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    could have been implemented. 2. Vladimir Lenin was the first person to make a country completely communist. With his uniting of the Soviet Union‚ Lenin integrated his communist ideologies into its member countries. Lenin derives many of his beliefs from his time when he was a member of the Bolshevik faction. This is where he accumulated Marxism fundamentals. Unlike in Brave New World‚ Lenin believed in a single class. Brave New World‚ invasions a perfect society with multiple social classes. In these

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    as I had never learned about him before in any of my History classes. However‚ when I did some research on Herod to understand who he was and how he was connected to the other three allusions‚ I remember thinking that he sounded like an awful person. I agree that the cruel violence associated with the four allusions is one of the greatest reasons they are still recognized‚ and were even recognized in the first place. I also agree that humans wage war over the hunger for more control and power‚ and

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    Steinbeck’s Biblical Allusion in The Grapes of Wrath Many novels written contain parallels to the Bible. This couldn’t be truer in the case John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck alludes to Biblical characters and events with the use of Sin Watchers‚ Jim Casy‚ and also the Joad’s journey to California. There are other events in the book that parallel the Bible‚ although the portrayal of the Sin Watcher and Jim Casy are the most obvious. Throughout The Grapes

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    Inaugural Address was made one month before the end of the Civil War. This speech was also his last. Throughout the speech his purpose was to reunite the North and the South.. To accomplish his purpose‚ he uses logical appeals‚ repetition and Biblical allusions. President Lincoln used logical appeals to achieve his purpose of reunification of the North and South. Throughout the speech‚ lincoln used logos to prove that "both parties deprecated war" to put them on equal terms showing that they both do things

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    Family. And in the original text it rains for 40 days and 40 nights but in the movie a damn breaks and floods the town. So there are lots of similarities between the movie and the text‚ but there are also some differences‚ but the Movie is an allusion to the Original bible text.

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    The story starts off with a desert island that has a supposed ‘scar’ made from the plane that crashed there. The island is the first comparison made with the Bible “ In Lord of the Flies Golding draws heavily on Genesis…”(van Vuuren 4) and in Genesis there is the Garden of Eden and that is what the island was compared to in the book. Although the island is the representation of Eden‚ it is ruined by the crash from the boy’s plane. This brings another point as to how the Garden of Eden is similar

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                        Mr. Koondel The Pearl: “Pearl of the World” Argument Essay: Who Knew Pearls Could Be This Evil.     Pearls are rare‚ spherical objects‚ beautiful treasures that are found in oysters. Pearls are symbols of wealth‚ hope‚ but the wealth can lead to change‚ bad change and the hope might turn into hopeless‚ tragic end. Pearls are expensive‚ and the cost is insane. Pearls bring dreams of wealth‚ and dreams of people’s future to life. Owning a pearl‚ might give someone confidence‚ show

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    meaning. In the book‚ The Pearl by John Steinbeck in the beginning of the story uses symbolism supposedly expressing hope and happiness brought by the pearl but its true meaning behind it is greed and becomes evil. Because of the pearl‚ Kino ends up doing terrible things that he would have never done like killing four men by the end of the parable. In the beginning of the story‚ the pearl is used to express hope and happiness. When something so beautiful such as a pearl‚ it is seen as something positive

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    character named Pearl. At the beginning of the novel‚ she is just an innocent infant who is abhorred by all the townspeople because of the sin her mother‚ Hester Prynne‚ committed before Pearl was born. In this novel‚ Pearl is a static character and living symbol of sin. In the beginning‚ the reader is introduced to Pearl as the infant “whose innocent life had sprung...a lovely and immortal flower‚ out of the rank and luxurious of a guilty passion” (59). Hawthorne describes Pearl as an impeccant

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    focuses on the way Kino and Juana try to escape La Paz and go to the capital so that they can sell the pearl after their brush house is burned by the evil men and they are forced to escape from their hometown. At first glance‚ Kino thinks that he will get a higher offer in the city. Unfortunately‚ the pearl only brings to him unhappiness. On his way to city‚ evil men who attempt to take away the pearl attack Kino. Juana and Kino are really pursued like animals by bighorn sheep trackers. Ultimately‚

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