Ransom Written by Lois Duncan Setting: The story takes place in New Mexico Time: The story occurs during the winter. Characters: Buck is one of the three people who are kidnapping the children. He is tempered easily. He doesn’t really care for others much. Rita is Buck’s wife. She is not very pretty and gets drug into schemes by Buck. She feels he will leave her if she doesn’t follow directions. Juan is the other kidnapper who does more of the dirty work. He is the
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deaths within Macbeth. After Macbeth has killed Duncan- the king of the realm‚ she almost seems to not be affected by it. While Macbeth is panicking‚ she retains a level head- as if she couldn’t care less about the fact that her husband has murdered someone in her own house. “These deeds must not be thought of after these ways; so‚ it will make us mad” (Shakespeare 34). However‚ when Banquo is killed‚ Lady Macbeth is haunted by it. “I tell
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Our king‚ Duncan‚ has just been murdered and I need to find out who did such a deed. Let’s gather the facts here‚ I am in Macbeth’s castle in Scotland. The witnesses are Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth‚ Malcolm‚ Donalbain‚ the two guards and the porter. Macbeth has just told us that he has killed the two guards after seeing that they have bloody daggers and clothes. I believe that someone is trying to frame the guards for killing Duncan. Macbeth is freaking out and he keeps telling us that he can’t live without
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There are many characters in the story‚ Daughters of Eve. There are only five that stand out from the rest. These five are Laura Snow‚ Jane Rheardon‚ Fran Schneider‚ Tammy Carncross‚ and Irene Stark. These are the main characters in the story. They are all members of the club‚ "Daughters of Eve". Laura Snow was a junior in high school. She was a nice girl with glowing eyes. She also loved this boy in high school named Peter Grange. He went out with her for a while‚ but in pity. Her parents were
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Title of Essay Macbeth is ultimately responsible for the murder of Duncan as he is the host and honour bound to offer protection to the visitor; he is also responsible for his actions and as an army general‚ he is capable of making his own decisions without letting anyone influence his ambition. Introduction I. Macbeth has his own mind. A. He makes the ultimate decision in the end. 1. He should not let his ambition be influenced. 2. He backed out at one point. a. Act 1‚ Scene 7‚ Lines
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Lady Macbeth is more responsible for the killing of Duncan. She got Macbeth to go against something he had not planned to do‚ Lady Macbeth also planned the way to kill him. Macbeth did not plan to kill Duncan. He did not feel that it was a good idea to follow through with the plan. In act 1 scene 7 line 31 he says “we will proceed no further in this [plan].” He also worries that they could get caught like in line 59 “if we should fail” but‚ Lady Macbeth says “screw your courage to the sticking-place
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GRIFFIN: CHAPTER 12 RELATIONAL DIALECTICS Leslie Baxter and Barbara Montgomery 1. Griffin writes that Baxter and Montgomery “study how communication creates and constantly changes close relationships.” Explain. Baxter saw no law of gravitational pull to predict interpersonal attraction‚ no co-efficient of friction that would explain human conflict. She found‚ instead‚ people struggling to interpret the mixed messages about their relationship that they both spoke and heard. Ideas were the same
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Susan Griffin compares and contrasts cellular life and weaponry as she writes her essay‚ Our Secret. She uses these ideas together with characters and events‚ to help explain causes and effects in the essay. She alternates from the cell’s function to the history of weaponry throughout the essay. With both these ideas‚ she starts at the elementary level‚ with a cell’s life and with the Vergeltungswaffe missile‚ and tells how they progress. In this essay‚ I will describe how Griffin uses cellular life
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looks back at you in the mirror every day. It is amazing how you can find out about yourself in the most random of places such as‚ the diary of a Nazi in Susan Griffin’s case‚ or the fictional writings of an author in Richard Rodriguez’s case. Griffin and Rodriquez both have very different styles of writing. They are different in many ways‚ such as their culture‚ where they draw their information from‚ and just their overall lives in general. At the same time however‚ they are similar. They both
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courage to change their destiny. Griffin is ultimately interested in finding her own identity but has been oppressed by her grandmother to not search inwardly. She therefore uses Himmler as a mask by examining what experiences shaped him as a child to understand what may have molded her. Griffin concentrates on connections between people‚ childhood‚ and objects to Heinrich Himmler’s life to better understand social and personal identity‚ and oppression. Although Griffin writes an excellent account on
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