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    Turkestan tapestries rich‚/ all broidered and bordered with the best gems” (5.76-78). Daisy and Jordan‚ both East Eggers are wearing extravagant dresses and live in beautiful homes. Although both East Eggers and Camelot courtiers share a love for materialism they are very different personality-wise. Camelot courtiers such as Gawain are very dedicated to their code of chivalry and value chastity. This is found when Gawain refuses Lady Bertilak’s advance. On the other hand‚ Tom Buchanan cheats on Daisy

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    Since The Sierra Club was continuing to expand‚ the organization in cooperation with David Brower‚ a nature photographer‚ released a book in the 1960’s called This Is the American Earth. This exhibit book was created in order to spread awareness of environmental preservation and conservation. Despite the book being published over fifty years ago‚ the text still manages to hold its original impact and meaning on environmental protection. This Is the American Earth is also credited for spawning the

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    Feminism is equality. Feminism is women and men on an identical playing field. Feminism‚ to me‚ is the right and the fight for women to be equal to men. Feminism is mostly acknowledged as an ideology‚ but it is incorporating these ideologies into one ’s lifestyle that will facilitate a change. One does not just think feminism‚ one is feminism. I believe that through feminism‚ through women acknowledging the issues‚ putting in the effort to ignite change‚ and uniting as one regardless of race or class

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    Brandon Lewis Whoever Fights Monsters Book Review The book‚ co-authored by Tom Scachtman‚ is about the development and application of serial killer profiling techniques in the 1970s and 80s and details Ressler’s FBI career and his personal dealings with some of America’s serial killers including John Wayne Gacy‚ Edmund Kemper‚ Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. The story is told by one of its main participants‚ Robert Ressler‚ who largely developed the art of serial killer profiling. Ressler was profiling

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    Mental Disorders A mental disorder is a mental or behavioral pattern‚ is an anomaly that causes distress and disability. Mental disorders are defined by a combination of how a person feels‚ acts and thinks‚ according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)‚ over a third of people in most countries have problems at some time in their life (diagnosis of one or more of the common types of mental disorders)‚ and the causes of mental disorders in some cases are unclear. According to: http://en.wikipedia

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    Club Foot

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    Clubfoot is defined as a congenital foot deformity characterized by a kidney shaped foot that turns inward and points down. The forefoot is curved inward‚ the heel is bent inward‚ and the ankle is fixed in planter flexion with the toes pointing down. Shortened tendons on the inside of the lower leg‚ together with abnormally shaped bones that restrict movement outwards cause the foot to turn inwards. A tightened Achilles tendon causes the foot to point downwards. The medical term for clubfoot

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    has been treated very fairly in the past because of his race. This caused the black lives matter movement to start back up again‚ which created even more controversy over this already controversial subject. He isn’t against the military because they fight for our liberty and justice which is the reason why he didn’t stand in the first place. Although I can see why someone wouldn’t support what he did‚ I don’t think he was in the wrong for standing up for what he believes in. Kaepernick claimed that

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    I was in eighth grade the first time I watched The Breakfast Club. My cousins and I had gone to our local video store and were trying to pick something out. I was looking at Harry Potter and The Hunger Games‚ anything that had strong special effects and a huge plot. My cousins on the other hand went to look at the classics. That is when they found it‚ The Breakfast Club. I was skeptical at first‚ due to the age and how simple it looked‚ but they ended up convincing me. We went back to my house and

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    being well liked lead him to end his life‚ and his life depicts the dangers of a consumerist society. Miller has revealed that The Death of a Salesman is based on his uncle‚ a man who live a wayward life driven by materialism. This shows that consumerism affects each one of us‚ as materialism and consumerism is directly linked‚ it may take over our entire lives. Studies show that a middle class family own on average‚ $20000 worth of ‘unnecessary’ machinery and materials‚ or machines the families think

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    appreciate other social concepts. Perhaps an ideal of “belonging” is most clearly seen‚ when it is contrasted with a sense of exclusion; of alienation. The poems “migrant hostel” and “Feliks Skrzynecki” by Peter Skrzynecki‚ the movie “The breakfast club” by john Huges and “the angry kettle” by Ding Xiaoqi demonstrate this challenge to a sense of belonging and how it can have personal impacts. “Migrant hostel” voice the hardship experienced by the personas family in an attempt to fit into the Australian

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