive than bromine (1) Accept 1 mark for 2nd and 3rd marking points if the correct reactivity order of chlorine > bromine > iodine has been stated. 3 (ii) Br2 + 2I–  2Br– + I2 (1) 1 [4] 3. add AgNO3/Ag+

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    Without Seeing the Dawn A novel by Steven Javellana (summary) The novel "Without Seeing the Dawn" first published in 1947‚ is set in a small farming village called Manhayang‚ Sta. Barbara‚ somewhere in Negros. Like most rural baranggays‚ the hardworking and closely-knit village folk there had simple needs‚ simple wants‚ and simple dreams. They were living their own simple lives when the violence of war reached their place and brought death to their village‚ their homes and their hearts.

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    What does the Mississippi river symbolize throughout the story? The river is a symbol of freedom in Huck’s journey to New Orleans. In the beginning of the story‚ the river was a form transportation in order to escape captivity. “I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds‚ and so was Jim to get away from the swamp...We said there warn’t no home like a raft‚ after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery‚ but a raft don’t.(Twain 18.6)” To Huck‚ the river portrays life without rules

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    underlines are points needing nonspecific revisions‚ and red italics are commentary.) I know I’m pretty harsh‚ but just remember if I didn’t want you to do well I would do less… Comparative Critique: Ways of Seeing by John Berger and There is no Unmarked Woman by Deborah Tannen Once upon a time‚ (I’d stay way from this… perhaps) a group of dodo birds inhabited an island in the Indian Ocean. The men (males—men refers to humans) were large and colorful with fearless attitudes(‚) while the women (smaller

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