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    War is peace‚ freedom is slavery‚ ignorance is strength ” - 1984 George Orwell. The most symbolic and persuasive quote written in the “1984” novel‚ What does it really mean? Why does Orwell use this kind of repetition all over his novel? The slogan is divided in three parts‚ therefore when reading at first sight students would probably say they all contradict each other‚ After critical thinking and reading the novel in my opinion there is certainly truth behind them. Such action is called a paradox

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    In John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace‚ it begins with the protagonist‚ Gene Forrester coming back to his alma mater the Devon School in New Hampshire. Wandering through the campus‚ Gene makes his way to a tall tree by the river; the reason for his return. From here he takes the reader back to the year 1942 during World War II when he was in high school. During the summer session of 1942‚ he becomes close friends with his daredevil roommate Finny. Finny is able to convince Gene into making a

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    A Separate Peace The book‚ A Separate Peace was written by John Knowles. It was first published in 1959. It tells the story Gene Forrester‚ a former student at a prep school in New Hampshire‚ who returns to the school after he graduates. While he is there‚ He remembers the summer of 1942. When he walks up to a tree by the river‚ he remembers his friend and roommate Phineas. Phineas was the best athlete in the entire school. From then on the story moves back to 1942 at the school named Devon. Phineas’

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    Searching for Peace (serial number: KLP112SN) Peace is not given‚ it is realized Introduction “Peace can only last where human rights are respected‚ where the people are fed‚ and where individuals and nations are free.”-Dalai Lama Searching is an act of looking for something or someone that we don’t find. Our life is a quest‚ we have to search for everything in life. At present‚ we have everything expect peace in the world. We have learnt sophisticated skills with the help

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    Peace will be my port‚ my glory‚ my reward‚ my hope‚ my happiness and all that is beautiful to me in this world‚” wrote our father Bolívar to Santander on June 23‚ 1820. And because we love and value peace‚ we will not move away from that old principle‚ especially when the imperialist criminal brutality is threatening us: “If we want peace‚ let’s get ready for war.” I want to embrace the words of José Manuel Briceño Guerrero‚ a great Venezuelan and Latin American conscience who is being paid

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    Civil Peace Chinua Achebe The short story “Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe is about a man named Jonathan Iwegbu‚ his wife Maria and his three surviving children. Chinua Achebe’s emphasis in his short story is how Jonathan and his family are trying to get on with their lives after the Civil War in Nigeria. Moreover‚ there is a phrase that Jonathan says several times through his story‚ “nothing puzzles God”. What does Jonathan means when he says this? The story starts off with Jonathan realizing

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    Civil Peace: Introduction • Print • PDF • Cite • One of Africa’s foremost contemporary authors and spokespeople Chinua Achebe has always taken as a primary concern understanding and accurately depicting the African people. In 1964‚ he wrote that the writer’s duty ‘‘is to explore in depth the human condition.’’ In his pre-civil war novels‚ Achebe focused on the culture of his people and their emergence from colonial powers. However‚ with the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war‚ Achebe

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    Freshman English 102 [ 7 February 2012 ] Civic Peace In the story‚ the first major scene I felt that was important was when Jonathan used his family earnings to buy wine. His family picked mangoes near the military cemetery and sold them to the soldiers wives for some pennies. Jonathan uses the money to buy palm-wine for his bar that he opened up for the soldiers and other lucky people with a lot of money. Jonathan cheats his way out of many things. One was with the running public tap water

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    for you. In John Knowles’ fictional novel A Separate Peace‚ the lives of three young men‚ Gene Forrester‚ Elwin “Leper” Lepellier‚ and Phineas‚ are shaped and constructed by the world war that is happening along side them. In their final year at the Devon school‚ the reality of the war becomes astonishingly more apparent when their detached unity is fragmentized. Each of the boy’s is impacted and affected by the war in a different way. The war had an increasingly dramatic effect on Finny throughout

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    A Separate Peace Chapters 6-10 Study Questions: Due Friday‚ December 9 Directions: Answer the following questions on THIS sheet of paper. You DO NOT need to answer in complete sentences. It is best to try to answer these as you read‚ since the questions are listed in the order in which they appear in the book. 1. Who is Cliff Quakenbush? What happens between him and Gene? Cliff is a manager. And they both get into a verbal fight. 2. Who calls Gene on the first day back to school? Phineas

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