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    Often people find themselves captivated by the small, fabricated details in a story and that tends to make it difficult to decipher the actual meaning behind the story. In Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story,” this is the case as he demonstrates the influence of storytellers’ tone and the mood they create on people’s understanding of a moral in a story. By the same token, in Malcom Gladwell’s “Power of Context” and Karen Ho’s “Biographies of Hegemony,” the two authors explain the ideology

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    Warpath The protagonist in the book called “Warpath” by Tony Daniel, is Will James. He is a reporter, the editor, and publisher of a newspaper called “The Candle Cold Truth.” James goal was to report what was happening in the city of Doom. James was told that “people saw Indians drag poor Mr. Bentley away kicking and screaming. That is, before they hit him over the head with a tomahawk. At least he got one of them before they got him,” Corazon said. James asked if an Indian was killed, and was

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    Never Told Me Narrative

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    I’ve never told this story before. Not because I’m ashamed or embarrassed. I’ve put off telling it for so long because it terrifies me. It is a story of a time I lost complete control. It is a story of loneliness and isolation. By not recalling it, or writing it down, it became just a string of events that happened in the past, meaningless and disconnected from the future. Putting it into words makes these past events the future. They become immortalized in writing, they become forever. But maybe

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    The story, A Soldiers Home, is about a man in conflict with the past and present events in his life. The young man’s name is Harold Krebs. He recently returned from World War 1 to find everything almost exactly the same as when he left. He moved back into his parents house, where he found the same car sitting in the same drive way. He also found the girls looking the same, except now they all had short hair. When he returned to his home town in Oklahoma the hysteria of the soldiers coming home was

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    Omelas

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    Something Called Life “Joyous! How is one to tell about joy?” because as far as we know the people of Omelas do not even know what joy is about and are confusing it with compassion. “The Ones Who Run Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin, is a story in which everybody would see it as a brutal and horrific story of a kid who is being incarcerated for his/her whole life as an exchange of all the goodness of the city. However, the narrator lets us know the misunderstanding concept of happiness that

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    Do you know why it was the worst night in my life . Hi. I’m Herod King of Judea. My job is to rule over people, well i have the best job in the world. People look up to me but if they don’t i’ll make them perish under my feet. Did you know I live in a kingdom with lapiz on my floors I have gold on my throne and my bed is made from acacia wood top with ten layers of gold and i get to sleep for as long as I want. I love being king it’s so fun I sit on my throne and clap my hands and boom! A plate of

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    Many case it is said that "the love of money is the root of all evil" and that "money can buy happiness," meaning that, one’s involvement with too much money can make it lose their humanity. In the case of three men in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, they soon realize that the only thing that money buys is a ticket to trouble. In the beginning of the movie, two characters, Dobbs and Curtin agreed that money should be hard earned. So the two characters set out to Tampico, in efforts to find a job

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    The Pulls still shake me deeply every time I see them. Most of the time I look away. Every instance remind me of the first time. I wasn’t fully sure of what I was exactly seeing, I’m still not. To me it looks like some illusion, some magic trick that needs only to be examined closely to see its inner workings and mechanisms. I only this things was a bug pinned to a peace of cork, I could stare at this whole thing under a microscope and every aspect of it would be illuminated as I pull it apart,

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    I'll blame what happens next on the door, and through expansion and growth, those doors will continue to open. Through the doorway of Shaw Dance Studio, literally thousands of students and clients have walked to embrace an establishment that has given individuals and employees the opportunity for growth, challenge, learning, and life-long friendships over the past 25 years. The doors of Shaw Dance Studio and Preschool symbolize many things to many different individuals. To the often-anxious

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    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Character Essay Admirable is defined as deserving respect and approval, but how can you decide admirability just from reading a story? Between seventh grade books that show nothing but disrespect, to rotten little girls who pride themselves on being white, the biggest conflict in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry overall is racism and segregation. Many problems occurred which tested the mind and character of each person in the story. Cassie Logan, throughout the

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