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    There are two great heroes from history‚ one from the bible‚ and one from Homer’s book The Odyssey. They both relied on a higher power to give them the abilities to do many things. More specifically they relied on the higher powers to confront family members that they have been separated from for many years. They also had to do something for the good of their families. Both men had a point in their lives that they had to reveal their true identity to their family‚ but each situation is very different

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    In the letter from Birmingham jail‚ one of Dr. Martin Luther King’s major claim is that the direct action plan needs to take place in Birmingham. In response to the clergymen’s letter‚ Martin Luther King Jr. in his first 11 paragraphs expresses the importance of the Direct Action Plan while still incarcerated and how he plans to attack the injustices in Birmingham Alabama. The most segregated place in the United States at the time. Before king arrived the African American leader had already negotiated

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    Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The three have been widely different in their approach‚ but they all come back to the theme of a corrupt‚ evil‚ narrow-minded society that the main character believes should be fixed. Through all their journeys‚ the characters show us that through perspective we can see the necessary changes that need to be made to society. Of the three‚ I believe that Gulliver’s Travels is the best because it offers an outside view and opinion of our society from the Houyhnhnms that

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    what it meant to be a Mexican American. His Aunt replied “ You’re you”. Again he was not sure of what this meant? He didn’t get another opportunity to ask his Aunt again because she had died of alcoholism. When the family had a gathering he shied away from the younger parts of his family‚ and went to the adults to see what his Aunt was really like when she was alive and didn’t drink. He could get a sense of what being a Mexican meant. Remembering the people that had died and to never forget them. To

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    In his letter‚ King attempts to persuade the men to look past their current prejudices and perform their expected duties as Christians. He also aims to defend his nonviolent methods of protest through a collage of brilliant rhetorical tactics that he fabricates in his own mind. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” is exceptionally effective at convincing the audience of the immorality of segregating blacks from whites because his tone is incredibly befitting

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    “Divorced From Nature” We must learn to reconnect with nature. We must teach our children and their children to do the same. It’s imperative to our planet and future. We take for granted what our earth gives us naturally every day and shrug it off as if it were and ex-boyfriend‚ and worse. We’ve taught our children these ways

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    Text mining is the discovery of patterns and relationships from large sets of unstructured data—the kind of data we generate in e-mails‚ phone conversations‚ blog postings‚ online customer surveys‚ and tweets. The mobile digital platform has amplified the explosion in digital information‚ with hundreds of millions of people calling‚ texting‚ searching‚ “apping” (using applications)‚ buying goods‚ and writing billions of e-mails on the go. Consumers today are more than just consumers: they

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    analysis "From W.S."

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    Analysis of the text “W.S.” The text under analysis is an extract from a short story “W.S.” by Leslie Poles Hartley‚ a well-known British novelist and short story writer best-known for his novels which include “Eustace and Hilda” trilogy (1947) and “The Go-Between” (1953). The story “W.S.” comes from “The complete short stories” of L. P. Hartley published posthumously in 1973. The story “W.S.” is about a novelist Walter Streeter who one day gets a postcard from Forfar signed W.S. He doesn’t pay

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    My favorite text was by far Sula‚ by Toni Morrison. This novel was one that I understood well‚ including the metaphors‚ plot‚ character development‚ and more. Sula as a whole was very interesting to me. After just a few chapters‚ I couldn’t put the book down. The storyline was very compelling‚ as were a lot of the characters. In comparison to others‚ this book was the easiest read‚ and had an excellent flow‚ which isn’t to say that I don’t like a challenge when I read my books‚ but the writing being

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    beliefs as it indirectly challenges who they are or what they stand for. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written in 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. responds to clergymen who criticized his actions and role in the battle against segregation. These actions that were carried out by King were done so because he believed it was his moral responsibility‚ he believed it was his obligation to fight for the rights of all people. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” Martin Luther King Jr. argues how the demonstrations

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