one teacher who saved all of his students by giving them more time due to fighting back. Although people think it is insane to fight against a gunman‚ doing something is better than doing nothing. The Alert‚ Lockdown‚ Inform‚ Counter‚ and Evacuate (ALICE) lockdown drill is the new and improved way for students and faculty to respond utilizing more options. Implementing this program in schools throughout the United States will decrease the number of fatalities in active shooter situations because most
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different letters and writings from More and his various acquaintances. More recent biographies have begun to clean the names of Jane and Alice More. Renaissance biographers like William Roper and Nicholas Harpsfield criticized Alice More in their biographies‚ while biographers from the early twentieth century like Percy Allen have criticized both Jane and Alice More for being disobedient and shrewish towards Sir Thomas More. Recent historians like Retha Warnicke have sought out to distinguish the
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In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use‚” Mama‚ the narrator of the story‚ is rather distant with her daughter Dee and dreams about reconciling with her on a television show. Specifically‚ she imagines Dee expressing gratitude for all that she has done for her‚ while embracing her (Mama) “with tears in her eyes (Walker 315).” It is obvious that Mama doesn’t understand her daughter’s life choice to adopt an African lifestyle and feels that Dee is rejecting her origins and family. Furthermore‚ the reader can
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Love: The Person That Will Ruin One’s Life A common thread connecting all of William Shakespeare’s works is love and sight. Many of Shakespeare’s poems‚ sonnets‚ and plays deal with love and how it can be a guiding force. He wrote love poems and romantic plays about what happens when people are in love. FLUFFFFFFF (insert transition) sight is also a prevalent aspect of Shakespeare’s works‚ because he often mentions the different ways things can be perceived‚ and uses the perspectives of characters
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The comparative study between Jane Austen’s 19th century fictional novel‚ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and Fey Weldon’s 1984 epistolary text ‘Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen’‚ allows intertextual connections between the two texts to be developed and an understanding of how values can be affected by different contexts. The concepts of the education and accomplishments of women and their position in society are demonstrated in both Austen and Weldon’s text in relation to their corresponding
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In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ the novel portrays predominantly wealthy‚ Caucasian characters. There are no African American or other ethnicities present in the novel. Unlike Pride and Prejudice‚ however‚ Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is bursting with altogether unusually illustrated ethnicities. Although both were written before the 20th century‚ there is an obvious difference in the use (or lack thereof) of diversity and ethnicities. In Pride and Prejudice‚ all characters are Caucasian
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emotions‚ after experiencing pity‚ fear‚ and shock. In Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles uses the contrast between sight and blindness to reveal the complexities and self-inflicting irony of the protagonist‚ Oedipus.
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Tim Burton’s recent success‚ Alice in Wonderland‚ has taken thousands by storm. Burton’s typical flair and unique directing style entwine to effectively produce a modern take on the original mystical fantasy novel. Burton depicts Alice’s emotional journey as she struggles to find herself within domineering expectations of the society in which she lives. Burton’s 3-D fantasy successfully produced over $110 million‚ making this production his greatest feature film. Disturbed by a strange reoccurring
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Ngan T. Nguyen (Jasmine) Intro to Psychology Professor Joan Ostrove February 16‚ 2014 “Sight Unseen” – the window into the blind’s world I spent the last weekends enjoying the book “Sight Unseen‚” the interesting account of the blindness and sight by Georgina Kleege. The introduction struck me with that clear and strong statement: “Writing this book made me blind” (Kleege 1). Then‚ Kleege explained‚ writing this book helps her reflect not only how little she actually can see but also how sighted
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Imagine walking on a soft‚ moist bed of white sand. The cool breeze is gently blowing‚ the chirping of the birds flying around can be heard in the background. As you look down in the smooth white sand‚ slightly discolored by the cool‚ crystal clear water from the ocean‚ you see thin‚ snakelike trails in the sand left behind by the gentle erosion from the waves. Ahead of you in the distance is a wet‚ dark‚ wooden pier that appears to grow out of the shoreline and enters into the ocean. You stop to
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