Alexis Clendenin Gabriel 21 March‚ 2013 English IV Senior Project Animals have souls. Should Animal Experimentation for Medical Research be banned? Throughout history‚ animal experimentation has played an imperative role in leading to new discoveries and human advantages. However‚ many people tend to forget the great numbers of animal that have suffered serious damage during the process of experimentation. Many people misunderstand the nature the lives that animals actually live‚ and are
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Literature Resource Center Houghton‚ Donald E. "Attitude and Illness in James’ ’Daisy Miller’." Literature and Psychology19.1 (1969): 51-60. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Nancy G. Dziedzic. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research‚ 1996. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Apr. 2013. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1420025344&v=2.1&u=wash89460&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w Title: Attitude and Illness in James’ ’Daisy Miller’ Author(s): Donald E. Houghton Publication Details: Literature
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Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is a social commentary on witch hunts in early America‚ as well as an Aristotelian tragedy. In Aristotle’s essay Poetics‚ Aristotle explains that a character flaw (imperfection or weakness in one’s personality or values) or an error in judgment can lead to tragedy. The word for this is hamartia. Aristotle also goes on to state that the tragic hero will find enlightenment through his or her lamentable situation. In Miller’s play there are two characters in particular
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‘’ THE BENEFITS OF DARK CHOCOLATE” Chocolate is one of the most demanded sweet snacks all over the world. It has been traded internationally for centuries. Chocolate is made from beans derived from the cacao tree which is mixed with cocoa butter or plant oils and powdered sugar to produce solid confection. There are varieties of different forms and flavours of chocolate produced from different ingredients. The main types of chocolate are white chocolate‚ milk chocolate‚ semisweet chocolate‚ bittersweet
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One summer night‚ July 20‚ 2012‚ a gathering of joyful people pile into a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora‚ Colorado‚ waiting in anticipation to watch the midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Half-an-hour into to the movie‚ an intense gun-fighting scene comes onto the screen‚ and a man dressed in tactical clothing walks in front. Smoke starts to rise and spread through the theater. The audience members soon have burning eyes and itching throats. For the slightest moment for some
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The American poet‚ E. E. Cummings wrote verses with an experimental style that presented romantic attitudes‚ and also dabbled in playwriting and painting. His poems crafted physical objects that show a fresh way of looking at reality. Cummings’ unique style of romantic transcendentalism is innovative‚ modern and visual. The visual aspect was unusual to other poets at the time he debuted. The way his poems are laid out on the paper are important‚ as was the unusual way he used punctuation and capitalization
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Soul Surfer Summer Read Questions 1. Soul Surfer takes place in Kauai‚ Hawaii. In the story‚ the main character-Bethany Hamilton- is an extremely talented surfer. Her whole life basically revolved around surfing‚ she loved it more than anything else in the world. Bethany spent most of her time in the water‚ either practicing or competing. Until one day during a practice session with her best friend‚ Alana Blanchard‚ something tragic occurred. Bethany was attacked by a 14 foot tiger shark. Alana
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The night was silent. The half moon gazed down benevolently on the city‚ alone in a starless stretch of black sky. The streets were empty‚ and all that reached out into the shadowy darkness were the street lamps‚ placed so methodically and evenly it made them seem more significant than they really were. Near one of these lamps‚ on a bench‚ was an ancient man‚ his hair grey‚ his face was warped with deep wrinkles‚ a pair of round rimmed spectacles perched on his nose. His dull eyes‚ seeming to be
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The Dark Ages was the time period of which brought back civilization several hundred years. Some of the key factors why the Dark Ages lasted so many years were because of war‚ leadership‚ and disease. Firstly‚ war played a very important part in the fall of Rome‚ and which was the reason the Dark Ages started. Leadership was the second greatest reason because the poor leadership the leaders demonstrated led to rash decisions‚ ultimately leading to what had happened in the Dark Ages. The last important
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Indentured Servitude Richard Frethorne‚ an indentured servant‚ wrote a letter to his parents dated March 20-April 3‚ 1623 in which he describes his experience as an indentured servant. Richard Frethorne was a young Englishman who like many other poor 17th century Englishmen were struggling to make ends meet back in England. Frethorne embarked on his journey to the America’s as an indentured servant in order to find a better life. Merchants in England took advantage of these poor people and recruited
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