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    and he is not a leader 3. He constantly shows he can not be trusted. “There will be killing until the score is paid” is a quote from Odysseus in book 22. Everybody knows that heroes do not kill and Odysseus is no exception. In book 22 Odysseus slaughters bunches of men because they pursued his wife Penelope.On page 960 the blue text reads Odysseus and his men are compared to falcons who show no mercy to the flocks of birds they pursue and capture. These men were killed terribly because they pursued

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    When Little Lamb Company initially hired Mary’s services she was signed as an independent contractor. The project is managed by the contractor in terms of methods and materials. The common-law agency test in the first project confirms Mary is an independent contractor because she controlled how the work was done‚ Little Lamb Company only assigned her the task and paid her without managing the details of how and when to complete it. During the progression of the second project Little Lamb gave Mary

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    “Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.In the case of animal slaughter‚ to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”‚ therefore‚ according to Foer‚ going with the norms and continuing to buy groceries and meat products from these factory farms is basically making a decision to support them without actually thinking that it is the right thing to do. We are responsible for not supporting humane factories and being willing to

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    Silence of the Lambs In the book Silence of the Lambs (Harris‚ 1988) the whole plot is based around three main characters. Clarice Starling‚ a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee who is put into the position of trying to unravel the mind of an evil genius‚ Hannibal the cannibal Lecter‚ in order to find the answers needed to capture the serial killer‚ Jame Gumb‚ also known as Buffalo Bill. Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter‚ a former psychiatrist‚ is in a mental institute for his ferocious attacks

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    The Black Slaughter It was 2077‚ as I searched for my wrench. “Yeah my time machines almost done then i can back too find to stop Obama from creating a new black plague and Maybe eat a sandwich.”I said “ Done‚ now 2013 *shocking noise* what no tha’ts impossible” ZAP… “Ugh where am I‚ what is this place a bad horror movie.” I said There’s bodies stacked up high like logs deep holes full of burning bodies people running around like idiots men dancing in the street‚ black and red corpses everywhere

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    Kurt Vonnegut‚ the author of Slaughter-house Five‚ wrote several novels compacted into one whole novel to convey a different perspective on a specific view controversial to many. Slaughter-house Five is metafiction that talks about Vonnegut’s experience in the war. Throughout the story‚ we follow Billy Pilgrim as he experienced several events in the war and ultimately the bombing of Dresden. Through several characters‚ dialogue and events we are presented within the novel‚ we get the use of several

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    Irony In 'The Lottery'

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    The title‚ “The Lottery” is ironic for this story because during a lottery a person usually wins a prize. Wining a lottery is normally considered positive. When someone wins a lottery‚ that person is thrilled and extremely happy. Although in the story wining the lottery is not a positive thing because the person that wins the lottery would face a painful death. The only thing that the winner of the lottery would get is pain and grief‚ as the villagers would hit her with stones. The description in

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    became unnecessary. The ability for even the average man to listen to music began as technology started to catch up with the growing demand for music. Thomas Edison recorded the first ever song on a tinfoil cone‚ the recording was Mary had a Little Lamb. From there several different types of phonographs were built and patented. They would use wax covered cylinders and 7 inch disks.

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    Northern Renaissance The Ghent Altarpiece‚ also called The Lamb of God‚ was created by Hubert van Eyck and Jan van Eyck finish it after the death of Hubert. This is an example of a polyptych‚ or a hinged‚ multi-panelled painting. It was completed in 1432. The measurements are 11’6” by 15’1”‚ so it’s a fairly large piece of art. The altarpiece is consists of twenty-four panels‚ different sizes and shapes‚ all arranged in 2 rows. The panels show the Redemption of Man (somewhat a popular theme during

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    The Ironies of Orwell’s 1984 The novel 1984‚ by George Orwell‚ has many examples of irony throughout it. The two major types of irony: verbal irony and situation irony‚ are demonstrated again and again in this novel. In the following essay I will discuss these types of ironies and give examples of each from the book. The first type of irony is verbal irony‚ in which a person says or does something one way‚ but the true meaning is the opposite. One of the first example of this irony is discovered

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