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    life‚ it is essential that we appreciate it to the best of our ability by focusing on living in the moment‚ taking the time to enjoy ourselves and helping others enjoy themselves too. Eucharisteo- thanksgiving- one simple word that explains a powerful lifestyle. Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand

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    Professor Cook English 2200 11 July 2012 Essay #2: The Thousand and One Nights Thesis After an issue of adultery arises in “The Thousand and One Nights”‚ the women in the story are murdered to prevent further adultery‚ not because they have committed adultery. The women are thought to be cunning and uncontrollable; therefore they must be killed‚ not as punishment but simply to protect the kings from further adultery. Evidence 1. “No one is safe in this world. Such doings are going on in my kingdom

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    Changes in Jimmy Jimmy didn’t ever think he would ever change‚ but maybe she would change that. Jimmy Valentine is the main character in the story A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry. In A Retrieved Reformation‚ Jimmy is a very skillful bank robber who goes through some major changes. Because Jimmy experiences some major changes‚ we know that he is a dynamic character. In the beginning‚ Jimmy is a very skillful‚ successful bank robber. He goes from being in and out of prison. The Governor released

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    The short story‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry‚ would be much different if it was written in Red Chief (Also known as Johnny Dorset)’s point of view. For example‚ during the initial kidnapping he fought against the kidnappers to leave him be “That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear…” (Henry 71). He probably would have been freaking out and making a huge deal out of it while the narrator only said briefly what had happened. Also‚ during the time he spent staying in the cave

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    Have you ever lied to someone so you would not be embarrassed? In the short story‚ “Hearts and Hands” by O Henry‚ there is a character who gets on a train on his way to jail. He unexpectedly sits across from an old friend of his named Miss Fairchild who recognizes him. Mr. Easton got in trouble with the law‚ but doesn’t want Miss Fairchild to know. He is escorted by the marshall‚ who out of the kindness of his heart‚ covers for Mr. Easton and says that he (the Marshall) did it. Miss Fairchild is

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    is therefore in need of medical help. The unnamed doctor‚ who is called in to Johnsys aid‚ is portrayed as a presumptuous and nonchalant man. He seems presumptuous by stating that he could increase Johnsys survival-prognosis if Sue got her “to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves”; implying that by being a woman you automatically have an interest in fashion. The fact that he also declare that Johnsy should think about finding herself a man‚ simply underlines my point further:

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    O. Henry’s short story “One Thousand Dollars” opens with a brief and polite conversation between a young man and a lawyer. The lawyer offers the young man one thousand dollars‚ his apparent inheritance from a recently deceased uncle. “Young Gillian‚” the young man in question‚ chuckles at the peculiar and specific amount of his inheritance. He marvels that‚ had his uncle bestowed a much larger or a much smaller amount of money upon him‚ he would better understand the bequest. As it stands‚ however

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    Final- What I Would Do With a Million Dollars One million dollars has a lot of potential and would change one person’s or multiple peoples’ lives in a diverse amount of ways. Many people that do have that much money abuse it. I believe they spend their millions in wrong and irresponsible ways; many celebrities spend their riches on material items for themselves to make their own public image as a wealthy person by buying houses‚ cars‚ and designer items that the normal working class citizen could

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    easy to change. However‚ people in general can change themselves and their lives. Nothing has to stay the same. The O. Henry Biography showed how people in general can change for the better. In the biography‚ it stated‚ “In 1896‚ he was falsely accused of embezzlement‚ taking money from the bank for personal use.” This shows how O. Henry’s life wasn’t really going his way. After O. Henry was mistakenly accused of embezzlement‚ he ran away to New Orleans and then went to Honduras to escape the police

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    There is a reason why elders want to talk about their past. When older people tell their stories to the youth‚ they usually want them to learn something. Whether it is something that has happened to them‚ or someone they knew. “Tales from the Thousand and One Nights” provides us with many‚ sometimes fictional‚ Arabic stories‚ out of which we could learn something just as the stories of the elders. Listening to people’s stories‚ and their life lessons‚ and using it as our guide in the future‚ is like

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