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    Surah Maryam Surah Maryam is one of the most beautiful Surahs in the Qur’an although all the Surahs are beautiful. The Surah has multiple dimensions and countless lessons to be learned that I feel at a complete loss to summarize a few verses let alone the whole Surah. This Surah was revealed in Makkah‚ and typically the essence of the Surah is monotheism‚ Imaan‚ the depiction of the Hereafter‚ reward‚ punishment and contemplation upon the creation of Allah. The crux of the Surah

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    Plato’s strategy in the Republic is to explicate the primary notion of societal or political justice and then parallel it to the concept of individual justice. Before he can prove that justice is a good thing‚ Plato must first state its definition‚ by showing justice in its perfect form in order to discover the true essence of it. Therefore‚ Socrates claims that the only way to have a perfect state is if the state has a perfect leader‚ thus he introduces the concept of the philosopher-king. Plato

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    She tired to move to a new area but it still did not get any better because she was still criticized for being overly smart and as a result she became a recluse and didn’t talk to anyone she didn’t have too. Because of the solitude she began to feel deeply disappointed in herself because of how important her family was and she being the daughter of a grate family was living in a poor community as a teacher to her felt like she let them down and seems to be the start of her

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    Meredith Franco    BOOK REVIEW SHEET  Title: The Scarlet Letter    Author: Nathaniel Hawthrone    Main Characters:​ Hester Prynne‚ Pearl‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale  Three scenes most important for developing main character(s):  1. ​ The first scaffold scene‚ which occurs in Chapters 1­3‚ focuses on Hester and the scarlet letter. She stands on  the scaffold with quiet defiance‚ holding her baby in her arms. Meanwhile‚ a crowd of townspeople has gathered  to watch her humiliation and hear a sermon

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    Manuscript Found Accra IN THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Translation copyright © 2013 by Margaret Jull Costa All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf‚ a division of Random House‚ Inc.‚ New York‚ and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited‚ Toronto. www.aaknopf.com Originally published in Brazil as Manuscrito Encontrado em Accra by Sextante‚ Rio de Janeiro‚ in 2012. Copyright © 2012 by Paulo Coelho. Knopf‚ Borzoi Books‚ and the

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    between right and wrong and possibly even become a victim. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ the monster is the true victim of the book. He is abused in multiple ways‚ he does nothing to warrant the unjust treatment he receives and he is forced into solitude. The monster can be seen as the true victim because he is abused both verbally and physically. Firstly‚ when he tries to enter the De Lacey cottage to talk to the blind man and try to get him to hear his story without being judgmental‚ Felix comes

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    and William Deresiewicz’s “The End of Solitude” can be efficiently summarized with the great social psychologist‚ Erich Fromm’s quote‚ “If I am what I have‚ then I lose what I have‚ who then am I?”. Hamilton’s article reflects his view illustrating that he views modern technology as a deterrent for people’s natural ability to not only accept‚ but to appreciate absolute gratification of solitude. It is this concept of people’s growing disvalue of solitude that both I‚ and Deresiewic concur with

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    Winston reverses the stanza and turns it into a description of his time period and who is writing the diary. Winston comes from an “age of uniformity” and ”solitude” controlled by Big Brother. The steady rhythm and then quick change helps create the differences in what Winston is comparing between another age of freedom‚ and his age of “solitude.” Orwell uses figurative language to display the rough conditions and lonely lives that are forced upon the people of the Party. Winston is “a lonely ghost”

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    Classics of Horror November 7‚ 2013 The Origins of Evil Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein places an emphasis on evil and its origins. Through Victor Frankenstein’s monster‚ Shelley implies that solitude and emotional immaturity‚ not an innate evil‚ are responsible for one’s wrongdoings. Abandoned at the moment of its creation and forced to raise itself‚ the monster is incapable of discerning right from wrong as he fosters irrational hatreds and resentments towards mankind without opposition. His involuntary

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    The novel Wind‚ Sand and Stars‚ written by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry graphically details his endurance and life working as a student airline pilot for a French airline called the Latécoère Company which is later known as Aéropostale Airlines. His excerpts describe true bravery and loyalty to what he called throughout the book as the craft. This craft he has chosen‚ journeys himself and other pilots’ through numerous landscapes‚ treacherous storms and dangerous times‚ however‚ Saint-Exupéry manages

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