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    Symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea In The Old Man and the Sea‚ Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism to add dimension to his story. Hemingway once said‚ “All the things that are in it do not show‚ but only are with you after you have read it” (Young). He created The Old Man and the Sea with hopes that readers would understand what the story symbolizes. Primarily‚ Hemingway uses symbolism to comment on the journey of life and facing defeats. In addition‚ Hemingway creates a parallel between his own

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    The Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient manuscripts that were found at several sites near the western shore of the Dead Sea in a small community named Khirbet Qumran (Kee 62). The most important site was near Qumran‚ where eleven caves containing scrolls and artifacts were discovered. In early 1947‚ a shepherd boy by the name of Muhammed the Wolf was searching for some goats near a cliff on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Climbing up after one that had strayed away‚ he noticed

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    Defeat is a decision. While people may not prosper in every battle they fight‚ their defeat is not necessarily inevitable. This is true for the protagonists in the parable The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and the boxing drama Rocky directed by John Avildsen. Although Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea lives in a fishing village near Havana‚ Cuba in the 1940s‚ he faces a conflict remarkably similar to that of Rocky Balboa‚ despite the fact that his story takes place in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania

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    The Mediterranean Diet

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    It is not difficult to associate the Mediterranean diet with delicious pizzas‚ pastas‚and breads. However‚ a true mediterranean diet “consists mainly of fruits and vegetables‚ seafood‚ olive oil‚ hearty grains and more”(1). The Mediterranean diet highlights eating primarily fruits and vegetables‚ and replacing butter with healthy fats (1). It also stresses using herbs and spices to flavor dishes instead of salt‚ and reducing the amount of red meat and eating poultry and fish at least twice a week

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    The European Desert Truffles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ´ Gerard Chevalier 10 Mediterranean Basin: North Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Lahsen Khabar 11 Asian Mediterranean Desert Truffles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Varda Kagan-Zur and Mehmet Akyuz 12 Non-Mediterranean Asian Desert Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Ali

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    tragic flaw and caused him to be open to his mother’s manipulation. After that‚ everything kind of went downhill‚ to understate the situation a bit... There are many examples of how Santiago was tragic hero in the old man in the sea. Santiago in the old man and the sea was known as a loser he did not have any friends but he did mentor a young boy named manolin and had the worst of luck. Santiago was outlawed by manolins parent because he had the worst of luck because of this the boy could not go

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    Tragedy is defined as "a dramatic or heroic or literary work depicting a protagonist engaged in a orally significant struggle ending in ruin of profound disappointment." Hemingway’s‚ the Old Man and the Sea is no doubt a very tragic novel. The story starts off with the narrator explaining how Santiago‚ the old man‚ had gone 84 days without catching a fish‚ making the reader feel sorry for Santiago right off the start. The boy is a companion of Santiago who’s been fishing with him‚ like an assistant

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    development with sales tripling between 1998 and 2007‚ has set itself the target of continuing that growth by taking an active part in the consolidation of the European paint industry and by entering new high growth area like South America and Mediterranean Bassin. ------------------------------------------------- Materis Paints sets up in Morocco acquiring Arcol‚ the N° 5 in the Moroccan market Materis Paints‚ Materis’ Paints business (whose best known brand in France is Tollens) has just acquired

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    Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre intertwined In Wide Sargasso Sea‚ author Jean Rhys uses intertextuality to tell the story of Antoinette Mason. Intertexuality is when an author bases their book/novel off of another text. In this case‚ Wide Sargasso Sea is shaped from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and it elaborates on the character of Bertha‚ who is Antoinette Mason in Rhys’ novel. By reading Wide Sargasso Sea we are enlightened on things in Jane Eyre that Bronte does not tell us about or elaborate

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    played an important role in all of our lives for as long as we can remember. But what makes stories so important? Is it because of the entertainment and thrill? Or‚ are stories just a big waste of our time? Salman Rushdie author of Haroun and the Sea of Stories believes that stories are important in everyone’s lives. Stories are everything to Haroun and and his father Rashid in the novel. “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” (22). Stories are important because they can provide

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