characterize Atticus. I characterize Atticus as a caring and wise individual. One of the first ways Atticus portrays himself as is caring. Atticus states “… I do my best to love everybody…” (Lee 144). From this statement I see that no matter what people say about him Atticus still tries his best to view people in a better
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stated‚ “I hated the brutality‚ the sadism‚ and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn’t stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could‚ what I had to do‚ what my conscience told me I must do. That’s all there is to it. Really‚ nothing more” (AZ Quotes 1). During World War II‚ Oskar Schindler stood up to the Nazi party in Krakow‚ Poland by using false labor records and pleading with Nazi leaders‚ so they would not send his Jewish factory workers to concentration camps. Oskar Schindler’s bravery
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Cleveland Wilson An uknown source states " A hero is a man afraid to run away". I think this quote means a person doesn’t run away from challenges. They take them head on. I agree with this quote. Being a hero is more than just being better than everyone.Without a doubt‚ a hero is brave‚gangsta and smart. First of all‚a true hero is brave at all times. To be brave you have to overcome your fear. For example‚Tim the firefighter conquers his fear every time he fights fire. He knows that he
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Hester Prynne Quote: "On the breast of her gown‚ in fine red cloth‚ surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread‚ appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done‚ and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy‚ that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age‚ but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony
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Katie Ledecky “Before you can achieve ‚ you must believe‚ in yourself.” and “Don’t Practice until you get it right‚ Practice until you can’t get it wrong.” (“Katie Ledecky Quotes”) Both these quotes are from Katie Ledecky. Katie Ledecky is a 2 Time Olympian‚ 5 time OLympic Gold winner and World Champion. Katie Ledecky loved swimming from an early age‚ and has had a very successful swimming career‚ because she trains in unusual ways‚ for a female swimmer. Did you know that Katie Ledecky started swimming
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Would you ever live in a world without memories? “The Giver”‚ a provocative novel by Louis Lowery is about a boy named Jonas‚ who lives in a world where everything is in order and to perfection. From sunrise to sundown everything is in order and running smoothly. Even though this sounds like the perfect place to live‚ it has a flaw. The one flaw is that memories do not play a major role in lives of the people who live in this community‚ as they should be. When Jonas gets the assignment of being the
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have very strict rules about how the mentally ill should bet treated and how they should behave. Jacqui believes that mental illness is caused by early childhood experiences‚ but these experiences are not only social experiences but also family and upbringing experiences‚ such as whether he was breast fed‚ how often‚ how Anne felt about this and when he went onto solids. She did not seem to take any interest in the fact that at birth he had a cerebral haemorrhage. Quote/s: o ¡§I would
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August’s experience in the book Wonder was a positive and a necessary journey in his life. In the story August Pullman goes through bullying‚ betrayal‚ friendship. This quote from Wonder‚ ”I did notice as I walked that Amos had stayed right next to me. And Jack was close on the other side of me. And Miles was in front of us and Henry was in the back of us… I had my own emperor’s guard.” This shows that people can be friends and don’t have to be complete imbeciles like Eddie and his friends in
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In the novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe a new culture is introduced to the Ibo people and they are affected in many different ways depending on how they adapted or did not adapt to the new culture. One character in particular is affected by this invading culture‚ Obierika. As this new culture is introduced it caused Obierika’s cultural identity to change as he questions the Ibo culture. Before the arrival of the new culture Obierika was a high figure in the Ibo tribe and was a strict
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that of a far dearer victim” (p. 169). This quote is foreboding that it will not be Victor whom the Creature intends to kill‚ but a person far dearer to Victor. This quote seems to apply to Elizabeth. It never directly says her name‚
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