"Battle Scars" This is an anthem for the homesick‚ for the beaten‚ the lost‚ the broke‚ the defeated. A song for the heartsick‚ for the standbys‚ Living life in the shadow of a goodbye. Do you remember when we learned how to fly? We’d play make-believe; we were young and had time on our side. You’re stuck on the ground‚ Got lost‚ can’t be found. Just remember that you’re still alive. This is a call to the soldiers‚ the fighters‚ the young‚ the innocent‚ and righteous. We’ve got
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adopting communism‚ alienation theoretically should not be possible. However‚ the Chinese landscape that existed in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution proved such an assumption false. As evidenced through Xiaohua in Lu Xinhua’s short story The Scar‚ many Chinese experienced severe familial alienation. When Xiaohua was a young girl‚ her mother was declared a renegade; thus‚ in order to avoid political persecution‚ Xiaohua cut ties with her mother and ran away from home. Xiaohua’s alienation
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Common expected postoperative complications included pain‚ swelling‚ bleeding‚ and a feeling of tension. Bruising occurred in some cases. Scar formation was reported in all but one of the 75 patients 29. There is no data to support that postoperative complications differ between different techniques. (C) In adult patients with excess gingival display‚ will lip repositioning permanently improve esthetic outcome? Follow up time was inconsistent in the included studies‚ ranging from 1 week to 4 years
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Why do we jump when we watch a scary movie? People jump when watching scary movies because the loud noise or flashing picture (the stimulus) passes through out eyes or ears (the receptor) and our endocrine system responds to the surroundings thus sending electrical impulses to the brain causing our muscles (the effectors) to spasm causing us to jump or scream. In addition‚ the blood has a increased amount of hormonal adrenaline and a higher heart rate. Hormones Hormones are a chemical substance
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As Odysseus escapes the cyclops‚ he tricks him by getting him drunk and stabs Polyphemus with a wooden spear in the eye. Once the escape is complete‚ Odysseus yells back at Polyphemus telling him his name is Odysseus and he was the son of Laertes. "But I would not listen to them‚ and shouted out to him in my rage‚ ’Cyclops‚ if anyone asks you who it was that put your eye out and spoiled your beauty‚ say it was the valiant warrior Ulysses‚ son of Laertes‚ who lives in Ithaca.” This quote is stated
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In the article‚ Scar of Shame: Skin Color and Caste in Black Silent Melodrama by Jane Gaines‚ Gaines breaks down the technicalities and formalities of the 1927 film‚ Scar of Shame. She starts by inferring that as soon blacks begun to finance and direct their own films‚ they predominantly only produced melodramatic films. A melodrama is a very dramatic but sensational piece of work that consists of various overdrawn characters and heart staking events for the purpose of appealing to the audience’s
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What is a scar? A scar is something that can be covered but never erased. Scars can change a person’s self-esteem and self- worth‚ relationship with people‚ and your perception of yourself. A scar can help you find beauty deep down inside just like Alice Walker did. Scars cannot tear you down you are the only one can‚ its either you live a lie or just accept the true you‚ which one would you choose? Walker also had problems with self-esteem in her life when her brother shot her in the eye with
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anyone could ever imagine.Another one of the memembers of Scars hoodlum gang pulled at my dark caramel almost red hair‚tugging at it coming up behind me.I cursed struggling as he pulled me back as the gang chanted and cheered pinning me to the ground‚the black cement scratching at my skin. “We meet again Katrina”‚snickered Scar as he was pulling out a lighter.I glared at him realizing I was being jumped by the baddest gang in the city. “ Scar!I told you to leave me alone!”‚I said my eyes widening
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The poem “Scars”‚ written by Daniel Halpern‚ is mainly about how scars are a constant reminder of how a person has gone through horrific incidents‚ as well as the memories that scars are attached to. According to the poem‚ “They are short stories of the flesh‚ can evoke the entire event in a moment-the action‚ the scent and sound-place you there a second time.” This quote from the poem shows that scars are stories of what happened to the person who has them. “It’s as if the flesh decides to
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" All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken witch -like a bird ‚ a vision of red and yellow ‚ flashed upwards with a witch-like cry ; and this cry was echoed by another" ( Pg 1 pg 1). The scar was a mark of humanity ruining nature‚ that shows that we has humans destroy our planet in this case it was the island that the boys had destroyed. William Golding describes this plane crash has something that can not be healed
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