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    -- patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us‚ by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality‚ because everything we do is observable and recordable. How many of us have paused during conversation in the past four-and-a-half years‚ suddenly aware that we might be eavesdropped on? Probably it was a phone conversation‚ although maybe it was an e-mail or instant-message exchange or a conversation in a public place. Maybe

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    BACTERIA. CLASSIFICATION Bacteria are extremely small and some can be just seen with the naked human eye. They are much smaller than eukaryotic cells but are still very complex despite their size. .the cell is surrounded by a cell membrane that enclosees the bacteria cell. They are single celled organisms. Bacteria are prokaryotic cells and therefore do not have a nucleus and do not have a lot of organelles like: mitochondria‚ chloroplasts‚ and other organelles that are usually found in eukaryotic

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    the most important and damaging themes not only in novels‚ but in life is that of ignorance. In war it can mean life or death‚ and in everyday life if you ignore the problem or person long enough it can destroy your life or the life of someone very close to you or that you are trying to protect. This is an idea that both Tim O’Brian and Carl Deuker explore in their books‚ The Things They Carried and Gym Candy‚ respectively. The fact that friendships‚ people’s feelings‚ and even human life itself

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    The Things They Carried‚ more like the things that I will carry forever‚ if there is any book I would say is the worst‚ is this book. BUT‚ it’s bad for all the GOOD reasons. I’ve read other war books that are good and EASY in making me put myself in the main characters position‚ but this book is definitely the opposite. Author Tim O’Brien continuously purposefully betrays his audience in order to construct a ‘truthful’ war story that makes the readers WISH to be in the characters position‚ not because

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    English 110 October 21‚ 2013 “Do the Right Thing” Essay In Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” he questions his characters to “do the right thing”. This then becomes the essential theme of the movie. The movie focuses around a neighborhood in Bed-Sty‚ Brooklyn and its community made up of mostly African-Americans and Puerto Ricans. The center focal point in the movie is a pizzeria business‚ Italian owned‚ called Sal’s Famous Pizzeria. The owner Sal and his two sons‚ Vito and Pino‚ work there along

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    3/4/2013 B Pd. Every society has a unique manner of handling certain aspects of life. In both Things Fall Apart and Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight‚ children are lost in different ways: physically and emotionally. Sometimes the problem is a death of a baby‚ while other times what is lost is a connection rather than a heartbeat. While some characters struggle to deal with these unpleasant events‚ others are able to move past them gracefully. Okonkwo and his family look at the loss of children

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    The Overcoming of Culture In the novel Things Fall Apart‚ written by Chinua Achebe‚ the fight to secure one’s culture literally falls apart as strong cultural influences come into African tribes of the lower Nigeria‚ one being the Umuofia clan. Before jumping ahead to the aggressive Western Civilization influence into the Ibo land‚ I will also be depicting the cultural traditions of Okonkwo’s tribe. The robust differences of one’s traditional way of life differing from another’s leads to major conflict

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    In Do The Right Thing this type of behavior is demonstrated through the demeanor of Sal and his son Pino‚ who are both reluctant to identify with the predominately African-American neighborhood that they operate their business in.Although Sal and Pino do not identify with the community that they operate their business in they are still an integral part of it.This leads to them placing stereotypes on the members of the community that

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    ​Making Things Fun In the daily hustle and bustle of life‚ having fun can often get lost in the seemingly limitless number of tasks required of us daily. These tasks can feel boring and inconvenient. They can feel like they take the excitement out of life. How can we find more joy in having to do these boring tasks? In Kent Richardson’s internet video‚ he gives us an example of a task that everyone is required to follow. A task that can be found in almost anyone’s life is the need to obey the

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    Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe ’s Things Fall Apart is authentic narrative written about life in Nigeria at the turn of the twentieth century. Tribal lifestyle in Nigeria is centered on traditions and culture. A minor character and also a very important character‚ who demonstrates the opposite of tribal lifestyle but yet gives meaning and life to the themes of the book is Unoka; Okonkwo’s father. Unoka is the most important character because his behavior and how it affects Okonkwo

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