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    Violence destroys the soul in a community‚ consisting of diverse humanity. Brutal and negative events have an increasingly large impact on a human’s personal‚ ordinary life. In the novel‚ “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”‚ Francie‚ the protagonist‚ faces a traumatizing event at the age of 14: an attempt of rape‚ witnessing a murder and loss. These traumatic events can impact someone’s innocent life intensely‚ as fear‚ sorrow‚ and trauma develops over a certain time period. Violent events she faces‚ illustrates

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    Ayala Museum

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    Our class had a fieldtrip to the Ayala museum to control inspiration and to observe the vintage filipinana costumes. I havent been in a museum since grade-school‚ so I got precise mad when I arrived there. Before we went upstairs‚ where the main exhibits argon‚ we walked around the lobby theater of operations where there are pictures from Cory Aquinos memorial and articles of bloodstained habit that Ninoy wore. Also in the ground floor is an exhibit of new(a) art‚ which I find very interesting. We went

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    have already become.” Both novels‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ by Mark Twain‚ and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ by Betty Smith‚ have become beloved novels for people of all ages. Betty Smith uses honesty to cast on the experiences of people from around the world and all different circumstances‚ while Mark Twain adds the humor of children and their intelligence. Although in the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ the setting‚ such as the city life or the tenement building‚ tells the reader a

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    Brooklyn Cop‚ by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ... We are first made aware of the cop’s intimidating appearance in the first line‚ of the first stanza when MacCaig uses the simile "built like gorilla." This gives us a very negative and

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    In the Folk Museum

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    In the Folk Museum The concept of belonging The Museum A museum is a place of past. A folk museum celebrates the lives and lifestyle of a bygone era. This particular ‘folk museum’ is displaying the culture and life of the early Australians. The persona feels disconnected from the experience – the almost deathly scene betrays his‚ and others‚ lack of interest. Through the use of imagery‚ the poet sets a cold‚ stale‚ dark and a silent place and this highlights the persona’s feeling of not belonging

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    Collins Notes

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    Introduction‚ Chapter 1‚ Chapter 2 The National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) estimates at least 6000 rare diseases‚ affect fewer than 200‚000 people in USA‚ 25 million affected‚ many caused by genes approach to understanding of how life works has been profoundly affected by access to complete DNA sequence scientists go beyond emperical or superficial explanations of disease‚ instead into molecular basis. Pinpoint specific glitches in DNA sequence All DNA of organism = genome‚ size

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    Museum Paper

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    Marble Statue of the Diadoumenos Waqas Yaqoob Professor Vitali 12/8/2010 Art History 1 Marble statue of the Diadoumenos is a Roman statue by Polykleitos from the Flavian period‚ A.D. 69-96. Polykleitos was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early fourth century BC. Next to Phidias‚ Myron and Kresilas‚ he is considered the most important sculptor of Classical antiquity. He was of the school of Argos‚ a contemporary of Phidias and‚ in the opinion of the Greeks‚ his equal.

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    Holocaust Museum

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    exactly forty-four years before I was born‚ makes me connect with it even more. Finally‚ after 9 years of looking up facts and watching documentaries‚ I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Farmington Hills‚ Michigan. According to the Wall Street Journal‚ this museum in particular “may be the most provocative museum of them all” (“What They’re Saying‚” par. 1). Just driving past the building makes a strong statement due to the museum’s exterior wall which resembles the barbed wire fences from a

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    Sanford Professor Brown English 101 23 October 2014 Compare & Contrast In the painting‚ Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella and the photo Brooklyn Bridge by Walker Evans a comparison of the two artistic figures‚ colors utilized‚ perception‚ painting verses film‚ and the mood each creates reveals that the oil on canvas that Joseph Stella is the more interesting presentation of the Brooklyn Bridge. The two artists portray the same subject in two totally different ways that change the mind

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    It shows us how the world impinges upon the lives of the characters. The novel I have studied is Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. Throughout the text we see many examples of the values of society. The position of women‚ men and family intrinsically establish the central characters in a specific position. The text has a dual setting between the 1950’s Catholic Ireland and the post world war two world of Brooklyn‚ America. The two locations help to expose the contrasting values and attitudes of the characters

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