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    What was life like after the great war? After the great war it was terrible. Everything was so bad all of the houses were destroyed. All of the cars were destroyed to and there was nothing left to eat and nothing to sleep on. We could not do anything all of my friends and family went to the war and they would not be back for a long time. I had nobody to sleep with or to even eat with it was bad. I had to wake up in the morning thinking that my family would be there but they weren’t. I started to

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    Poseidon God of the Sea

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    Poseidon is a god of many names. He is most famous as the god of the sea. The son of Cronus and Rhea‚ Poseidon is one of six siblings who eventually divided the power of the world. His brothers and sisters include‚ Hestia‚ Demeter‚ Hera‚ Hades‚ and Zeus. The division of the universe involved him and his brothers‚ Zeus and Hades. Poseidon became ruler of the sea‚ Zeus ruled the sky‚ and Hades got the underworld. The other powers attributed to Poseidon involve the god of earthquakes and the god of

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    Old Man and the Sea

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    one reaches old age‚ there is often a lot of doubt surrounding their lives. Serenity‚ and independence are often the two most questioned. These are some questions that Santiago has to ask himself as well. 	In the novel The Old Man And The Sea‚ Ernest Hemingway develops the concept of man coming to the realization that as he ages‚ his dependency on others will increase. The use of metaphor is key in showing how this is indeed true. The struggle with the Tiburon represents the mental

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    Like Father, Like Son

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    Like Father‚ Like Son In the preface of his book‚ Like Father‚ Like Son‚ Tom Smail gives us the reason for his writing: "This book is an attempt to discover what it might mean for our humanity that God is Trinity."(p. xi) He goes on to give his readers a general outline of what he’ll be covering‚ beginning with how the view of Trinitarian doctrine has changed in recent times‚ and ending with a discussion on what we say about the triune God has deep implications with how we handle our relationship

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    Old Man and The Sea - Rough Draft Human beings need to live in a group where everyone respects them and treats them equally. No human being can live alone isolated from other people because one hand can not clap by itself. In The Old Man and The Sea‚ the author uses setting‚ character and symbolism to show that people who society perceives as different are usually isolated. Once one is able to discover the reason of their existence‚ they are able to accept themselves in order to fulfill their

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    Leafy Sea Dragon

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    The Leafy Sea Dragon is a marine fish in the family Syngnathidae‚ which includes the seahorses. The name comes from the long leaf-like growths on its body. Sea dragons are some of the most-well camouflaged creatures on the planet. They blend perfectly with the seaweed and kelp that they live in. Leafy sea dragons don’t live on tropical reefs‚ but in the cooler rocky reefs off the southern coast of Australia. Despite their name‚ seadragons don’t have any teeth. They suck their food with their long

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    and despair!” “Nothing besides remains.” “boundless and bare” “The lone and level sands stretch far away.” In ‘The Sea’ James Reeves uses his imagination to create the right

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    Analyzing Longfellow The Sound of the Sea By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In the poem‚ The Sound of the Sea‚ by Longfellow‚ the speaker uses an allusion of the sea to show a comparison between the "rushing of the sea-tides" and the process of the human soul being inspired. The speaker is enchanted by the ways that occasions and situations are revealed to the soul through "inspirations" in a method of almost "foreshadowing" what is to come in the future. These "inspirations" come as sporadically

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    work "The Old Man and the Sea" is notable for its use of symbolism; the novel revolves around two major symbols: the old man and the sea. Besides that‚ some other objects that are described in the novel also have their symbolic meanings‚ such as Manolin‚ the marlin‚ the shark‚ the lion‚ etc. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel of much symbolic and the thesis of this research paper is the analysis of the many different usage of symbolism in the novel “The Old Man and The Sea”. “We can’t ever go back

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    Like mother Like Daughter

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    Like mother like daughter‚ that’s a phrase that’s used when the personality or behaviors of the mother are found to be similar to those of the daughter. A lot of people assume that one’s daughter is just like their mother‚ and a lot of the times that is true‚ in some aspects. In other aspects‚ mothers and daughters can be complete opposites. My mother and I are the perfect example of having similar behaviors but at the same time being completely opposite of each other. Ever since I was a kid‚ I’ve

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