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Year Old Girl Seven Years
754 wordsIt was December 3 rd, and Father Monsignor Ferris went about his rounds of locking up the church. However, he did not know that Lenny, a skilled burglar, was waiting in the confessional until the moment Father Ferris left. He had come to steal a chalice with a star-shaped diamond and the daily collection of money. He got what he wanted and attempted to Meanwhile, an eighteen year old girl who had just given birth to a newborn baby decided that she really was not able to take care of this baby. A...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn King And The Duke
842 wordsIt was easier to recognize the traits that Twain was contemptuous of, since the entire book was supposed to satirize society. But there were certain traits that Twain admired, too. (3) Twain showed that he admired morality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn personified through Huck. We have no real morals, but only artificial ones morals created and preserved by the forced suppression of natural and healthy instinct. (4) Such instances include his not telling on Jim when he ran away, Huck ret...
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First Thanksgiving Pilgrims Textbooks
547 wordsThe Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But... Lies Textbooks in today's schools still tell the same story that has been handed down from generation to generation. Every year children dress up and put on plays about the famous story of the first Thanksgiving. No one knows the truth though or at least people pretend to not know the embarrassing truth of our "founding fathers. " Textbooks today give the candy coated version of good saintly Englishmen come to a better world and find good neighbors w...
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Hundred Years Ago Great Grandfather
552 wordsThe book Holes is about kids that do bad things and they get send to a detention center, Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake was once a very large lake, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now its just a flat dry land. During the summer the temperature hovers around ninety-five degrees. Stanley Yelnats was sent to Camp Green Lake when he stole shoes. Everyone in Stanley's family blamed it on his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig- stealing- great- great-grandfather when every someth...
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Jean Valjean Les Miserables
687 wordsThe plot in Les Miserables us about a man convicted of a petty crime and sent to jail. He ended up in prison for 21 years, yet after getting out became a very compassionate and generous man. He was also an excellent father figure to a young girl. Although he was a very good man he went through many trials and hardships. At the beginning of Les Miserables, Jean Valjean could not afford to support his sisters family, so in his desperation he stole a loaf of bread. For this small crime he was sent ...
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Lonely Mountain One Day
861 wordsThe Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein is the tale of the journey of Bilbo Baggins. The story takes place in an imaginary land. We follow Bilbo on his journey to Lonely Mountain for treasure. The story begins in the home of Bilbo. He is a well-to-do hobbit who never had any adventures or would do anything unexpected. One day, the wizard Gandalf appears and asks him to go on an adventure, but Bilbo tells him to come back tomorrow. Gandalf shows up the next day with thirteen dwarves. The dwarves speak of ...
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Songs Of Experience Good And Evil
1,811 wordsIn choosing a poem from the English Romanticism era, I found one that particularly stands among others. A poem that had some depth, in that I couldnt understand and feel what the poem was expressing at first glance. It is a poem that had a sense of mystery around it. These characteristics are exceptionally evident in William Blakes poem "A Poison tree. " William Blake was a British poet and painter born in 1757 to a father who was hosier. "Anger, "wrath, " and "fear" are very prominent in the sh...
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Persons Hand Women Pakistan
525 wordsI was inspired to write this because i read an essay that someone wrote on this site about Pakistan. I was disapointed to see that that person did no research when writing their essay. They simply took what they heard from a person and wrote it down. I want to clear some things up that they wrote that were just wrong. They made Pakistan seem like a country where people are mistreated. They made it seem like women have no class in Pakistan. This is not true. If you go to pakistan you will see tha...
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Security Guards Fifteen Days
741 wordsSuddenly, he woke up. He sensed that the train had stopped. Am I in Beijing? John Gwen thought. He looked around and saw Tianjing signs on the pillars in the train station. Looks like this is it. Well I better hop off and glance around. After he hopped off, he saw two security guards hurrying toward him. Uh-oh. Two strong security guards rushed to him and grabbed him. The other one took his painting. They sent him to the office to confront their chief. The chief was sitting down behind a large d...
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Piggy Glasses Jacks Tribe
899 wordsTo fully understand an authors central theme, one must appreciate the symbols he uses and what the symbols represent. The symbols used by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding, in his novel Lord of the Flies, illustrates this need for comprehension. The characters in this novel, a group of school aged British boys, are stranded on a tropical utopia. Ralph, who is the chosen chief, tries to keep a sense of civilization alive with rules and responsibility; Piggy aids Ralph by being the voice ...
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George And Lennie American Dream
819 wordsSteinbecks novel presents the American Dream as a sad illusion. Discuss. Of Mice and Men is one of the most powerful and symbolic books of its era. It is, as Steinbeck put it, a study of the dreams and pleasures of everybody in the world, examining many different aspects of human existence. A theme central to this novel is the idea of the American Dream, and of its failure as a realistic possibility. The American Dream is one of liberty, untarnished happiness and self-reliance. The protagonists,...
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Morrison Amp Sonnichsen Green Amp Sanford Billy
1,118 wordsBilly lived a life of an outlaw because of the loss of his parents, he gained friends and lost enemies, which led to his death. The legends of Billy the kid are many, like so many legends are. This legend is a mix of three to fore legends out there they all contain most of the same content. There might be one or more things the writer might put in there that he found in a trip to Lincoln. This is the story he found to shear with all. The Wild West out law famous for many things Billy the Kid. Re...
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Lonely Mountain Lake Town
850 wordsBilbo Baggins is a hobbit, one of a race of short, timid creatures who live in cozy tunnels and who prefer to keep their lives ordered and predictable. One day, he unexpectedly finds himself playing host to Gandalf the wizard and thirteen dwarves. The dwarves, with Gandalf's help, plan to travel to the Lonely Mountain to recover the treasure that a dragon named Smaug stole from their people long ago. Gandalf has selected Bilbo to be their burglar. The dwarves are not too happy with the wizard's ...
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Writer Theme Literary Elements Amp Poem Harry Kemp Love
486 words"The Tired Man" Poem Anna Wickham -couples need to understand each other's needs& desires-in a relationship, there must be give and take- couples must be alike to have a successful relationship. Simile - "wild as a hill stream", "night as black as ink " Rhyme Repetition -"sit I am a quiet gentle man" Oh give me a woman of my race"The Idol" Poem Louise Driscoll -lovers need sometimes attention to each other... they need to have confirm-mation their love... Rhyme Simile - "As star and star"It'...
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Great Great Great Grandfather
370 wordsStanley's family has an interesting history through the generations. His family's bad luck started all with great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats. Elya took a pig from a gypsy to help him impress the father of a beautiful girl in hopes of marrying her, the gypsy made a deal with Elya. The deal was for Elya to carry the pig up a moutain so it can drink from it's river every day for the next forty days, then after forty days he was to carry the old gypsy, Madame Zeroni, up the moutain so she could...
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Fell In Love Falls In Love
1,562 wordsShakespeare derived much of his plot, in the play Much Ado About Nothing, from alternate sources, but his individual language and use of wording is what draws people to his works. His plot in Much Ado About Nothing is fairly simple but elegant. Two sets of lovers fall in love. They are Claudio and Hero and Benedict and Beatrice. The miscreant, Don John, schemes to break up the marriage of Claudio and Hero, but he eventually fails. Shakespeare adopted, or stole these plots from a set of three boo...
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Red Velvet Slippers Clapped Their Hands Bella
733 wordsOnce upon a time there was a beautiful Dancer who lived in Mexico City. Raquel: What was she called? Maria: She was called Bella. Raquel: Oh. (Raquel s prettiest doll is called Bella. ) Bella was the loveliest dancer in the world, and all the people wanted her to come and dance at their parties. In the evening she would go down to the clubs or else she would dance in their gardens on the lawns among the statues and roses and fountains, where all the trees were hung with lights like coloured star...
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Bad Person Bad Things
615 wordsIn the Pea Paragraphs Severance In the story Severance by Lamb, Penny Ann is a bad person. This story is about two sets of twins who become separated. One set separated by death, the other set by guilt. First, The teachers were less patient with the poor kids than the rest of us. But Penny Ann wasn t just poor, she was bad. The teachers were less patient with the poor kids, but she wasn t just any poor kid, she was a bad kid. Second, Domnick was talking about Penny Ann and said, She stole Calvin...
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Stories I Stole Hankering For Death One
988 wordsGuns, roses and vodka Stories I Stole Wendell Steavenson Atlantic Books? 14. 99, pp 320 When Wendell Steavenson was living in Georgia, she kept a collectors list of LAOs large abandoned objects. The Caucasus is littered with them: rusting tank hulls, gutted apartment blocks, the rustbelt of gigantic ruined factories that surrounds most cities. The biggest LAO is the late Soviet Union itself. Nobody wants to re-animate it. But nobody realised what the price of junking it would be. A few decades a...
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Struggle Between Good William Golding
1,036 wordsThroughout the history of time, there have been many incidents where a government has been overthrown by the people and how these revolutions took time to be pursued. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the same effect takes place with the uprising of the people and dictatorship overthrowing the democracy. When a group of boys, age six to twelve land on an island with no adult supervision, the boys set up a colony with rules and order. Soon conflicts set in with uprisings, evil and murder a...
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