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    Are We Guilty of Making Ourselves Ill? I want to make an article I have many points but can someone help me in framing it and cutting out the unnecessary stuff. I also wanted to mention both pros and cons in my article. Here are the points: 1. Yes: Over-eating‚ eating only junk food‚ smoking‚ drug use/abuse‚ taking medicines wrongly. No: Can catch diseases‚ can inherit some diseases from a parent‚ may not be able to afford good food‚ may not understand what makes us ill‚ mental health problems

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    improvement." This basically means it is important that the author does its job to show faults‚ failures‚ struggles‚ and hardships in a character’s life in order to demonstrate how they became stronger and improved upon their failures. This quote is valid because one can normally not improve upon nothing. In order for a person to learn‚ they must try to succeed and even if they fail‚ they take that with them while they grow older and use it to reflect their new actions with. The novel Lord of the Flies

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    How do we define ourselves as Humans? Name: Instructor or Class: September 10‚ 2009 This paper discusses what it means to be human‚ and the importance of the human’s responsibilities in life. It is important to fulfill the responsibilities as humans‚ and to explore all of the options and possibilities that the human’s short life has to hold. Plato saw man’s true nature as rational and believed that civilized society must be organized‚ and civilized life conducted according to

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    believed that she was unfaithful. After Iago leaves‚ Othello mutters to himself‚ "If she be false‚ heaven mocks itself! I’ll not believe’t." But when Desdemona asks‚ "How now‚ my dear Othello?" he could not confront her‚ only saying‚ "I have a pain upon my forehead‚ here" (III.iii.320-326). He could have easily just asked her where the handkerchief was‚ or as easily faced Cassio or Desdemona to tell them what was on his mind. Instead‚ he keeps quiet and just assumes everything Iago says is true. By

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    impossible at the first. On the other hand‚ Santiago in the Alchemist showed that by sacrificing ones happiness and life he was able to reach his end goal of finding his treasure and discovering his own personal legend. Life will always throw rocks to bring us down but to keep in mind that after every thunderstorms‚ rain and darkness‚ light will always be found right

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    personal interests. Yet‚ we learn that they are sometimes driven throughout the work ascertaining a purpose larger than themselves. Whether it is an author’s use of literary elements (such as dialogue‚ characterization‚ or conflict) or even in their craft alone‚ it is inevitable in the two classic works: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In The Grapes of Wrath‚ we discover an unavoidable change in the character Rose of Sharon. When we are first introduced to

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    synagogue‚ or mosque will. But reading good books well just might.” This quote is from the article “How Reading Makes Us More Human.” It shows that although the common belief is that reading will make us better people‚ it doesn’t mean anything to us unless we really know how to comprehend the book itself and allow it to influence our decisions. A text that applies to this idea is A Raisin in the Sun. It is just a normal book until you take it to a new realization and apply it to much more. Through this book

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    Sylvester Balboa once said‚ “Literature often teaches the individual that what one sees is often mistaken for the truth.” In other words things are not always as they seem. From the outside things can be perceived differently than they actually are. In order to show this is true one must examine two points. First‚ in The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci shows that things are not always as they seem. Second‚ in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell shows that this

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    is the way they handle themselves when they are in a problem. The critical lens is valid because this is true in life and literature. The book The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger exemplifies the critical lens statement by Martin Luther King Jr. The literary elements that best support the interpretation is characterization and conflict. John Proctor in The Crucible exemplifies the critical lens statement by

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    control of man; but his conduct is in his own power." This quote means that we can’t control our natural given situations‚ but we can control how we go about them. I agree with this quote because not only does it apply to literature‚ but it applies to real life as well. A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury and The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon both illustrate the idea of adjusting to what we can’t control. A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury uses character to

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