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    regretfully about the present time‚ when people are not like before. He seems to feel that people have lost the innocence and openness which he now sees in his young son; he wants to regain that innocence. The poem starts with the well-known words "Once upon a time"‚ suggesting that what the speaker is going to say is a fairy tale‚ something so far-fetched it might not even be believed. This makes us think that honesty in expressing emotion is so rare nowadays that it practically is a fairy tale.

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    Once in awhile things slip” this is the statement said by the butcher in death of a pig. In the story he spent several day and nights in mid-September tending to an ailing pig. In depth he talked about how he could have died‚ and the pig could have lived he felt like he should have accounted for the stretch of time and that if he died and the pig lived no one would have been left to do the accounting? In a way he treated the pig like a child tending to its sickness‚ and getting sick in the process

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    A once-in-a-life-time event can be good or bad depending on the person or it can be phenomenal or it can be catastrophic. My once-in-a-life-time event is when my daughter was born. The feeling that was going through me was that of anticipation. The call from the Red Cross telling me that my beautiful‚ pregnant wife wants me to come home to see our baby be born. At this moment I was in Redstone Arsenal‚ Alabama still in my training for the army. At first Red Cross would not send the message to me

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    We Were Soldiers Once… And Young: I read the book ‘We Were Soldiers Once… And Young’‚ it was about the war in Vietnam. Lt. General Harold G. Moore led the 7th cavalry into a battle against the North Vietnamese army. Joseph L. Galloway‚ was the first American journalist to arrive in Vietnam. Moore and Galloway are the authors of this book and they both experienced Vietnam in person. The book started out with a lot of action‚ right off it talks about how a man is lying dead in the dirt. It then went

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    In T.H.White’s fantasy fiction novella‚ The Once and Future King‚ by T.H White follows around the protagonist‚ The Wart. He faces challenges given to him‚ by his mentor Merlin‚ for the end goal of being a better leader‚ self righteous person‚ etc. Most of his challenges comes from Merlin‚ to show him in the many animal forms that he takes‚ to take in the experience as said animal‚ to therefore implement it upon his leadership skills. Each of the life-forms‚ taught of a different lesson‚ because of

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    In “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White a man’s deja vu in his trip with his son makes him realize‚ almost violently‚ that his life is quickly approaching its end. In his revelation he finds that every moment that passed had brought him closer and closer to

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    A theme is the idea behind the story; it tells you what the story is about (Clugston‚ 2010). In the story I Used to Live Here Once‚ the author uses her descriptives of recalling how the water flowed‚ and the roads being wider but carelessly taken care of as her way of reaching back to when she was alive. She describes the day as being “a fine day‚ a blue day” (Clugston‚ 2010). This symbolizes the peacefulness she feels and calmness that surrounds her. I believe the ultimate theme of this story is

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    The Once and Future King – by T.H. White: Which ideas seem most important to understanding the plot of the story? – The most important ideas to understand the plot of the story are the ideas of different types of leaders that exist in the world. Throughout the story‚ Wart sees how different societies work for different species and how each one is related to the different types of governments that exist in the world. Through this‚ the idea of power is explored as Wart learns how power can be beneficial

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    Puzzle 1 Stephen was looking at a photo. Someone asked him‚ "Whose picture are you looking at?" He replied: "I don’t have any brother or sister‚ but this man’s father is my father’s son." So‚ whose picture was Stephen looking at? Puzzle 2 There was a robbery in which a lot of goods were stolen. The robber(s) left in a truck. It is known that : (1) Nobody else could have been involved other than A‚ B and C. (2) C never commits a crime without A’s participation. (3) B does not know how to drive

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    memory in another". This quote is especially evident in "Once More to the Lake" by E.B White and "On Going Home" by Joan Didion. In both of these personal narratives‚ the authors struggle with the overwhelming sensation of yearning for the past. In an effort to conquer the nostalgic sensation‚ they both visit a place that is very dear to their hearts. However‚ as the authors soon figured out‚ nothing stays the same forever. Once More to the Lake tells the story of the author returning

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