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    Marlow Monologue

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    Unfortunately dear reader, this is not a story with a happy ending. It is instead a story is about all my fears coming to life. One day, things began to shift with this man. Matt began acting strange for a lack of better word around me. It started off small of course, him not asking me anymore how I was or what I was doing. Instead, he began demanding answers. He did not want to know where or what I was doing, he needed to know. If I would not answer fast enough he would end up calling me stating

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    don’t want you to get hurt.” A quote also says that “Johnny was the only thing that Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone.” Later in the book Johnny dies and it is too much for Dally and he gets himself killed. Dally was so distraught, he wanted to be dead. Been in a gang for Johnny gave him a person that would stick by him when something went wrong, when Johnny murdered Bob, Ponyboy stuck by him. Ponyboy knew the risks of sticking with Johnny but Johnny was a Greaser and Greaser’s stuck together. On

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    he was stranded in a Cessna 406 with his dead pilot who just had a heart attack. He had trouble with his surrounding as he used his intellect to prevail in difficult survival situations. Brian had trouble with blood-thirsty insects, chaotic animals, finding food and many more obstacles. Brian struggles with many challenges throughout the book, but overcomes them all. One of the obstacles he overcomes is the swarms of ravenous insects that come out at sunset and sunrise. To show how excruciatingly

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    ..Standing on a plank on a railroad bridge in northern Alabama is a man with his hands bound behind his back. Around his neck is a noose. Twenty feet below him is the swift water of Owl Creek. Next to him are two Union soldiers, acting as executioners, with a sergeant directing the proceedings. Nearby is a captain. Sentinels stand watch at each end of the bridge. On one bank of the creek is a forest, and on the other bank is a line of trees serving as a stockade. Poking out of an opening is a cannon

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    The dead were buried and the medicine-men were cremated. They celebrated with dances and after a year they drank their cremated remains. In todays society Christians view death as a way to be delivered to heaven where they will spend eternity in the presence

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    In Flanders Field

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    Short days ago we lived, felt dawn,saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, and now lie in Flanders field.” “The narrator, we discover, is not a single, detached voice, but a gathering of voices… The reader is meant to see that death is not an end but a prevention from action.” (Meyer) John McCrae wrote form the perspective of the dead; he gave them a voice even after demise had taken it away. The poem shows how the soldiers used to have

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    In Flanders Field

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    and state of the world, losing their life in the process. The dead are trying to inspire the next soldiers and generations to preserve the difference and improvements those who had died, created. Blood was payed to make a change in the world, and it should not be put to waste. McCrae emphasizes the importance of how humanity should value the sacrifices made and stop depreciating the freedoms that had enormous costs. The idea of the dead talking and addressing the living adds an eerie and punching

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    “In northern Japan, on the island of Hokkaido and a part of the Russian Sakhalin Island, lives a mysterious ethnic group, called Ainu… They are very distinct from the Japanese people and, before the Tungus invasion coming from mainland Asia (Korea and northern China), the whole archipelago was inhabited by Ainu. Ainu are shorter than the Japanese people, with lighter skin, robust body and short limbs. Unlike typical Mongoloids, their hair is wavy and the body hair is abundant; men wear large beards

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    Amuar Biography

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    Amuar's Mother was bewail, Amuar was not so happy about going with his dad he blow up and was very blue. The Sunset was dazzling his Mom said to Amuar. Arriving there his mom and dad talked while Amuar was getting his things out from the car while getting his stuff Montana and Jefferys two young males go up to Amaur and said you living with your dad now and replies

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    body goes into complete shock. After this drastic change in behavior I sensed that his condition was about to get much worse. As he began to scream his evergreen eyes found mine. Our eyes were locked, and that’s when I watched them disappear like a sunset into the back of his head. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if it was my eyes that were the last thing he saw on Earth. Then he seized. All I remember thinking was that I had to get out of the

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