All of the main characters in The Quiet American are victims in some way or another. Discuss. Throughout his novel The Quiet American Graham Greene successfully portrays a variety of themes‚ such as political conflict‚ loneliness‚ love‚ innocence and betrayal. Greene’s clever characterisations allow the audience into a world of heated atmosphere and interactions of contrasting emotions. He puts his characters into varied roles of the victim. Whether they are a foreign diplomat or a taxi dancer
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Ling‚ even in times of great desperation‚ one must stay clean and rid themselves of the evil presence‚” he said‚ giving the floor a strong‚ hard sweep. I nodded to myself. Indeed‚ the Japanese were like the evil presence. Their mantra‚ “Kill all‚ Loot all‚ Burn all” has laid our beautiful city into ruins. Once bustling streets filled with traders and trishaws were now laid bare‚ with puddles of blood here or there. The cloudless sky that made us feel safe to be under no longer existed; there was only
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“Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a sonnet about love written in iambic pentameter‚ with traditional structure and follows traditional sonnet rules. It expresses the confusion and emotion of the poet in a way to give the reader the idea that he has suffered or is suffering. It also goes from speaking broadly about love‚ to making it more specific and then finally making it personal with the last line. After the first eight lines of the poem the speaker completely flips the way the poet
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Equality for All Illegal‚ unconstitutional‚ disgusting and sinful are only a few words people use to describe what I consider a personal right. Gay marriage has been a topic of discussion in the United States for the past couple years. Lately the subject has increased along with the arguments from both sides of the spectrum. I am a gay male and look forward to finding the man of my dreams and marrying him some day but this can only happen if the minds of certain individuals change along with
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triumphed. In the present-day world almost all the countries have democratic form of Government. In democracy‚ ultimate power of a State lies with the people of that State. People rule their country through their representatives who form the Government and run the administration on behalf of the people. People choose their representatives by casting votes in their favour. Such act of choosing is known as election. Election in which representatives are chosen in all the constituencies of a state is known
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All the Time? Forget It! The student legislature has recently proposed a campus-wide referendum on the issue of twenty-four hour visitation in the dormorities. Even though the referendum will be non-binding‚ I hope that those students who value their privacy and study time will come out and send student government and the university administration a message by voting NO. Although twenty-four hour visitation in the dorms would be convenient for some individuals at times‚ it would cause problems
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Know-it-all Throughout life we come to understand that some people are brilliant‚ some people want to be brilliant‚ and then there are those who act brilliant‚ known as the know it all. To know it all does not mean one understands all of it‚ as knowing what something is does not mean one knows how it functions. To have knowledge is one thing‚ learning how to use that knowledge is another. John Wooden once said that “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” There could possibly
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soc 17/01/2012: Utility is in my opinion the test of value in matters of invention‚ and that a discovery which can be applied to no use‚ or is not good for sthg is good for nothing-benjamine frankline. y do we need fake feet that is similar to natural foot ? to get rid of the difference every 1 should be the same Assignment: choose technology describe it: be clair of what it is and waht it does use detail waht is the context in which produced? when from ? production describe the place of
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road have made walking on placements dangerous. All of us‚ as concerned citizens‚ have discussed these problems in various meetings. We have come up with the following proposals. These I will endeavor to introduce to you along with problem: The green road is no longer green. All the trees and shrubs have been cut. There is a heavy pall of smoke over it. We propose restricted vehicular movement. Use of anti-pollution device be made compulsory on all vehicles. Planting and nurturing of plants and
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Nature Is All In this essay‚ I will come to grasp the conception of nature in broad scope to show the impact on the dimensions of cultural life. Its impact needs to be approach through pluralistic ideals as nature in itself is an all inclusive term. While some would argue the specificity of certain natural phenomena as the only “nature”. I will say that nature is indeed everything that exists outside the existence of the mind and how the mind perceives things. This ideal will pragmatically
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