As Ishmael explained all that he had gone through in his journey of being a child soldier to being free‚ he uses diction in his writing to make the story easier to understand. A lot of times many writers use different types of diction so that the writing has a clearer meaning to the reader. In this memoir‚ Ishmael was able to use different types of diction for the reader to be able to understand the importance of scenes while in the war. “I stood there holding my gun and felt special because I was
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Yoo’s continued fabrication of constitutional cover with his memos abetted the executive to excel in policies that dramatically reduced the civil liberties. Stellar Wind‚ for example‚ was initially maintained through his legal opinion that the “Court’s jurisdiction over electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence” to be “an unconstitutional infringement on the President’s Article II authorities” (112). Greenberg also discusses the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001‚ which “privileged intelligence collection
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1 April 2014 Candle in the Wind Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 is an English singer-songwriter‚ composer‚ pianist‚ record producer‚ and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist “Bernie Taupin” as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date. (Paragraph 1) “Candle in the Wind” is a name of a song performed by Elton John and written by he and collaborator
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longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.” (Ishmael Beah 218). This quote can be seen as a message about the novel‚ as Beah is trying to spread awareness with this book‚ and not let anyone suffer the way he did. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a true story about the author and his first hand experiences of the civil war in Sierra Leone. Theme is defined as the underlying idea or ideas projected throughout a novel. In this particular book the theme is the underlying ideas
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selective form of truth which is a lie.” The Wife of Bath‚ in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ claims that this power and domination is what women crave‚ but specifically over their husbands and lovers. Amy Elliott‚ the main character in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl‚ manipulates her husband emotionally and physically by framing him for her abduction and murder. When Amy’s plan goes awry‚ she decides to return to Nick‚ her husband‚ and once more manipulates him into a subservient relationship. Amy’s manipulation
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In the book‚”A Long Way Gone‚” nature is the theme and it is personified in it. That is because Ishmael in this story went outside a lot of times because his village is burnt and his family is dead. First‚ the war started which Ishmael and his brother and friends were trying to escape together to avoid getting killed by the rebels. And also he gets food outside like fruits on the trees‚ or other plants that can eat. That represent some nature. Another instance is when his grandmother talks about
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am Become Death‚ The Destroyer of Worlds Violence‚ witnessing‚ experiencing‚ or even causing it‚ can cause a person to become desensitized to it. The more violence a person experiences‚ the easier it becomes to handle. In his memoir A Long Way Gone‚ author Ishmael Beah draws parallels between witnessing violence and becoming desensitized to it. Graphic instances in Ishmael’s life such as witnessing his friends die causes him to become desensitized to violence‚ from just barely being able to
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Both Cates‚ in Inherit the Wind by Lee and Lawrence‚ and Procter‚ in The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ are both subjected to unjust laws. Both demonstrated that ‚ "if the law is of such a nature that it requires one to be an agent of injustice toward another‚ then I say break the law‚" as stated by Henry David Thoreau. When a law is put into effect that will convict a person who is a free thinker then it is a unjust law. One might as well break it because if no one stands up for the principle then
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It is common knowledge that winners write history. In Inherit the wind‚ by Lawrence and Lee‚ this is obvious by how they portray religion and sciences. Theology‚ the side that lost the case‚ is shown as a deleterious force‚ smothering all ideas that disagree with it without reason. The religious town of Hillsboro causes the setting to put a negative connotation on religion. When it is described as being a “sleepy‚ obscure country town” (Lawrence 3) it implies that this is what happens to places
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McCarthyism in the 1950s echoed the outrage caused by the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial” case‚ as people in both cases were fighting either for or against the right to hold varying opinions. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote the play Inherit the Wind in response to McCarthyism and based it on the Scopes Trial‚ warning that threats to freedom of thought will continue in the future if such hysteria is repeated. The play follows fictional characters based on the real participants of the trial as Bertram
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