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    Letters from the Trenches

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    Dear my Beloved wife and children‚ At last‚ my opportunity to write you a letter has come. This opportunity will not come for awhile so sit comfortably and have a cup of tea with the children when you read this. I miss you‚ Elena. Every day I yearn to hear the soft voice of yours and your touch against my skin. I miss hearing and seeing the kids fight with each other over a wooden toy. Although it irritated and caused me stress‚ I would rather hear that than hear the faint cries of young innocent

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    Letters from Wolfie

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    1. Book Title: Letters from Wolfie Author: Patti Sherlock 2. This story takes place in 1969 during the Vietnam War. Some of the story takes place in Vietnam and Fort Benning‚ Georgia. 3. The Main Characters in the book are: Mark Cantrell: A thirteen year old boy living in Colorado during the Vietnam War. Mark donates his dog‚ Wolfie‚ to the Army’s scout program. Mark is the younger of two brothers. He is not as popular as his older brother and is more reserved. Mark

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    Bite The Bullet

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    English1101- 8:00 17 October 2013 Bite The Bullet Clichés that you heard when you were a kid have been used for centuries‚ and are still being used. We think about clichés being used as slang‚ no one ever pays attention to how it came upon. They just use it because it made sense to them in what they are explaining. Every saying or phrase has its own story of how it was used such as “bite the bullet”. People have used the expression “bite the bullet” for centuries. This expression first originated

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    Bullet in the Brain

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    English 102 Professor February 23‚ 2013 Bullet in the Brain The short story “Bullet in the Brain” is a story about a character with a very distinct persona. The main character‚ Anders‚ is one who is established as being an odd character from the very beginning. The setting takes place in a bank that is soon to be bombarded by robbers wearing ski masks. Being a book critic‚ Anders lets his profession override his critical thinking skills during the robbery. This puts the bank robber’s patience

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    Bullet in the Brain

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    Bullet in the Brain" is deceptively obvious. Wolff makes choices that are immediately striking as unusual and key‚ that leap out from the page‚ so to speak‚ waving and shouting‚ "Look at me! Analyze me to gain insight into the story!" He shoots his character in the head halfway into the story‚ suspends the fatal bullet in the character’s brain in "brain time" so that he can recount various snapshots of his life‚ and introduces these snapshots not with the phrase "he remembered" but rather with "he

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    Letters From Odysseus

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    of his limbs‚ two others pointing their barrels straight at him‚ while I shoved the barrel of my gun down his mouth to keep it from shutting‚ and pumped saltwater into his lungs till his limb’s dutiful machinations ceased and he drowned on dry earth. We have taken prisoners who held up their hands with peaceful reverence and submission and shot their bodies full of bullets till they were piles of bloody viscera for our men to scrape off the ground. I laugh to think that I once cried when my father

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    A Bullet In the Brain

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    Instructor‚ Elizabeth Hair English 102 June 22‚ 2014 A Critique of the Critical Character A Bullet in the Brain‚ by Tobias Wolff‚ is a short story published in 1995. The story’s main protagonist Anders‚ is a book critic by profession but shows that he is also critic of the world around him. Anders happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in this story and finds himself in the middle of a robbery at his local bank. He is ultimately shot in the head by a robber‚ due to his smug attitude

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    1. Martin Luther King Jr. used a lot of ethos in the Birmingham letter. For example when he says “But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth‚ I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. He is showing that he cares about what they think and see their criticisms as being genuine and sincere so he wants to answer their questions in a reasonable time and manner. Another form of ethos he uses

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    Bullet Theory The magic bullet perspective‚ also called the hypodermic needle model‚ is a model for communications. Magic bullet theory has been around since the 1920s to explain “how mass audiences might react to mass media‚” reports Media Know All. According to University of Twent in the Netherlands‚ the theory states that mass media has a “direct‚ immediate and powerful effect on its audiences. History Several factors‚ including widespread popularity of radio and

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    rice and bullet

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    RICE AND BULLETS Hernando R. Ocampo Without taking his breakfast‚ Tura left the house very early in the morning with an old jute sack slung across his shoulder. Long ago the sack had contained rice for his family— for his daughters Ine and Clara‚ for his little son Totoy‚ and for his wife Marta. But now the jute sack was bulging with the sharp‚ hard edges of three big stones which he had gathered the night before. "What are those stones for"? Marta asked. "Mister Remulla said we must have three

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