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    Creatine: The Facts and the Fiction There are many different opinions people have when a conversation about creatine comes up. If one doesn’t know what creatine is‚ it is a popular dietary supplement taken mostly by many athletes around the world. The main problem people have with creatine is its safety. Some people say that it is very harmful to the body‚ while others will say that it is completely stable. The truth is that it is both; one just has to be smart about buying and taking it. There

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    Historical Fiction Narrative My name is Elizabeth‚ I’m 15 and I’m moving to the West with my family. We are going there for something called the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act is when you get 160 acres of land for free for 5 years. During the 5 years‚ you must grow crops. But my father is going to the West for mining gold. It’s May 8th‚ 1861. Tomorrow my family and I leave for the West. We are going by railroad. It will be my first time going on the railroad. I’m so excited yet nervous. I

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    still rages on over whether Moses wrote the book and the growing debate between creation and evolution appears to suggests it will be a very long time before this issue is put to rest. So‚ what it is that I believe? Is the book of Genesis fact or fiction? I believe‚ Genesis was written by Moses through the intercession of God and the holy Spirit. The bible itself gives us evidence of this when in many of the books following Genesis it gives a clear authorship of Moses. Not only that‚ but for one to

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    crime-writing genre consists of a wide array of subgenres and hybrids‚ these texts all focus on a criminal investigation using this as a platform/vehicle to explore and comment on the values and the social context in which it was composed. In doing so‚ crime fiction texts do not just tell a crime story; they make insightful social comments to inform responders. This is evident in P.D. James’ “The Skull Beneath The Skin” (Skull) which not only follows an investigation but also comments on the justice and the emerging

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    Definition of Modernism in Fiction Modernism‚ in literature‚ can be seen as a shift in focus to the unassociated introspective reflection of characters in such texts as Go Tell It On The Mountain‚ by James Baldwin‚ Miss Lonelyhearts‚ by Nathanael West and The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger. This is a revision from the previous focal point of exterior events and places in correlation with the character’s reflections. Emphasis is placed on review upon feelings and thoughts‚ and even conversations

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    must be about 30 words in length. Then‚ select examples from fictional portrayals of the courtroom found in books‚ movies‚ and television‚ for example‚ The Runaway Jury‚ A Few Good Men‚ or Law and Order to make a comparison between reality and fiction. Choose two of the five courtroom participants you described and compare their fictional portrayal to their real-life role in the courtroom. Be sure to cite specific examples of how media portrayals of courtroom participants are accurate or inaccurate

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    English Coursework The Gothic fiction novel “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”‚ written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886‚ is a novel about a man torn by the desire to separate the good and evil inside people. The plot beholds a scientist who finds a way to literally separate his good from his evil by drinking a potion. The plot picks up on the Victorian hypocrisy that crippled people into being society’s idea of ‘good’ and the shallow nature of the Victorians and how they judged character by appearance

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    What is implied by the statement that « race as biology is fiction‚ racism as a social problem is real ? » Do you agree or disagree with this statement ? This statement refers to one of the touchiest subjects in human evolution. Race commonly refers to certain physical similarities‚ such as skin color or eye shape‚ that are shared by a group of people and are used to mark or separate them from others as stated in by Koester and Lustig in Intercultural Competence. But is race primarily a biological

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    Victimization and Its Cures: Representations of South Eastern Europe in British Fiction and Drama of the 1990s. In: Betraying the Event: Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures‚ Fatima Festic (ed.)‚ Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing‚ 2009‚ pp. 35 -65. VICTIMIZATION AND ITS “CURES”: REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE IN BRITISH FICTION AND DRAMA OF THE 1990s LUDMILLA KOSTOVA In his extended reflection on twentieth-century history Hope and Memory (2000; English

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    had forgotten about what women had to say. Toni Morrison and Nalo Hopkinson seek to regain the voice of those marginalised women in history through their novels Beloved and The Salt Roads. Speculative Fiction is a narrative technique within literatures of the

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