Greetings from Chicago! We miss you so much and we cannot wait for your family to move here! Oh my‚ I have so much to tell! This week has been amazing and I truly wish you could be here with us. As you know‚ when we moved here‚ we moved by an amazing place called Hull House. At this place‚ there are sports teams and there are classes for children! It is so exciting! I have joined the basketball team (despite my mother’s disliking for the sport) and I am taking a sewing class and a drawing class
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4) Chapter 9: "I drew a bead on him (p. 81)." (To draw a bead on someone is to aim at or focus on that person.) 5) Chapter 9: ‘I merely bowed to the inevitable (p. 84).’ (An event or occurrence that is inevitable is one that cannot be stopped from occurring. To bow to the inevitable is to realize this fact and resist fighting it. Atticus realizes that‚ sooner or later‚ Scout and Jem would be given guns and be taught how to shoot‚ so he doesn’t try to fight it.)
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One in the Same The ability to put oneself in someone else’s shoes is fundamental to human characteristics. Through friendship‚ this can be taken to the next level. The University of Virginia put out of study of brain activity. The group scanned twenty-two different people who were warned of receiving a small electrical shock to one of three options: themselves‚ their best friend‚ or a stranger. Through this study‚ scientists have learned that the brain activity of the person in danger‚ versus
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short. I think that Shakespeare purposely made these lines uncut and off rhythm for a reason. This reason is that Feste is a fool and is always being witty never making a direct point. Viola is fooling right back and not being entirely serious as well. From a literary stand point having the fool talk in such a manner makes them both out of the box or “party”. It makes sense that Feste talks in such a manner in the play‚ but I like how Viola’s lines are almost the reiterating the argument that Feste and
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“The unqualified truth is that‚ when I loved Estella with the love a man‚ I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow‚ often and often‚ if not always that I loved her against reason‚ against promise‚ against peace‚ against hope‚ against happiness‚ against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it‚ and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.” (29
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“almost Thou persuadest me”: REDEMPTION AND NEW TESTAMENT ROLE REVERSALS IN DOSTOEVSKY’S NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Dostoevsky makes it clear early on in his Notes from Underground that his main character‚ the Underground Man‚ is quite the scoundrel. He is paradoxical and pathologically indecisive. Though deeply insecure‚ he is arrogant – believing himself to be more intelligent and certainly more perceptive than everyone else. He is a thorough-going misanthrope who despises everyone‚ including himself
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Some qualities that I admired from Handful was that she was feisty never giving up easily she was so determined and intelligent since the beginning when Sarah gets handful as her birthday present‚ they develop a friendship and she recognizes that the only way that handful can feel free is by learning how to read and write. She decides to teach her even though she knows it’s against the law for a slave to read and write. Sarah is denied by her father the aspiration of becoming a lawyer since she
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her to run off with him to a “better life” in the city‚ separated from his family and hers. Dolly’s concerns (p.171) reflect those things to which she emotionally and spiritually connected: the land and her family. Later‚ Errol asks to marry Dolly‚ accepting that they will both live on the river flats with her family. He has reached acceptance and understanding. Hypocrisy of Government Assimilation policy: will hide the humpys from Queen‚ but will show her how to throw a
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nothing came well after if he did‚ “but what I fear is torture if they come to torture me-“(Stevenson 171; Ch.30). The adventure he thought he was going to get was not the one he got. Throughout the time on the island‚ he witnessed some many deaths from his friends to his crew. “The terror of the dead buccaneer had fallen on
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a man with a gun in his hand.” Speaker: Significance: 10. “Let’s not let our imaginations run away with us‚ dear…Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here…” Speaker: Significance: 11. “…Shoot all the bluejays you want‚ if you can hit ‘em‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Speaker: Significance: 12. “When stalking one’s prey‚ it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing
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