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    the failure of Walnut Street‚ Pennsylvania constructed two new prisons: the Western Penitentiary near Pittsburgh (opened in 1826) and the Eastern Penitentiary in Cherry Hill‚ near Philadelphia (1829). The Pennsylvania system took the concept of silence as a virtue to new extremes. Based on the idea of separate confinement‚ these penitentiaries were constructed with back-to-back cells facing both outward and inward. To spare each inmate from the corrupting influence of others‚ prisoners worked

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    together as one. Ruben‚ however‚ is in great denial and hopes to fix his deafness. One day he attempts to busy himself by fixing the house’s roof until Joe calls him over and gives him an assignment. Joe tells him to wake up early and sit in a room of silence with only a pen and paper until he is ready to write. The following day‚ Ruben is greeted with a cup of coffee‚ a donut‚ and an empty‚ quiet room. Immediately‚ his rage stops him from actually sitting in peace‚ causing him to have an emotional outburst

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    Sometimes‚ the void created by a lack of words leads to more discoveries than a plethora of words. The key to gaining further information from silence lies in listening to the unspoken statements versus the words actually put forth into the universe. Along these same lines‚ John Cage composed a well-known piece called 4’33”‚ which shocks many listeners due to his refrain from touching the piano in front of him. After first encountering this unique work‚ I found myself baffled and pondering the deeper

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    For years‚ the police force has been jeopardizing the rights of human beings while receiving no repercussions. The government’s and the police’s tolerance to reoccurring acts of horror continues to occur‚ causing police brutality to be one of the most serious human rights abuses in the United States today. Standards for what constitutes brutality vary widely‚ though‚ two major international human rights treaties‚ to which the United States is a party‚ explicitly prohibit police abuse. The International

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    Separation of Church and State “…I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof‚’ thus building a wall of separation between Church [and] state.” These words‚ spoken by Thomas Jefferson in his letter to the Danbury Baptists in 1802‚ reassured the nation of his support of the First Amendment. The wall Thomas Jefferson illustrates

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    loud voice/silence (A loud voice could result from a lack of silence or vice-versa.) cat sleeping/birds watching (The birds feel safe/alert while they watch the cat sleep. This is one of the more important binary oppositions because Naomi could be making us aware that we’re too scared of combatting

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    stanza there is a clear description which represents silence in respect to the speaker’s loss. It illustrates by stopping the clocks and cutting off the telephone ( so no sound or disturbance is present). Followed by silencing the pianos with a "muffled" drum. The word "muffled" is as sound which is not loud as it is being blocked or prevented (muted). This is used so the atmosphere in the poem is calm and silence. After everything is in silence‚ the speaker gives the permission for the coffin to

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    only black dark shadow that appears showing a more bigger and thicker humanoid‚ then the servant cut the wolf chest and took the animals heart while it was still beating putting it into the large black vessel‚ the flame increases suddenly and the silence was broke a big howl escapes from the dark humanoid figure of the professor‚ he was

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    The sexism in the workplace is an issue that is still relevant to this day and can be seen in everyday in some workplace environments. Most of the time‚ women are the victim of sexism in the workplace because they are the minority. Even though Silence of the Lambs came in 1988 and sexism was still very prominent in the workplace then‚ but today women who work in male dominated areas experience some type of sexism. In this novel‚ Clarice the main character works in the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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    identity until she excavates her authenticity once she found herself and a relationship in Aunty Ifeoma. At the beginning of Purple Hibiscus‚ Adichie demonstrates that patriarchal fear can squander self-actualization and she does so by using Kambili’s silence in her own home and community as a symbol of what fear can take away. On the outside‚ Kambili is viewed as shy and wealthy‚ but once someone knows her within her own home‚ it is seen that her home life strongly affects her. Originally‚ Kambili is

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