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    James 3:2 states‚ “For in many things we offend all. If any man offends not in word‚ the same is a perfect man‚ and able also to bridle the whole body.” Then there is God’s curse that Chou states‚ “toil for the serpent (crawling on his stomach)‚ toil for the woman (pain and danger in childbirth)‚ and toil for the worker (a working environment which now required relentless‚ strategic‚ frustrating effort). 2) The second effect was the area of economic

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    Emily‚ but Gladwell’s stronger evidence leads people to believe that he is better at proving the question “How much of our lives do we actually control?” In the poem “Luck is not chance”‚ by Emily Dickinson‚ she states that “Luck is not chance; it’s toil-” In this I believe

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    In this story there is a man named Gregor Samsa who is a traveling businessman that is working for a man who his parents are indebted to. He needs to work off their debt so that they are not made to pay. In the beginning he wakes up to find that he has turned into a cockroach. The time is 7:30 he tries to get up and work but can’t because he’s on his back and he is in this bug like form which he has suddenly transformed into overnight. He is portrayed as a cockroach in this story to compare to

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    become one of them by achieving a certain aspect of their American Dream. Thus‚ Joyce Carol Oates’s philosophy of writing novels‚ essays‚ and short stories as versatile and violent influences the way she depicts Detroit between 1930-1960‚ and her toils and triumphs of her life. Understanding who Joyce Carol Oates is will allow her audience

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    them away; then‚ not a moon‚ but a white human formed shone in azure‚ including a glorious brow earthward. It gazed and gazed on me. It spoke to my spirit: immeasurably distant was the tone‚ yet so near‚ it whispered in my heart-’my daughter‚ flee temptation.’’Mother‚ I will.’” (298). This passage helped with the plot‚ and character development. This revealed how Jane Eyre looks up to her mother‚ in the sense that Jane already knew that it would be best for her to leave her master‚ but she had not

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    Double‚ double‚ toil‚ and trouble In many pieces of literature‚ there is always something or someone that makes the story interesting‚ and plays some significant part. In the case of Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ this role is played by the witches. Without them‚ Macbeth would have been quite a boring play. Although they are fun characters‚ the witches do fill in the plot line‚ and help the story to progress. As mentioned above‚ the witches help to move the plot along‚ for without them‚ macbeth would

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    When sports teams are successful‚ much of the credit goes to the head coach. However‚ there is often a staff of excellent assistant coaches who toil behind the scenes. These individuals occupy adjacent seats at court side‚ or roam the sidelines orchestrating different aspects of game strategy. Here are some reasons why assistant coaches are so important to team success. Delegation of Responsibility While the mastermind behind most game plans begins with the head coach‚ assistant coaches are entrusted

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    lifetime. It appeared in the Nation on June 15th‚ 1918 and was either written at Ripon or Scarborough. Its format is a short elegiac lyric like a sonnet‚ though it is not structured as one. It features Owen’s famed pararhyme –sun‚ sown; star‚ stir; tall‚ toil – which disturbs the natural rhythm and gives the poem a slightly tortured mood. It is included in composer Benjamin Britten’s 1961 War Requiem‚ which intersperses several of Owen’s poems among the Latin passages. The poem concerns a soldier or

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    This I Believe This I believe… Hard work always pays off. No matter what you do or when you do it‚ hard work always pays off in the end. Hard work is what we have to do if we plan on going or doing anything in this life. We cannot sit back and take it easy all the time‚ we have to get out there and work for what we want. When we have to put forth hard work then you know the rewards will be that much greater. I’m here to tell you that hard work always pays off in the end. Hard work is what

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    What is more important to man vita activa or vita contemplativa? The importance of asking such a question lies not in answering who has the better life‚ one of an active citizen such a politician or a priest who lives in divine contemplation. Doing so would be futile and impossible. The question is necessary for man to understand who he is – if he is more inclined as a political animal or if he is more in touched with the sacred. In learning so‚ we learn that both are important‚ for the lack of one

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