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    Alice Wonderland

    Growing from Innocent to Authoritative Throughout Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the main character Alice, goes through a variety of size changes that can be compared to her transition from childhood into adulthood. Alice stumbles into a rabbit hole as an innocent 7-year-old girl who discovers her identity crisis and who leaves Wonderland as a mature young adult with nothing more but the memories of the “dream of Wonderland” (Carroll 110). We can see Alice’s struggle to identify

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    Millicent Bagnold Research Paper

    others. First, it was student clubs and soon, the victorious Ravenclaw quidditch team. As a teenager, she was disobedient – but only secretly. Being one of Dumbledore’s favourites, she’d smoke and drink in Hosmeade instead of hiding somewhere in the castle as many other students did. By her sixth year, it was obvious that she had inherited her mother’s way to flirt with everyone. Her mother’s everyone was limited to males, but Millicent realized during her last year at Hogwarts, quite shockingly, that

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    Political Correctness

    There once lived a young wommon named Cinderella, whose natural birthmother had died when Cinderella was but a child.  A few years after, her father married a widow with two older daughters.  Cinderella’s mother-of-step treated her very cruelly, and her sisters-of-step made her work very hard, as if she were their own personal unpaid laborer.                 One day an invitation arrived at their house.  The prince was celebrating his exploitation of the dispossessed and marginalized peasantry by

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    Experiments

    SIMPLE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS HANS JURGEN PRESS 1. Astronomy Image of the Sun Place a pair of binoculars in an open window in the direct path of the sun’s rays. Stand a mirror in front of one eyepiece so that it throws an image of the sun on to the opposite wall of the room. Adjust the mirror until the image is sharp, and darken the room. You would risk damaging your eyes if you looked directly at the sun through binoculars, but you can view the bright disc on the wall as large and clear

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    Kingdom Hearts Aside

    For six years, Kingdom Hearts fans have been waiting for the release of the third game in the series. And while the wait has been agonizing, Tetsuya Nomura has kept a steady stream of spin-offs and side stories coming in order to flesh out the history of this series. But in expanding upon the relatively simple stories of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, things began to grow more and more complicated. Now, with six games in total making up the series, the plot is a near-labyrinthine mess of connections and

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    Dickson, Gordon - Dragon

    Chapter 1 At 10:30 a.m., sharp, James Eckert pulled up in front of Stoddard Hall on the Riveroak College campus, where Grottwold Weinar Hansen had his lab. Angie Farrell was not, however, ready and waiting at the curb. Of course. It was a warm, bright September morning. Jim sat in the car and tried to keep his temper un- der control. It would not be Angie's fault. That idiot of a Grottwold undoubtedly had dreamed up some- thing to keep her working overtime in spite of-or perhaps because of-the

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    The Effect of Art

    Art 101 Mrs. 4-7-11 The effect of art in, on , and around houses related to sales. All around the world people are constantly buying new houses to live in. The choice isn’t always easy they don’t just go out for a joyful car ride and choose the first house they see. A lot of time and planning goes into buying a house. Some big factors of buying a house is cost, sq footage, land, and how it looks. Now days we have tv shows on how to improve the look on ones house to improve the resale value

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    Essex

    For the reasons which have determined the existence of Sussex as a county of England, and which have given it the exact boundaries that it now possesses, we must go back to the remote geological history of the secondary ages. Its limits and its very existence as a separate shire were predetermined for it by the shape and consistence of the mud or sand which gathered at the bottom of the great Wealden lake, or filled up the hollows of the old inland cretaceous sea. Paradoxical as it sounds to say

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    30 Mark Paper- Sociology

    have the highest exclusion rates in school. AO1 Another marxist explanation by Castles and Kosack is that ethnic divisions in society ensure that there is never enough solidarity for the proletariat to form a revolution – this is termed divide and rule principle. Ao2 However Britain is multicultural society and ethnic minorities are becoming more integrated in every walk of like, many are middle class. AO1 Castles and Kosack also argue that ethnic minorities make up a

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    Art Essay

    of actually just painting them right away. One of van Gogh’s famous art works was “The starry night” and it was produced 1869. In this art work I can see a small hidden town hidden behind a large mountain in a distorted form of looking like a castle and a breathe taking view of a starry night as almost if the cosmos are in reach of my fingertips. The composition of the painting has a form of repletion in a high and low rhythmic kind of way with the patterns in the starry night sky resulting in

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