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    Another man is is chasing the victim up the street. Jason begins to cry and sit their because he doesn’t know what’s going on. BANG BANG BANG. Jason is on the porch dead covered in blood next to the man that was shot by the suspect. Mann is affected by status everytime he gets in trouble he is thrown on the porch. As soon as he touches the porch he freaks out and says” i can’t breathe.” when he says that him and his mother began to cry. Regardless of the fact‚

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    Titurel‚ was entrusted with the Holy Grail‚ the vessel that caught Jesus’s blood‚ and the Lance of Longinus. A magician‚ Klingsor‚ wanted to enter the temple that Titurel made‚ but was refused. In retaliation‚ Klingsor made a garden of seductive maidens‚ and was thus the ruin of many noble knights. Amfortas had lost the Lance of Longinus when he was wounded in the attack against Klingsor’s

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    lesbianism in the Victorian context. Indeed‚ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu condemns the narrow-minded conception of women’s sexuality during the Victorian age through the use of three typical characters of Gothic literature: a femme fatale‚ a persecuted maiden‚ and a hero. By presenting Carmilla as the typical femme fatale of Gothic literature‚ Le Fanu portrays the image of the liberal woman of the Victorian era. To begin with‚ Carmilla

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    AJANTA CAVES INTRODUCTION  Ajanta Caves (Ajiṇṭhā leni; Marathi) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra‚ India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE.[1] The caves include paintings and sculptures described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as "the finest surviving examples of Indian art‚ particularly painting"‚[2]which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art‚ with figures of the Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales

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    illuminates the unrealistic and prejudiced stereotypes in age-old fairy tales‚ stereotypes inadvertently etched on the minds of millions of children. Sexton uses a conversational tone that remains oblivious to the initial hardships of the “rags to riches” maiden to highlight the insignificance and passiveness of women and the influential and dominant character of men. She conveys to the world’s audience of fairy tale lovers the blatant inequality in “Cinderella‚” showing that this model fairy tale simply

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    2: Account of Benjamin Harrison’s "front porch campaign‚" October 12‚ 1888 4. Analyze ways in which a front porch campaign contributed to the positive image of a candidate. It creates an image the public can view. 5. How did front porch campaigns avoid the appearance of aggressive campaigning? It shows the politician is open to the public. 6. What conclusions can you draw from the behavior of the public at Harrison’s house? Harrison’s House was a front for a front porch campaign. Document 3: Joseph Ferdinand

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    The novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ is told from Scout’s point of view‚ and because of that‚ the novel is told through a filter of innocence‚ as Scout is a young‚ naïve girl. Societal views have not affected her much at her young age. However‚ throughout the story‚ the filter begins to fade‚ as she has realizations that changes her viewpoints on people and ideas. Scout becomes more mature in the process‚ in the way that she understands more. Scout’s innocence contributes to how the story

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    Stephen Crane and Gwendolyn Brooks “Do Not Weep Maiden for War Is Kind” a poem by Stephen Crane is written in a way that reveals how war is an atrocious creature through verbal irony. In “The Sonnet-Ballad” by Gwendolyn brooks‚ she portrays death as a flirtatious lady. Both of these authors do an extraordinary job in using imagery and irony to sketch their thoughts about death and war. Through the use of imagery Brooks characterizes the coquettish death and how her loved one was fooled into betraying

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    choice argues that although this may have happened years ago the pain is still persists and hurts the man like it was yesterday. The word choice also indicates that Annabel Lee might have been apart of a hierarchy. She lived in a kingdom‚ was called maiden‚ and when she was taken away from her lover it was described as “So that her highborn kinsmen came.” (line 17) Poe uses alliteration often in this poem. It gives the poem a smooth flow. Examples of alliteration can be found stanza 4 (line 25-26) “That

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    INTRO Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. Ajanta dates from 100 B.C. while Ellora is younger by some 600 years. The village of Ajanta is in the Sahyadri hills‚ about 99 kms. From Aurangabad; a few miles away in a mammoth horseshoe-formed rock‚ are 30 caves overlooking a gorge‚ `each forming a room in the hill and some with

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