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    Alrediny History (Core 102) 06 – 05 – 2012 Professor: M. Swanson Funeral Oration by Pericles In the Aftermath of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta‚ Pericles‚ Athens’ general and statesmen‚ delivered a powerfully comforting eulogy to the polis of Athens‚ assuring the people that their city state is in good hands‚ and easing the pain of all the families and relatives of the deceased. He uses several rhetorical devices throughout his speech to gain a positive emotional appeal

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    at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana‚ and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen‚ and we were left to assume‚ as my brother and I did‚ that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John‚ the favorite‚ was a dry-fly fisherman. 2. It is true that one day a week was given over wholly to religion. On Sunday mornings my brother‚ Paul

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    What need you‚ being come to sense‚ But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer‚ until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone‚ It’s with O’Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind‚ The names that stilled your childish play‚ They have gone about the world like wind‚ But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman’s rope was spun‚ And what‚ God help

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    The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952 and was acclaimed by many as Hemingway’s greatest literary triumph. The story of the novel is lead by an old fisherman named Santiago. He spends most of his life by being a respected‚ skillful fisherman; working the gulf off Havana‚ Cuba. Santiago is described as being "thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck". His face is marked with brown blotches of skin cancer‚ and his aged hands are scarred from innumerable fishing-cord burns uncured

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    Chapter 3 Discovering Self-Motivation Concept Choosing a meaningful purpose gives our lives a direction and creates inner motivation. Many students have not defined a personally meaningful purpose for being in college‚ let alone for being in a particular course. Unfocused‚ these students are more likely to drift from rather than to academic success. By offering them the opportunity to choose personally meaningful outcomes that they would like to achieve in college or in life‚ we assist students

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    served neither fisherman nor merchant. It basically was kept in operation by the local fish merchant in an outport or by an agent of much larger St. John’s Water St. merchants‚ supplying the fisherman each spring with all he wanted or needed to engage in the fishery for the coming year‚ in regard to nets‚ lines‚ hooks‚ anchors and the like‚ with payments made by the cod landed (and cured) in the fall. The merchant set the prices and paid the fisherman for the fish as he saw fit‚ the fisherman having no

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    four teenagers named Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt)‚ the shy brunette who is the main character‚ Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar)‚ the beautiful beauty queen of her high school who has a bratty sister‚ Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.)‚ the fisherman kid‚ and Barry William Cox (Ryan Phillipe)‚ the football jock who swears constantly‚ return from a 4th of July party in Barry’s car and accidentally run over a man named David Egan‚ who has "Sara" tattooed on his arm. They call an ambulance from

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    not letting it go‚ but also going out farther than the rest of the fisherman normally would. Not only did he go further than the fisherman in that factor‚ but also in the factor of vowing for a fight with the Marlin to the death. He was not going to let go‚ no matter the cost. "Just as Santiago goes ’far out ’ beyond the lesser ambitions of the other fishermen‚ he finds the great fish not simply because he was the better fisherman‚ but because‚ in a symbolic sense‚ he deserves it‚" (Davis 6). Why

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    FAMILY Parents with two children - a son and a daughter - came to a wide river. There was no bridge there. The only way to get to the other side was to ask a fisherman if he could lend them his boat. However‚ the boat could carry only one adult or two children. How does the family get to the other side and return the boat to the fisherman? First go the children. Son comes back‚ and father goes on the other side to his daughter. Then daughter goes back to pick her brother up and they both go

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    It may not have a voice‚ but we rely on it as much as it does us‚ for survival. The fisherman displayed in the image was interacting with nature‚ embracing the connection and roles we play with each other‚ either positive or negative. The man fishing was currently hunting from the sea‚ continuously catching fish‚ while having many that he

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