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    “Riding the Elephants” by Barbara Kingsolver is a short story describing going to Nepal in 2016. Barbara goes to Nepal as part of her job to interview the lowest caste women‚ who are known as the “Untouchable Women.” When she is finished‚ she explores the inside world of the village and explores the Chitwan Reserve‚ full of Asian creatures. A park ranger invites her for a border patrol‚ on an elephant. By the end of the story‚ she feels at peace with the decisions she has made and feels secure in

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    The Article A Crime Of Compassion By Barbara Huttmann describes her experience as a nurse and her patient Mac. When Mac first entered the hospital he had a nagging cough‚ worked as a cop‚ and was strong‚ Independent‚ young man. Six months passed and Mac lost his youth‚ independency‚ Suffering from lung cancer‚ and was weak. Nurse Huttmann decides to let Mac die when he stops breathing for the 52 time’s in a month. Hutmann’s actions are correct in letting Mac die because Mac wanted to die‚ his quality

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    The plight of immigrants can only be told through experience not statistics mainly because statistics do not convey the predicament that they face in real life. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel‚ The Bean Trees‚ revolves around a young woman named Taylor who has never been a victim of injustice because she’s lived in rural Kentucky her whole life and once she leaves her county‚ she is exposed to the harsh reality beyond the boundaries. She began her journey in Pittman County where not much occurs and headed

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    Should Batman kill the Joker? Have you noticed that in DC Comics Batman would always catch the Joker and send him to jail‚ but every single time the Joker would just escape and cause more harm to people. Since the Joker has killed and harmed so many people why doesn’t the Batman just kill him? Many people would agree that he should kill the Joker because it would end the suffering of so many lives‚ but Batman has his own philosophy; he believes that if he were to kill it would make him no better

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    Jessica Bush Melissa Dailey English 3B 6 February 2014 Literary Analysis In The Bean Trees by Barbra Kingsolver there are many different relationships between characters. Some are more important to the story‚ like the relationship that Taylor and Turtle share. Other characters that develop relationships are Taylor and Lou Ann‚ and Taylor and her mother‚ Alice. All of these relationships are also very symbiotic because the people rely on each other‚ without each other they would have much different

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    BISHOP MOORE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY SERVICE VERIFICATION FORM 3901 Edgewater Drive Orlando‚ FL 32804 www.bishopmoore.org cs@bishopmoore.org INCOMPLETE FORMS WILL BE RETURNED UNPROCESSED. COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICE USE ONLY Date Received: __________________ Date Received: __________________ STUDENT NAME (PLEASE PRINT): (FULL NAME/NO NICKNAMES PLEASE) GRADE: SERVICE SITE INFORMATION - one form per service site NOTE: All students must fulfill their community service requirement

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    20 November 2012 The Powerful Poison: Savannahians Savannah is a peculiar town‚ with interesting cases of disturbed people. Berendt’s decision to include Luther Driggers has the effect of showing how failure can develop people’s worst side in a society like Savannah. He has an important meaning in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil because if the reader connects Danny and Luther’s stories he or she will understand that they were both victims of Savannah’s society. The Jar Savannah

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    Reader Response #2 – Question 1 In the Kikongo language‚ nommo means word‚ but it is also “the force that makes things live as what they are” (Kingsolver 209). Everything is present in this world‚ but once named‚ it gives them the life that they are named after. For example‚ a snake has the life it has because it is named snake‚ while a chicken is not a snake because that is not what it is named. This is why Adah and Leah live different lives despite being twins; they have different names. All

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    It was a dark night when Archie got home from his baseball practice. He was so tired that he quickly jumped in his pajamas and went to sleep without even taking a bath yet! As he was snoring‚ two little shiny lights flew into his bedroom. "Is he the one?" asked one of the lights‚ what are they? They are fairies. "He must be‚" answered the other fairy‚ knocking over a bat which knocks down the yo-yo which was beside it and made a loud noise. The two fairies quickly flew out the window as Archie woke

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    “The Black Walnut Tree” Analysis “Two women trying in a difficult time to be wise” describes up the speaker and her mother’s conflicted feelings regarding the future of the tree in their backyard. In “The Black Walnut Tree” by Mary Oliver‚ the author uses shifts and word choice and imagery to expose the frustrating‚ but meaningful connection the women have with the family tree. While the tree burdens the women‚ they must come to terms that the tree represents the importance of family over the opportunity

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