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    Why Michael Phelps is the Greatest Olympian of All Time Michael Phelps holds an astonishing 6 World Records to date. He is the one to beat at every event he participates in. Everything began in his childhood and he wants other children to have the same success that he had. Michael Phelps is full of success stories but he has his flaws. Many of his records have held for 10 years still yet to be beat. While Phelps is amazing‚ he is still human and has had his handful of rough times and lows. He

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    Throughout The Book Thief‚ the good and the bad of humanity is shown in many ways through the eyes of the narrator‚ death. In the times of great killing and blood‚ Liesel finds peace in reading and later on many other people find peace in her reading as well. humanity is both beautiful and ugly. there is good and bad that can be found in everything‚ this story describes both aspects of it. Death wonders how humanity can be so ugly yet so beautiful. We portray both traits for many reasons. Humanity

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    The TAT: The Thematic Apperception Test Suzette Lamb Argosy University The TAT test was developed in the 1930s by psychologists Henry A. Murray‚ Christiana D. Morgan and other colleagues at the Harvard Psychological Clinic. The TAT Test or Thematic Apperception Test is a projective psychological test used to explore the unconscious of an individual in order to reveal the underlying parts of personality‚ internal conflicts‚ motives and interests. It has been one of the most widely used

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    in "Thematics‚" by Boris Tomashevsky he disscuses the difference between plot and story‚ most people think their interchngable but this is not the case. Story is the easy way to say what the event and characters are doing and going through. plot is how the story is set up‚ what events are told first and who is the narrator. story shows a connection on causeality‚ this means on event in the story causes another. this differs from plot in a way becasue plot is the chronalogical order of things as

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    “Lamb To The Slaughter” Thematic Essay Roald Dahl dystopian story “Lamb To The Slaughter” takes places in a small town that’s peaceful and quiet. Until a wife of a police office killed her husband with a leg of lamb and not having any guilt about it. Enraged that he man was leaving her another woman while she’s pregnant with her first child with him. One lesson in the story suggest is you may not know what’s under your noses until you’re eating it. From the beginning‚ the description and detail

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    break the heart forever‚ when people die it chips away little by little at the wall put up around the heart until there is nothing left but the exposed‚ helpless‚ beating heart. This is what happens to young Liesel Meminger in the novel the Book Thief by Markus Zusak. As the Liesel and her brother make their way toward their new home‚ Liesel awakes from her sleep to find the life of her brother taken away as he turns white like stone and becomes lifeless. Liesel and her mother have a funeral and

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    Jayda Sliger 2 Red The Book Thief Significant Passages Assignment Prologue: “You are going to die.” Page 3 This passage is at the very beginning of the novel when the narrator is introducing the topic of death. This passage was chosen because throughout the entire book the characters are tragically dying‚ especially at the end after the bombing. We see everyone that Liesel associated herself with die‚ and this one haunting sentence foreshadows the events. This statement makes it known to readers

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    This is exactly what Hans Hubermann‚ a character from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak‚ does. Hans is the foster father of the main character in the book‚ Liesel Meminger. The setting of the book is during WW2 with Adolf Hitler as the leader of Germany‚ so anything that is done wrong could be extremely dangerous. In part

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    When mentioning The Book Thief by Markus Zusak the first comment people make is how hard of a time it was in the setting of this book. A very dramatic impact of the book is a girl named Liesel who is living of the time of World War II‚ with the Jewish being discriminated. When living at her new home with her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubberman‚ she finds herself more than a lonely girl. By the end of the story‚ she became courageous‚ persevering‚ and loyal to others. In the start of the story

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    Thematic Quote Analysis “Here‚ as before‚ never‚ so help you mercy‚ How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself‚ As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on‚ That you‚ at such times seeing m‚ never shall‚ With arms encumber’d thus‚ or this head-shake‚ Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase‚ As‚ “Well‚ well‚ we know”; or‚ “We could‚ am if we would’; Or. “If we list to speak”; or‚ “There be‚ an if they might”; — Oh such ambiguous giving out‚ to note That you

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