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    relate Billy Budd to Jesus. Billy is symbolic of a Christ-like figure because of his destruction by evil and betrayal‚ fate and. Similar to Jesus‚ Billy was a fatalist who believed that life was planned out and all events were destined to occur. Lieutenant Ratcliffe was able to impress Billy without any struggle because Billy felt that his fate was to be in the Navy. After his execution‚ the Purser calls Billy’s death as “a species of euthanasia” (Chp 26). The Purser believes that Billy has an easy

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    Dead parents are extremely common in young adult literature‚ and although these characters are obviously absent throughout the story‚ they are still relevant and necessary to the plot because of the effect they have on their children. Because “dead parents are so much a function of middle-grade and teen fiction at this point‚” it is no surprise that Collins sets up the Everdeen family with one parent deceased (Sales). However‚ instead of viewing deceased parents as enhancing the plot of a YA novel

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    I believe Jane Elliot effectively created two unequal groups in the three times we watched her run her experiment. Each time one group was given considerable special treatment. The "majority" group was giving things like being allowed into the conference room early‚ given seats and a more comfortable environment‚ and treated with respect. The advantages were even more distinguishable for the "minority" group who was subjected to sub par conditions‚ forced to wear bands of shame‚ and faced even harsher

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    Agatha Christie knew what she was doing when she wrote the play‚ Witness for the Prosecution in the 1920s. Around the middle of the 1970s‚ the play script was adapted into an ever so successful film that was directed by Billy Wilder‚ which held the same name as the play‚ “Witness for the Prosecution.” Unlike “The Cat and the Canary‚” in my opinion‚ this play to film adaptation was easily seen through the directional telling of the plot. With simple sets‚ for example‚ the courtroom and lawyer’s office

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    RAY JUNIOR DIVISION INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE WORD COUNT: PROCESS PAPER WORD COUNT:194 BIlly the Kid became one of the most dangerous outlaws of all time. He was not always a bad person‚ many people said he was a good kid. The manager of the restaurant said‚ "He was an excellent kid and was the only one who did not steal anything." And his school house said‚ "He was always willing to help with chores." Billy the kid changed the world by being the most dangerous outlaw and killing many important

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    machine. Outside of the plane‚ his wife‚ Valencia waves goodbye to Billy while eating a chocolate bar. Also on board‚ is a barbershop quartet called the “Four-eyed Bastards.” They sing humorous songs about the Polish. Billy is then reminded about the public hanging he had seen in Dresden‚ in which a Polish man was hung. Knowing that the plane is about to crash‚ Billy drifts into sleep and awakens in 1944. Roland Weary is shaking him‚ but Billy Pilgrim tells the “Three Musketeers” to go on without him. As

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    Character: The main character is an elderly man by the name of Milton. Milton owns a quiet‚ secluded country home and equipped garden‚ near the shore. He lives a simple yet solemn life‚ spending a lot of time tending to his plants and being with nature. Travellers have stopped coming to visit and Milton is often alone. The supporting character is Pearl‚ a woman in her mid 20’s‚ who arrives at the house and to tend to the garden. She seems to be a new helping hand‚ as she doesn’t seem to know Milton

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    ‚ T.S. Eliot appeared on the scene of 20th century English poetry as a wonderful innovator with these lines of his The Love-song of J. Alfred Prufrock on the pages of the Poetry magazine in 1915: “Let us go‚ then‚ you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table". These lines immediately revolutionized the intellectual climate of English poetry. Eliot initiated a new brand of poetry of the city‚ poetry essentially cerebral‚ impersonal‚ predominantly

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    Billy the kid ‚ the legend lives on Henry McCarty‚ Henry Antrim and William H Bonny are all aliases of the notorious Billy the Kid. Born in the slums of New York City‚ Billy grew up in what we would consider today a broken home. The exact date of his birth is uncertain but it he is known to be born in the early 1860s. After his mother passed away and his step father no longer cared for him‚ Billy moved to a boarding house. While there he began his career as an outlaw. Incarcerated

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    Everlost‚ by Neal Shusterman is in my opinion a horror. Most of the story took part in everlost a sort of limbo that is halfway between life and death. There are two or maybe three main characters in Everlost depending on how you look at it. They are at least Nick and Allie‚ and maybe Mary. Nick and Allie meet Mary the self proclaimed queen of Everlost‚ and Nick falls in love with Mary and wants to stay. However Allie wants to leave everlost and stars to against warnings from Mary learn the Criminal

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