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    disagree with the following statement? One should never judge a person by external appearances. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer I do agree with the fact that you should not be affected by the appearance of a person. Transcendentalism also confirms the above idea. There are three main reasons that we should not decide to do something according to his/her appearance; First‚ it may lead to a misjudgment about that person. Second is the fact of differences between appearance

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    Jeff Linkback Mrs. Jones College Prep English 2 March 2015 Transcendentalism vs. Anti-Transcendentalism Transcendentalism was a movement that began in New England during the time period of the 1830’s. There is no definite starting point‚ but it is often believed by most people to have begun with the Transcendentalism club which birthed in September 8‚ 1836 by Ralph Waldo Emmerson. The movement had changed the views of philosophy‚ religion‚ social‚ and the devices of literature. The main idea of

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    Brooke Boyd English/Comp Mrs. Goslin 31 March 2014 Childhood Christmas to Adulthood Christmas Christmas as a child for me was very fun. I got many presents from Santa as well as many from relatives. Christmas was probably my favorite holiday of the year‚ to me it meant that if I was good enough Santa would bring me presents. Most of the time I was very good and never got into trouble. In my family when you go from childhood to adulthood it becomes a big deal. For starters you open presents

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    Takeisha Bryant 19 February 2013 Hutcheson 3 AP American Lit. Transcendentalism is a very important movement that occurred not only in literature but in life as well. The transcendentalist movement was a movement that was basically the thought of everyone having an over-soul. The over-soul is the thought of a relationship between God‚ nature‚ and man. The movement had many different characteristics like individuality‚ feelings being priority over reason‚ the fact that nature was divine‚ and

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    In the mid-1830s‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson created a belief called Transcendentalism. He wrote the essay‚ “Self Reliance” and Henry David Thoreau‚ another Transcendentalist wrote an essay called‚ “Walden.” Both works of literature focus on the Transcendentalism belief. In “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hawthorne reveals both Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism through the attitudes of the characters. Therefore‚ “The Minister’s Black Veil” can be compared and contrasted with

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    The Problem of Nightmares

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    body. However‚ sometimes dreaming is not so enjoyable. Of all the adults‚ 2-8% has one or more nightmares per month (L. Chanin‚ 2011‚ Nightmares in Adults). Unfortunately‚ I am one of them. In general‚ nightmares are not regarded as serious issues but I think they should be because they can cause serious physical and psychological problems. According to H. Kellerman (1987‚ p. 217)‚ the word nightmare derives from the Old English word “mare”‚ which was a mythological demon who brought frightening

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    Nightmare World

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    A/N: a short story done for my mock English GCSE exam‚ where the question was to ’describe a nightmare world’. Instead of going for the cliché‚ hell-like landscape‚ I decided to base my so-called ’nightmare world’ off of a real nightmare‚ in the world we live in – a young boys perspective during a bombing in WWII. Note: I got an A for that exam paper! Nightmare World Every day they come‚ in their great terrifying birds of steel‚ overhead and through the clouds that I once thought held heaven

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    Worst Nightmare

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    Worst Nightmare The worst nightmare I have ever had was when I had dreamt that I was in bed lying down looking at the ceiling and my room looked twice as big as it really was. It was pitch black and it seemed like there was nothing else in there but my bed and the walls surrounding me. It started with me hearing strange noises and voices of a man‚ a women and little children. I laid in my bed in a long white silk gown and quickly sat up and stared into the darkness. I asked softly “Who’s there?”

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    Gothic Nightmares

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    Gothic Nightmares Fuseli‚ Blake and the Romantic Imagination at Tate Britain 15th February- 1st May 2006 The exhibition is divided amongst eight rooms‚ a number of artists‚ work‚ such as Henry Fuseli‚ James Barry‚ Joseph Wright of Derby‚ Catherine Blake‚ Philippe Jaques de Loutherbourg display their work collectivly. This collective exhibition including many great artists is an interesting way of showing their work‚ acting like a whole installation. The main focus of the

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    Starbucks A Worst Nightmare I was making a grande vanilla bean frappiccino while other customers were waiting in line to have their order taken. Business was slow that day‚ but heck‚ everyday at my job was a slow one. I would think to myself‚ Why the hell am I still working here? when this place gets no business at all. Of course‚ I work at Starbucks‚ not the ones that you see on the corner of the streets‚ but I worked at the one in Target. At my Starbucks‚ we would have one person working

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