Mrs Polkinghorne was the intriguing woman from social services that comes to my house every week. She is lean and strong‚ and her skin looks rough and hard. Her eyes are glassy and small‚ they don’t show much emotion. She drives a large blue wagonette that rattles like pots in the wind. You never quite know what to expect when Mrs Polkinghorne visits. She is a lonely old woman‚ she lives alone in her prehistoric cottage with only her two cats. She is never angry but doesn’t show many signs of happiness
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“Moral Code” Imagine watching evening news Easter weekend and headlining story of the night is a senseless murder of an entire family. Our normal reaction would be filled with distain and disgust. Leaving unanswered questions like “why” or “how could someone do that?” What drives someone to kill other people? Where is their Moral Code? Most stories like this will give you the killers interpretation of why their moral code went astray and usually gain your empathy‚ even though you don’t agree
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Kafka’s Metamorphosis Caught helpless and unable to meet basic needs for the family‚ rendering useless due to your physical condition – this is the common scene that began to present itself in the many households that were devastated by the recession. Thus why the this story and author have become one of the most discussed books in history likely due to the fact that its easily relatable and contains a peculiar but deeply intriguing view. Conflicted with anxiety and a lack of self-confidence‚ Kafka
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Sam Monroe 9/21/10 All Quiet Essay Words: 822 The Two Sides of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front There are figuratively two Paul Baumer’s in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul becomes a different person when he joins the army. Before the war‚ Paul went to school and wrote poetry and led the normal life of a teenager. When he enlists in the military‚ he remains the same person on the outside‚ but changes drastically on the inside. This change
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Havisham A poem in which the speaker’s personality is gradually revealed is "Havisham" by Carol Ann Duffy. The poem is delivered in the persona of Miss Havisham‚ a character from Charles Dickens’ novel‚ "Great Expectations". In the poem‚ Miss Havisham was cruelly stood-up on her wedding day by her fraudster fiancé‚ and as a result she stopped all the clocks‚ stayed in her wedding dress and left the wedding banquet out for decades. Miss Havisham’s bitter and violent personality is revealed
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I have always wondered why people are so shy around or at the very least act differently towards the opposite sex. This reminds me of an experience I had once. What happened on my first date what I learned from it. Looking back‚ I remember many things about that night‚ like‚ what specifically happened there‚ how I felt during this strange ordeal‚ and finally; what I learned from the experience. From what I remember‚ before the date even started‚ I must have spent at least two hours getting ready
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By looking closely‚ this essay with demonstrate how the author‚ Suzanne Collins gives her opinion of how she feels about gender equality in many different ways. One of the ways Suzanne Collins gives her opinion of gender equality is by Gale and Katniss both hunting. For example‚ "They’re not our kids‚ of course. but they mighty as well be. Gale’s two little brothers and a sister. Prim. And you may as well throw in our mothers‚ too‚ because how they live without us? who would fill those mouths
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up emotions of the main character in a visual or oral text to chart struggle and change. Florian Von Henckel Donnersmarck who directed The Lives of Others portrays Wiesler as an emotionless guy like a robot. We follow Wiesler’s journey as we find his struggles and changes in emotions peculiar due to his strict emotionless state. Donnersmarck uses the theme individuality vs conformity to initiate changes in Wiesler’s life influenced by Georg Dreyman as he puts his life at risk. Donnersmarck portrays
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Montag’s society everyone is brainwashed by technology including his government. From them relying so heavily on technology they ignore daily activities like talking and actually showing emotion towards other humans. From this happening they are very emotionless to a lot of this and don’t show any empathy for it because they do not believe they are doing wrong. They do not want anything to go wrong or for something to feel bad so they would do anything to make everything okay with fake
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The boy explains how their street evoked images of a vacuous‚ joyless‚ and stagnant environment: ’’ An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end‚ detached from its neighbors in a square ground’’ ( Araby F-JO1-1 ). The boy feels very emotionless about where he lives‚ and how his neighborhood appears. He doesn’t find any excitement in it. The house in which the young boy lives seems equally cold and gray: "Air‚ musty from having long been enclosed‚ hung in all the rooms‚ and the waste room
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