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    house, I noticed that heavy traffic covered all the roads. The streets were like busy bees surrounding their hive. The hooting of cars and buses boomed through my ears. The sun glowed gently over the horizon as the blast of warm breeze diffused over my body. The sun dipped through the sky as it replaced its yellow stains into black, dusky shades of ink. The crowd imperceptibly disappeared as I changed my way to the other side of the street. As the sun settled down; desolate, pure blackness began to sneak

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    Throughout history religion has been taught by art. The Christian religion especially, teaches about their religion through stories or parables. Some of these stories have been turned into art to further the understanding of the story. Many Christian artists have showed Christ’s life through paintings. Carl Bloch had the opportunity to paint the life of Christ for the Frederiksborg Castle church. They showed his birth to the Virgin Mary and his death on the cross. These paintings also show what he

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    hand. Lucille watched, suspended above herself as her body groaned like some horrible monster and moved with vitality that wasn’t there just an hour or so ago. She hadn’t left him, but she was hardly resting now. Unable to interfere, Lucille watched. Her corpse startled Negan from his nap. He woke up, gasping and crying at the sight of her, falling out of his chair in his haste to get away from her. But Negan didn’t leave yet. Lucille’s body remained on the bed, restrained there by the bed rails

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    use women’s bodies in a sexual way to get people to stop and look at their ads. Over the last few decades, speakers and activists have seen advertisements becoming more sexual and more demeaning towards women. Activist Jean Kilbourne has been analyzing ads and has been bringing awareness to this issue for years through her four documentaries. In her documentary, “Killing Us Softly 4,” Jean Kilbourne asserts women’s bodies are often dismembered, portrayed with an unattainable, “ideal” body type, and

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    Flight Summary Of Flight

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    foster parents are trying to help him. Then, later in the book, after he shoots thirty or so people in a bank, is transported through time and different bodies, and learns how to turn his life around with the knowledge he amasses from what he sees and does in these different bodies. In one especially striking scene, Zits has traveled into the body of a young Indian boy at war. He wakes up in the middle of a large Indian bivouac. He then realizes that it is a camp from the battle called “Custer’s Last

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    came to was about was mental illness and how in 2008 Wallace committed suicide. When lobsters are chosen and boiled to eat, those people are sending them to their 'grave'. So, what does being considerate consist of when discussing a lobster, a dead body and the food we are about to eat? Jessica Mitford wrote the essay “The Story of

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    ground. As Daniel got closer, he noticed a lifeless figure tied up on the pillar. It was Captain Jack Hughes of flight Dreamhail. His body lied there motionless, stained dry with blood. Daniel couldn’t believe that his former captain had been killed and for what reason? The men dragged Daniel to the former captain, throwing him unto the ground before the lifeless body. The chief approached the captain with a large knife, and Daniel watched as the captain was then decapitated. The chief then threw his

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    rise and walk and he is healed. Christ is the one that the people should believe in to be healed. This shows that Christ being a perfect being wants to help those in need and he is the one that has the power to perform miracles. Bloch effectively uses body position in the painting Christ Healing at the Pool of Bethesda to add to the theme of Christ being there to help people. In the painting Christ’s position shows his willingness and ability to heal the elderly man. His left hand is lifted the shelter

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    Paranoia and distrust heavily lingered on Claire’s mind when she discovered the inhumane response of her husband Stuart and his friends towards the cold, deceased body of an innocent young girl they found drifting through the Naches River during their fishing trip in the short story: “So Much Water So Close To Home,” by Raymond Carver. Throughout the story, a significant theme that the author attempts to convey through the story is when seeds of doubt are left to grow, even the strongest of bonds

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    Emily buys a man’s toilet set and a complete outfit of men’s clothing, including a nightshirt, symbolizes that Emily truly cared about Homer. Emily uses these things to set up a decked room as for a bridal in her house, and sets homer’s body in a bed. Homer’s body was lain in the attitude of an embrace and next to him was a pillow with the indentation of a head. This symbolizes that Emily slept with Homer every night. The biggest clue of all, was the iron-grey hair they found on the bed, which was

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