In Julia Alvarez’s “In The Time of the Butterflies”‚ the four Mirabal sisters‚ Minerva‚ Maria Teresa‚ Patria‚ and Dedé‚ struggle with accepting principles such as courage‚ freedom‚ andfear. As the sisters began to become symbols for freedom during a revolution‚ each must discover what these concepts mean to them and how to apply them in their fight against a dictatorship. When Trujillo‚ dictator of the Dominican Republic‚ sends three of the Mirabal sisters to prison in an attempt to silence their
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The book‚ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle‚ is a science-fiction fanatasy novel filled with excitement and mystery. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it’s page turning story. It is an inspiring journey that gives Meg a new outlook on life. The story consists of seven main characters: Mr. Murry‚ Meg‚ Charles Wallace‚ Calvin‚ and Mrs. Whatsit‚ Who‚ and Which. Mr. Murry is the father of Meg and Charles Wallace. Everyone in town knows that he has not had contact with his family in over
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A Time to Kill showed the true feelings of the Old South. Two drunken men raped a young black girl‚ and the girl’s father kills them. Charged with two counts of murder‚ Carl Lee goes to court. His lawyer‚ a young white man by the name of Jake Brigance‚ defends him in court. Jake is then hated by the rest of the community. The Ku Klux Klan is called on one of the rapists’ brother‚ Freddy. The KKK then attempt to plant a bomb under Jake’s porch‚ which forces him to send his wife and daughter
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The settings for A Wrinkle in Time are the Murray house‚ Camazotz‚ a far away planet that is similar to earth but almost every person does everything in sync‚ and Ixchel ‚ also a far away planet that has strange beasts living on it. The main character is Margaret Murray‚ nicknamed Meg. She is a young female who has mouse brown hair‚ glasses‚ and braces. She is polite to anyone who is nice to her. Over the course of the book she learns friendship‚ love‚ and to not judge people by how they look
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We Were Soldiers Once… and Young is a remarkable book written over the account of the battle of the La Drang Valley‚ the United States’ first major war battle of Vietnam. Written by retired Lt. Gen Harold Moore and war journalist Joseph L Galloway‚ the book recounts the ups and downs of the battle‚ as well as the heroic actions made by United States soldiers that led us to victory. I believe the author’s intentions were to redefine the hero narrative and to give readers an emotional understanding
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John Winthrop ’s "City Upon A Hill"‚ described the mission and vision to start a "New England"‚ which became known as the United States of America. John Winthrop believed a perfect society could exist in a perfect city where everyone worshiped and worked together in harmony. He envisioned a community so closely woven together that everyone was equally important to the future of the city. A city where a purer form of Christianity would exist‚ which would provide a moral and religious show for the
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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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How Did Colonialism Affect Kenya? Colonialism occurs‚ by definition‚ when one nation takes control of another. The Scramble for Africa‚ initiated by the Berlin Conference in 1884-5‚ left the African continent under European control. The European’s urged the “pacification” of the particular African territories they each occupied. Kenya became a colony of Britain. There were different opinions on the “Pink Cheeked” men whom entered the indigenous Kenyan’s homelands. Some were hostile‚ others
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Once More to the Lake by E.B. White The clock is always ticking and the world is always changing whether we want it to or not. In E.B. Whites "Once More to the Lake"‚ A present day father takes his child to an area his family would frequent for a week every summer. Upon arriving back at his childhood retreat‚ he is hit with an almost overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Once a child on a family vacation‚ the narrator is now reliving his childhood based on the experiences of his own child visiting
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Rhetorical Analysis of E.B. White?s ?Once More to the Lake? E.B. White?s ?Once more to the Lake? provides keen insight into the life of a middle-aged man reflecting on the past‚ present‚ and future. The setting of the essay primarily resides at a lake that offered the author endless amounts of pleasure as a child. Now as an adult‚ the author wishes to relive this experience and try to recapture his youth. Throughout the essay a major theme develops: Although the passage of time produces a link between generations
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