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    life. A life that I could never have in England. My young‚ sixteen year old mind could not quite comprehend the entire reasoning of why my mother wanted to send me away to a place that either of us had ever been. Of course we had all heard the stories of others traveling to America for a better life. I did not want to leave my mother‚ not right after I had lost the rest of my family. But there I was‚ alone on that ship‚ the year of 1895‚ traveling to a new land for a new life. The only recognizable

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    1. List the main character(s) the main characters in Case Study F is the artist Karen Finley (Oster 253). 2. Give a brief review? A brief overview of the classical Jazz at the Lincoln Center was the subject of discussion in fall 1990. (Oster251) The trustees and their staff debated of turning four-year-old jazz program into an independent performing arts organization like the Metropolitan Opera or the New York City Ballet. (Oster251) This new independent program would argue that this new independent

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    The main character in “Going west” is Bud and the main character in “The Letter” is Maria. Bud is the most realistic because it can happen to anyone. Bud is unhappy because he is stuck in a orphanage without his dad or mom he was also being bullied. Maria is scared because she was in the united states illegally she can be taken away from her family if she gets caught. Bud is sad because he got separated from his mom and he doesn’t know his dad. Maria is scared that she might have to go to jail

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    In the Lake Side School of history‚ dark and gloomy stories ruled the school. These dark stories gave the students the fear and discipline that would never have come came to normal students. why? But in the midst of all the students‚ there was one student named Billy Longnose who wasn’t the average Lake Side student. For one‚ he often roamed the school’s underground passages that had long been abandoned by students and staff.how does this compare to normal students there? The tunnel floors were mostly

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    Rooney 1 Samuel Rooney Danielle Cornum English 9 30 January 2012 Similarities and Differences of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story No one goes through all of life without the knowledge of these two timeless classics: West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet. These films are each a great literary work that defines the true meaning of life‚ sorrows and love. We all have knowledge of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet. In 1957 Leonard Bernstein created a Broadway Musical with a plot similar

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    Into the West

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    The West Amanda Miranda America was beginning to boom! With the war over and immigrants coming to the land of “freedom” from all over the world‚ people began to adventure to the West. There was a new‚ unsettled land presenting opportunities beyond what anyone could imagine. The west offered natural resources such as gold‚ oil‚ and lumber‚ also it gave hope to freedom and landownership all the while guarding it with dangerous obstacle such as natives‚ disease‚ and drought. The forge west brought

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    following are a creation story which is like a religion. Yes‚ it’s not the same as now but they are called creation stories . A creation myth is a narrative of how the world began and how people first came to it. The stories that my class read was Gaia a Greek story‚ The Golden Chain is a Yoruba‚ West African story‚ The Story of Corn and Medicine‚ Cherokee story‚ Pan Gu and Nü Wa‚ China story. The story in this essay will be writing about is Cherokee and West Africa creation stories. Although the Cherokee

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    of short stories like this. This essay at hand will concentrate on the Western elements in the nine short stories of East‚ West by Salman Rushdie. Special attention will be given to the composition of the book. The division into East‚ West and East‚ West will be examined‚ too. It will be followed how Rushdie deconstructs the seeming oppositions East and West and how stereotypes play a part in this. The thesis is the volume of short stories contains a very stereotypical picture of the West. Apart from

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    West

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    The question that is being asked here is what is the West? The west can be defined as many different things‚ but According to Levack‚ B.‚ Muir‚ E.‚ & Veldman‚ M. (2011) the west is a “place” (p. 2). The west is thought of to be traditionally compromised of certain regions like Europe‚ the Americas‚ Australia‚ and New Zealand. There are in fact many ideas that are evolving around western civilization such as form of governments‚ methods of scientific inquiry‚ religions‚ and languages just to name

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    suspend the Mexican-American Studies Program to be in compliance with the state law Arizona statute ARS 15-112. This decision was also made to avoid losing ten percent of its budget in this period of a struggling economy; but that does not complete the story. The history of disagreement began when Tom Horne‚ the State Superintendent of Schools‚ during the last days of his term found Tucson School District in violation of all four provisions of the state law ARS 15-112. John Huppenthal‚ who took over as

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