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    clank. I looked around and didn't see anything. I saw a shine coming from behind the cabinet but ignored it. I headed out the door and went to ran my errands for the day. I walked outside and got a freezing cold breeze going down my back. I kept walking and came upon the newspaper stand. I woke up early enough to be one of the first people to see the daily news. I checked the date, December 17, 1896, perfect, I got it. I looked at

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    tragedy because after Johnny had been jumped by the Socs he was terrified and scared of his own shadow. He had to start walking with a group of people. This also happened at an early age so Johnny was scared after a while, “ he was scared of his own shadow after he got jumped” This scene had me thinking about Johnny in the beginning of the book because he was only young and was just walking home and was jumped and attacked by four people scaring him for the rest of the book.

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    character from the Bible, a man that Jesus had brought back from the dead. This implies that the speaker is just like Lazarus and that she would be dead soon, but reborn as a miracle, “A sort of walking miracle...Comeback in broad day, To the same place, the same face, the same brute… A miracle!” The same way Lazarus was a miracle brought back by Jesus. Another allusion is a historical allusion referencing back to WWI. “A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade… My face a featureless

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    The film “Night of the Living Dead” is a movie based on a zombie apocalypse. The film begins with a man named Johnny and a woman named Barbara, with blonde hair, driving four hours from their home to a cemetery. They drive all that way because their father's grave is in that cemetery and their mother wants her children to replace the flowers on the grave. Once Johnny and Barbara arrive at the cemetery and replace the flower Johnny starts horseplaying around and teasing Barbara saying “they're coming

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    What if vehicles could talk? What if they didn’t need an operator but could also have a conversation with you? There have been many far fetched ideas relating to what the future could possibly hold, we have all dreamed up some crazy idea as to what we think the future will make for us. Ray Bradbury is no exception. In ‘The Pedestrian’ by Ray Bradbury there is some pretty interesting ideas of what we could be living in in the year A.D. 2053 and they don’t all seem to be for the better. In this story

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    One night Bob was walking with his friends. They all said let’s go into this walkway and see whats behind there. Bob said no but then the friends started walking. So Bob went with because he didn't want to be left in the dark. So Bob went into the walkway. Bob couldn't find his friends Bob yelled and yelled but no one replied. So Bob kept on walking he heard something he stopped. Bob stepped on a branch but it wasn't broken. Bob looked he thought he found a pair of glowing eyes. Bob wanted to turn

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    the boys and brought them back to the state of mind they had before the guns, death, and drugs. The three most important scenes in this story include when Ishmael Beah saw the women running into the village with a dead baby on her back, When he burned the bottom parts of his foot walking on sand, and how acted when he first arrived at the rehabilitation center.

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    books. First question that needs to be answered why would having an apocalypse element or theme in the story make the book good to read? To show why people enjoy apocalyptic scenarios or trying to survive in a new world, there are shows such as The Walking Dead and movies such as World War Z. Now there are no zombies in The Road or The Hunger Games but they all have an apocalypse or end of the world scenario where the people have to adapt to the new world and it is not pretty.

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    parallels between them. To begin, Meursault was sent to jail for shooting an Arab man while at the beach with a few friends and Marie. Upon entering the jail, Meursault was stripped of his favorite pleasures such as smoking cigarettes, having sex, and walking along the beach. After befriending a prison guard, Meursault began to understand his punishment was his loss of free will. After a short withdraw period from thinking like a free man to thinking like a prisoner, (Camus, The Stranger, 77) Meursault’s

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    A virtuoso in law once inquired Jesus, what he shall do to inherit eternal life, and who are my neighbors. Jesus replied by showing how a man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho, got assaulted by thieves. Without his possessions and clothes, he laid there half-dead. A minister going down a similar street walked past the man and did not even try helping him, a Levite doing the same later. In the text of The Parable of the Good Samaritan, it mentions, “A priest happened to be going down the same road

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