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    In‚”Lather and Nothing Else” a short story by Hernando Tellez explains a story about a barber who has an unexpected customer‚ Captain Torres‚ who needs a shave from his hard work of catching revolutionaries. The techniques used in the story are foreshadowing and internal conflict. The barber uses external movement and different reactions to what Torres does when the captain enters. The story shows foreshadowing and internal conflict to show suspense in the story. One way that Tellez uses foreshadowing

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    penalty are going higher than for those states that don’t. if a criminal wants to commit he/she will commit it and it doesn’t matter if he or she receives the death penalty a criminal is a criminal. Having the death penalty doesn’t matter for someone who doesn’t care about anything or anyone. Studies show that the death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison. The high costs of the death penalty are for complicated legal process to execute a person in the U.S with a big cost at

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    Losing Someone Close Losing a close person to you is like losing an important body part. Knowing someone is about to leave your side but you just don’t know when and what time of the day is scary. Checking on that person to make sure they still breathing and still responds when you call their name and conversations are good. My grandmother was a great woman. She’s a great definition of what a wife‚ mother‚ grandmother‚ survivor‚ and a supporter should be. Knowing it was almost her time to leave

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    to introduce a new concept: the block of instructions. A block of instructions is a group of instructions separated by semicolons (;) but grouped in a block delimited by curly bracket signs: { and}. Different conditional structure: a. if and else statement The general decision making capability in C++ is provided by the if statement. The format of this statement is | if (expression) program statement | You will see what sort of `expression’ you need to use in the following section

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    become a hero‚ you had to murder somebody. Not just anybody either‚ but Captain Torres. A murderer‚ who has killed many of your people. Given the option‚ would you kill them? This is the same scenario a Barber faces. In the story “Later and Nothing Else” by Hernando Téllez‚ the protagonist faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide to either kill‚ or not kill‚ Captain Torres. He must weigh the pros and cons of his reputation as a barber‚ or whether he is willing to commit murder to become a hero

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    Someone I admire In life there may be many people who come into your life. Of them there are two types: the ones whom you forget and the ones you remember for the rest of your life. The second type of people influence you and may have caused changes in your life.The person you admire belongs to this second category of people. They need not even be a mojor part of your story but their presence might have caused a major change in your life. The someone that I admire is my mother. She is the sole

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    difficult choice in life. In both stories‚ “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ they had to make a choice. They both tell us that some choices in life are hard to make.The authors explain to us how to make a choice by using point of view‚ symbolism‚ and conflict. The authors use point of view in the short story and poem to show how the their themes are similar. The short story “Lather and Nothing Else” the barber has to shave the man that comes in the barber

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    vanilla on the top shelf. With an inconvenience like that she will always find a way to manoeuver around it and continue on making her exquisite homemade vanilla ice cream. It’s a good thing that she only makes this ice cream for special occasions‚ or else every one in our family would be tubby like her. Tubby is not a bad quality for a grandma though‚ because grandmas are suppose to be cuddly and comfortable to lay with. In addition to making the world’s best homemade ice cream‚ she is the most loving

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    and my health weight is between one hundred thirty pounds and one hundred forty pounds. Being overweight has affected me by lowering my self-esteem and has pushed me into a weird sort of depression. Being down and depressed is not who I am and not someone I want to be. Making healthy choices now and changing my situation will help me greatly with not only my physical health but also my mental. Today’s many people are not realizing that mental health is just as important physical health. My realistic

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    Counterfactual thinking makes people different from other creatures because of this ability make the imagination come true‚ while other creatures also cannot imitate behaviors as humans’ do. According to “Possible Worlds: Why Do Children Pretend?” Gopnik introduces the idea of counterfactual thinking‚ which is “the woulda-coulda-shoulda of life‚ all the things that might happen in the future‚ but haven’t yet‚ or that could have happened in the past‚ but didn’t quite (163).” This definition gives

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