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    prostitution serves intercontinental clientele and some 800,000 citizens are HIV-positive and one-in three prostitutes may be infected with the virus. This photograph shows a less-harmonized side of Thai life than the first yet still maintains the theme of religion seen in the lives of many Thai people. It shows a Thai woman pausing to respect a “spirit house” while being stared at by what looks like two American men. There are many things that come to mind when seeing this photo but one major thing

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    Emily.” However, using the primary character Emily and the Grierson estate as symbols allows for a clearer understanding the resistance to change in the South. Lastly, Faulkner uses many types of figurative language like mortar to bind his use of themes and symbolism to describe the opposition to change in “A Rose for Emily.” Personification is noticeable when Faulkner describes Emily’s house, “lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay” (Faulkner). This quote illustrates the slow decline of the Old

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    Schindler’s List, an epic movie that is going to touch your heart while you watch it, directed by Steven Spielberg and scripted by Steven Zaillian. This movie is based on a true story about a businessman named Oskar Schindler and his cheap Jewish laborers in Germany during World War II. The setting of the movie is during the National Socialist German Worker party (Nazi) invasion of Poland in 1939, the beginning of World War II. Nazis brought their policies of racial discrimination against Jewish

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    Heart of Darkness and its modern film adaptation Apocalypse Now are two masterpieces of art, by Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola respectively, seeking to show the truth of their respective worlds, that explore themes of conflict and darkness. They explore the idea of “going native” and venturing into the abyss of Nietzsche, who once wrote, in Beyond Good and Evil: “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss

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    She had recently found out that Hitler had something to do with it, which pushed Liesel to the conclusion that Hitler was not a man to be celebrated. As her hatred for Nazi ideals grew, so did her bravery. The burning of the books relates to other themes in the story as well, it is another example of the power of words. It is a strange idea that something as beautiful and powerful as stories could be used for such a violent and spiteful act. Liesel stealing the book represented a connection between

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    National Geographic: The Real George Washington (2008) George Washington was a natural-born leader. If the stature of a six-foot-two-inch man was not indicative of natural leadership, Washington’s humility, integrity, and military prowess, was. Yet a man of very few words, Washington could command militias with a single raised arm, and lead an infant-country on bended knee. Washington was a leader through action; he was not verbose, ambiguous, or bombastic. Knowing this, Washington led America (along

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    Following the end of World War Two, or any way for that matter, the people who are injured are automatically set apart from other. In past wars the battles were much more gruesome due to the lack of medical care. Many soldiers lost limbs, became paralyzed, and lost vision or hearing. After war was completed the men that were worst affected by the lack of healthcare were the ones who felt that they no longer had a place in society, much like people who have extreme visual impairment. War cripples

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    Even Nel reminds Sula of this. “You can’t do it all. You a woman and a colored woman at that. You can’t act like a man. You can’t be walking around all independent-like, doing whatever you like, talking what you want, leaving what you don’t” (Morrison 142). Sula is not wishing that she was born a man but she feels as a woman

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    The entire story was just a snapshot that occurred in his mind before his death. Ambrose Bierce purposefully continues to build the anticipation that the devout Union soldier had escaped, only to drop the reader into a tale of demise and overall doom. ‘The Red Convertible’ by Louise Endrich was written in 1984 and revolves around a Vietnam veteran and his brother. Lyman Lamartine is a young man whose brother has just

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    counting the money collected from the day. When looking at these works they both give me a strange feeling. Goya’s painting is more depressing than anything, but it almost makes me feel proud of the man in the center as he displays true heroism. The soldiers are comical to me as all I can think about upon looking at them is the Winki Guard from the Wizard of Oz. The long coats and the tall fuzzy hats resemble those from the movie. Caravaggio’s painting is mysterious in the regard that the shadows conceal

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