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    Throughout history and modern day texts and films‚ archetypes have been used to add significance and meaning to literature by allowing us to understand patterns of human behaviour. Looking at the archetype of the outsider‚ the reader speculates the outsider’s purpose to challenge the values and the assumed expectations of society; such as the actions of society to initiate change in the archetype? The “novel catcher in the rye” by jd Salinger‚ and the film “Gran Torino” by Clint eastwood both explore

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    My Modern-Day Cinderella Story P3 Language Arts It was pouring outside. Not just pouring‚ that word doesn’t suffice how much water was aimlessly falling from the sky and crashing to the ground with every footstep that Ella Kess took on her way home. Today was the day that seven years ago her parents died in a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean. It was strange‚ how she had to live on after the death‚ but she pulled through with the help of her best friend Kylee Lainer. She would have been

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    Sami MacKenzie May 15‚ 2012 Persuasive Speech Human Trafficking Known as the “invisibles” or “modern-day slaves”‚ the human trafficking trade is the fastest growing criminal trade in the U.S. and one of the most profitable industries in the world. It is global in nature‚ existing throughout the world‚ with traffickers coercing men‚ women and children of all races and circumstances. Approximately 800‚000 to 900‚000 victims are trafficked every year of which 100‚000 are reportedly children sold

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    Primo Levi‚ the author and subject of the autobiography was arrested in December 1943. An anti-Fascist Italian Jew‚ he was sent to a prison camp in Italy and then deported to Auschwitz in February‚ 1944. He admitted his heritage of being both Italian and Jewish. During the forced evacuation‚ 650 Jewish men are packed into twelve goods wagons. The trip is slow and tortuous; no food or water is provided and the weather is freezing. Of the forty-five people in Levi’s car‚ only four survive the Holocaust

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    The sixth and final episode of the video series “Rx for Survival‚” was titled “How Safe Are We?” The program focused on a number of relatively new diseases that have become medically important in our contemporary world‚ and the need for due diligence to prevent and control epidemics or a possible global health crisis in the form of a pandemic (Rx for Survival‚ 2005). The video further explored how existing diseases‚ as well as the emergence of new ones‚ may become entrenched through maintaining social

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    Survival That’s Worth the Cost In life people make hard choices -- difficult choices -- but sometimes to survive people don’t have a choice at all. During “The Cost of Survival” the author talks of two groups of people‚ separated by accountability. The first group of survivors ended up in life-or-death situations because they got the wrong end of the stick‚ so to say. The second group of survivors ended up in life-or-death situations because of risk taking stupidity. People in survival circumstances

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    However‚ that medal was later recinded when he tested positive for drugs at the Olympics. Looking back‚ it becomes apparent that Johnson fits the criteria for a tragic hero that Aristotle set about. In the terms of being ‘high born’ this could‚ in a modern context‚ be translated into ‘high status’. Ben Johnson had high status as a world renowned athlete for his country just as Oedipus had ‘high status’ from being born a prince and then later becoming a king. Johnson’s main opponent in

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    Bear Grylls once made a statement about survival‚ “Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” For survival purposes‚ people go to extraordinary lengths to keep thriving. They take expedient actions upon their survival. It is natural instinct for humans to keep thriving‚ without this instinct humanity would not be where it is today. When placed in survival situations‚ people are put under immense pressure to stay alive. Many people

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    have actually borrowed many ideals from other countries and earlier civilizations. The question is often raised‚ which civilization have affected our modern-day society the most? I believe that Ancient Greece played a crucial role in the development of our society because of their advancements in government‚ science‚ and the Olympics. Our modern-day society is classified as having a democratic government‚ a government where the power is endowed upon the people and is exercised through them. We partake

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    be in the gene pool after millions of years?" Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince explains how diseases have a purpose in human survival‚ they are the tools that aided the human evolutionary process. The diseases were a contribution to the human evolutionary process. A collection of different cases and scientific research support the authors’ hypothesis on the connection between certain diseases that plague us in modern times and the adaptability of our ancestors in

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