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Began To Feel Phone Call
1,271 wordsGOD HAS CALLED HIM TO HEAVEN, the headlines read the day after Roberts death, a death that would become the defining event of his (Ives) middle-aged life. Even though the entire story of the novel flows to and from that bloody moment, the story beneath the surface, Ives resurrection from the grave of grief, revolves around a mystical vision of four winds. This puzzling experience has left Ives at a loss for words... I wake up every day wondering if Ill ever see anything like that again, and what...
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Anti Autobot Action Fanfic And The Characters Windrazor
1,046 words... meeting lightly guarded, and with a fair degree of human life... nothing highly important in the grand scheme. We simply let the troops have at this planet... give them a chance to improve their skills, get a better feel for battle. Pull out, and than make a general announcement stating something to the effect of 'This is what we shall do to another planet if the raids continue blah blah blah'... that should help us establish that we simply will not sit back and take losses from Autobot terr...
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Salem Witch Trials Elizabeth Proctor
1,036 wordsThe Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is based on the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. The Crucible deals with a community, which everybody lived in a normal society and everybody attended church. However, one night, a group of girls were caught dancing in the woods. Some people accuse them for doing witchcraft. Therefore, they lied to protect not just themselves but the reputation of their families. They claimed that the devil took them over and influenced them to dance. One of the main g...
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Civil War Union Forces
1,084 wordsThe United States of America was founded on the principles of equality and opportunity for all. In the 1800 's these principles were not strictly adhered to by all and a tremendous battle ensued. That battle was the United States Civil War in which northerners, wishing an end to slavery, found themselves at war with southerners, who wanted slavery to remain in place. The Civil War was a conflict that saw the rich and the poor, the famous and the unknown, and the black and the white pitted agains...
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1,252 wordsQueen Elizabeth & Her Explorers (1558 - 1603) Princess Elizabeth, a slender, athletic, extremely intelligent young woman, recieved an ideal Rennaissance education in Latin, Greek and modern languages, in history and Scripture. As Henry VIII's second eldest child, shunted back to third in line for the throne by the complex politics of the period, she also had a very practical education in political intrigue - and the fine art of political survival. She came in 1558 to the royal throne shaken by a...
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Act I Scene Scene I Line
888 wordsShakespeare's treatment of illegitimacy in the play King Lear can be interpreted in many ways depending on the audience. The situation of illegitimacy is portrayed through the relationships of the characters the Earl Of Gloucester and his two sons Edgar and Edmund. Edmund is the illegitimate son while Edgar was born within the law. We learn of Edmunds illegitimacy in the opening scene in the first act where The Earl of Gloucester is holding a conversation with Kent while Edmund is nearby. Glouce...
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Sir Lancelot King Arthurs
477 wordsSir Lancelot du Lake was quite possibly the bravest and most gallant knight in the world. His battles were pretty much lopsided, due to his extreme skill. He was King Arthurs best knight. He was very adventurous and prone to getting into trouble, which he always came out of without a scratch. Why was Lancelot honored so? In the last four paragraphs, I will try to explain this to my best ability. Why did I say he was Arthurs best knight? Sir Lancelot was sworn to protect Guenevere, King Arthurs w...
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Code Of Chivalry Don Quixote
459 wordsChivalry which flourished mostly in the 12 th and 13 th centuries was the code of the Knights of the Middle Ages. This code was a group of unwritten laws of bravery, loyalty, honesty, and courtly love. The knight was expected to follow these laws and in this devote his loyalty to a lord or king and to God. Knights were also expected to show respect and benevolence towards other knights. The code also stressed that knights fought for glory and Christian purposes and not for personal profit. In Si...
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Iii Scene Iii Act Iii Scene
1,609 wordsOthello Battle of Good vs. Evil- I am not what I am. What is Iago? as distinct from what he pretends to be and what are his motives? In Shakespeare's, Othello, the reader is presented the classic battle between the deceitful forces of evil and the innocence of good. It are these forces of evil that ultimately lead to the breakdown of Othello, a noble venetian moor, well-known by the people of Venice as a honourable soldier and a worthy leader. Othello's breakdown results in the made of his wife ...
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Sword In The Stone Wart Sees Power
886 wordsThe Sword in the Stone The Sword in the Stone is a book about an adopted child named Wart. He is of royal blood and does not know this. One day when Wart is in the forest, he finds a magician named Merlin. Merlin comes home with Wart and agrees with Sir Ector, Warts guardian, to become Warts tutor. Merlin goes about educating Wart by transforming him into different animals. Through each transformation Wart experiences different forms of power, each being a part of how he should rule as king. The...
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Dollar Bill Five Dollar
1,160 wordsLaughing and Crying The bridge between laughing and crying is not long. During submarine deployments, it is customary to tell sea stories on those long boring mid-watches. During one particular mid-watch I told an amazing story that happened to me ten years earlier while stationed on my last submarine. This story shouldn t be told when your boss is part of the group because there could be repercussions that you may feel later. My story begins when I was on a submarine that was home-ported in Val...
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1,926 wordsWinston Churchill, born on Nov. 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace, the famous palace near Oxford built by the nation for John Churchill, 1 st duke of Marlborough, the great soldier. Blenheim, named after Marlborough's grandest victory (1704), meant much to Winston Churchill. In the grounds there he became engaged to his future wife, Clementine Ogilvy Hozier (b. 1885). He later wrote his historical masterpiece, The Life and Times of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, with the archives of Blenheim be...
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Act Iii Scene Act Ii Scene
1,177 wordsA Sample Macbeth Analysis by Kushal Dave People have a hard time getting what they want; in fact, the things they want can be incompatible with each other. A German physicist named Werner Heisenberg discovered an analogous phenomenon with his uncertainty principle. Studying matter at the atomic level, quantum physics, he realized that the act of measuring affected the object being measured. As a result, one could never accurately determine both position and momentum of an electron with precision...
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Act Ii Scene Scene Iv
825 wordsNicholas Sine English Honors Period Four January 15, 1997 Sir John Falstaff Humans are addicted to judging others on their first impression. Humans will never read into the book, they just look at the cover. Many people, both fictional and nonfictional can not be judged until you study them. Someone who first appears to be only comic relief, could end up to be a very important character. Sir John Falstaff is but one of these people. Falstaff's righteousness hides under his vocalization. John Fal...
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Makes Othello Iii Iii
1,078 wordsOthello: Manipulation To Gain Power Manipulation is a very powerful word. People use this tactic everyday to get what they want in life. By deceiving people or tricking them into seeing a certain point of view, people gain power. To skillfully use the power of manipulation a person must use another persons weaknesses. By using a persons emotions against them, they can be manipulated with ease. In Shakespeare's Othello, the character of Iago uses these tactics almost to perfection to achieve his ...
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Spenglers Apocalyptic Romance Achilles War Peace Bobbitt
1,032 wordsAchilles last stand The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History Philip Bobbitt Penguin? 25, pp 993 The shield of Achilles was hammered and forged into shape, according to The Iliad, by Hephaestus, who inscribed on it the history of its own making, a tormented saga of unremitting strife, havoc and death. The Marxist critic Georg Lukacs turned the shield into an emblem of epic: a story which must not only describe society but analyse the way it works, making clear the dependence o...
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Paying Attention Rush Hour
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