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Personal Writing: Learning About Myself

It was a hot, sunny day in the middle of July. The noontime air was warm and steamy. I was tan and happy. My dad, my two sisters and I were driving through Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, in Maine. We stopped and parked at the foot of a mountain. The infamous Bubble Rock rested ...

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A Separate Peace 3

Dealing with enemies has been a problem since the beginning of time. “I never killed anybody,” Gene had commented later in his life, “And I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform, I was on active duty all my ...

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A Separate Peace

Dealing with enemies has been a problem since the beginning of time. “I never killed anybody,” Gene had commented later in his life, “And I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform, I was on active duty all my time at Devon; I ...

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Pride And Prejudice

In by Jane Austen the entire novel is designed around a running theme: . The passage in the novel that best relates this theme is in chapter thirty-four when Darcy is proposing to Elizabeth. This chapter is significant because it is one of the few times where the characters acknowledge that the ...

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The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger

For the past month I have been reading Stephen King’s , it is the first book of a series of at least 5 books. It was a very difficult book for me to understand at first but after I read the parts that I didn’t understand the first time around, I really started to understand what was going on in ...

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Billy Bud

Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God. Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In d, the author, ...

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Nature To Love Ones In Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun" And "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"

Nature To Love Ones In Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun" and "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?" In the poems "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" and "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun", William Shakespeare compares his loved ones to nature. He uses ...

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The Debate On Gay Rights

The argument on rights, be it human, animal, black, white or gray, is always a difficult one. One should begin by deciding who makes up these rights. Even that in itself would be difficult enough. If a group of white men made a list of rights for black men, one could say it would be biased. ...

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The Merchant Of Venice

The Bill, E, a Globe, some controversy about Bacon, a farmer’s daughter called Ann all lead to one person. Who? Well most young people will stop reading when I reveal the answer, but hang on a moment before you give a gaping yawn and yell “Boring!” William Shakespeare is not just an ugly ...

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Personal Writing: The Sightless Explanation

It was a scared feeling I had never experienced before. I awoke to the sound of a security alarm ringing the second night I was there. I quickly rushed into the living room where I saw Miss Singleton sitting on her sofa. She looked frozen with fright in her face. I asked her, "What's the ...

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The Crucible: John Proctor Is A Tragic Hero

Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is clearly a representation of the true meaning of tragedy. John Proctor was, in fact, the medium, the tool, of which Miller utilized to convey a universal depiction of tragedy. A broad definition of a tragic hero is a protagonist who, through faults and flaws of ...

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Samuel De Champlain

My father, the chief of our village, made a deal with the Frenchman, , the chief of his people. My father accepted pots and axes and food in exchange for taking two frenchmen to the Huron Indians. One man, named Father la Forge, was a priest, we called him Blackrobe because he wore a black ...

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Billy Budd By Herman Melville

Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God. Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In Billy Budd, the ...

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Robert Hunter

had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until 1967, when ...

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Disjunction Vs. Communion In Raymond Carver's Short Stories

Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers."( ...

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The Motif Of War In A Separate

World War II started in 1939 and did not end until 1945. It was the result of one person's need for power and control over the rest of the world. We saw this power as a threat, which exploded into an outbreak more devastating than anything else we humans had ever seen. War is defined as an ...

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Billy Budd

Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God. Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In Billy ...

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Kurt Vonneguts Who Am I This T

Growing up we learn the importance of many different things. Of all these things, we have learned that being accepted into society, forming friendships, and loving someone are very important to us. In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, “Who Am I This Time?”, we see through the ...

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The Greeks Versus Their Gods I

The play Hippolytus by the Greek playwright Euripides is one which explores classical Greek religion. Throughout the play, the influence of the gods on the actions of the characters is evident, especially when Aphrodite affects the actions of Phaedra. Also central to the plot is the god-god ...

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Kurt Cobain: Collection Of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives

I would like to share some of the memories and perceptions I have concerning this unique, rare and original human being called Kurt Cobain. I knew Kurt during his teen-age years in the period from about 1979 to 1984. I was in my mid-30s and living in and near Montesano. My sister married Kurt's ...

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