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    The narrator’s credibility is very slim. The narrator makes false ideas and events‚ which would make an unreliable narrator. The narrator isn’t very clear on his surroundings. He doesn’t give us details like his age‚ when he was born or about his family. In the text of The Outsider it states “I cannot recall any person except myself; or anything alive but the noiseless rats and bats and spiders.” When the narrator talks he is not giving us the full view of his ideas. It’s hard to understand where

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    History of Braille Industrial Revolution By: Madeline Wren   My Industrial Revolution topic is about the evolution of Braille. The Braille system is a method that is used by people who are blind or visually impaired to read and write‚ and was the first digital form of writing. Braille was invented in 1825 by Louis Braille‚ a blind Frenchman. Before Louis Braille invented the Braille system we use today‚ a man named Abbe Hauy began inventing a way of reading and writing for the visually impaired

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    In “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver there are three unique characters all having their own side of the story the narrator’s name unknown‚ the narrator’s wife also unknown‚ and a blind man named Robert. Robert decides to take a small visit to the narrator’s wife‚ and husbands home to catch up. The narrator is not blind; he can see everything now he thinks he is more superior than Robert. The narrator is jealous because Robert truly listens to the wife so therefore the have a deeper connection‚ more so

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    SCRIPT – ABR 1st SCENE ------------------------------------------------- Characters: Adrian – Reporter Erica – Crazy woman Daniel – Scientist Adrian: Good Afternoon everyone. And welcome to the SNF (showbiz news future) show wherein we bring you tomorrow’s news today! And this is your host‚ yours truly‚ Adrian Abunda. Today‚ we have a very important guest. He is a well-known scientist‚ physicist‚ inventor and biotechnologist‚ who is currently working on some major-major scientific projects

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    Why Do People In Vietnam

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    Over here you really get to see what people are made of Danny. You get to see how shallow people are‚ how weak they are. How strong they can be in horrible moments and then how the people you should be looking up to are hiding‚ and you have to look out for them instead of the other way around. You get to really see what a person is made of. Over there in Vietnam I learned to read people. I know what they’re going to do before they do it because I experience the same things over and over. After seeing

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    Determination is The Key to Changing the World We see incredible things happen from incredible people every day‚ however these great things don’t just grow on trees‚ this is the one word that summarizes how they happen : determination. Teen activists are some of those incredible people‚ and you might be surprised that they’re just kids. To do those incredible things they need one thing‚ determination. Because the work that they do is anything but easy. Teen activists are determined to make one aspect

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    Discuss the qualities that Erik Weihenmayer in “Blindly He Goes…Up” and Uncle Jim in “Versabraille” share in facing their challenges In today’s society nothing seems impossible and every day there are incredible people who are doing incredible things. In the stories “Blindly He Goes Up” by Steve Rushin and “Versabraille” by Bill Schermbrucker‚ both Erik Weihenmayer and uncle Jim are blind‚ but they still manage to accomplish tasks every day. Erik Weihenmayer makes the impossible possible by being

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    Meghan Taner Mrs. Elms English 9‚ Block B 12 September 2014 Blinded From Jealousy The wife from the fable “The Blue Eyes”‚ by Isak Dinesen‚ is a lady that is caught up in her jealousy and greed that she is blind to the obvious. For example‚ the wife in the story is constantly jealous of the figurehead on her husband’s boat‚ “You think more of the figure-head than of me”‚ she said to him. “No”‚ he answered‚ “I think so highly of her because she is like you‚ yes‚ because she is you yourself. Is

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    The story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver is about one man’s understanding and acceptance of a blind man. The narrator represents the story’s dominant theme of overcoming prejudice of the blind through personal experience as well as mutual respect. The narrator‚ who remains nameless‚ holds deeply unfounded beliefs and stereotypes of what a blind person should be‚ yet over a relatively short period of time he develops a bond with the blind man‚ whom at first he privately mocked. The narrator’s preconceived

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    The Reflection of The Story Cathedral Geniel Arnold Introduction to Literature Wanda Deffenbough June 13‚ 2010 This paper is going to be about the story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver (1981) (as cited in Clugston‚ 2010‚ section 8.3). This story is about two men teaching each other to see. The story starts out with the narrator‚ who is the husband‚ talking about how a friend of his wife ’s is coming to visit. He then talks about how she met this friend and when. It was about ten years

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