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The Things They Carried
Number of Words: 697 / Number of Pages: 3
... carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and several hotel-sized bars of soap he’d stolen on R&R in Sydney, Australia. Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe in mid-April. Because it was SOP, they all carried steel helemts that weighed 5 pounds including the liner and camouflage cover. They carried the standard fatigue jackets and trousers. Very few carried underwear . On their feet they carried jungle boots which were 2.1 pounds and Dave Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of Dr Scholls foot powder as a precaution ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here? But the hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so Huck gives Jim a counterfeit quarter. Jim puts the quarter under the hair-ball. The hair-ball talks to Jim and Jim tells Huck that it says. "Yo'ole father doan' know yit what he's a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den ag'in he spec he'll stay. De bes' way is tores' easy en let de ole man take his own way. Dey's two angles hoverin' roun' 'bout him. One uv'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black. De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sil in en gust ...
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An Example Of Good Writing: Zinsser's "Simplicity"
Number of Words: 460 / Number of Pages: 2
... words not dictionary words. No one wants to read an essay that every
other word they have to stop and go look it up because they do not know the
meaning. This causes the reader to become frustrated and they also tend to
loose interest. There are too many other options presented to people today that
already stray them away from reading.
By asking questions in the essay it keeps the readers attention. In the
essay Zinsser asks, "Who is this elusive creature, the reader?" That question
causes the people reading to stop and think, could he be talking about me? Now
he has captured the readers ...
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Essay On Flowers And Shadows
Number of Words: 297 / Number of Pages: 2
... wealth and power. So who's vengeful plot brought him out of the shadows,
where his controlled madness might have fooled the likes of Jonan for a while,
but the latter's paranoia finally caught on and killed Sowho and itself;
putting a rest the destruction and curse laid upon the poor factory workers and
opening a broad new scale of possibilities that might (in long terms) help tip
the edge of demeaning business ethics in the Nigerian society.
Anyone who read Macbeth would agree that it's quite parallel to Flowers
& Shadows. Even thought the books where written by two different author ...
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Beowulf Heroes & Today's Heroes
Number of Words: 821 / Number of Pages: 3
... our nation or our nation's allies.
In the epic, Beowulf, heroes were also warriors. These warriors were supposed to protect the country against "monsters" and invasions. The warriors were strong men who could physically make an attack or prevent an attack in order to protect their country.
Beowulf was a warrior who was a hero to the country where the Danes lived. Beowulf was able to protect and serve the Danes by killing Grendel. Grendel was an evil monster who had been killing the people that had been sleeping in the hall that he haunted. Beowulf became a hero by not only killing Grendle but a ...
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Courage Under Fire
Number of Words: 1942 / Number of Pages: 8
... subject of the film is not a specific war, but the military ethos and its effect on many individuals.
The movie begins as many war films have, on the battlefield. Lieutenant Colonel Nat Serling (Denzel Washington) finds himself in an impossible situation, under heavy attack at night in the middle of the Iraqi desert. He is being assaulted by the Iraqis and in an instant loses his long time friend to the horror of “friendly fire.” He has ordered his crew to fire on another American tank under his command. Back home, the government is eagerly searching for Gulf War heroes and as a result, Serlin ...
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Amadeus Dramatic Vs Historical
Number of Words: 1288 / Number of Pages: 5
... “Bewildered, MOZART does so (halts and listens), becoming aware of SALIERI playing his March of Welcome. It is an extremely banal piece, vaguely – but only vaguely - reminiscent of another march to become very famous later one.”
The truth is that Salieri was recognized as a great composer and that is the reason he was appointed as the court composer and imperial Kappelmeister. He had several students, including Beethoven, Liszt and Schubert. His operas were performed and acclaimed in Italy and France during 1778 to 1790. Unfortunately, his style lost worth and his works were no longer popular at ...
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Interpretation Of I Heard A Fl
Number of Words: 952 / Number of Pages: 4
... “The eyes beside had wrung them dry, and breaths were gathering sure for that last onset, when the king be witnessed in his power.” This stanza deals with how God is brought upon by the speaker’s death. Onlookers surround the dead body and seem to be looking for clues to what may eventually await them when it is their turn to pass onto another possible world. In stanza three the speaker is preparing for a journey into an afterlife that may lie ahead. Dickinson writes, “I willed my keepsakes, signed away what portion of me I could make assignable, - and then there interposed a fly.” After already d ...
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Heilner's "Beneath The Wheel" And Me
Number of Words: 796 / Number of Pages: 3
... saw up ahead of me, Chris frantically flipping through
his Algebraic Concepts text book. I approached Chris and asked: "Did we have
any homework we were supposed to do?"
"All we had to do was study for the test today," Chris replied. As
usual, I had forgotten another quiz; either that I had chosen to neglect it.
Whichever it was, I never study for tests and quizzes. "Yeah, I've been
studying for it all period. I studied last night too, so I should be pretty
good," Chris added.
"Oh, well that's a surprise; guess it slipped my mind," I responded.
With time marching on I gave Chris a "see ya the ...
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A Gathering Of Old Men
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... is a trophy. For Medea death has a value of importance. A friendship has been established. Death is Medea’s friend. She uses it as a weapon to get what she views as justice. "Then if you have a dog eyed enemy and needed absolute vengeance . . . Unchild him, ha? And then unlife him"(23). Medea believed with great depth to get vengeance upon Jason. She wanted to go through with her vengeance and hurt Jason as Jason hurt her. Jason left Medea for another woman thus leaving her miserable and craving for revenge. Thus, she went on taking the life of his bride-to-be and the life of their ...
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