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    Man can be destroyed‚ but not defeated.” This quote refers to how a single man can be extremely mentally or physically damaged‚ but not beaten. In the novella‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ the character‚ Santiago displays many traits of determination‚ perseverance‚ and optimism. He battled an eighteen foot marlin for three days. Within the three days he was crushed with psychological and physical damage that he would eventually surmount. During Santiago’s time fighting with the 1‚500 pound monstrous

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    Vocabulary Activities for The Old Man and the Sea So you’ve chosen to read The Old Man and the Sea‚ by Ernest Hemingway. Good choice! This book won the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in literature in 1953. Activity #1: Word Sorts Write the words from the Word Banks on index cards or slips of paper. Mix them together and sort them into three groups: words you know well‚ words you know a little about‚ and words you have never encountered before. Spread the words out rather than piling

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    Final Essay My interpretation of the quote‚ “But man is not made for defeat…. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” from the book Old Man And The Sea; means that you can kill someone‚ but you can’t kill what he or she stands for. Their personal ideals and firm beliefs are some things that can never be taken away even after the physical death of that person. Another way to prove this is from another quote that Hemingway has expressed that states‚ "If we win here we will win everywhere. The

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    a bad person because he appeared as a good old man who just borrowed a knives to sharpening and said “Maybe you’ve heard from your neighbours. I come around every March. Do mowers as well” as he was offering to do he mower for her in the beginning. Janet is a mother of three children. She do all the work in the house since her kids are still young to do some of the house work. Erin is six years old eldest child of Janet. The Knife Sharpener is an old man who sharpen knives and do mowers. The story

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    The movie “No Country for an Old Man” is an adaptation of an original novel written by Cormac McCarthy. The directors of the movie Joel and Ethan Coen‚ manage to make the film bleak‚ scary‚ creepy and extremely violent. However‚ judging from the moral conflict‚ the movie creates morality is an individual’s mindset. Several scenes from the film suggest that one can against social obligations based on his/her moral code. The setting of the movie is in the wild and merciless borderlands of Texas. This

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    “The Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway An old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. There was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts‚ trucks‚ and men‚ women and children were crossing it. The mule- drawn carts staggered up the steep bank from the bridge with soldiers helping push against the spokes of the wheels. The trucks ground up and away heading out of it all and the peasants plodded along in the ankle deep dust. But the old man

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    Flight By Doris Lessing In the short story "Flight" by Alice Lessing‚ it’s the story of an old man who raises homing pigeons for a hobby and who constantly worries about his last granddaughter‚ Alice‚ leaving and getting married tothe postmaster’s son‚ Steven. The old man is very overprotective and also possessive of his daughter.In a way‚ the grandfather is also jealous of Alice’s fiancé‚ Steven. The Old man argues with Aliceabout her behaviour when Steven is with her and he complains to his daughter

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    dominates your mind. Should you be angry at him for leaving you‚ or should you support and respect his decision ? In her essay "Flight‚" Doris Lessing illustrates the story of an old man who is learning to let go his granddaughter as she grows into an adult and is about to get married. Lessing wisely delivers this particular old man’s situation to her readers through her use of literary techniques and devices. Thus‚ she greatly succeeded at making her readers feel and live the grandfather’s difficulty

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    The book I have read I’ve recently read a book‚ which has made a very deep impression on me. It is named "Gone with the Wind" The author of the book is Margaret Mitchell. She was born in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ in a family of the president of the Atlanta Historical Society. All the family was interested in American history and she grew up in an atmosphere of stones about the Civil War. After graduating from the college Margaret Mitchell worked for a time for the Atlanta Journal. In 1925 she got married

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    Isolation has a poor connotation attached to it because numerous people fear being alone. Society reinforces that notion by declaring that to be happy we need to be married‚ have kids‚ own a house and be social. Andrew Wyeth’s painting Wind from the Sea fights this common belief by portraying the beauty and simplicity of a remote location. In the painting‚ the curtain is being blown by the wind and beyond the window the only commodity you can see is the sky‚ the bit of snow that has not yet melted

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