Bang. Thump. Bullets flew through the air and American soldiers hit the ground. Death was all around them. Why were these Americans fighting? What are they dying for? And who is going to remember them? These Americans soldiers weren’t fighting a lost cause. They were fighting for freedom‚ they were fighting so the American people can sleep another sound night‚ and they were fighting to secure the nation. These men and women on the battlefield were dying for independence‚ the right to life‚ liberty
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Beer Street and Gin Lane Beer Street and Gin Lane Hogarth’s one of the best known his satirical paintings. He designed and published them as part of a campaign in support of the government’s Gin Act‚ in an attempt to restrain the consumption of cheap gin. In these paintings‚ Hogarth compares the joys of beer drinking with the gin which caused the complete destruction of the people in town that he warns unpleasant consequences of alcoholism. Beer Street shows a happy city drinking the ’good’
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wine glass is keeled over the booklet as well. Behind the booklet is a human skull. Left to the violin lies a round silver ball that casts a reflection of the painter painting this picture. In front of the round silver ball lies a snuff box. Lying right next to the snuff box is a key with a lanyard attached to it. Vanitas Still Life portrays two realities in one painting. The round silver ball reflects‚ like a mirror‚ the painter painting this still life with an open window behind him. This open
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give these quilts to Maggie‚ for when she marries John Thomas." (page 166). Dee gets upset at Mama’s reply and storms out and leaves‚ but Mama isn’t really phased much by it‚ she lets it roll off her shoulders and "asks Maggie to bring her a dip of snuff." then‚ "the two of them just sit there until it’s time to go in and go to bed." (page 167). She’s so easy going and I really admire
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description of the Widow Douglas it was a more orderly alinge of how things went while he was with her‚ a cut and dry example of how supper went as well as the clothing he was forced to wear. Minus minor insults to her feelings on smoking while she ‘took snuff’‚ the satire was played out more subtly compared to Miss Watson. When describing and speaking of the latter woman he held more of a tone of bitterness as she spoke to him on the good place and the bad‚ saying ‘Well‚ I couldn’t see no advantage in going
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“Suck on this.” – Slogan in Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department anti-tobacco campaign It’s rude‚ crude and all but guaranteed to get many parents and sticklers for good manners up in arms. In other words‚ it’s designed to appeal to average teenagers. Or at least get their attention. That’s the goal‚ anyway‚ of the new anti-tobacco campaign by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. The messages are particularly targeted at young people‚ because research has shown that those who
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When the boy was born... ... like all Spartans‚ he was inspected. If he’d been small or puny or sickly or misshapen... ... he would have been discarded. From the time he could stand‚ he was baptized in the fire of combat.
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But why? A few likely reasons have to do with the sheer heinousness of his crimes. His victims were not merely stabbed‚ shot‚ or even beaten to death. The title “Jack the Ripper” was earned in the most horrible of ways. Jack the Ripper did not just snuff out a life with a knife‚ he meant to humiliate the women that the ruthlessly mutilated. He seemed to have a deep hate for the entire female gender. Another likely reason The Ripper lives in infamy is he was never apprehended by authorities‚ despite
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Answer for “Everyday Use” English 1302 !. They are waiting for Dee which is mama’s daughter and Maggie’s sister. 2. Their house burned down. Maggie was burned by the fire; it traumatized her. 3. The mama thinks that her yard is nice and clean. She also thinks that it is comfortable enough to be considered an extension of the living room. 4. Mama imagines her reunion with Dee to be like some of the shows they show on television. She imagines herself to be the way her daughter‚ Dee
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