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    's up”, I nervously say. “Oh just killer clowns that 's all” he replies surprisingly calm. “Oh yea no biggie” I say sarcastically. “I’ll take care of it don’t even worry” he says as he drops three pucks. Slap shot to the right side, BOOM, a clown falls. Another to the left then to the right. And all three clowns are down. “Well then” I say stunned. He pulls up to the engineering building. “This is where I let you off” he says. “Um why” I reply curious why he would want me to still want me to go

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    In terms of an education, the words claiming and receiving have two entirely different meanings. Although both active verbs, the act of receiving in a classroom setting entails little to no action at all. Claiming an education requires an individual to actively seek new knowledge and take it as the rightful owner. Students must engage in a higher-order thinking that “bases itself on creativity and stimulates true reflection and action upon reality” through tasks such as synthesis, analysis, evaluation

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    Things Are Falling Apart Do not fear the strong, fear the weak, for they have something to prove. This quote falls perfectly with the events in the book Things Fall Apart towards the end of the book. The book's title is no coincidence, it literally means that things fall apart in the main protagonist’s life. The protagonist, Okonkwo, lives in a village in Africa with a tribe called the ibo. Okonkwo’s life starts to fall apart as he begins to deal with his family and his tribe. He also deals with

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    One of the most commonly asked questions about the novel Things Fall Apart is: why did Achebe choose a tragic hero, Okonkwo, as the main character in the story. According to Nnoromele, “A hero, in the Igbo cultural belief system, is one with great courage and strength to work against destabilizing forces of his community, someone who affects, in a special way, the destinies of others by pursuing his own. He is a man noted for special achievements. His life is defined by ambivalence, because his actions

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    Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe Essay

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    “Tragedy arouses not only pity but also fear…” Things Fall Apart doesn’t tell you what “has” happened it shows you what is going to happen. In Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe is dramatizing what may happen and what was happening. The District commissioner suggested a book title at the end of the book. I think the book title’s main purpose was to suggest what may happen.”…The Pacification of the Lower Niger Tribes.” A tragedy has a protagonist, the protagonist is someone who is renowned or prosperous

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    missionaries who had came into Umuofia. The Christians had invaded the land of the igbo and then they had them convert over to Christianity overall without choice. In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe shows that the people of Europe went into africa and destroyed the tribes this book show how the missionaries forced everything upon the igbo, then the missionaries defaced on of the egwugwu which is one

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    Okonkwo’s livelihood, to the point where he is exiled from Umuofia, is the central thing that is falling apart in Things Fall Apart, conveying the message of nothing being the same forever, and things always falling apart. Through it’s tragic story the novel itself is a reflection of that idea which is conveyed in The Second Coming. Okonkwo is a protagonist who had mainly experienced success throughout his life until his exile, his main goal in life being to be a better man than his “weak father”

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    Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. In the novel, Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe, it is filled with drama and action on what is going to happen in the story line and what is currently happening. A tragedy has a protagonist named Okonkwo. Okonkwo is someone who is renowned or prosperous, and has a change from good to bad or vice versa. Okonkwo was known as a rising clansman of Umuofia. He has three wives and eight children. Okonkwo has many changes of prosperity during Things Fall Apart. First off

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    Through the novel Things Fall Apart the concepts of diversity and justice arise quite a bit. Some reoccurring concepts that have to do with diversity and justice include assimilation, culture, and oppression. Power to define and labeling also contributes to conflict all through the book. In the book many things fall apart, like the Ibo way of life and also Okonkwo’s life as well. Assimilation transpires in Things Fall Apart. The definition of assimilation is the process where a minority

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    Even the most influential forces can fall into pieces if the foundation is damaged. In the novel, Things fall apart by Chiua Achebe, and the poem, “The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats, there is a shared theme of despair through a lack of collaboration and belief. In both pieces of literature, both of the stories explain a weak society that cannot be stopped by this powerful force. The theme can be shown by many similarities like figurative speech, diction and allusions. To begin with, we

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