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Victory Is Mine
Number of Words: 472 / Number of Pages: 2
... she has a new motto, which is to live her life one day at a time.
Finally, after getting treatment, she understood that she needed support. When she got out of treatment, she attended her firs AA meeting, which was one of the suggestions that was given while she was in treatment. Today she still continues to attend my meetings. Taking her recovery very serious today. She feels as though she dose not attend her meetings, as she should because of her class schedule. However, She has a very good foundation. Whenever she is not able to attend a meeting, she know just what to do. AA is her livelihood.
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Life On The Color Line
Number of Words: 389 / Number of Pages: 2
... a chance. Greg Williams was singled out by his family and his father to excel, to leave Muncie, and to make his fortune through his brains and academic prowess. This came true, and he is now the Dean of the College of Law at Ohio State University. His brother Mike, however, missed their mother terribly, yielded to their father's vision of him as "just like me" and lived a hard and dangerous life.
Part of the significance of the book is the author's ability to contrast his life with his brother's. Another significant factor is his ability to translate from both sides of the color line his un ...
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Diary Of Anne Frank
Number of Words: 625 / Number of Pages: 3
... were other people such as the Van Daans. Mr. Frank let them stay because they needed a place to hide and since they had helped him out so much in the past by actually teaching Mr. Frank German, he felt it was the least he could do. The Van Daans had a son which Anne later became interested in. Peter was the only person who Anne could understand and knew that Anne could understand him. They could both talk to each other freely when they were together. Dussel soon joined the group. He was only supposed to be up in the attic for a short time, but he ended up staying till the end. He had to leave his ...
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Lord Of The Flies 12
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... brought on by man's animalistic actions.
The forming of two different groups, or tribes, did nothing to lessen the problems. Jack, the leader of the newer yet larger group, based his philosophy of surviving on killing and hunting. On one of his groups hunting trips a wild boar is killed and beheaded. The head was placed on spear, which was stuck in the ground of Ralph's campsite. This act was used to show the progression of the boys away from being civilized and back to creatures. Though this was not a life threatening action, it was a hint to Ralph and his followers of how Jack and his peop ...
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Beowulf And Jesus: Sacrifice And Inspiration
Number of Words: 1570 / Number of Pages: 6
... and believe the Good News!"(Mark 1:15) Jesus was snubbed, mocked and abused by people he met along the way. However, He overcame these attacks by people and reached Jerusalem where his real struggle, the fight for Christianity and for life, would take place. He performed miracles and had many superhuman-like qualities. He once brought a dead girl back to life. Many people told the girl’s father that she was dead, but Jesus said "don’t be afraid, just believe"(Mark 5:36). His superhuman powers were amazing. There was a sick woman that had been bleeding for 12 years, she merle touched Him, "immedia ...
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
Number of Words: 2357 / Number of Pages: 9
... parents objections. However the army rejected Hemingway, despite his repeated efforts, due to permanent eye damage incurred from his years of boxing. Yielding finally to the army's rejections, he added a year to his age and was hired as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, a national newspaper. While working at the Star, Hemingway continued his efforts to participate in the war, and finally succeeded when he joined a volunteer Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. In 1918 he was very seriously injured at Fossalta on the Piave River. Hemingway received twelve operations on his knee, an aluminum k ...
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How "First Love" Is Represented By Different Artists
Number of Words: 867 / Number of Pages: 4
... until they are grown up and are writing about it. It probably provides
them with a good topic to start writing about in the first place. The lack of
realization seems to be a powerful motivator in the lives of these artists. All
of the artists in the readings seem to have gone through a period of lack of
realization before wising up to what their experiences with their first loves
meant. They probably did not know that their first loves were their first loves
until later in their lives. In the case of Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke,
it took them their whole adolescent years to realize wh ...
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Machiavelli - Human Nature
Number of Words: 1086 / Number of Pages: 4
... citizens, stating that "...in time of adversity, when the state is in need of it's citizens there are few to be found."5 Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not feel that a Prince should mistreat the citizens. This suggestion once again to serve the Prince's best interests. If a prince can not be both feared and loved, Machiavelli suggests, it would be better for him to be feared bey the citizens within ...
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The Lottery 2
Number of Words: 929 / Number of Pages: 4
... serves as a great equalizer abolishing all forms of separation of gender.
Despite this equality during the lottery, gender does drive this story. Division of labor is evidence that a separation of gender exists. Due to the fact that Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves are men in the village, they are given the opportunity to administer the lotter. By having this chance, they gain the ability to prove to the people in the community that men are the holders of the highest positions. In his making of the list, Mr. Summers imposes his power upon the community, by determining who will draw from the box first.
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The Great Gatsby - The Charact
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... the pages with a “flutter of slender muscles in her arms.” Reading a newspaper would be an unlikely action of a woman of that time, and even her muscles reveal her masculine features. Fitzgerald’s masculine depiction of Miss Baker in this fashion shows the reader the coming of a self sufficient woman into our times.
In addition to Jordan’s physical features, her beliefs and values show that she is far from a typical woman of the time. At her first big golf tournament, there had been speculation concerning Jordan moving her ball from a bad lie, indicating her defiance of the ...
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