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    similar characters. We have “Good Country People” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ both containing people who have trouble being true to themselves and lying to others. Who says that a good plotline is the most important element for a great piece of literature when you have manipulative and hypocritical characters to cause drama and suspense? The grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ the salesman and Hulga from “Good Country People” are prime examples of people who exhibit duplicity and

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    In "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"‚ O ’Connor introduces the reader to a family representative of the old and new Southern culture. The grandmother represents the old South by the way in which she focuses on her appearnace‚ manners‚ and gentile ladylike behavior. O ’Connor writes "her collars and cuffs were organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident‚ anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at

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    waste if the money is spent in other things. By them granting out the money‚ they can easily get noticed because their name would be out there for the public. It is more safe to get some advice or help with things from the agency and talk to some of the supervisors to get their input because making decisions will affect the entire agency. Taking all three grants would not be a smart move because they would only need money to pay for the administrative assistant. The rest of the money is not needed

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    O’Connor has written several stories. In at least two of her stories‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People”‚ three of the characters have several similarities. Although they don’t have the same position in the stories‚ they do have several similar personality traits. Manley Pointer‚ The Misfit‚ and the grandmother all have things in common even though they are very different people. In the story “Good County People” by Flannery O’Connor‚ Manley Pointer is seen as an uneducated‚ kind

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    Descartes Wisdom‚ according to Rene’ Descartes‚ can be reached when an individual abandons all other influence and challenges the course of their own personal knowledge by seeking supreme understanding. He believed that everybody is capable of wisdom‚ but to gain it a person must challenge their very own mind. In the book‚ “Discourse on Method”‚ Descartes describes his method for understanding by first letting go of all prior teachings and just accepting the facts that his own mind has come up with

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    Moments of Grace “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” These words of Flannery O’Connor perfectly depicts the events that the grandmother of “A good man is hard to find”‚ Hulga of “Good country people”‚ and the mother of “Everything that rises must converge” undergo that ultimately changes their viewpoints and forces them to accept the reality that they are not who they think they are. In the three short stories O’Connor uses symbolism

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    Ivan Samchuk‚ period 5 Are people basically bad with good tendencies? Essentially though human beings (people) are flawed that makes them also prone to have the darker side making them err due to the significant things and matters that could influence development in all aspects and the survival in life. Basically people are bad with good tendencies‚ because of a few reasons. The first reason is that people are selfish. All selfish people display a very uncaring attitude and a strong “Me first”

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    Robin williams was a american stand up comedians and actor .He started comedies in Sanford comedy. Why did he die at 63 years old? He was born in July 21‚1952.He died August 11‚2014. He died of depression .His children are Eelida ‚Zachary ‚Cody ‚williams . Why was Robin williams a good actor.? He was one of the funniest performers/actor ever.He also enrolled in Juilliard schooled in New York.He developed success by doing this.Personal challenges Robin williams had‚His career was taking off.He faced

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    “There has not been “an incident in Byzantine history with which the church of St. Sophia is not associated.”1 The Church of the Divine Wisdom has a long and storied history‚ much of it drenched in the blood of those who died fighting over it. On May 28‚ 1453‚ Constantine XI entered Hagia Sophia to pray while the crowning jewel of his empire‚ Constantinople‚ was being raided and burned by Mehmed II‚ a Muslim invader with an extensive army at his back. The emperor prayed at the church before climbing

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    those accidents either from being left on the road or jumping out in front of cars. If there was 4 million miles of road in 2005 think about how many miles there are now and how many more accidents and deaths will occur from that. In William E. Stafford’s “Traveling Through the Dark” the speaker stops to drag a deer off the road that another driver hit‚ so drivers don’t swerve or hit it more. When he approaches the doe‚ he finds that it is pregnant and is faced with the decision to save the fawn or push

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