Response Paper 1 In many cultures people used stories as a way of passing down their customs‚ beliefs‚ and to teach their children life lessons. People of ancient Mesopotamia were one of the many civilizations that used stories to explain their way of life and customs. Mesopotamian theology offers a vision of the afterlife that is not optimistic. They believed death was inevitable; even Gilgamesh who was two-thirds god and one-third human was mortal. Enlil of the mountain stated in the Epic of
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boy didn’t get together because I know if they did it’d be something wonderful that would make both of them happy. 2a. The girl loves grocery shopping because she thinks it’s her only time to et away from everything. 2b. We learn that the girl like to be independent and on her own due to her love for grocery shopping. 3a. The boy and the girl think about each other while they’re apart. 3b. The unacknowledged romance between the boy and the girl may be useful because it keeps them wondering
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The air was thick with the stink of sweat‚ piss and stale tobacco that clung to Hector’s clothes. The taste of his last cigarette still lingered on his tongue‚ and he ached for another‚ but the driver had taken his whole pack. “Can’t have you smoking in the truck‚” Joe said as he stuck one of Hector’s prized cigarettes between his lips. “Might catch on fire.” Hector had bit the inside of his cheek. He couldn’t afford to make Joe mad. Hector’s five hundred dollars was in Joe’s pocket‚ and Hector
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5.03 Faulkner Emily Grierson- Emily is the main character of the story. She is a chore for the town‚ but a very hopeful character until her father died and lover left. She is now a recluse that never comes out for anything‚ but has her servant to do for her. Colonel Sartoris- Colonel Sartoris is the former mayor of the land. He remitts Emily’s taxes to compensate for her father’s death. He dies‚ and this causes people to come to Emily’s house to confront her for her taxes. Tobe- Tobe is Emily’s
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Another example of Charlie being happy was that he was thankful for the chance he got. Charlie wrote to Miss Kinnian saying‚ "If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me Im glad I got a second chanse to be smart becaus I lerned a lot of things that I never even new were in this world and Im grateful that I saw it all for a littel bit." (page 21‚ paragraph 217). This shows that Charlie was thankful for the operation even when everything eventually faded away. Although at the end Charlie
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1. “No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery at hand.” - Marcos Aurelius Explanation: There is no major anguish for a man than to remember his days of joy in the midst of his suffering. In Marcos Aurelius quote reflect to me because I suffer more pains remembering joyful days of my life in time of my sadness. This I always feel when I’m alone nursing every failures in my life. 2. “While I murmur no again heaven nor cavil at men‚ while I stoop
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Rainsford wakes up the following morning. Everything in the house is quiet‚ and he feels alone. Rainsford gets up out of bed and he feels an ache in his neck from something hard in the pillow. He lifted it up to find a knife with blood stains sitting under the pillow. Rainsford didn’t know what to do next‚ but he knew last night was one of the best he’s ever had. As he sits in the dining room and eats out of fine china‚ he thinks he might as well give hunting humans a try since killing two the last
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Dialectical journal: Scarlet letter 1."But on one side of the portal… was a wild rose-bush… which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in…” (Chapter 1‚ pg.41) The rose bush in this excerpt at the beginning of the book signifies the one thing that seems to bloom despite the harsh rules and restrictions that the Puritan society bestow upon all who reside there. Much like the rose bush‚ Hester Prynne
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Summer Reading Assignment English Language AP Dialectical Journals Passage/Quotes from Text Page #/¶ Response 1. "The priest was blessed with a long‚ incriminating finger‚ which he used to point out sinners in public‚ and tongue schooled in arousing emotions." Pg 2 /¶2 (C) As I continued reading on how the priest was to spot the sins his fellow community has committed‚ it kind of surprised me. My priest could probably tell the people who sin from the guilt that appears in their face but the
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Dialectical Journals of The Things They Carried Idea/Stylistic aspect | Quotation | Response | Truth | “Among the men in Alpha Company‚ Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement‚ a compulsion to rev up the facts…it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say.” | The narrator‚ in making a seemingly offhanded comment about Rat’s tendency to lie‚ reveals another major point of the novel: the truth of a particular story is differing from person
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