Kushal Dasika Prof Hilger Expository Writing Paper 10/20/2014 The Nightmare Within Fear and compassion are two very different feelings that equally drive individuals. Many assume that fear and compassion have absolutely no relationship due to the fact that they are polar opposite emotions that people usually do not associate with each other. Even though they are two very different emotions‚ fear can be used to express one’s inner compassion. Fear and compassion are two of the most prevalent
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Trojan and Achaean forces. Homer‚ author of the epic poem‚ also held great respect for both warriors‚ but respected them in different ways. Homer demonstrates this respect greatly in lines 97 to 184 of The Iliad. Throughout the beginning of the excerpt‚ Homer paints Hektor as an energetic‚ powerful soldier. Lines 98 – 102 compare Hektor to a snake using an epic simile. Snakes archetypally symbolize energy and pure force‚ suggesting that Hektor possesses both strength and spirit. Homer specifically
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holds a large multitude of greek myths‚ fairy tales‚ biblical references. This excerpt introduces the main characters the Beast and Ayama. The excerpt throughout the novel to see certain instances these references come into play. The royal born beast that was sent into a maze his father created for him is an obvious reference to the greek tale of the Minotaur that got sent off to live in the Labyrinth by the king. This excerpt also introduces the other main character‚ Ayama. These two interact when Ayama
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different views of people such as factory owners‚ the government‚ factory workers‚ and others who viewed the conditions of the industrial cities at the time. There were many positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. According to an excerpt from William Cooper’s testimony before the Sadler Committee (an investigation group led by Michael Sadler on the conditions of the textile factories)‚ the testimony described the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. Cooper states “ We had
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Rachel Mathews H 102 A 3/30/18 Reading Response 7 I. Quote a. “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good distance in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us.” b. This quote from the excerpt of Joseph Stalin‚ “On Soviet Industrialization Speech to Industrial Managers‚” February 1931 is significant because Stalin talks about how they will not have the chance of rising to the top and keeping their independence if they lower their tempo at all. He states
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Martin Luther King is an expert on using strong language to effect his audience. We see this often in his speech I have a Dream‚ in this excerpt from the speech he mostly uses language to cause an emotional effect on his audience and to provoke action from them. Repetition in Martin Luther King’s speech is used overall to evoke emotion within the audience members. He often repeats the using sentences that begin with “go back to …”. The repetition of this phrase expresses his passion and relates it
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In the excerpts from “Thinking‚ Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman it talks about how by doing certain tasks your actions can change without you even knowing. This excerpt talks about how the brain reacts to different situations‚ for example‚ “if you saw the word eat you are more likely to word fragment SO_P as soup than as soap”. By seeing the word eat you are more likely to think about food which makes you change your thought process/ it manipulates your mind. The rest of the excerpt is more
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The excerpt we read of Kath Weston’s Exiles from Kinship. In Families We Choose: Lesbians‚ Gays‚ Kinship is a description of something immediate to my family. Weston describes the alienation of homosexual individuals within their own families and how generic family structures and values are different for homosexuals because of the low tolerance for that lifestyle that families sometimes have. The people described have to leave and find their own family or kinship groups to rely on for support instead
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Essay : Enlightenment/Romanticism 04.05.2014 By comparing an excerpt by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letter III What is an American? from Enlightenment and Henry David Thoreaus’s excerpt “Where I Lived‚ and What I Lived For” from Walden from Romanticism it becomes clear‚ that the difference between those two periods is the simplification of the lifestyle. In his letter‚ Crèvecoeur writes about the habitations and his contentment of his environment. He even goes this far that he says that
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The document contains the first excerpt from William Lloyd Garrison’s the liberator. Most of the issues of the Liberator contain strong messages on the immediate abolition of slavery. In this issue‚ Garrison has alienated and outraged contemporaries on the issue of gradual emancipation. In this excerpt‚ Garrison has asserted that men have been created equality before the eyes of God and no one should be denied of these fundamental rights that are liberty‚ equality life and even the pursuit for happiness
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