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    though some people or minors aren’t smart enough to make independent decisions‚ one should not choose their life path for them. For instance‚ no one should be forced to be someone their parents are making them be. In the novel‚ The Adoration of Jenna Fox‚ Jenna finds out that her parents have programmed her to look and be a certain way. “How dare you play with my brain! How dare you pretend with me that I’m normal! How dare you program me!” (152) Also‚ Jenna parents programmed her to be 5’7 just so

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    The name Michael J. Fox should ring a bell‚ but that is just his recognizable name. His real name is Michael Andrew Fox. He didn’t go by that because it didn’t have a ring to it and decided to adopt the middle initial of the letter J. He choose that in a tribute to Michael J. Pollard and really liked the sound to that so‚ he went with J. Michael J. Fox is an outlier because he faced the troubles of Parkinson’s Disease. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 and didn’t tell the media until 1999

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    Lyla Fox‚ in her article “Hold Your Horsepower”‚ argues about teens getting jobs to pay for their cars and cars to get to their job. Fox suggest that teens are starting to work too much at a young age for all the wrong reasons. First‚ she explains how she struggles to keep her students awake in class and not lose interest in school. Students are finding it difficult trying to balance schoolwork‚ a job‚ and extracurricular activities. Additionally‚ she insinuates it is the parents fault of the dropping

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    If you turn right and walk ahead‚ on the left is our fourth exhibit. This is the Order of Canada medal which Terry Fox received on June 28‚ 1981. This medal was the embodiment of what he had accomplished in his fight against cancer. As you can see‚ the medal is outlined with the colours of Canada: red and white. According to the Office of the Secrety to the Governor General‚ the insignia of the Order is a stylized six point snowflake‚ with a red centre bearing a stylized maple leaf. The motto surrounding

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    Adoration of Jenna Fox‚ by Mary E. Pearson‚ Jenna gets into a horrific accident. In an accident so severe as this one‚ most people would have been killed or crippled for the rest of their lives. Jenna’s parents‚ Matthew and Clair Fox‚ take the choice to save her. They basically remade Jenna into a new one. This was dangerous and illegal but they thought it was the right decision. I also very strongly think that saving Jenna was the best decision for Jenna’s parents to make. Jenna Fox was in a coma while

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    The Adoration of Jenna Fox- Essay Would your conscience be clear knowing that you illegally modified someone to save their life? This choice was made by parents Claire and Mathew Fox. The Adoration of Jenna Fox tells the story of a parent’s hard decision to genetically modify their daughter Jenna with BioGel. With this major decision‚ comes many side effects‚ including the loss of most her memory‚ therefore she questions what it is to be human. This essay discusses the effect on not only Jenna

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    Visual Analysis Art is said to be the application of human creative skill and imagination and Peter Paul Rubens portrays just that in his paintings. Peter Paul Rubens’ Wolf and Fox Hunt‚ oil on canvas‚ Ca. 1616 is a mater piece. Located in the Metropolitan Museum on the second floor Peter Paul Rubens’ artwork Wolf and Fox Hunt creates an extreme sense of danger depicted through the animals and conveys a story using composition‚ size and color. Showing the action of the hunt and the vicious battle

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    is out of the question...Go to your room...Now!”-From The Adoration of Jenna Fox. It is ethical for parents to decide their children’s future? Parents should not be allowed to control their child’s future because one should choose who they want to be in life‚ and it takes away one’s freedom of choice. First‚ parental control takes away a kid’s choice of who they want to be. Throughout the novel‚ The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson‚ the main character is held back of what she wants to do

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    Battling for Two Decades: Michael J. Fox v.s. Parkinson’s Disease The most memorable moments in television and film history are marked by their ability to remain in the hearts and minds of society. These pieces of entertainment are generally known as the classics‚ for possessing some factor that appeals to the world. Often times‚ the classics can be easily distinguished by society’s eternal use of quotes taken from film. Certain films have a phrase‚ a couple of words‚ that instantly triggers the

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    THE DOMESTICITY OF GIRAFFES AND FOX IN A TREE STUMP SPEECH. Good morning/Afternoon class‚ in my speech I will be discussing my understanding of the poems Domesticity of Giraffes and Fox in A Tree Stump by Judith Beveridge. Moral values and meanings are portrayed through these two poems by expressing and clarifying the value of life and exploring humanity’s relationship with animals. The two poems clarify the value of life through both active and passive roles. In "Fox in a tree stump" an active role

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