inevitable future they create. Pride is great it gives people self confidence and makes them happy. The more pride someone has the more they accept themselves. Excessive pride can leave people to poor choices that cannot be reversed. In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Fortunato is a prideful man with a great life; however‚ he lets his pride blind him to his inevitable faith. Fortunato “prided himself” a little too much “on his connoisseurship” of wine believing himself
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a cruel winter‚ with the crops withered into dust and any money dwindled‚ Aleksandr’s family had cowered into itself with chill and gnawing hunger. One grey day as his mother laid shivering in her bed‚ Aleksandr knelt by her side‚ her grey hand clasped in his. “Mother‚ we are all dying. There is something I must do.” The woman’s sallow face frowned. “There is nothing out in this storm to help us anymore‚ my son.” Aleksandr shook his head firmly‚ “There has to be a way. I shall learn to hunt
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True Protagonist In The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor shows his protagonist character by the respectable and honorable man he lives to be. In order to understand why John Proctor is the protagonist of the story‚ a definition of the word protagonist is indispensable. A protagonist is essentially the main character of a story‚ mostly known as the good character. The author spends most of his time on him‚ and usually the character changes or evolves during the course of the novel. The
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He stands on line‚ waiting for roll call to be over. He shivers slightly‚ both from cold and from fear. He knows‚ beyond a shadow of doubt‚ that if the guards find his hidden treasure‚ that’s it. His life is over. After all‚ he’s smuggling some contraband into his barracks. And what is this item‚ a treasure to him‚ and contraband to the Germans‚ימ’’ש ? What is this that’s worth his whole life? A potato. Not even a whole one‚ but half of a potato‚ smuggled out of the kitchen. He had risked his life
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shocked Mellie...Her face goes white‚ you can see the thoughts race through her mind. She clenches her hands and immediately suggests fraud or voter tampering; Mellie announces the race is far from over. Moments later‚ a panicking Olivia is in the corner curled up against the wall as Fitz walks up and attempts to console her. Olivia pulls herself together just in time to find a frantic Mellie ranting on about laws in counties and demanding recounts nationwide. Olivia tries to convince her it is time to
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Rain. An unusual occurrence for San Diego‚ somewhat of a “glitch in the system.” The weather may have been warm‚ but the sky told a different story. It spoke with a dreary‚ gray tone‚ swallowing up the sunshine that regularly enlightened the sky each day. The rain pelting to the ground was more foreign than the absence of the sun. I had never encountered rain during my past commutes‚ so this weather brought with it‚ an important learning experience. The heavens opened up and poured out its tears
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It was marked confidential in big red bold letters. There was no way I was not going to look inside. I opened up the file and briefly had a heart attack. There was a picture of my long dead father. My body seemed to be on shut down mode. Under my dad’s picture in bold was the word Reidentified. I was on the verge of flooding the city with tears. My dad was alive somewhere‚ perhaps brainwashed‚ with a new identity? Why had he
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The wind blew in my face‚ carrying off the tears that rolled down my cheeks. The fear of losing a loved one had brought me down to my knees. I was helpless; I had lost my word on protection. I couldn’t protect myself‚ how could I protect the one I loved. Maybe that’s just a sacrifice you need to make when you join the CIA. As a high post agent‚ I had made enemies after I caught a drug mafia leader‚ Fawad Asdar and had stopped one of his major cartel transactions with an international drug dealer
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cell. Chapter 8-2: Photosynthesis: An Overview Van Helmont’s experiment on his thought that plants grew from the material in soil. Priestley’s experiment found out that oxygen was keeping the flame of the candle in a jar going. He also tried something with a leaf where he would put it under the jar and the flame would be kept for a while. This is because of the oxygen released by the plant. Jan Ingenhousz figured that the effect from Priestley’s experiment was because the plant was exposed to
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really knew him would do the same when they found out. "Now‚ take your place beside Lady Guinevere. You’ll remain her personal guard with no other duty than to protect her in my absence." Well‚ that didn’t sound too onerous. It was what he’d been doing already. "On my honor and my life‚ Your Highness." That
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