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All Quiet On The Western Front
846 wordsThe novel All Quiet On The Western Front contains many incidents where the readers can hold characters responsible for their actions, however his novel in particular relates to the clash of values. Though fictional this novel by Erich Maria Remarque, presents vast detail through the conflicts at the Western Front. Corporal Himmelstoss a character in the novel is portrayed as a stereotypical military man, whose actions, when all's said and done, speaks for itself as the reader really does not que...
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Figurative Language Cash Register
737 wordsLife in Stamps, Alabama is very difficult and callous for the Negro people. The Negroes must work long hours at ridiculously low pay just to survive, and often it just was not enough. Angelou explains in the early chapters of I know why the caged bird Sings, just how hard life in Stamps is and how her people are able cope. Angelou conveys this so that the reader will have a greater understanding of what the times she lived in were like; she is also trying to teach us about the circumstances in w...
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Erich Maria Remarque Quiet On The Western Front
1,597 wordsWorld War I was the first total war. Once the war began, the countries involved mobilized their entire populations and economic resources to achieve victory on the battlefield. The term home front, which was widely employed for the first time during World War I, perfectly symbolized this new concept of a war in which the civilian population behind the lines was directly and critically involved in the war effort. The war began as a clash between two coalitions of European countries. The first coa...
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Ha Ha Ha Dark Side
1,369 wordsI think I need some help. Faith said, staggering inside the old, haunted mansion. Her right arm had a big cut in it, and blood was gushing out. Her face had a few scrapes and bruises, as did the rest of her body. Faith had just came back from a battle with an Excel demon. Faith was a witch, about 19 years old. She had brown eyes, and short blond hair. Her skin was pale, and she was very small, but strong for her age. Faith had a past life, where her name was Enchanted. In her past life she was a...
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Sky Said Signaling Covered With Blood Faith
1,402 words... ake Blue in his left leg, with a wooden stake. That does sound easy. Sky said (through Faith). Im sure that well be able to kill it without any trouble at all. Thats what you think, Sky. said Melinda. I think Sky's right. Faith said. The only real hard part will be finding Blue! Well, lets go find him, then. Sky thought. I was just going to say I mean, I was just going to think that, Faith thought. Faith and Sky gathered all their weapons and left to find Blue. All they really had to bring w...
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Racism In The Play A Raisin Sun
1,377 wordsRacism is whats keeping the world from uniting. The discrimination of others base on their beliefs or culture is what Lorraine Hansberry the author of the play A raisin in the Sun experienced. She was born in Chicago in 1930 and died in 1965. Her family was one of the first African American families to move into an all white neighborhood, which led to her discrimination experiences. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, she wrote about an African American family who lives in a small apartment buildin...
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Summary Characters And Analysis Of Lord The Flies
836 wordsSummary The Story Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding deals with a group of boys (no girls) that got evacuated by airplane from nuclear war. The plane crashed on a tropic island and now the boys are on their one no adults, no civilisation. The main plot of the story is the forming of an society in order to create organised living conditions. In the beginning the boys build a responsible democratic society, formed by elections and a 'head of state. In the end it degenerates into anarchy...
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Quiet On The Western Front Shell Hole
1,334 wordsAll Quiet on the Western Front is about the German warrant during World War I. The story of the battle is narrated by Paul Baumer, a young soldier in the German army. He and his school friends have been urged to enlist in the fighting by Kantorek. The story is set on the front lines where Baumer and his friends are fighting for survival. When the book opens, one of their mates, Josef Be, has already been killed. Another of the group, Kemmerich, has had his leg amputated. He never fully recovers ...
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Silence Of Death Silence Appears One
821 wordsIf one would try to comprehensively describe and identify the meaning of silence the first idea that would come to mind would be the opposite of noise or absence of noise. However a deeper look in this matter would lead to a more bizarre and peculiar understanding of the proper definition of silence. Silence is usually characterized by such attributes as stillness, peace and calmness and as everyone has a different and in at some point unique perception of those factors its real and personal qua...
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Lack Of Education Arthur Jarvis
1,355 wordsSocial Protest Cry the Beloved Country was a book written to bring about change. Through out the book Alan Paton reveal the social injustices of South Africa. This whole book, although a fictional stories, is to protest of the ways of South Africa. Paton brings up the inequity of the natives? verses the whites; he makes points about education, superiority, and separation. Paton clearly showed that the white man is superiority to the black, he gives numerous examples throughout the novel. The whi...
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Head Body
1,783 wordsDO YOU Death english-creative writing DO YOU HAVE CARTOON MUSIC PLAYING IN YOUR HEAD TOO? Her tattoo was of a skull with wings. Doug reflected on the idea that a skull with angelic wings was a bit of an oxymoron. She had her hair pulled up in pigtails; a faux-cute self mockery that made her look the part of the raver she was trying so hard to be. Her black tank top was offset by the white vinyl pants that she was wearing. Her whole outfit couldn? t have been cheap. This was strange, because obvi...
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Spartan Discipline Small City Sparta
521 wordsDid Sparta Achieve Her Goal? Sparta is the most formidable city known in history. Famous for her impressive military power, she proved that strength didn t lie in numbers, it lay in Spartan discipline. Sparta started out as a small city fighting only to survive against enemy invaders. Her goal was to avoid defeat from other city-states and she very nearly succeeded in achieving it. Using self-denial, strong discipline and harsh training, Sparta focused almost all her attention on achieving her g...
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Fine Italian Restaurant Seafood Dishes Food
614 wordsMatt Smith Smith 1 Comp 1 Oswald Different Dining Experiences It can be very satisfying to sit down in front of a good meal and indulge in eating it. Eating is fun and plays a large role in every day life. During the preparation there are many choices one must make. What to eat? Where to eat? If one decides to go out, there are many different types of cuisines and restaurants to choose from. Say, for instance, a family wants to go out this Friday night for dinner. They come up with the following...
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Piece Of Work Frederick Douglass
1,486 wordsMR. CHARLES W. CHESNUTTS STORIES. THE critical reader of the story called The Wife of his Youth, which appeared in these pages two years ago, must have noticed uncommon traits in what was altogether a remarkable piece of work. The first was the novelty of the material; for the writer dealt not only with people who were not white, but with people who were not black enough to contrast grotesquely with white people, who in fact were of that near approach to the ordinary American in race and color w...
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Phrase Quot Poem Quot
792 wordsIn C. K. Williams " Grief, " the speaker explores the all too common experience of losing a loved one. The speaker describes the pain involved in sitting helplessly by, only able to watch, while another human being slowly withdraws into death. The poem " Grief, " like many of C. K. Williams poems, is a maelstrom of memories, thoughts, emotions, and other human experiences. In this particular poem, the speaker is torn by the slow death of his elderly mother. His attempts to co...
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Class Of People Communist Party
972 wordsHistorical Background to Animal Farm Karl Marx was a German scholar who lived in the nineteenth century. He spent most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understood more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is injustice in the world. He said that all injustice and inequality is a result of one underlying conflict in society. He called it a class struggle, that is, a ...
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Sense Of Humor Immature Person People
586 wordsMost adults consider immaturity a negative quality among their peers. At one time or another just about everyone has had the intended insult flung at them, Youre so immature! Is immaturity an insult? Hmmmph, how ludicrous. Ive always looked at immaturity as a positive quality. Here are some reasons why. Immature people are usually curious, unpredictable, rebellious, have willingness for change, and most importantly display a sense of humor. It is this sense of humor that keeps life in perspectiv...
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Finny Reader
1,387 wordsUpon returning to his school fifteen years after graduating, Gene Forrester, recalled his days at the Devon School in a surreal sense. In his own words, ? In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day I entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left. ? Helping embellish this reality were his friends, including Leper Lepellier, who appeared in...
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Mayor Of Casterbridge Tragic Hero
1,296 wordsSince the late 4 th century BC when Aristotle developed the model of the tragic hero, authors have been creating novels patterned after this intriguing order of events. In the novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy develops Henchard's character as he passes through each stage in the archetypal heroic pattern. In this novel, each principal stage of the heroic pattern shapes Henchard s ever-changing character, principally through his rise, his climax, and his demise. As Hardy's novel begin...
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Interest In The Conversation Man Responds Home
732 wordsThe Insignificance of Words A man walks down a dimly lit street; the bright red lights above the hospital s exit are now just a faint glow behind him. As he staggers along the city blocks back to his quiet row home, he ponders the tragic news he has just received regarding his mother s failing health. A couple blocks from the refuge of his home, he runs into some of the neighborhood locals. Some he knows most he doesn t, but greets them all the same. How s it goin? he says, in a voice that is le...
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