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    In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” the author uses the bird as a symbol for doodle to foreshadow what's going to happen at the end. When they first see the bird the dad says “”It looks tiered,” daddy added. “Or maybe evan sick”” When the narrator is teaching doodle to run he says “I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up,his face turned red”. This relates the two through being tired and worn out. The bird had flown from florida to North carolina and doodle was pushing himself harder…

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    In Chapter 32 Chernow explains the least popular piece of legislation of Adams presidency. The Alien and seditions acts not only brought back distrust between neighbors paralleled to that of the Salem Witch Trials. But the acts were made into a scape goat for many politicians to fight against each other. The acts pretty much brought the downfall of the federalist party for many years to come. Hamilton in wanted revenge against the author who released information about the Reynolds affair and…

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    Throughout the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Solitude becomes an important role in both Victor Frankenstein and his creatures life. Mary Shelley tries to incorporate how solitude effects both characters throughout the different changes in the novel. Over the course of the novel, Victor becomes very passionate about science to the point where he becomes sort of obsessed with his experiment on the creature. As time passes by Victor dislikes the outcome of his experiment and tries to get away…

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    James Bond, a man of many adventures, the star of several books and movie’s, has become the picture of British masculinity. This British masculinity can be defined by the rigorous consistency, sophistication, social elegance, physical and intellectual superiority, and levelheadedness with which Bond gracefully and timely saves the world from its unknown offenders. This ideal man is the height of British superiority and his adventures are the epitome of Anglo-centric world views during the cold…

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    Adams “midnight judges” and he never received his commission, or papers from the secretary of state. James Madison was the assistant of Thomas Jefferson, the new president, who won the 1801 election against John Adams. By Thomas Jefferson being a republican, he wanted to prevent the federalist from becoming justices of the peace. Therefore Jefferson instructed his secretary of state whom was James Madison to refuse the appointments. They passed a law of the Judiciary Act of 1801 in extension of…

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    NBA: the National Basketball Association. Lots of people heard of the NBA or heard of someone in the NBA like Michael Jordan, LeBron James, or Stephen Curry. NBA players are paid sportsmen. The NBA is an American association /sport that entertain people through the game of basketball. So let’s talk basketball. The NBA is a professional league, played by men in North America all over the country. The ever basketball game we know was on Jan 20th, 1892 in Massachusetts. The NBA was founded…

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    Dr. Victor Frankenstein achieves his victory very similar to that to the British when they defeated the French at Waterloo. The overview of Frankenstein helps to show how victory is achieved by Victor in the novel. Victories aren’t always achieved on a battlefield, or a field, or even in the classroom. Some triumphs, however, are won in life itself. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a successful scientist, and his creation of his “creature”. The story is told…

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    Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is a story about Victor Frankenstein creating a "monster", but his creature has no monster like qualities until he is left and abandoned by his creator. The creature is only treated with cruelty and rancor because of his gruesome appearance. The creature gets no sympathy throughout his life and greatly suffers because of it. Through the description of the creatures plight Shelley suggests compassion as the true indication of human nature. At the beginning of…

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    In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we meet a character named Victor Frankenstein who starts off on a voyage but ends up on a quest for knowledge in his head. When obtaining this knowledge and making his creations Victor begins to seclude himself from everyone and everything. As the story goes on its evident that solitude does play an important role in the story, but solitude was not always beneficial for both Victor Frankenstein and his monster. Solitude caused unfeasible decisions for the…

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    Monsters are often portrayed as the villain, there is only two options either the cause or the effect. Frankenstein by the author Mary Shelley is a book that talks about a young man named Victor Frankenstein whose vision was beyond what was believed to be possible and because of this, Victor turned the impossible possible. Often when doing things out of the ordinary there should always be a conscious thought that the outcome of something might be different than what it was believed to be. For…

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