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    del mar‚ Sarah Mae C. BSM I - A Reflection Paper: Intramurals 2012 Intramurals 2012 had the theme of: "Four Teams. One Goal. One Epic Olympics." This years event marks my first Intramurals as a student of UP Cebu. I was so excited for this event because in my previous school we didn’t have the facilities for sports so‚ our intramurals had very limited activities. Unfortunately I didn’t get to participate in any of the sports this year but‚ I did participate during the parade as a

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    William Faulkner’s rite of passage tale‚ “Barn Burning”‚ describes a young boys progressive move towards emancipation. Sarty‚ the young protagonist‚ begins to peel away from “the old fierce pull of blood” and towards a more moral lifestyle. (30) This change in character was motivated by factors that revolved around his family issues and natural sense of right and wrong. Furthermore‚ at the end of the passage there’s a sense of hope presented that gives light on what the boy’s future might entail

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    Barn Burning Question 1. Sarty is the protagonist. 2. The basis of his predicament is that Snopes is being tried in an alleged barn burning. But his son lies and says that his father didn’t burn the barn. 3. The most important conflicts in this story is the violence towards his son‚ and his various bosses that he has. This is important because there can be escalation of this violence and we see this when Snopes decides to burn the barn of his current employer‚ but doesn’t get the change‚ because

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    Before the 15th century the red river and the Mississippi river were two different rivers that were basically parallel to each other. During the 15th century however‚ the Mississippi river began to turn to the west and before too long it created a loops which would later be called the Turnbull’s Bend. Because the Mississippi turned and made that large loop‚ the Mississippi river intercepted the red river which had become a tributary of the Mississippi. In turn this caused the Atchafalaya river to

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    The theme of Prejudice is very powerful in “Coming of Age In Mississippi”‚ the obvious white vs. blacks but also light-skinned blacks vs. dark skinned blacks. The power of prejudice created a barrier for Anne Moody and affected her identity‚ especially when she is about to attend college. She contemplates going to Tougaloo College because of the fear of not fitting in with all of the light-skinned blacks and white teachers. It is almost like she is putting herself at a lower point than everyone else

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    This stanza is from the poem "Upon the burning of Our House" by Puritan woman and poet‚ Anne Bradstreet. In this poem‚ Bradstreet uses plain style and inversions to convey her relationship with God.Bradstreet finds the burning of her house justified and even says "Yea so it was‚ and so ’twas just‚" meaning the fire in her house was fine since‚ according to Puritan beliefs‚ God decides everything that happens Earth so it must have happened for a fair reason. Bradstreet believes that God owns everything

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    Now on the other side‚the point of view in Faulkner’s "Barn Burning" is a story with a third person limited omniscient narrator‚which means that the story is written in the third person‚ but that the narrative is focused on one character alone in this case its Sarty Snopes. This means we see everything from Sarty’s point of view and can see his feelings‚ thoughts and motives.The narrator is not a real live person in the story but rather a nonparticipant who can see into Sarty’s head. Maybe Faulkner

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    literature that portrays their religious values and beliefs; their life values. The Crucible‚ “Upon the Burning of Our Home”‚ and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”‚ are written by well known Puritans. The Puritans specifically believe that church and state should be separate‚ because they believed that they didn’t need a middleman to God and they could speak to Him themselves. “Upon the Burning of Our Home” is a poem about Anne Bradstreet waking up to her house being on fire. During this fire

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    Incineration for a Sustainable Future In the essay "Is Burning Trash a Good Way to Handle It?" Waste Incineration in 5 Charts‚" published in Open Washington Pressbooks‚ the author Ana Baptista raises awareness of the growing environmental and public health concerns connected to waste management. She argues that it’s an outdated waste management practice with a shrinking support base and that there is a better way to dispose of waste than by burning it. While the incineration plants currently used to

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    Running head: American Reasoning A Shift in American Reasoning The United States of America is a country full of people from various backgrounds and cultures. This nation contains a highly diverse population‚ the product of numerous waves of immigration from the early 15th Century to present day. (BBC News‚ 2011) Ethnic and racial diversity‚ known as the "melting pot"‚ is the core element of the American ideology. Like some countries‚ the United States

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