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    The Odyssey Themes

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    Sorrow‚ Suffering‚ Grief‚ Agony‚ Distress‚ and Misery: According to Greek Mythology the act of being human demands that you must suffer and there is no escape from pain‚ it is the price you pay to be human. “By nights he would lie beside her‚ of necessity‚ in the hollow caerns‚ against his will‚ by one who was willing‚ but all the days he would sit upon the rocks‚ at the seaside‚ breaking his heart in tears and lamentation and sorrow as weeping tears he looked out over the barren water. “(5.154-158)

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    Frankenstein Theme

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    Life‚ Consciousness‚ and Existence Summary: As Victor Frankenstein gives life to the monster‚ he becomes the creator. The relationship between Victor and the monster parallels the relationship between the mankind and God. However‚ Victor abandons his creation right after he comes to life. The monster wanders around the wilderness‚ unable to make sense of his own existence; he is unable to find his place in the world and his link to humanity. The monster blames Victor for his misery‚ claiming

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    Theme by Mags

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    A. Related Documents: AP no. 14a s. 2006 on Amendments and Addendum to Educational Trips and Related Off Campus Activities (Approved on February 9‚ 2009) Implementing Guidelines for the Sourcing of Service Provider (Approved on May 21‚ 2000) Approved System and Procedure on Educational Trips and Related Off Campus Activities B. Process Map and Work Instruction |PROCESS MAP |WORK INSTRUCTIONS

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    Themes of the Crucible

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    The Danger of Ideology An ideology is a rigid set of beliefs that defines what an individual or community thinks. In the Puritan theocracy of Massachusetts‚ the main ideology held was the Puritans were a chosen people that the devil would do anything to destroy. Since religious men ran their government‚ the Puritans considered all government actions to be sanctioned by Heaven. This meant that any attempt to resist any of the government’s actions‚ was considered an attempt to overthrow God. Governments

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    Theme in "The Giver"

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    {Title Here} Imagine the most vibrant‚ colorful scene you can think of‚ with colors as far as the eye can see. Now imagine the same scene‚ colorless and dead‚ which one is better? The colorful one‚ right? The science fiction novel The Giver by Lois Lowry is about the protagonist‚ Jonas‚ who experiences the peaks and valleys life through the memories he receives from the Giver. He finds that even though life has its ups and downs‚ it is far more interesting than a life of black and white. Through

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    Latin theme

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    Aeneas’s main duty is to serve the gods by founding the Roman race. “As the sharp admonition and command from heaven had shaken him awake‚ he now burned only to be gone‚ to leave that land of the sweet life behind” (Fitzgerald‚ 105). This line shows how Aeneas yearns to leave the life he has in Carthage after the gods have told him to go to Italy. He leaves for Italy‚ as the gods told him to‚ against his will for he said‚ “So please‚ no more of these appeals that set us both afire. I sail for

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    Delirium Themes

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    In the novel Delirium by Lauren Oliver‚ the main character Lena Haloway learns about the emotion of love. This novel is labeled as a fantasy considering the fact the plot revolves around the ‘disease of love’ (Oliver). Knowing this‚ Lena encounters new emotions and an intertwining fate. Oliver’s novel‚ Delirium ‚blends the fantasy of corrupted laws‚ with the realistic emotions of love and courage to form Lena’s development. In Delirium‚ the government’s immoral laws do not allow people to love freely

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    The Veldt Theme

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    Thematic Essay(The Veldt)by Alex Stinson Traveling brings the thrill of seeing new places and seeing how they’re different from where I’m from. The experience of going to these places is indescribable. The destination is breathtaking but the expedition to there is just as congenial. The adventure gives you an adrenaline rush that is inexpressible. But what happens when you can’t stop looking for that rush? When the adventure becomes the escape‚ then it becomes an addiction. Characters in the story

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    No Sugar Themes

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    Contrast the way that two texts you have studied are constructed to appeal to particular audiences. Both plays and films‚ although different genres‚ can be effective in bring an issue into focus by appealing to particular audiences. No Sugar‚ written by Jack Davis in 1985 is a social realist play that depicts the isolation and disempowerment of Aborigines during the 1930’s. Various dramatic conventions have been employed to highlight the negative effect of the Eurocentric‚ hypocritical and dominant

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    The story “Stormbreaker” is a wonderful book about adventure and mysteries. In this book‚ there is a student called Alex who is around age 12. He lives with his uncle‚ Ian Rider. One day he is told that his uncle got in a “ car accident “‚ but Alex is smart enough to know that his uncle could not have possibly gotten into a car accident. So he tries to solve the mystery‚ after school‚ he goes to a car shop and sees his uncles car and as Alex has suspected his uncle had not gotten into a car accident

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