“On Sunday (March 1)‚ a small group of armed civilians killed a Serbian wedding guest and wounded the priest.” The war broke out between Sarajevo and Pale after the attack of armed civilians from Pale on Sarajevo. Comparing to Zlata’s Diary with the book The Freedom Writers‚ both the books has wars in different issues but has similar consequences. Zlata’s Diary has a conflict between two countries which created the war. The Freedom Writers Diary has gang wars because of discrimination between races
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Today there are only about 790 mountain gorillas left in the world. They are the second most severely endangered subspecies of gorilla and can only survive in the wild. Unlike other gorillas that can live in captivity. My goal is to raise awareness of the decline of these magnificent animals. Although dedicated conservation initiatives have taken place since their scientific discovery in 1902‚ the mountain gorillas are still at great risk from malicious human acts and other biological reasons. Factors
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the sound of the station wagon starting up I almost soared out of my seat. I was so excited that I was going to Twin Mountain this weekend. The past week was troublesome and I was ready to leave all of that behind in reality. In the middle of the autumn season the mountains of West Virginia were magnificent and stood tall above all of us people below. As we ventured up the mountain‚ the windy turns and the popping of my ears almost made me wonder how much higher we were going. The butterflies in my
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The Shadow of a Crow Inman remembers a moment in history class when he threw his hat out of the window. The hat was caught by the wind and landed at the edge of the field‚ where it looked like a crow’s shadow. After the teacher threatened him with a whipping‚ Inman walked out of the room and never returned. This memory foreshadows Inman’s intent to walk away from the carnage of the war. The crow symbolizes Inman’s independence by throwing his hat out of the window and then leaving to get it. Inman
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AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED Themes motifs and symbols A Finger had to be cut‚ to save the hand This line of the text conveys the central idea of the novel in which the idea of sacrifice has been beautifully portrayed. The author tries to draw our attention towards the agony and misery of the father and brother of Pari who send her away for her better future and also the better future of their family. The story that is told by Abdullah’s father holds a very big significance and is symbolic of the
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The piece of artwork‚ done by Albert Bierstadt in 1863‚ titled Rocky Mountains‚ Lander’s Peak‚ is an oil on canvas and is of true inspirational beauty. He perfectly captures the cool‚ vivid colors of the real forest. The scene makes you feel extremely calm‚ peaceful‚ and serene due to the relaxing nature of the picture itself. The cast shadows make the painting very 3-D and make you feel as though you are standing directly in the field‚ looking at the scenery yourself. The more you observe the painting
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(DOE) to site‚ construct‚ operate‚ and close a repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Ten sites were chosen by DOE for potential consideration and in 1987‚ Yucca Mountain in Nye County‚ Nevada was selected as the lone site to be studied. Yucca Mountain is part of a six-mile-long volcanic ridge on federally controlled lands on the edge of the Nevada Test Site. It was planned for the repository to be built approximately 1‚000 feet below the land surface and
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were left out that made all the difference. The short story Brokeback Mountain (1997) written by Annie Proulx received a lot of attention when it was first published in the New Yorker. The story is about the relationship between Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar‚ two cowboys who develop a forbidden love for each other and have to live separate lives. They first meet when they both get hired to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. The movie adaptations by the director Ang Lee‚ came out 2005
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with Rich when they set up a ranch together without either of them having a wife in Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Both Jack and Ennis grew up in the state of Wyoming where the sodomy statute was changed in 1951 to double the penalty of being found to have had anal sex‚ the law stated ’Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature ... who being male carnally knows any man or woman through the anus’ (cited in Ahmed et. al.‚ 2015‚ p. 1239) and would now receive up to ten years
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In the song "Over the Mountain" the lyrics tell you how Ozzy feels his life is going at the time that he wrote the song. "Over the mountain take me across the sky‚ Something in my vision‚ something deep inside‚ where did I wander‚ where d’ya think I wandered to‚ I’ve seen life’s magic astral plane I travel through. I heard them tell
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