themes explored in the texts include the parallel made through the father-son relationship between Ben‚ the General‚ Miro and Artkin. Some of these themes are Courage‚ Survival‚ Resilience‚ Sacrifice‚ Endurance‚ and being wise. Summary After the First Death written by Robert Cormier is a book about two guys named Artkin and Miro who hold a bus load of children hostage on a bridge for two days. The bus driver‚Karen‚ tries to take control but has a hard time. Cormier brings suspense to the realistic
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Damien Echols was a victim of being from a poor family in a small town. In his book "Life after Death" he talks heavily about his life from his earliest memories as a kid‚ to the time he and his 2 other friends were falsely accused of the murder of three young boys. He goes into detail about being from a small city‚ living deeply in poverty‚ barely
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Martin Luther King was an great leader. He was a pacifist‚ he didn’t believe in war. Martin Luther King believed in peace‚ happiness‚ and equality. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Both of these great leaders believed in equality for the African Americans. (5) Abraham Lincoln’s early life was plain and simple. Abraham was born in the backwoods cabin‚ three miles South of Hodgenville‚ Kentucky. In his toddler life he was taken to a farm in the neighboring valley of Knob
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In the novel The Great Gatsby written by Scott Fitzgerald‚ Gatsby seems to be misusing the past in order to enliven the present. The book is set in the early twenties after World War 1 when many writers were losing faith in America. I think that Nick is more of a candidate of the “Lost Generation‚” rather than Gatsby because Nick finds it “impossible to remember‚” (110) while Gatsby keeps hope of having Daisy as his own. What Nick is trying to remember is a story of true love. But Gatsby has love
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“King Lear” is one of the greatest dramas written by Shakespeare. It is a poetic tragedy in which the good as well as bad characters play their role. King Lear has three daughters; Goneril‚ Regan andCordelia. Cordelia is the youngest daughter. She is an important character of the play. In the last act‚ she is hanged and her death seems unjustified. But it is not true. Shakespeare changed his source material to give his “King Lear” a tragic ending. Thus there is the defeat of Cordelia’s army‚the imprisonment
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Have you ever heard of the Black Death? A lot people are familiar with the horrible plague that spread across Europe from early 1348 to late 1349. However‚ most do not know just how big of an effect it had on the nation of Europe. Over time‚ the disease caused famine‚ mass death in highly populated areas‚ and even led to rebellion and uprising from poor people‚ or “peasants”. The disease ravaged the continent of Europe for around two years‚ yet it left tens of thousands of casualties in its wake
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In the 19th century‚ many changes of art took place. It started with a new "realism" approach‚ where artists did no longer want to paint what they were told to paint. The things that they previously had to paint were religious‚ Greek‚ or aristocratic. They were many art students that had the desire to step out of the box and paint "real life"‚ or the lives of regular people. This was a stark difference and shocking to people as all of the sudden their servants were depicted working hard in the fields
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with – a democracy. During the 17th century‚ however‚ under the reign of King Louis XIII and King Louis XIV‚ France was being ruled under a system of government known as an absolute monarchy‚ or absolutism. Although this has been “regarded as the best example of the practice of absolute monarchy‚” it could also be argued that the government of the day was more of a hybrid of absolutism. To begin with‚ the question needs to be answered‚ “What is an absolute monarchy?” With so many different systems
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the future. Nothing stays the same forever. However the role of the monarchy in Canadian history cannot be denied. The same could be said of the Nazis; or the Mohawks and Laura Secord. However the Monarchy offers dimension to our history. Canada continues to need as many historically based structures as possible to distinguish the country from its burgeoning‚ warmongering and oh-so-greedy neighbor to the south. The monarchy is an essential aspect to the functioning of an independent Canada. Make
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Frederick the Great and his Impact on Prussia Although Germany has had several interesting rulers‚ possibly the one man who led it on the path to greatness was Frederick II‚ who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786‚ He was primarily known as a military and tactical genius‚ although he was a patron of the arts and Enlightenment ideals as well. Due to his military acumen‚ his modern Enlightenment-esque ideas‚ and his unprecedented (at the time) reforms‚ Frederick the Great was the man who turned Prussia
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