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    fear of change among the citizens‚ ultimately leading to a narrow point of view. By the end of their stories‚ however‚ the residents of Pleasantville begin to understand life‚ while the residents of Grover’s Corners stay in the cave until death. The residents of both cities get too caught up in a routine to notice the outside world‚ which leads to the fear of change. The people are shunned for thinking about the world‚ making them have a narrow point of view. Citizens of Grover’s Corners don’t realize

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    expedition‚ only to find that they become trapped inside of the cave and must defend themselves against a strange breed of monsters that lurk in the dark shadows of the cave. The scene I am going to explore shows the one woman left standing‚ Sarah‚ and her escape out of the caves. The scene starts with Sarah led on the ground of the caves‚ initially disabling Juno and leaving her with the creatures to die. Sarah has been through a lot at this point and she is covered in blood and exhausted. Hell is a place

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    epiphany is closely related to the plot of the story‚ while moment of importance embodies the characteristics of spontaneity‚ randomness and fragmentation. For example‚ Little Chandler in A Little Cloud realized suddenly in the end that he could not escape from reality; while in The Mark on the Wall‚ the character’s sight of the mark on the wall is assumed and negated again and again which seems rather spontaneous‚ random and fragment. Secondly‚ the function of climax in the plot is different between

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    ‘feel’‚ ‘hear’ and ‘see’ what is happening to the town rather than what is not. From a cultural point of view‚ Murray feels despair for the small towns from which big companies have vacated. Judith Wrights poem‚ Small Town Dance‚ delineates the narrow and circumscribes lives that women in rural areas‚ suffer. The entire structure of this text uses the tedious folding of a sheet as a parallel to a square dance: ‘arms wide: together: again: two forward steps: hands meet/your partners once and twice’

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    doors closed‚ Flight 11 plowed into the building. The impact of the plane crash made the elevator bounced up and down like a ball. DiChiara and her co-worker Bell crowched down to small opening space of the elevator door to escape from the fire. When she emerged from the narrow escape‚ she realized that her hair was burning. After tapping out the fire on her hair‚ DiChiara noticed her back was aflame. She immediately dropped‚ rolled herself on the floor and did it again to make sure the flame was gone

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    stinking fumes of the fire. It blocked the sight‚ but not the sound‚ and sent fingers of searing heat towards the heavens where swallows cavorted in the summer skies. Their sapphire blue was mocking her. Not for her the freedom. Not for her the escape. The

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    notorious Triangle fire‚ workers rushed to escape the burning building‚ only to find most of the designated escape routes to be locked‚ blocked‚ or inaccessible. The low capacity elevators served limited use once their entrances became bombarded with panicked workers attempting to exit the flame-engulfed building. Some doors leading to the stairs were locked‚ rendering them useless‚ and trapping the workers in the building. Other “stairway landings were too narrow to accommodate outward swinging doors

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    women‚ leading to the death of 188 women and only 14 men. Also‚ 8 bodies were burned beyond recognition. The other 469 people have been permanently injured because they had to jump from the 3rd and 4th floor‚ in order to escape the flames. Many bodies were found stacked in narrow corridors leading to the exits or near the stairs which eventually collapsed. Causes There was no sign of fire extinguishers‚ alarms‚ or sprinkler systems. The walkways between the buildings were either locked or used

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    forgets his promise that he would send his private assassins to kill the enemy and remove his body. • Taking advantage of the general’s self‐absorption Sadao decides to save the soldiers life. After the soldier is out of danger Dr. Sadao helps him to escape from his house to safety. SOLVED QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS 1 Why did the General overlook the matter of the enemy soldier? The General had an attack and according to Dr. Sadao he could not survive the second attack. So if Dr. Sadao

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    their publicity videos. They show people in rags‚ living in shacks with despair all around them‚ and suggests that the issue can simply be solved with good-willing volunteers. The problem with this is that it only shows one dimension of poverty which narrows the population’s ideas about what it is. In order to undermine this‚ Diana George suggests that we “change the face of poverty” because it doesn’t just mean lack of material possessions. The poverty in one country may be different from that of another

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