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    Never a Happy Ending In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ violence is a powerful action that can reveal the true intentions of a character. Readers learn by the end of the play that everything has consequences. Both good and bad violence always have a negative outcome. Through all the chaos and war in Scotland‚ characters always find a way to be cruel to one another. Some playing the valiant part and some play the evil part. Either way‚ it always ends badly. In the play Macbeth Shakespeare demonstrates

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    An example of a happy ending would be in the movie Moana. Moana faces conflict when she wants to go past the reef because resources are becoming harder and harder to find‚ but she is forbidden to go past the reef. She goes past the reef anyway and puts the heart back into

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    Margaret Atwood’s ‘‘Happy Endings’’ first appeared in the 1983 Canadian collection‚ Murder in the Dark‚ and it was published in 1994 for American audiences in Good Bones and Simple Murders. Subtitled ‘‘Short Fiction and Prose Poems‚’’ Murder in the Dark featured four types of works: autobiographical sketches‚ travel notes‚ experimental pieces addressing the nature of writing‚ and short pieces dealing with typical Atwood themes‚ notably the relationship between the sexes. ‘‘Happy Endings‚’’ which is essentially

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    The Beauty of Life: How Atwood Constructs Her Message in “Happy Endings” Readers around the world are drawn to happy endings. We thrive on the “happily ever after‚” the tying up of loose ends that ignores the frays in the strings – the consequences of the conflict‚ the other sides of characters‚ and the scenes that made us take a step back‚ but are tolerable in the end because the last page has been turned. The universe that we left behind on our bookshelf is fine and dandy‚ so the intricacies that

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    Happy Endings & August Wilson Fences When you read a book with a tragic end you think it ends with a sad ending right? Well that’s not quite right. Even though books and movies may end in tragedy it still has a happy ending to it. The book Fences is a prim example of how tragic ends in a happy ending. Rose in this case has moral reconciliation. She learns how to move on‚ forgive and see things different. First of all‚ Rose and Troy had a nice family. They had a son together and she

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    The short story‚ “Happy Endings‚” by Margaret Atwood contains both journalistic and literary elements. While sections of this short story may appear within a newspaper article had these events occurred‚ multiple elements in this piece would not be included. Atwood contribute a pleasant mixture of these elements to construct a successful work. Margaret Atwood displays the feelings and reasoning behind the actions of the characters‚ making this a literary piece. In “Happy Endings‚” Atwood contributes

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    Apparently with no surprise A happy-go-lucky flower gets its head chopped off by the frost. The sun sees the whole thing from up above‚ but doesn’t give a flip. Somewhere above‚ God watches it all thinking what a swell job he’s done. Oh Dickinson. You’re really quite something. Get out the microscope‚ because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Lines 1-2 Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The first thing we notice is that we’ve got a little personification going on‚ meaning that

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    resolution of A Separate Peace isn’t the typical “happy ending‚” by studying the development of the plot‚ one can realize that this is the happiest ending possible for Gene‚ Finny‚ and Leper. Gene‚ Finny‚ and Leper got their happiest ending possible because of the war‚ past‚ and future.Gene got his happiest ending because of war because even though his friend died he still ended his war‚ and became the person he wanted to be from it.Finny got his happiest ending because of war when he died because even though

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    College Online Composition A Surprise Birthday Party Throwing a surprise birthday party for someone is not an easy task‚ it takes a lot of patience and planning. Surprise parties are usually thrown for friends and family members on birthdays or accomplishments they have made‚ and are very fun to participate in. In this event of a surprise party‚ everyone is aware of it except for the person the surprise party is being thrown for. You have to know where it’s going to be held‚ have everyone on

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    Big Surprise Have you ever done something no one has ever expected? Like surprised someone that cried? I have surprised my whole family in America when I moved here. No one was expecting us to come; especially my aunt. When my family and I were moving here from Poland‚ we planned to surprise everyone. Our goal was to fly here and surprise my aunt‚ my dad’s sister‚ for her birthday which is exactly on April Fools’ Day. So it makes it the perfect day to surprise someone. The only people that knew

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