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    Science Gone Wrong

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    Mackenzie Drury Mrs. Berry/Mrs. Carpenter English Literature 12 10 December 2014 Science Gone Wrong Have scientific technology and developments gone too far? For a question like this‚ everyone would have a different opinion. New scientific achievements have been a great step forward for mankind. However‚ even though everyone is excited about cloning humans and being able to teleport‚ there would still be a risk that it may all go too far; all of these experiments can turn from a good idea for helping

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    Gone Girl Psychology

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    *The following is based on the movie‚ Gone Girl. Although the movie ends with Amy murdering her ex-boyfriend‚ this paper excludes this detail in order for Amy to have a more typical counseling experience. Instead‚ she is put on probation for two years for assault and framing her own disappearance. Introduction‚ background information‚ and biopsychosocial history Amy Elliot Dunne is a 35 year old Caucasian female that has entered counseling after being mandated by the court for charges of

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    It was in the middle of the afternoon and the local school had come up to the Jay Mountain Church for a field trip. The church had caught on fire during their trip. Two boys hopped out of a T-Bird and rushed over. They tapped a man’s shoulder‚ asking what was going on. Then they suddenly bolted into the church‚ breaking the front window. After interviewing the man that they had talked to‚ he said and quote‚ “ We overheard someone yelling in the back of the church and those brave kids ran in to save

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    In this novel The Bean Trees the family aspect is not the traditional way of the American Dream. The “American Dream” is typically a father‚ mother‚ kids‚ and a house with a white picket fence. This novel shows a whole other way of being a being a family‚ and granted it isn’t the way most people think a family should be. Taylor Greer is a teenage girl who picked up and moved from Pittman County‚ Kentucky. She decided to move because the “norm” there wasn’t something she thought would suit her.

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    Because it meant new beginnings. New beginnings with a future unknown. But change is necessary. Necessary for her to learn‚ to grow‚ and to better herself. Being fearful of something is normal‚ but not common when someone is fearless. In The Bean Trees‚ Taylor is faced with many challenges that she has to overcome. These challenges will test her strength and ability to be true to herself. The first challenge Taylor is faced with is Turtle. That one fateful night‚ when she found Turtle in the back

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    A Birthday Gone Bad

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    While I was standing inside the kitchen of my home‚ preparing the food for my daughter’s twelfth birthday party‚ I heard the terrible screams of my daughter crying out for help. Without any hesitation at all‚ I dropped everything in my hands and ran to the back yard where all the guests of the party were at. I found my daughter sitting on the concrete floor next to our hot tub‚ holding her foot and sobbing in horrible pain. As soon as I sat next to her‚ she ripped a three prong gardening rake out

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    How Is Jay Gatsby Selfish

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    Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby is not the man people think he is. He is the embodiment of 1920s materialism. His extravagant lifestyle highlights his opulence‚ from his parties to his wardrobe. Gatsby’s past is a secret‚ unknown to most people‚ and has a web of lies surrounding it. His behavior is insanely immoral‚ from his affairs‚ to his bootlegging. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby often demonstrates his extravagance‚ immorality‚ and secretiveness. Jay Gatsby may seem very open‚ yet he keeps

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    Beloved‚ Toni Morrison uses trees to symbolize comfort‚ protection and peace. Morrison uses trees throughout Beloved to emphasize the serenity that the natural world offers. Many black characters‚ and some white and Native American characters‚ refer to trees as offering calm‚ healing and escape‚ thus conveying Morrison’s message that trees bring peace. Besides using the novel’s characters to convey her message‚ Morrison herself displays and shows the good and calmness that trees represent in the tree imagery

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    The psychological trauma caused by sexual assault is most evident in the film as well as the character: Jay Heights. Throughout the film we slowly witness Jay’s mental barrier deteriorating‚ and her regressing into child-like behavior because of the curse. During many scenes where she is in her house she is very vigilant of her surroundings. One specific scene is when she observes someone go into Greg’s house. Even though Greg is capable of protecting himself she is restless and constantly checking

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    Fig Wasps and Fig Trees

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    Mutualism: Fig wasps and fig trees Fig wasps (Agaonidae) are a species of wasps that have a life span of a couple of days and could be as little as 2mm in length. Hence the name these wasps are sole pollinators of fig trees (Ficus)‚ each fig tree species has its own particular wasp for pollination. Fig trees are totally dependent on fig wasps for pollination and have been for the past 60 million years‚ this shows that this process of pollinating is efficient and sustainable creating equilibrium

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