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    Harold Ano Ho Argument Paragraph Second Draft 9/26/12 ENG22 T/Tr 1:30 Why the Light Rail Should Be Built. The light rail project will benefit Oahu in many ways‚ and should be constructed without delay. The first reason that the rail should be constructed is because it will help the economy. One example of how the rail will benefit the economy is that it will create many lasting jobs for workers due to the fact that the rail is a massive project that will last years. Additionally‚ once the

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    No County for Old Men The movie I chose to do my reaction paper on was “No Country for Old Men”. “No Country for Old Men” came out in theaters in November of 2007. The movie is about an older man named Llewelyn Moss who will go hunting on an afternoon and finds this aftermath of a drug deal gone bad. Even after the fact that he knows better about taking something that doesn’t belong to him‚ he cannot resist the cash that was left behind at the drug deal gone bad. During the process of him taking

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    Alyssa Stenerson Professor Canter English 2367 14 Oct. 2014 Doomsday Preppers: An Apocalyptic Culture An Annotated Bibliography The topic of this paper will be doomsday prepping around the world. The paper will focus on the views of these people who call themselves “doomsday preppers” and its surrounding culture. Topics to be dissected in the following paragraphs include the differentiation between preppers in the United States and preppers in Europe‚ the effects this survivalist lifestyle has on

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    The man demonstrates his love for his son in several different ways. The first way is always protecting the son from danger and from the death in the world that surrounds him. On page 110 the father tells the boy to stay outside before he goes inside the cellar. Then on page 132 he tells him to stay put again while he searches the surroundings to make sure he is safe. And when they are walking down the road the father tries to shield the boy from the burned bodies. Another way the man demonstrates

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    When I first heard “Telegraph Road” by Dire Straits I was drawn by the instrumental music that started with hushed strings and keyboards and rose to a thundering crescendo of drums‚ keyboards‚ strings‚ and electric guitars. In a quiet relaxed mood the 14 minute and 18 second story begins with a man ”walking 30 miles with a pack on his back” (Mark Knopfler‚ 1982). He stops when he finds an idyllic spot to build a cabin and a field for planting by a lake. As the song progresses people come and build

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    Shreyaa Arora Professor Song ENG 120 4th December 2015 The Road: Alternate Ending The boy albeit alone only for what physically could be described as just a moment was forever to him. He had lost his father‚ the man. How could he go on? Where would he go? What could he do… on his own. After a brief eternity‚ as if God himself had been at the most present transaction of life’s very essence being passed on to the next plane‚ the man with a shotgun appears. After a brief testing of the waters‚ the

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    Essay Help The novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy features many examples of symbolism in order to enhance the reader’s understanding of the grim reality within the text: a nameless father and son struggling to survive in a world defaced by an overwhelming catastrophe. The symbols that McCarthy utilizes are of natural phenomena that once existed in harmony but now battle for dominance‚ such as darkness and water representing the opposing ideas of destruction and survival respectively‚ and fire and

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    He Crucible and Army - McCarthy Hearings The Crucible‚ a play written by famous author Arthur Miller‚ was inspired by Army-McCarthy Hearings. The book was written as a reaction to a tragic time in our countries history. The McCarthy hearings‚ as they came to be known‚ which dominated our country from 1950 to 1954‚ where hearings in which many‚ suspected of being related to communism‚ where interviewed and forced to give up names of others‚ or they where imprisoned‚ and their names were black listed

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    In the book‚ The Road by Cormac McCarthy‚ a stranger steals all the items belonging to the father and the son to survive the harsh world. Until they found the man who stole their property‚ the father and son had potentially lost everything they had scavenged for. When they find the man

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    Carrying The Fire Throughout The Road by Cormac McCarthy‚ the boy works his way to the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The boy grows and progresses through the different levels until a certain event at the end of the novel shows he reaches self-actualization. The boy and the man meet their physiological and safety needs by using a cart and knapsacks that contain “essential things” (5). They sometimes have to put one need above the other to stay alive. For example‚ to stay safe from the truck

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