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    This Side of Paradise

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    I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise. I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend this book to other people. There was one main character throughout this novel. The main characters name was Amory Blaine. Amory Blaine was a very attractive man who was truly in love with himself. Blaine fell in love with several women throughout the book. He truly falls in love with a woman named Rosalind who eventually ends up breaking his heart by marrying someone far richer than himself. With

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    Out of This Furnace

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    Out of this Furnace‚ by Thomas Bell‚ tells the story of a multigenerational family of Slovakian immigrants. This family of five generations came to American in the late nineteenth century in search of a better life. One of the first to arrive‚ Djuro Kracha‚ arrived in the New World in the middle of the 1880s. The novel starts off telling of his voyage from the “old country” and the labor he performed to accumulate enough money for his walk to Pennsylvania. He ventured on his journey to Pennsylvania

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    This Is Water Analysis

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    ideas and seek for ideas that challenge how they see the world. In order to become intellectual‚ we need a diverse environment with open minded people. He also encouraged the students to study the problems of our world and try to solve them. At the end of the speech‚ he says "I want you to make history‚ not be history. I want your work to be remembered ‚ not be forgotten." I feel like this phrase inspired each of us who were reading this speech. In addition‚ we mentioned that routines force us

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    This I Believe

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    This I Believe I believe that people need to take more time to appreciate the little things in life. This is my belief because sometimes the smallest things in life can mean the most to you. Take for example if one of your family members or close friends pass away and you have something to remember them by. The item you may have may be useless to someone else but to you it means the world. The little things in life may be some of the things that get you through your everyday routine. They could

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    Out of This Furnace

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    Yoav Ruiz-Feingold 9-8-11 CAS English 2 The Characters of Out of This Furnace Thomas Bell’s novel Out of This Furnace tells the story of four working class immigrants‚ and how they fight adversity. Throughout the novel it becomes apparent that the characters have an interesting relationship that plays off of one another. Over the course of Out of This Furnace‚ what the characters Kracha‚ Mike‚ Mary‚ and Dobie have in common is that they live by the same ideals and are overtly effected by their

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    Do Not Read This

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    number is in the brackets it refers to "to the power of" or subscript. -Salmun -----------------------------Contents: Introduction 1 - Arc there intelligent Beings in the Cosmos? 2 - When our Space-ship landed on Earth ... 3 - The Improbable World of the Unexplained 4 - Was God an Astronaut? 5 - Fiery Chariots from the Heavens 6 - Ancient Imagination and Legends or Ancient Facts? 7 - Ancient Marvels or Space Travel Centres? 8 - Easter Island—Land of the Bird Men 9 - Mysteries of South America

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    This I Believe

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    Jonathan Yun This I Believe… Have you ever wanted to make a difference? I have and I believe that everyone should be treated equally. No one should be treated differently just because of their physical feature‚ their mental disabilities‚ and if they practice and preach a certain religion. I believe that no matter what race you are‚ how slow you learn‚ or if you’re Buddhist or Christian everyone should be treated the same and equally. There was a point and time where I‚ myself struggled with

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    This Earth of Mankind

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    Throughout Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s novel‚ This Earth of Mankind‚ a multitude of social justice issue arise amongst the Dutch colonization of Indonesia. The European cultural influence truly suffocated the local natives to the point where social structure and class took precedence over knowledge‚ talent‚ and experience. Native Indonesians where seen as inferior to the Dutch colonials and race was thus correlated with class. Race refers to whether someone is Native Indonesian‚ Indo‚ or European. The

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    and the early 1900s‚ the US became much more involved in world affairs. In other words‚ they were becoming a world power. This meant many things‚ many changes. In the 1880s‚ the US was still known as a minor county‚ a nation known to play only a small role in world affairs. Before the start of intervening in other nations‚ the US had followed a policy of isolationism‚ or having little to do with the political affairs of other nations. This was advised by George Washington in his Farewell Address

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    you to know that i have been thinking of what to do over this funds for some period of years now simply because i know that the money is of no use to me any longer simply because of the stage at which my cancer has gotten. I am a very prayerful person and it was when i was praying sometimes ago that the Lord revealed to me i don’t know if i should call it a dream or a vision i was told that i should go into the world and bless the world with what the almighty God has used in blessing i and my

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