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    For this reason he presumed that it was a waste of time for him to meet other female elephants to build a family with. Therefore, George’s only task was to find water for himself. Pedro on the other hand, had recently encountered a stunning female mouse who he cared for a great deal. Although he was challenged to find enough water for two beings, his size was finally an advantage due to the fact that mice required less water than larger creatures. After hours of searching for even the smallest bodies

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    “Nuit of the Living Dead” by David Sedaris “Nuit of the Living Dead” written by David Sedaris, the setting in rural France leads to part of the comedic element of this story. Reading this story very much feels like trying to follow an ADD chipmunk. There are generally several thought patterns running simultaneously throughout the entire thing. It’s a quick, fun, charmingly quirky read. One of the most charming parts is the internal dialog of the main character that’s constantly drizzled through

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    Maus by Art Spiegelman

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    being drawn as mice; mice are known to be small and dependent. As the Germans being drawn as cats; cats being bigger and more independent tend to eat mice. Nazis haunt torture and kill the weak Jews just like cats. It is an analogy, cats and mouse. The mouse is a symbol for subordinate and the cat is supremacy. Spiegelman’s meaning for drawings the character like that has a totally different approach. His main purpose was to show the different kinds of ethnicities in the book, through the different

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    possessing a rather unique approach to mouse-trapping, offers quality inventories made of plastic which guarantees the full proof mechanism. Its design and features enable consumers to avoid having direct physical contact with the mouse throughout the whole ordeal of setting up, trapping, and disposing of the revolting creature. Opposite this is the traditional mousetrap where one has to personally pull the metal spring bar to set the trap. Once a mouse is locked in,

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    Honore de Balzac once said “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on it can ever turn it into a fact. This quote connects to the theme “With power there’s never true equality.” Because although equality should be a given, while there is power present in society, it will never happen. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel about a farm that is overtaken by its animals. They assign one pig, Napoleon, to power. He began to only benefit the pigs and the other animals were often oppressed. “Mouseland”

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    At first glance most people wouldn 't describe my neighborhood as, “ beautiful and appealing.” In fact, most people probably wouldn 't even describe my neighborhood as, “livable.” Broken glass, bags of chips, cans of soda and wrinkle pieces of old newspaper litter the ground; making it seem that the people who live here consider the ground their own personal dumpster. Several houses are boarded up; abandoned for such a long time I don 't even know if people actually lived there in the first place

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    beneath the success of the first volume, the death of his father, his self-consciousness, and the Holocaust as a whole(Speigelman 41-46). He is being held prisoner to these thoughts, and the mask is a constant symbolic reminder of them to him. The mouse mask is a way to show that after the effects of all these elements, he does not truly feel like himself. The mask is also a reminder to his character in the book, which is provokes the guilt of his success, the guilt he feels of the Holocaust, and

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    There are different types of conflict, the conflict such as Man .vs. Nature, Man.vs. Man, and Person .vs. Self these types of conflicts show the struggle people have to go succeed a goal, dream or just to survive. In the poem “Ode to a Mouse” by Robert Burns and the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, both authors use the literary element, Conflict to show the struggles of the characters. In California during the Great Depression, Lennie Small and George Milton are two ranch workers

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    Insight Video Analysis

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    that they were facing it in that moment. An example would be when Nuna and the fox forgot to respect the little mouse, they had to faced the big mouse and get out of his cave afterwards, the little mouse comes to them when they are canoeing away and they lift of the mouse out of the water and place him in their canoe showing that they learned their lesson to respect every animal even a mouse. In the video, he says that “you only use animals for food you don’t mess with them” and that is a key element

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    Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.¨ (Helen Keller) This quote expresses the need to give out some sacrifice towards the future, to find the most optimal paths. Putting in faith to trust the overall picture and how it will impact the greater good is key to superlative living. In Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, two men who get too wrapped up in their dreams forget about reality. They strive to reach a place they see as a heaven, and in the meantime

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