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    Morrie’s ideas raise up a lot of questions. What makes an emotion? How are we able to feel emotion? It makes me think of The Giver by Lois Lowry. In The Giver is a society where all emotion is eliminated‚ meaning that humans cannot feel emotion. It’s very interesting to compare how emotion plays a huge role in both stories. Morrie is someone who has felt sadness‚ pain‚ and grief‚ yet people in The Giver never get to experience those emotions. I think Morrie is trying to tell Mitch to detach himself

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    Lady Macbeth is more responsible for the killing of Duncan. She got Macbeth to go against something he had not planned to do‚ Lady Macbeth also planned the way to kill him. Macbeth did not plan to kill Duncan. He did not feel that it was a good idea to follow through with the plan. In act 1 scene 7 line 31 he says “we will proceed no further in this [plan].” He also worries that they could get caught like in line 59 “if we should fail” but‚ Lady Macbeth says “screw your courage to the sticking-place

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    An “Association Loi 1901” is the term used in France for a non-profit-making organisation of two or more people. This is the legal structure of most youth orchestras and other cultural democratisation projects in France. The name comes for the convention having entered into French law on 1 July 1901. The association must be declared if a bank account is required‚ if it collects membership fees or organises fundraising‚ or if the members undertake any legal action or buy or sell on its behalf. 3

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    Speech emotion analysis refers to the use of various methods to analyze vocal behavior as a marker of affect (e.g.‚ emotions‚ moods‚ and stress)‚ focusing on the nonverbal aspects of speech. The basic assumption is that there is a set of objectively measurable voice parameters that reflect the affective state a person is currently experiencing (or expressing for strategic purposes in social interaction). This assumption appears reasonable given that most affective states involve physiological reactions

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    this passage through Lady Macbeth trying to create a plan to murder Duncan. When reading the letter by Macbeth she quickly thinks about what Macbeth’s morals are and says “I fear thy nature” (I.v.15). Lady Macbeth knows from the letter that Macbeth wants to be king‚ but something is holding him back;Duncan. By saying that she fears his nature she means that she worries whether or not Macbeth can handle taking the crown from Duncan. She knows that he is loyal to his king and would be devastated if

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    What if you were the only one that had to bear pain like no other out of your whole city? Would you be able to do it or would you crumble under the pressure? Well this is what the main character‚ Jonas‚ in Lois Lowry’s The Giver‚ faces every day. The Committee in Jonas’s community decided that taking away choices and feelings would create a utopia to live in. This made everyone in the community the same which helped to provide a more peaceful world. Even though the book begins with what seems

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    The short story‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry‚ would be much different if it was written in Red Chief (Also known as Johnny Dorset)’s point of view. For example‚ during the initial kidnapping he fought against the kidnappers to leave him be “That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear…” (Henry 71). He probably would have been freaking out and making a huge deal out of it while the narrator only said briefly what had happened. Also‚ during the time he spent staying in the cave

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    II‚ scene II of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ As a result of the dreadful crime of killing his own king‚ in II‚ii Macbeth expresses his feelings of remorse. As Macbeth leaves the castle hall‚ Lady Macbeth imagines that her husband is killing the Duncan as she speaks. After hearing what she thinks is Macbeth crying out‚ she worries that the others have woken up. She says that she would have killed him herself but he looks too much like her father. Macbeth returns to his wife‚ his hands covered in

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    individuality is when people want to express themselves and be different . In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry and “Identity” by Julio Noboa‚ they both explore the idea of Conformity vs Individuality. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas‚ the main character‚ and he is chosen‚ and becomes different. In the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa there is weed that does not want to be like the flowers. In The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is a child that is picked for a special job‚ which Separates him from his own

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    The purpose of Sgt. John Wilson is to provide information to the reader in the sense of an autobiography. Lois Simmie accomplishes Excellency in foreshadowing the event in the prologue. But not completely throwing it away until much further in the book. If this were a novel‚ the sequence of events would change completely‚ but it’s not‚ this is an autobiography‚ the order of events do not have to be precise to be followed 100% all the way through. Portrayal of Canadian history is a big deal here.

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