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    Purple Hibiscus Character Analysis Kambili is the narrator of our story; she is a shy‚ observant 15 year old girl. Kambili is constantly searching for her father’s approval. Throughout the book‚ Kambili evolves deeper into her true identity. Kambili lives in Nigeria with her wealthy family and has never known anything different than what her overprotective father has shown her‚ which consists of love through discipline and strict Christianity is the only way to live. Kambili’s older brother

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    The Color Purple

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    The Color Purple In “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker‚Celie has been verbally‚ physically‚ and sexally abused by different men and has no real narrative voice. Which leaves her with little sense of self worth making her unable to live a happy‚ decent life. When Celie comes across Shug Avery‚ their relationship becomes intimate making Celie find her self with self confidence. Celie freed Shug from the role that everybody wanted her to fit into‚ and Shug freed Celie from the psychological

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    Half a million children are having to survive each day by being sexually assaulted and sold into sex slavery. Even though there will always be scars‚ adjusting to surroundings can help with the day to day survival. In Patricia McCormick’s book‚ Sold‚ a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi gets sold from her stepfather to a woman named Mumtaz in India. Lakshmi then has to survive the cruel things that Mumtaz makes her do to earn money back for her freedom. Sold demonstrates that adjusting to surroundings

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    The Color Purple

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    The role and mode of “God” The role and mode of God changes throughout the book The Color Purple as Celie develops as a result of different experiences. From her conversation with Shug her whole view of God changes and so do her feelings about what she can do. From a young age Celie has written to God and she believes that he has been listening. Celie confesses to both Shug and Nettie that she has stopped writing to God. She says “Anyhow‚ I say‚ the God I been praying and writing to is a man.

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    There is no doubt great evil in the world of sex trafficking. Victims of the horrific crime suffer from physical‚ sexual‚ and psychological abuse. A fictional‚ yet all-too-real tale of these atrocities is exemplified in Sold‚ a novel by Patricia McCormick‚ about a young Nepalese girl named Lakshmi who is sold into sex slavery. Throughout her year at the brothel called the “Happiness House” she learns how to find shining lights among what seems like impenetrable darkness and evil surrounding Mumtaz

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    The Color Purple

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    suit to his party and calls everyone “old sport.” Nick alone among the novel’s characters recognizes that Gatsby’s love for Daisy has less to do with Daisy’s inner qualities than with Gatsby’s own. That is‚ Gatsby makes Daisy his dream because his heart demands a dream‚ not because Daisy truly deserves the passion that Gatsby feels for her. Further‚ Gatsby impresses Nick with his power to make his dreams come true—as a child he dreamed of wealth and luxury‚ and he has attained them‚ albeit through

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    A Doll’s House: Plot Summary Overview Written in 1879 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen‚ A Doll’s House is a three act play about a seemingly typical housewife who becomes disillusioned and dissatisfied with her condescending husband. Act One: Set around Christmas time‚ Nora Helmer enters her home‚ truly enjoying life. An old widow friend from her past‚ Mrs. Linde‚ stops by hoping to find a job. Nora’s husband Torvald recently earned a promotion‚ so she happily finds employment for Mrs. Linde

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    Patricia Stallings Case

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    The case of my client‚ Patricia Stallings‚ is one with great controversy. We have opened her case again because of substantial evidence of her innocence. I believe that my client is innocent of the charges the court has wrongly fully accused her of. True‚ at the beginning of the case it seemed like a classic case of an abusive mother poisoning her own child; however with the birth of her 2nd child‚ David Jr.‚ important new evidence was discovered. He suffered from the same symptoms that Ryan had

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    According to the articles “Students perspective on cyber bulling” by Patricia Agatston and “bullying in schools by Rob Banks” are both articles over bullying. Patricia explains that bullying isn’t only done in person but in fact can be done over the web in the internet. In addition technology these days is advancing to a certain extent that people can communicate over the web and send messages to each other. Rob Banks explains in his article how bullying is a major problem in schools and talks about

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    Alice In The Color Purple

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    Pain to Resilient The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker depicts racial tension during the 1930s and uses the colors purple and red to symbolize Celie and Sofia’s hardships as African American women during this time period. Alice Walker married a civil rights attorney‚ Melvyn Leventhal‚ in 1967‚ making them the first interracially married couple in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Even though slaves were no longer present in that time period‚ African Americans were still discriminated against‚ and Walker

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