US history because they exposed unfair legal practices and laid the foundation for the creation of more legal and fair court practices. Before the first accusation of witchcraft in Salem, the town was split into two groups, some lived in Salem village while others lived in
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who lived in the land of average-ism. Everyone made the same amount of money, everyone went to the same school, same opportunities, and yet some had different amounts of work. All his life our young hero wanted to be special, wanted to escape the disease of average-ism. He wanted people to remember him, he wanted to be famous. Unfortunately our hero lived in a Socialist society and he ended up fading into the background. Socialism, as defined by the Merriam Webster online dictionary, is "any way
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main setting of the story. In this story, Brock has lived in the dome for his whole life. He has never seen the outside world. He has heard the people that went to the outside world never came back. Brock decided to go to the outside world and explore new things. When he was outside he saw a bunch of things he has never seen before. Until, he found a dog and named it Brog. He was told that there were no more dogs, but Brock found one and was surprised. He later saves Brog, when he over hears
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getting drugs than fulfilling her purpose. She is very easily distracted and for instance suddenly decides to go to a museum just because she’s never been there before. The language and general choice of words indicate that Ellie is a teenager, and one of the major themes of the story is youth, and being an individual. We don’t really know anything about Ellie except for her thoughts and what we are told about her during
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beautiful. They are amazing and everyone wants to see one. I LOVE MERMAIDS. There. I said it…I love mermaids. I remember being a little girl and watching The Little Mermaid with my older sister and thinking, ‘Wow. This is beautiful.’ This movie really was where it started. I think for a lot of people, it began with this movie. This movie showed mermaids in this light of being beautiful and being able to love. As a child, this is a pretty cool thing. It feeds the wonder and innocence of a child
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the war as an Confederate soldier, and several stereo typical southern references as well as the use of common southern accents.. The use of “N___er” (AFRAKA) is used multiple times in this story. It is used openly and without shame in regard to any person of color referenced in the story. This term is not as acceptable as it used to be, in reference to people of color, the term black is acceptable now in the south even though it doesn’t matter what one’s skin color is, we are in fact equal. “It
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House on Mango Street Reading Log Entry One What is the family’s situation? What clues gave this impression? The family's situation was that they were too poor to afford a real house, and moved around a lot. If they did manage to find a place to live, it was generally a rundown house. On page 3 the author says “We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keeler was Paulina and before that I can remember.” This
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during the Paleolithic era evolved nutritional needs that matched the world they lived in; infrequent, fresh food. Although the world has changed our bodies haven’t and the nutritional needs we have are the same as our caveman ancestors, making the fatty sugary foods we are also fond of dangerous and unnecessary to our survival. However no matter how well you stick the Paleo diet, if you’re not moving you won’t be expending any energy and will find it harder to break down your fat stores. Everyone is busy
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on the teachings of a man called Siddhartha Gauthama. He lived for about 25 centuries. Siddhartha Gauthama came to be called Buddha. In his life Buddha traveled and taught, he did not teach people what he had realized when he became enlightened. He taught people how to be come enlightened themselves. He taught them that awakening comes through your own direct experience, not through their beliefs. Buddhism spread throughout Asia to become one of the dominant religions in the continent. It is over
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person past and I have always believed that every man is equal unless he or she has given enough reason to say other than that. Prejudice has been many different things for me I lived in predominantly minority places where I am one of the people who is only white and everyone else is a different ethnicity so I have lived in these situations for most of my life so I have a respect for these kind of people that go through some much every day and still put up with it because most of them are at that
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