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    When looking at the Facebook pages of Stephen Harper‚ Justin Trudeau‚ and Tom Muclair‚ references to the Blue Jays during this successful season were present and widespread. Each of these party leaders official Facebook pages included posts in support of the Blue Jays‚ highlighting the nationalist ideals associated to the team through the further dissemination of the #ComeTogether slogan to their social media followers situated all across

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    Naughty by Nature‚ LL Cool J‚ Run-D.M.C.‚ and Heavy D & The Boyz; we had left home with only these cassettes and the clothes that we wore. I remember sitting on the verandah listening to "Now That We Found Love" by Heavy D & The Boyz and watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind." (15). "I took off my old pants‚ which contained the rap cassettes. As I was putting on my new army shorts‚ a soldier took my old pants and threw them into a blazing fire that had been

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    Philip Larkin – The Trees Commentary by Merve Hilal Taş The Trees by Philip Larkin is a 3 stanza poem observing the rebirth of trees. The trees are used as a metaphor for life in general symbolizing our hopes that we try to achieve to be reborn before eventually dying. There’s also a message within the poem implying that even though we as humans observe the trees to be reborn‚ they actually grow older. This poem shows that growing old and changing is inevitable. It also has a rhyming scheme of

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    Goodmorning I’m Vanesa‚ The memoir on A Long Way Gone really told us a lot about Ishmael and how his life went from normal to abnormal and turned him into a different person. Witnessing such atrocities can change the way people think and view life. In life‚ everyone experiences things they would’ve never pictured themselves doing so. In a long way gone Ishmael was living his life without any surprises even though he heard stories about the refugees passing by he couldn’t begin to imagine what they

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    GOne with the wind Questions Include: 1.Give a summary of the book. Include the plot‚ the rising conflict and its climax and so on. 2.Give the character that you identify most? Why? 3.What is the setting of the story and how does it affect the story? What would happen if the story was set in another time or setting? 4.What are the major conflicts in this story? How would have Jesus reacted to one of the conflicts in the story? Gone With the Wind Gone with the wind is one of best novel I have

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    August Wilson’s Joe Turner Come and Gone is a play primarily about African Americans in search of their cultural identity following the repression of American slavery. For Loomis‚ being enslaved and dealing with negative scenarios during and after his escape from Joe Turner‚ not only caused him a loss of identity‚ but it also affected his personal confidence and the psychological aspect of his thoughts. Consequential lack of self-confidence and faith within oneself. However‚ being around positive

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    In chapter 8‚ Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby as a symbol for the reality of the American Dream with his failure to achieve the goals he had been working towards on his time on West Egg. His first failure occurs at the start of chapter eight when Gatsby gets home after a night of waiting on Daisy. “’Nothing happened‚’ he said wanly. ‘I waited‚ and about four o’clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light’” (Fitzgerald 147). With this statement‚ Gatsby is telling

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    John Jay was the first chief justice of the USA. He also crafted the boundaries and responsibilities of the supreme court the United States. He was born Dec. 12 1745 in New York. John Jay grew up outside of new york city‚ and did not move around because mom was teacher at his school. He went to King’s College‚ now known as Columbia University. “Jay threw himself into the political world and became a successful attorney. Jay quickly learned that the British government would not take the colonies

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    in his way to make it to the top‚ Jay-Z came from an area a low-income area with not much to his name. He used the tools he had to make his dream come true‚ eventually dominating music charts. Jay-Z had predominantly made an impact in black culture‚ he has stood up for blacks the recent issues of police brutality. As a rap and hip-hop artist Jay-Z uses his outlet to be a figure that will stand up for the black community and voice his opinions. Like the bad man‚ Jay-Z is “amoral‚ tough‚ unafraid of

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    . Explain how this last message reverberates throughout A Long Way Gone. The last message in A Long Way Gone was a story about a talking monkey. The monkey gives the boy solider a decision. The monkey says that if he shoots him his mother will die‚ but if he doesn’t shoot his father will die. So this message brings out the family connections in the book. It also shows the compassion and love he has for others and his family. So‚ when seeing the mother tell her child about the story he‚ concludes

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