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    Anthem for Doomed Youth

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    Owen uses a contrast within the title ‚ “Doomed Youth” ‚ he does this deliberately because using “doomed youth” ‚ puts the young people of war and he try’s to discourage them as it is nothing like what the propaganda claim it to be. The first question highlights animal imagery ‚ “dying like cattle” ‚ this shows the soldiers are nameless. There death lacks dignity ‚ dehumanised. Personification is used to mirror the guns ‚ “anger of the guns” ‚ in the noun phrase it makes the guns sound real. Owen

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    coronado17 January 8‚ 2013 AP English Language Woolf’s Language in Moments of Being In the excerpt of Moments of Being‚ Virginia Woolf reflects upon her childhood summers spent with her dad and father. As Woolf relives that one joyful day‚ she intrigues the reader with her rich writing style. While telling her story‚ Virginia Woolf uses language techniques such sentence structure‚ punctuation‚ and metaphors to convey the importance of this nostalgia. Moments of Being attracts the reader to feel

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    Hero Prompt 8th Grade

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    Kayleen Barzaga PD5 Heroes can have many unique attributes. Some are courageous‚ others are noble‚ or honest .Most heroes have different combinations of these characteristics .There may be many words used to describe a hero‚ but the real question is “What defines a hero?” A hero is an average entity who finds the will to sustain and endure in spite of staggering obstacles. First and foremost heroes have specific qualities that set them apart from the rest‚ the selflessness of their actions speak

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    We believe the speaker is a little boy‚ because he is at a playground and all his friends are boys. While the children are playing‚ one gets bit by a mosquito and has a conversation with it. The tone of the poem is youthful and humorous due to the situation presented. The form of the poem is the second and fourth line of the stanza rhyme‚ this is sometimes known as an ABCB rhyme scheme. Sound is important in the poem because it shows the actions of the kids as the bug bites them. This mosquito

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    Ayn Rand in the book review‚ Anthem‚ Rand portrays that Equality 7-2521 lived in the dark ages of the future. Rand supports her claims by telling us that equality 7-2521 lives in a city that is different the our’s. The author’s purpose is to show us how Equality 7-2521 had the courage to seek and find knowledge so that he could be an individual person and then he will no longer like the word “We”. The author writes in a formalistic tone for a science fiction audience. Equality 7-2521 lives in

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    Imagine a life where your thoughts and beliefs no longer show any sense of desire or feelings‚ as to where all forms of originality have been lost. All live under the idea of “one in all‚ all in one”(Rand‚ 19). Minds of the citizens of the Anthem society are formed to think‚ feel‚ speak as one; all equal and no individuality‚ all are one. One to think as an individual shall be shunned for the greater good. Rebellion of individuality‚ a form of evil of which none shall bare the pain‚ except for one

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    The power and knowledge of individualism is lost in the novel Anthem and Ayn Rand does a good job showing us the downfalls and troubles the future might hold. The society that Equality 7-2521 lives in is harsh and believes only in collectivism instead of individualism. The main collective government figures are known as Council of Scholars and Council of Vocations who make the rules and strictly force each brother in the society to follow each rule. They are forced to be alike in every way and live

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    “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.” Oprah Winfrey often speaks about finding your own path and not allowing others to dictate your life. The story of Anthem by Ayn Rand‚ is the exact opposite of what Oprah stands for. Rand tells the story of a young man named Equality 7-2521‚ it being written from his point of view. Equality has shown to commit many “sins” throughout the course of his life. He feels as though what the council decides

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    Anthem- Epilogue Maggie Bergmann We lay silently in our bed. We look at the blank white walls‚ the sleeping bodies‚ and the darkness. Everywhere. We wonder if this is all there is to life or what is being hidden. Certainly there must be something out there different from here‚ but we are forbidden to think of such things. Every night we close our eyes and we dream of places far away‚ places where we are happy always‚ and of places not so dark. We are forbidden to dream of such things.

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    Prompt 1: In The Secret Life of Bees every character holds a secret and ever big event that happens in the story brings a message. The most important message that Lily brings to the story is hope. Hope and aspiration is represented by the bees that keep recurring throughout the story. In the very beginning when Lily had barely anything to look up to‚ every single night bees would come into her room. “ The bees came the summer of 1964‚ the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off

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