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    Character Analysis in Fallen Angels During war, many people change physically, mentally, and socially. War itself is disturbing to the mind. In Walter Dean Meyer’s Fallen Angels, the characters undergo many changes as they learn the true meaning of war. Perry, Peewee and Johnson all change in the sense of their personalities and their outlooks on life. In the beginning of the novel all the characters have very distinct characteristics. As the story progresses they start to see how war can have

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    Pride     In Margaret Laurence’s powerful novel “The Stone Angel”  the theme pride often displayed through the characters.  Each figure had their own way of showing this theme through both actions and words. The recurring theme is exhibited by the behaviors of Brampton Shipley, Hagar Shipley, and her father, Jason Currie.     Hagar Shipley lived her life blind, with pride as her cane for guidance. There was many situations throughout the novel where she made decisions solely based off of her pride

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    Martina McBride's song titled “Concrete Angel” is a powerful and emotional ballet that projects a powerful message about child abuse to the viewers through many rhetorical strategies. The music video along with the song itself includes a lot of pathos rhetorical strategies as well as logos and ethos in an odd and faintly manner. The content presented in the video correlates with the lyrics of the song and combined create a powerful piece of art. Logos, ethos, and pathos are incorporated in this heavenly

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    The Killer Angels tell about the Battle of Gettysburg. When this battle ended, 51,000 men were dead, wounded, or missing. All the characters are based off of real historical figures. The author uses the characters and the plot effectively to contribute to the theme. The soldiers of the Confederacy and the Union tended to diminish each other. General Robert E. Lee, Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, and General James Longstreet were a few main characters throughout The Killer Angels. Robert Lee is the

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    Stylistic Devices Diction: As Angel Islington dreams about the fall of Atlantis, he remembered that the “huge waves were rising and crashing over the city; the night sky was rent with forks of white lightning… the city trembled; fires started near the great amphitheater and spread, quickly, through the city, defying the storm” (Gaiman 271). In Islington’s strong diction such as “crashing, “trembled”, “defying” it emphasizes the terror and fear in the people as they watch their home collapse. Also

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    The novel “Fallen Angels” is written by Walter Dean Myers in 1988. The story was told from a 17-18-year-old teenager going to Vietnam to fight the war. The purpose of the story is to inform society who is fighting our wars and what it means to be in war. The author lived during the Vietnam war. The author really became a known author after his work for “Where Does a Day Go?” . The authors purpose was to explain what his brother’s thoughts about living and eventually dying during Vietnam. The reader

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    dueling North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union. Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer Angels gives this full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped America’s future. Michael Shaara author of “The Killer Angels,” tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of generals Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John Buford, and the other men involved in the action

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    Gaurdian Angel (A Literary Analysis of an Elegy) While you’re in the process of being a kid and growing and maturing you will probably more than once take someone for granted. We don’t realize that we do until something tragic happens and the guilt sets and you get that gut feeling, you know what I’m talking about right? We look up to people that we’ve known for as long as we can remember, they are all that we know, all that we have. We don’t truly start to see how much someone means to us until

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    Guardian Angel Case Study

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    Sometimes a Guardian Angel is not what we think of in the typical sense such as a doctor or a nurse, but instead can be those who are willing to go the extra mile for a patient. Steve Pantaleo was just that in the case of John Copeland and his sister, Mary Ann O’Conner, wanted to recognize him as Guardian Angel through the Phelps Regional Health Care Foundation. Mary Ann O’Connor was concerned for the health of her brother, John Copeland, who suffers from diabetes and had no insurance. In 2007

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    ‘conspiracy’ is defined as “the act of secretly planning to do something that is harmful or illegal”. However, this is not it. Conspiracy is formed to achieve goals which are made not by the people, but by their greed for power, wealth and respect. In Angels and Demons, power is shown to be the main reason for the formation of conspiracy. Dan Brown has successfully highlighted in his book the kinds of people who form conspiracies. One can see that the people who are apparently the most trustworthy

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