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    only $25 in his checking account. His endeavour was to get the money back that his dad had lost and bring his family together. In doing so, Frank conned $2.5 million by forging checks in a five year stretch while posing as a co-pilot for Pan Am, a secret service agent, a doctor, and a lawyer. While going through this process, Frank falls in love and marries a nurse named Brenda but at their wedding secret service agent Carl Hanratty, tracked down Frank and crashed the wedding. Frank escaped the

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    BERMUDA TRIANGLE: A FACT, A MYTH AND ISSUES ABOUT IT The Bermuda Triangle Mystery for many years, thousands of stories have been said, heard, discussed, and written about a mysterious place called The Bermuda Triangle. The place is known for the mysterious disappearance of ships and planes. The Bermuda Triangle Is the Bermuda Triangle really a place where strange powers are at work? The Bermuda Triangle is a very complex and mystifying area that is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses

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    Many historical fiction novels recall well-known tragedies, but there is one novel in particular that tells the story of a covered catastrophe. Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys focuses on telling the unknown story of “the greatest maritime disaster in history,” the sinking of a German ship, the Wilhelm Gustoff, during World War II. Throughout telling the story, Sepetys portrays the theme of perseverance, as the characters face many challenges, but never give up. Despite the growing popularity of

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    keeping this story a secret demonstrates how the aunt is being punished for her impregnation. The story starts with a warning not to tell anyone, setting an atmosphere of shameful secret even before learning about the aunt’s story. Punishing someone is a form of control over the individual being punished, usually a way of diminishing a certain behavior by adding a negative stimulus. By committing a spite suicide, the aunt tries to punish her family by ruining their drinking water. Her choice of manner

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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the author, James Thurber, contrasts that real life of the character, Walter Mitty, to the fantasy world he has created. Mr. Dykes ========= In the story, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the author, James Thurber, contrasts that real life of the character, Walter Mitty, to the fantasy world he has created. Walter Mitty, unhappy with his everyday life and his nit-picking wife, fades in and out of reality. To escape reality, he envisions himself as

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    Gilgamesh: A Man's Conflict Essay

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    “Gilgamesh feels the guilt of a survivor somehow responsible for his friend’s death” (Keenan). The main conflict that Gilgamesh had wasn’t that he lost his friend, that he wasn’t immortal or that he died in the end, the greatest conflict that Gilgamesh had was that he was a man. He was a man who couldn’t avoid making mistakes, a man who couldn’t avoid his “flesh”. He was a man with his own wants and

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    Based off the novel with the same name by Laura Esquivel, the film Like Water for Chocolate cleverly uses food in order to not only help viewers get to know its characters but also to convey their feelings for one another. The film follows the De La Garza family living in their ranch in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and centers around Tita, one of the three daughters in the family who falls madly in love with a young man named Pedro. Continuing an old family tradition that states the youngest

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    over the land and Ra, lost wiothout his Eye, decides to fetch her back. However, Hathor has now became a deadly wild cat who destroys all that approaches her, and so no man or god will volunteer to go get her. Thoth eventually agrees to lure her back and, dressed in disguise, manages to coax the angry goddess to return to Egypt by telling her stories. Back in her homeland, she battles the Nile and once again settles into her normally gentle demeanor, but not before the waters turn red from the effort

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    The Hymn Of The Nile

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    relationship to the Nile. It states that the Egyptians appreciated what the Nile has done with the food. By the flooding the Nile has done, it has made the soil rich to plant crops. It is said that the Nile is flooded every year because that same day, Isis lost Osiris to death. If it was not for the Nile River, the Egyptians could not have made a civilization because they had no food (Hymn of the Nile, Khety). The Story of Ra is the creation story of the Egyptians. It is about Ra’s different names and

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    The main characters in this book are Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Mrs.Van Daan, Mr.Van Daan, Peter Van Daan, Miep, Mr.Dussel, Elli, and Mr. Kraler. The main events of this book take place in the living quarters known as the “Secret Annexe”. This book is a classic and can teach valuable lessons to the reader. The introduction, plot, conflict, and resolution of this story are significant to the book and allow readers to dive into what times felt like during the Holocaust.

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