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Hiroshima
Number of Words: 811 / Number of Pages: 3
... passed, mars. Nakamura started back with her children. They reached home a little after two-thirty and she immediately turned on the radio, which was broadcasting a fresh warnin! g. She put the children in their bedrolls on the floor, laid down herself at three o'clock, and fell asleep at once. The siren jarred her awake at about seven o'clock, she arose and hurried to the house of Mr.Nakamoto, the head of her neighborhood Association and asked him what she should do. He told her to remain at home unless an urgent warning. The Prefectural Government convinced, everyone in that the city would be attack ...
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Inherit The Wind Drummonds Def
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... Brown portrays him as the devil and asks that his soul "writhe in anguish and damnation" (66). While all the townspeople, including her father have negative attitudes toward Cates, Racheal is the only one who stands up for Bert. Being his girlfriend, she knows he is telling the truth. Like a message from God, Brady came to defend the town's belief of creation. Brady is like a God to the town, being a self proclaimed expert on the bible. Also, his political background has a lasting impact on the townspeople, giving that they all voted for him in three presidential elections. Additionally, Rachae ...
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The Influence Of Thoreau On Gandhi And Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of Words: 3076 / Number of Pages: 12
... enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Thoreau always did march to a different drummer. “The Con-cord community, already scandalized by Thoreau’s unconven-tional way of life, ridiculed his lack of ambition and material success. However, Thoreau flourished with Emerson as his mentor. He kept an extensive journal and became an avid reader of Hindu scripture.” (Twentieth p346) Gandhi would later say that he “received back from America what was fundamentally ...
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Bone
Number of Words: 334 / Number of Pages: 2
... Ona’s death. Leila’s last comment states it well. “Like the old timer’s photos, Leon’s papers and Grandpa Leong’s lost s, it reminded me to look back, to remember. I was reassured. I knew what I held in my heart would guide me. So I wasn’t worried when I turned that corner, leaving the old blue sign, Salmon Alley, Mah and Leon- everything-
I think this passage summarizes well, the concept of needing to know where you came from in order to move forward. As in anything we study or live, we must understand or have some sort of knowledge of history before we can be innovative or truly aware of whom w ...
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Animal Farm 5
Number of Words: 350 / Number of Pages: 2
... paradise the animals had dreamed about; Old majors ideals were forgotton and the pig Napolean and his pack of dogs assume leadership. Snowball, the other pig is forced to flee for his life and the other animals begin to suffer as they did before the revolution. Napplean and his pack of dogs alnog with the other pigs begin to associate with the humans they despised.
The other animals see them in the farmhouse playing cards with the humans and see a fight erupt between them. Soon it is apparant that the animals and the humans are alike, faces all angry and full of rage. The others are unable to dis ...
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Macbeth-tragic Hero
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... his only weakness- his vaulting ambition. As Schucking talks about Shakespeare's tragic heroes:
He creates a hero such as Macbeth, who is a moral coward
and for a while a henpecked husband, who in critical moments
is rebuked like a schoolboy by his wife and who, on the other
hand, proves himself a lion on the battle field.
(p.95, The character of the Elizabethan Tragic Hero)
Macbeth's vulnerability to the witches is caused by his corrupt desire, which moves him to take a false step. Macbeth is aware that the deed he contemplates is evil from the very beginning. He admits that its 'ho ...
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A Comparison And Contrast Of L
Number of Words: 390 / Number of Pages: 2
... dancing and a great feast." to depict the jungle as a lively, animated, and supportive dwelling. His images of "The sun breaking through..." contrast heavily with Conrad's dark and gloomy imagery.
Conrad is more biased from the beginning against the African people, seeing them as an extension of the "impenetrable forest" where his character Marlow is, "...cut off for ever from everything you had know once... "[sic] Marlow's jungle is one of, Aplants, and water, and silence." These images lend themselves to the British impression of Africa as an "uncivilized" place. Achebe's "...music and dancing and ...
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My Parent's Divorce
Number of Words: 949 / Number of Pages: 4
... and scared of guys who tried to date her. I remember making up reasons why she should stay home with me. Some of my reasons I used were running away, faking an illness and other stupid stuff to that extent. I guess I was a weird child. I think I was only trying to protect her even though I was only a four-year old.
My mom got a job working for the government after my dad left us. At the job in Washington D.C. she met my future step dad, Ivars. They dated for about two years and then they got married. We then moved into his townhouse in Springfield, Virginia; I loved it there. When my s ...
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Hills Like White Elephants
Number of Words: 995 / Number of Pages: 4
... and agrees that the man has never seen one, his response is, "I might have, just because you say I haven’t doesn’t prove anything" (464). This shows the defensive nature of the man, and when the woman implies the he is unable to differentiate between what is beautiful and what is not. Another issue that is discussed in this story is abortion and two opposing views. When the conversation turns from the hills to the operation one is able to comprehend the mentality of the woman. "Then what will we do afterwards?" (465) shows the woman is concerned about what will occur after the ope ...
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Essay On "Poetics For Bullies"
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... began to be nice to Push. He absolutely hated this. Only someone of pure evil would hate it when people are nice to them. Because of this, Push tried to make people hate John, thinking that everything would go back to being normal again.
This did not work, and everyone still liked John, and everyone was being even nicer to Push. This infuriated him. It made him so mad that he wanted to start a fight with John.
Push did go to fight John, and threw a punch. John threw a punch back and knocked Push down. After this, John did a very noble thing by asking for Push's friendship. ...
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