“‘I volunteer!’ I gasp‚ ‘I volunteer as tribute!’”(00). This quote shows how much she truly cares about her sister and how much she wants to protect her. She is willing to sacrifice her own safety‚ and take on even more of life’s more difficult obstacles to make sure her sister is truly safe. Katniss knows that she needs to win the Hunger games for her family‚ and surviving the games is just an obstacle in her path to see her family again. In the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ the main character
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sister’s best friend which is clearly doomed. After his father’s death Oscar’s mother sends him to a psychiatrist where he meets another client who shares his love of cricket. Meanwhile‚ his mother has taken to communicating by sticky notes with new age quotes. Nevertheless‚ amidst all these complications‚ the issues of grief‚ growing up‚ family‚ and friendship are combined with a touch of humour in this deceptively astute
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Age “The secret to staying young is to live honestly‚ eat slowly‚ and lie about your age.” - Lucille Ball “Anyone who stops learning is old‚ whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind‚ it doesn’t matter.” - Mark Twain “No
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Part 1 - Inherit the Wind Character List Bertram Cates - A twenty-four-year-old science teacher and the defendant in the trial. A soft-spoken and humble man‚ Cates has been arrested for teaching his students the theory of evolution from biology textbook. His outlook on human knowledge is skeptical‚ and he wonders about the nature of the universe. IN DEPTH: As his jailer‚ Mr. Meeker‚ points out‚ Bertram Cates is not a criminal type. A quiet‚ unassuming twenty-four-year-old‚ Cates is innocent‚
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“Life’s like a movie‚ write your own ending Keep believing‚ keep pretending We’ve done just what we’ve set out to do Thanks to the lovers‚ the dreamers‚ and you.” - Kermit the frog “There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say‚ ‘Well‚ here I am!’ and those who come in and say‚ ‘Ah‚ there you are.’” - Frederick Collin "The greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind is the power of choice. Choose to persist without exception. Hold fast to your dreams and stay the course‚
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O‚ that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary‚ stale‚ flat and unprofitable‚ Seem to me all the uses of this world! (1.2.5) From the play’s beginnings‚ Hamlet is distressed. Here‚ his desire for his "flesh" to "melt" and dissolve into "dew" registers his anguish over his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage to his uncle. Clearly‚ Hamlet’s thoughts here are
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I often wonder about teachers who educated famous people such as Einstein‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ and the like. Were these teachers specially qualified to inspire their students to achieve fame and success? Or were these teachers just plain lucky to have exceptionally talented students? Do some teachers have the rare quality of turning dust into gold? The answer may not be easy to find. Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people
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Guard “We saw this girl giving that dead man’s corpse full burial rites-an act you’d made illegal.” (12) Creon “Don’t speak of here being here. Her life is over.” (18) Creon “No‚ not me. Hades is the one who will stop the marriage” (18) Creon “Well enjoy your sophisticated views. But if you don’t reveal to me who did this‚ you’ll just confirm how much your treasonous gains have made you suffer.” (10) Antigone “Don’t try to share my death or make a claim to actions which you did not do. I’ll
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"Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two‚ where there was but one‚ is both a profit and a pleasure." "This leads to the further reflection‚ that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought‚ as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind‚ as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil‚ as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And
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"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom‚ the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." — Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) "Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
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