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    There is a man in a button-down shirt standing in front of a group of people. He yells at the group, “Line up in order of tallest to shortest!” No one moves. The man yells again, “You need to start moving, we have time constraints.” Some of the taller people start moving to one side and shorter people to the opposite side. Some people stay where they are to have others move around them and put them into place with the smallest amount of work on their part. “You, right there! You need to move two

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    Yet some people come to believe that he is insane because of what goes on through his mind as he is killing the old man that he lives with. Even though people think this, he is not because of his awareness and how he kills the old man. He takes tiny steps which lead up to the death of the old man. Before the idea of killing the old man, the narrator talks about how he has a disease. This disease sharpens his senses. When you think of people having good senses you think of smart sane people. Not insane

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    sound of Silence.” Isolation can be felt by many different types of people, even if they live in a large city. To send a message to the evolving society on its flaws, Simon writes about the lost of communication and the lost of connection with nature through a man experiencing it in his dream. The speaker of the poem starts off talking to his old friend, the darkness, about the dream still planted in his mind. In his dream the man feels isolated walking down a narrow street, until he’s under a street

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    Victor Hugo wrote that: “People in fantasy, often ignore the actual.” (Les Misérables) and in this story “ The Man Who Loved Flowers” author reveal the delusion and illusion of humanity to us. In this cause, it show us from the man think Norma is real and alive, he think his name is Love, and the roadside people judge the young man only by his appearance and dressing, which are totally wrong as we can know at the end of story. The story mainly talks about a handsome young man of high spirits in the

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    The holocaust was a serious and dangerous time for the jewish people. The graphic novel maus written by art spiegelman and the movie schindler's list directed by ,,,,,, are similar in many ways especially in the plot development. They are both stories of men who were alive during the time of the holocaust. The stories also have some dissimilarities. The novel told the story of a jewish man while the movie told the story of a german man. The two stories had many similarities yet had some disimilarities

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    London’s To Build a Fire) Many people often brag that they are “one with nature” and consider themselves the outdoors type. However, when put into hard situations that occur in the wilderness, several people come to realize that they are not as experienced as they had hoped for. When trekking through the outdoors, people need to have a partner with them, which is what the main character learned in Fire. He believed that he was skilled, but when put to the test, the man struggled immensely and ended

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    The book starts off a man sleeping, his son is lying down next to him, in a deep sleep, the man is dreaming about walking around the woods, and comes across a dark, mysterious, black lake and he looks across the lake and sees an evil creature moaning at the edge of the water. This creature is just skin and bone and drools over the water hoping to get a snack. The man wakes up with a frightened look on his face and his son wakes too. He tells his son that its starting to become colder outside and

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    People can inflict different emotions on others based on who they are and what kind of people they surround themselves with. The same could be said for characters in a story. One of those kinds of characters is Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus is one of the most respected people in Maycomb County. He functions as sort of the “moral backbone” of the county, a person to whom others turn in times of doubt and trouble. One day, he decides to defend a black man by the name

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    commercial titled “The man your man could smell like,” Old Spice persuades the viewer that they or their man will smell like the man in the commercial and therefore be the perfect man. No man wants to smell like lavender, especially if it takes attention from the woman. The character is key in this commercial. The idea of the commercial is for the audience to want to be like, or their man to be like, the man in the commercial. The second thing in this commercial is the man being introduced shirtless

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    In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain juxtaposed events in American society to demonstrate to the reader contrasts between different levels of class and race in society. Twain showed to the reader that people of all classes at the time were very ignorant and gullible, through what things appear to be and what they really are. Twain shows people’s gullibility when Huck arrives at the grangerfords. As Huck first walked through the house he described it by saying things like “This table

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