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Charley Skedaddle
725 Words - 3 Pages.... he
believes. That would be a perfect solution to his problems
at home and a way to punish those responsible for his
brother’s death. He had admired Johnny greatly and felt the
only answer was to sneak into the army. Charley could not
enlist because he was only 12 years old. He was determined
to be a hero like his brother.
Since Charley was too young to be a soldier he became a
drummer-boy for the army. He trained and worked hard to be a
good one. He may have been physically ready for his first
battle, but emotionally he was not. I don’t think he really
knew what killing a person involved. All of his life he
watched the people he cared about be taken away f ....
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Emerson's “Self-Reliance”: Optimistic But Unrealistic For The 21st Century
843 Words - 4 Pages.... is that they set at
naught books and traditions and spoke not what men, but what they thought.”
It is good for us to know that these great people listened to what they
thought was true and not others. Perhaps we are great too but are too
afraid to speak out and be heard for fear that our ideas are worthless. We
feel as though we are misunderstood and are not worthy of such popularity.
Emerson makes a good point when he says not to overlook today’s
youth. I think we need to put things into perspective and realize that kids
aren’t going to stay kids forever. They will grow up to be adults and we
have to teach them now to make good decisions because they will be runnin ....
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Othello - The Tragic Hero
802 Words - 3 Pages.... military leader, to a murderer. He has certain traits which make him seem naive and unsophisticated compared to many other people. Iago knows Othello is a proud man, Othello’s open and trusting nature in the beginning of the play lets Iago- cunning, untrustworthy, selfish, and plotting; use him as a scapegoat.
Othello, the Moor, as many Venetians call him, is of strong character. He is very proud and in control of every move throughout the play. The control is not only of power but also of the sense of his being who he is, a great warrior. In Act I, Othello has a scuffle with Brabantio, who has come to kill him, but before anything could happen, Othello said:
"Hol ....
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Pocahontas
1540 Words - 6 Pages.... for she was a playful, frolicsome little girl. The settlers believed it to mean "bright stream between two hills."
The Powhatans, were not savages as John Smith would later claim in his General Historie of Virginia...&c. Instead, they were a ceremonious people who greeted important visitors in a formal manner with a large feast and festive dancing. Although they did occasionally put prisoners to death in a public ceremony, it was no more savage than the English customs of public disembowelment of thieves and the burning of women accused of being witches.
In May of 1607, English colonists arrived on the Virginia shoreline with hopes of great riches. ....
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Fahrenheit51 4
837 Words - 4 Pages.... brave stand against society but gets discovered, then barely escapes his punishment to join a group of people who attempt to preserve knowledge through memorization.
At the beginning of the novel Guy Montag is described as a "minstrel man" (4). He is a fireman who "never questioned the pleasure of watching pages consumed by flames." (Back cover). He is a brave individual who decides to rebel against society. Montag meets a crazy and imaginative seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She tells him of a time when firemen used to put out fires instead of making them. After that, Montag and the other firemen burn a house filled with books and burn its owner. "The ....
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Dawn
2887 Words - 11 Pages.... face that would appear. Night has a face and day does not. The face that appears is of a dead person.
The night before the narrator does what he has to do, he looks into the night and sees his own face.
There is going to be an execution at dawn. All of the executions happened at dawn. The "Movement" always kept their word.
A month earlier there was one of their fighters that had been on a terrorist operation. He was hauled in by the police and they found weapons on him.
They hung the man. By law this is what they were supposed to do. This was the tenth death sentence by the mandatory power in Palestine. The "Old Man" decided that things had gone far enough and now he was not ....
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Three Things Worth Fighting For
321 Words - 2 Pages.... thing to have. If anyone should
try to come in the way of your family they should be punished . Your
family is there for you to lean on when you need support and love. That is
why my family is the most important thing to me to fight for.
In addition to the other two topics, my third thing to fight for
would be my freedom. My freedom is very important to me. I would fight
so I would not be under communistic rule or enslaved in any way. Also I
would fight to stay out of prison if I was falsely accused. Therefore
that is why this is the third most important thing I would fight for.
In conclusion to what I have said I feel it is wrong to take
someone's life away, ....
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Supernatural Forces In Macbeth
926 Words - 4 Pages.... that every battle is lost by one side and won by another. Macbeth's fate is that he will win the battle, but will lose his time of victory for the battle of his soul.
After the prophecies of the witches' revealed the fate of Macbeth, the plan in which to gain power of the throne is brought up. The only way to gain power of the throne was for Macbeth to work his way to the throne, or to murder King Duncan. Murdering the king was an easier plan since the motivation in his dreams urged him on. Lady Macbeth also relied on the supernatural by her soliloquy of calling upon the evil spirits to give her the power to plot the murder of Duncan without any remorse or consc ....
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