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    Mary Surratt was innocent!! Mary Surratt should not have been executed. I will now tell you why I think that. She only knew about the kidnap plot‚ but she didn’t know about the murder plot. Based on what I read it says that‚ it is possible that she knew about the kidnap plot‚ but that would have determined a less harsh punishment than death. This proves that‚ she knew about the kidnap plot‚ which means she was guilty‚ but she wasn’t guilty by death.( Article 2) According to the text it says that

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    ” “The Story of an Hour”‚ by Kate Chopin‚ is about a married woman with a frail heart‚ who found freedom after her husband’s death‚ but died due to the shock of seeing her “thought to be dead” husband. In “The Story of an Hour‚” Kate Chopin uses optimistic imagery to state that freedom is a spark that becomes a flame to those who are binded by darkness as her main idea. She is able to convey this main idea to the readers through metaphors and similes that correlates with freedom. Chopin states her

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    The Fish

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    How is the fish characterized? Is it simply a weak victim because it “didn’t fight”? Comment on lines 65-76. In what sense has “victory filled up” the boat‚ given the fact the speaker finally let the fish go? In this poem called “The Fish”‚ Elizabeth Bishop describes the experience of a man who caught a “tremendous fish” (1). I personally don’t think the fish is characterized as a simple victim. In the poem it describes how the fish didn’t fight to get away which gave the fisherman opportunity

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    "Big Fish" Essay

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    November 21‚ 2013 Edward’s Understanding Big Fish is a film directed by Tim Burton and filled with all sorts of different elements. One of these elements pertains to Edward Bloom‚ a man too full of thoughts and excitement for his hometown of Ashton. This element spreads throughout the entire film while at the same time‚ demonstrating two of Edward’s different views: the one of the world and the one of himself. Both views play an important role in the film as they are tied together during on the

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    Sandra Cisneros Similes

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    are so many similes‚ however one that really stood out was the one quoted above. As I continue to go on with the story it amazes me how Sandra Cisneros‚ structures these sentences to make the readers more captivated. Reading this story once or just skimming through it‚ there would be no way to fully understand the deep meaning she is trying to reveal. For me‚ I personally had to reread the story a couple times to be able to catch all the similes and fully grasp the whole story about a not just a

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    Similes In Purple Hibiscus

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    the oppression their father causes and how other people come and help guide their way towards freedom to express themselves. The author uses the purple hibiscus to represent how the main characters Kambili and Jaja‚ achieve freedom by the use of similes

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    In Homer’s book‚ The Iliad‚ epic similes are used throughout the book‚ by exploring one of these similes‚ Homer reveals ‚in the simile‚ that men of war can transform into an animal and take on their characteristics. Homer uses the epic simile to reveal how men of war are akin to a predator attacking its prey. In the epic simile‚ as Homer describes Aeantes and Little Ajax as lions‚ he uses the word “seize” as another way to say pounce. That these Achaeans have taken on the form of a predator‚ the

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    “Ruminations”‚ the poet can smell violence in the air “like the lash of coming rain; and this feeling seems to the poet to be “poised like a cobra”. These are original similes; and these are followed by a series of metaphors based on serpent-behaviour. These are only a few of the examples. Actually Daruwalla’s poetry contains an abundance of similes and metaphors. Daruwalla finds that there is violence in the very air‚ and that this violence is an indication of the mass hatreds drifting across the moon

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    A Second Creation The man sits‚ abandoned‚ with his head in his hands‚ and tears on his face. Because he is left alone‚ he feels hopeless and lost in the world. He knows that the only thing that can bring him out of this hole is companionship. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ Victor Frankenstein creates a monster that faces this same dilemma of loneliness. When Victor is given the choice to create a second monster as a companion for the first‚ he chooses not to out of fear and regret. However

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    Run on Sentences

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    Run on Sentences Run on sentences are sentences that contain too many ideas without proper punctuation. Not all long sentences are run on sentences. It is perfectly acceptable to join several related ideas in one compound sentence. However‚ if you don ’t follow punctuation rules‚ a sentence can become a run on. A simple explanation of run ons and some examples of run on sentences should help to make this point clear. Components of A Sentence Each sentence has 3 necessary components 1. A subject:

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