Jonathan Doyle 523 words 9100 St. Charles Rock Road St. Louis‚ MO 63114 (314) 493-6100 doylej008@ritenourschools.org The Vanderburg Trial by Jonathan Doyle No one knows when their character will be tested. Hell‚ I didn’t expect it. I was always a drifter. From the time my mom died to when I ran away from my dad who beat me whenever he felt like it to when I went to New York to blend in
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After seeing his father brutally murdered by the leader of the native gang‚ Amsterdam Vallon makes it his mission to avenge his father’s death. He comes back to the Five Points district in New York and joins an old friend‚ Johnny Sirocco‚ to learn the ropes of the area. While doing so‚ Vallon gains the trust of his father’s assassin‚ William “The Butcher” Cutting‚ and is taken under his wing. Young Amsterdam falls in love with the local beauty and pickpocket Jenny Everdeane‚ but in doing so angers
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In Poems "The Man He Killed"‚ "Reconciliation"‚ and "Dreamers"‚ the Authors Show That Man Kills Because He Must In the chosen poems‚ Thomas Hardy‚ Walt Whitman‚ and Sigfried Sassoon each have a common viewpoint: war brings out the worst in man‚ a feeling buried deep inside the heart. Even with this clotting of the mind due to the twisting ways of war‚ a flicker of remorse‚ a dream of someplace‚ something else still exists within the rational thought. These poems express hope‚ the hope that
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Comparative commentary Both poems are written by William Shakespeare. They originate from two different sources. One is part of a play‚ Two Gentlemen of Verona. The other is a poem found in a bundle with various other poems written by Shakespeare. The poems have the same theme‚ as love and infatuation are the main topics. Their purpose is to portray a person in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience. The song ‘Why is Sylvia’ is organized into three
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Do you think people should be rescued from something they got themselves into? Well‚ I don’t think they should because other people shouldn’t have to put their own life at risk for someone who knew better. If someone tells you not to do something really dangerous then you really shouldn’t do it. If someone died trying to save you for something that you shouldn’t have done it would be your fault because you shouldn’t have done it in the first place. To begin with‚ if a person is going to do something
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In the play Macbeth‚ Shakespeare utilizes children to demonstrate the wickedness and fruitlessness of Macbeth’s reign as king. Macduff’s murdered children illustrate the miniscule value that Macbeth places on human life – even a child. The child‚ Fleance symbolizes that the innocent will ultimately reign after Macbeth’s untimely demise. The apparition of a bloody child symbolizes Macbeth’s killer‚ Macduff‚ who “from his mother’s womb/ [was] Untimely ripp’d (5.8.15-16).” The children in Macbeth exemplify
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First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung is a book about a daughter of Cambodian going though the horrible event in 1975. It is also known as the Cambodian genocide which has killed around 2 million people. Since this article “First They Killed Her Sister” by Soneath Hor‚ Sody Lay‚ and Grantham Quinn disagreed with Loung’s book on some of the events. The critics stated Loung’s book misrepresent Khmer culture and history is true but Loung didn’t perpetuate racial tension and distort what really happen
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‘Fire and Ice’ - Robert Frost In the poem ‘Fire and Ice’ Robert Frost explains how the world will end by either fire or ice. The poet uses these two primal elements to serve as a metaphor for the destructive powers of the universal human emotions. ‘Desire’ which he associates with fire‚ and ‘hate’ which he associates with ice. The poet uses the first person singular and concludes that from personal experience he sides with
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The poem In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class’ written by Carol Ann Duffy‚ is written in free verses and includes four stanzas. The poem illustrates the perspective of a carefree‚ innocent and happy young girl going through the first stages of life‚ primary to high school. The poem examines the rites of passage and the change that is taken place between childhood and adolescence. This essay will outline the areas in which Duffy uses different literary terms to define the theme of growing up. The first two
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As the title of the speech affirms‚ assuming the label of being the National University and facing the burdens tied upon it was the central issue discussed throughout the speech. The speaker‚ a professor who has worked in the academe for decades‚ has of no doubt‚ already acquired significant knowledge of the university’s functions and tasks‚ and is thus‚ able to truly understand and express the recognition and the obligations of being called the National University. His speech was addressed to his
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