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    Long Way Gone Reflection

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    Which is why I didn’t write about girls because I wasn’t a girl in the war‚ so I wrote about my account and my account is accurate in my memories as far as I can remember it and that is what I stand by.” This can be controversial because in the book‚ Ishmael took many drugs such as Brown-Brown‚ which could have affected his

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    Moby Dick

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    Novel Analysis Moby Dick Characters: Ishmael‚ Captain Ahab‚ Queequeg‚ Moby Dick Ishmael is an eighteen or nineteen year-old American kid living in the 1860’s. He is coming on the whaling voyage thinking that is going to be the best one yet. He is the one telling the story. He meets a harpooner named Queequeg at the Spouter-Inn. They become the best of friends and embark on the Pequod. When Ishmael decides to take a whaling voyage‚ one of his reasons is that he wants to see the world.  Captain

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    Such bonds limit individual free will. Speaking of the rope that binds them‚ Ishmael narrates‚ “for better or for worse‚ we two‚ for the time‚ were wedded” (255). The use of a phrase used in wedding vows to affirm the permanence a marriage suggests how the bonds joining these men‚ and men in general‚ are unalterable. The religious

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    Comparison Essay

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    portrayed by Mr. Watts hypnotizes the children‚ and soon the whole village. Snow Falling on Cedars is set off the coast of Washington in the Pacific Northwest‚ where the Japanese post veteran‚ Kabuo Miyamoto‚ is on trial for the murder of Carl Heine. Ishmael Chambers is the local reporter‚ who discovers he has the power to change the outcome of the trial. Although Snow Falling on Cedars has a superior setting that is more effective and prominant to the conflict‚ Mister Pip’s outsanding protagonist and

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    Is War Cool?

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    in their minds. For Ishmael‚ war is an unpleasant truth to be avoided at all costs. Ishmael’s friends think it’s something they would love to do but I don’t think his friends would still feel that way after reading Beah’s memoir. They would understand the hardships and obstacles that Ishmael had to go through just to stay alive and to meet up with his family again. His friends would realize that the shortages of food‚ the dangers of walking in the open‚ and the risks Ishmael takes to escape the war

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    war. They destroyed many villages in the country. This was including Ishmael’s villages‚ which caused the death of his entire family. Even the government did horrible things to fight against the rebels. They recruited boys to their army‚ such as Ishmael and his friends. The army trained them to become killing machines‚ and they brainwashed the boys into thinking they were doing a good thing killing all the rebels. The loss of innocence was another thing why he wrote this book.

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    A Long Way Gone Analysis

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    A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was one of the most shocking books I have ever read. I knew that there were many problems and civil wars occurring within Africa‚ but I never realized how much war truly affected the country and its culture. This is not a typical war that we envision here in the United States‚ this is a dismantling of a country’s way of life. Beah’s story gives detailed accounts of things that seem unimaginable in today’s world. The fact that governments around the world had an

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    1.what state exams do school-leavers choose most often in (CITY) ? 2.what are the best ways to prepare for examinations?how are you going to do it? 3.do you think that exams motivate students to study?why? 4.higher education ensures better life. these days is very important to gain secondary education. it’s not only develops your mentality‚but and broadens your perspective. In (CITY) the school-leaver are preparing for exams. Lithuania’s main exam is the first language exam. this first language

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    in life dramatically. In Moby-Dick‚ the narrator presents the good and the bad through detailed observations. Melville portrays the narrator to be friendly towards others‚ yet he is really an outcast of society and prefers to be alone (Moby). Ishmael‚ the narrator‚ likes to escape to the sea whenever he is gloomy and needs a break from society. I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it‚ almost all men in their degree‚ some time or other‚ cherish very

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    a long way gone  Informative Essay  The novel‚ ​ a long way gone​ ‚ written by Ishmael Beah is a true and troubling story of a  child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone‚ an African country. Beah faces many arduous  struggles and carries out many atrocities while fighting that no child should ever have to endure.  How and why does the army trick these children into doing these abhorrent tasks‚ specifically  Ishmael Beah while he was fighting for Sierra Leone?   From the time the children walk into the army camps

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