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    Now‚ girls are supposed to be fastidious‚ but I was the one who suffered most from this. Nora‚ my sister‚ just sucked up to the old woman for the penny she got every Friday out of the old-age pension‚ a thing I could not do. I was too honest‚ that was my trouble; and when I was playing with Bill Connell‚ the sergeant-major’s son‚ and saw my grandmother steering up the path with the jug of porter sticking out from beneath her shawl‚ I was mortified. I made excuses not to let him come into the house

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    uses fast paced and hard hitting lyrics to push a rebellious and anti-establishment movement. The genre was defined by legendary artists beginning with the Ramones from New York‚ to the Sex Pistols in the UK. As generations passed‚ so did the message needed; this allowed the genre to grow and split to fit the needs of the listeners. The 80’s gave rise to hardcore and alternative movements‚ whereas the 90’s brought a more lighthearted and mainstream sound with pop punk. One of the

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    self-ruled neighborhood known as a polis. As the play begins‚ Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine‚ although his feelings grow into something more than avuncular as the play develops. His attachment to her is brought into perspective by the arrival from Italy of Beatrice’s two cousins‚ Marco and Rodolpho. They have entered the country illegally‚ hoping to leave behind hunger and unemployment for a better life in America. Whereas Marco is a physically strong man with a starving family back home‚ charming

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    their new form of democratic government. While democracy provides equality and justice for everyone‚ it also allows the ignorance of the masses to control the state. The first advantage pointed out by the Greeks is that democracy protected the many from being ruled by the few. Everyone had a say in state affairs and not just some group of aristocrats. Consequently‚ the poor and middle class Greeks upheld this form of government. Since they formed the majority of the population‚ democracy survived

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    The 80's: A Short Story

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    Every man and woman strives to achieve success‚ it’s what our parents teaches us from birth. However‚ a lot of people don’t realize success comes with a lot of failures. I’m not going to lie‚ I thought life would be easy. I graduate from high school‚ never got in trouble‚ and was a promising basketball star. In my adolescence years‚ things were handed to me‚ and I never really thought about my future. When the time came for me to take on the real world‚ I didn’t know what the struggle and the grind

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    The 1970’s threw 19-90’s showed change. The 70’s showed black and white TV shows. The 80’s showed technology evolving. The 90’s showed cell phones and phones being created for new technology. The 70’s showed a lot of change through the 70’s time. First everyone had to talk on a phone through a landline which I can’t imagine how awful that was anyone could just listen to your phone calls at any time in the house. Hip-hop was starting to be popular and worldwide. People started recording themselves

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    Beatrice: Plot: Act 1 a) Supports Catherine’s request to be allowed to take a job‚ “Listen‚ she’s gotta go to work sometime”‚ and then hints at the perverse nature of their relationship to Eddie‚ “she’s seventeen years old‚ you gonna keep her in the house all her life”. She comments on other similar issues to support her claim‚ “First is was gonna be when she graduated high school‚ so she graduated high school. Then it was gonna be when she learced stenographer‚ so she learned stenographer. So

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    Except that miss Jean Louise and mister Jim‚ were really astonished about trial. At the court about Tom Robinson and of course that is very gloomy‚ but if they would spend more time with Atticus‚ maybe they wouldn’t be that depressing and.... I think from the beginning‚ Atticus always had a sentiment that Tom will be find guilty. Remember I asked why‚ but he said that just people think that if they were born white that is giving them some privileges in that life. And they can’t even recognize that we

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    police/officers that Eddie was the one with the gun and robbing the innocent people at night. 4. Marcus and Eddie’s reaction to the film The Count of Monte Cristo was that in the film there were scenes of a hero sword fighting and how a friend turned on away from his other friend. That scene relates with Eddie and Marcus and how either Marcus would let Eddie down and criticize/blame him about the robbing or if Eddie will let Marcus down. In the book Marcus had a choice to criticize his Eddie but he didn’t.

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    persuade Alfieri that Rodolfo is breaking the law. He also tried to prove Rodolfo is not a "real" man meaning he is Homosexual. "He ain’t right" quote was always repeated in Eddie’s speech showing he is obsessed and strongly believes in what he says. From an earlier scene we know that when Rodolfo sings ‘Paper doll’ to Catherine‚ there’s a bit of tension between everyone in the house after Eddie tells him to stop singing‚ so when Catherine invites Rodolfo to dance to it‚ it builds up a lot of anger

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