Journal entry #1 The world in which Winston Smith lives in is very frightening. It is very unlikely that people from the world we live in would survive for long living in it. I think it is an awful time to be alive because you have no freedom at all. Winston is in the worst possible position‚ he is in the Outer Party. He is being monitored at all times and he can only cooperate. It seems that the proles and the Inner Party are much better off. I think that this is true because nobody cares about
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For this journal entry I wanted to continue to talk about marriage and how my life has been changed by it. I know that marriage is amazing for me personally‚ and presently. This was not the case always however and I would like to talk about why. I married the first time to a childhood friend from a neighboring farm. We had both graduated college by that time and were ready to start a family and settle down for life. Things were going extremely well for both of us as we had great jobs and were very
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Journal Entry: Confusion. That is what crossed my mind right after reading this story. My brain is seriously going crazy trying to figure out what the meaning of this story is. There’s so much attention to detail that gives to the assumption that the small things is what really matters which serves for the overall purpose and meaning of the story in some way. The story keeps me wondering on what the purpose was for there is no real explanation. The story contains a bunch of experiences of a freshman
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Journal Entry 1099 – Christian Crusader The year is 1099. The rest of the crusaders and I are traveling to Jerusalem. It’s been a long‚ brutal journey. We have no clean drinking water. We’ve often had to resort to drinking our own urine to survive. The very little food we have has been brought to us by the townsfolk we passed on our journey‚ and they’ve been sold to us at abominable prices. I pray to the Holy Father‚ that we reach our destination soon. We have finally reached Jerusalem
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A Separate Peace: The Descent into Adulthood “To the soul‚ there is hardly anything more healing than friendship” (Thomas Moore). In the young adult novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ the main character‚ Gene‚ reminisces about his friends from high school and his most significant‚ vivid memories. The experiences Gene endures in high school result from each student’s apprehension of becoming enlisted in the ongoing war. This hidden sense of battle created within each boy gradually destroys
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For this week’s journal entry‚ I will be addressing motherhood in regards to my personal choice and my experience with motherhood. Firstly‚ I will explain the reasons why I would or would not want to partake in this motherhood gig. Why I would not‚ ever. For a couple of years‚ I was wholeheartedly against having a child. Quite frankly‚ it was biologically logical: I was dating someone that despite having bad genes was an asshole. Of course I wouldn’t want a child! But what are my reasons now when
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Julianna Jackson Ms. Sweeney Intro to Genre 14 May 2013 A Separate Peace Chapter 4 In chapter four the doppelgänger is starting to form. Gene is starting to believe that there is a deadly rivalry between Finny and him. Gene is striving to win the valedictorian which means he has to study hard. Gene thinks that when he wins valedictorian that Finny and him will finally be even. Gene asks Finny if he minds that Gene is trying to win valedictorian‚ Finny replies‚ “I’d kill myself out of jealous
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Gene is full of the evil that shows up in every story. Gene‚ the main character in the Separate Peace‚ thought his best friend to be his enemy. He also broke his so called enemy’s legs and tried to convince himself it had been an accident. Finny was then sadly eventually killed by Gene’s decisions and actions. Gene is inherently evil because he thought Finny to be his enemy‚ he broke Finny’s leg‚ and ultimately killed him. Should one think that their best friend is their enemy? Finny was the
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A Separate Peace Dealing with enemies has been a problem since the beginning of time. "I never killed anybody‚" Gene had commented later in his life‚ "And I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform‚ I was on active duty all my time at Devon; I killed my enemy there." In A Separate Peace‚ by John Knowles‚ the value of dealing with enemies is shown by Gene‚ who was dealing with few human enemies‚ but his emotions created far
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"A Separate Peace" takes place during World War II in 1943‚ a time of great uncertainty and changing lifestyles but the danger of this war never really seems to come near Devon. So does this terrible environment and events affect the characters of a Separate Peace or just provide a safe and surreal environment for the characters? The war in a Separate Peace may not directly affect the characters for the majority of the novel but we see its affects on the characters actions indirectly and it ends
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