Jackie Parks AP English 4 March 2017 Mrs. Vicknair The Unknown Assassin As the motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository‚ the gunshot that would change history was heard throughout the crowd. Fragments of Kennedy’s skull are being gathered by Jackie‚ and the crowd is in awe. The president is dead. Lee Harvey Oswald‚ an employee at the depository‚ is arrested an hour after the killing. He can never defend his case because two days later Oswald is killed by Jack Ruby. Almost immediately
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A. Soldiers Bodies Sarah Wagner‚ “The Making and Unmaking of an Unknown Soldier‚” Social Studies of Science‚ 43(5): 631-656‚ 2013. The article describes the military identification technology in the 1990s and the decision to remove the remains from the Vietnam crypt of the Tomb of Unknowns and the subsequent work on the previously unidentified remains in previous wars. It argues that naming the dead soldiers and returning their remains personalize the ideals of sacrifice and honor embodied in the
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because it isn’t always right. Conformity can be very dangerous sometimes. In trying to seek what everyone else is doing‚ you can lose yourself in the process. Mr. Keating was one of those wise people who went against the flow; who believed that everyone can have different views and still have peace. In the movie Dead Poets Society‚ Mr. Keating took them into the corridor outside. He made them walk in a line‚ and after they were walking in step he showed that people try to be like others on default. He
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The Poem "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden is a satire. Its narrator is the state. In this‚ the state pays tribute and describes a successful and positive product of its efficiency and effectiveness. In other words‚ it builds the character later described to the reader as "the perfect citizen." The narrator speaks as if he is delivering a speech or common tribute using words and phrases that are familiar to the reader. Using such imagery helps the reader paint a clear picture of the character
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Academy‚ a very strict and traditional school. Mr Keating‚ a well respected teacher‚ by the students at Welton Academy is looked upon as a bad influence on the students by the school’s principal. The principal believed that Mr Keating’s teaching methods are unconventional and he was not following the schools 4 pillars‚ tradition‚ discipline‚ honour and excellence. Mr Keating uses fragments of poems to teach and make his points. When Mr Keating uses these fragments‚ the meaning of the poem is often
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place where tradition and reputation was put before creativity and education. That was until Mr Keating‚ came to the school as an English teacher. He focused around Poetry. He taught the boys to express themselves and do what they in their hearts wanted to do‚ not what their parents wanted them to do.<br><br>The boys found a photo of Mr Keating in an old yearbook with the caption under reading- "Alan Keating‚ Leader
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The Abyss - Unknown Death. It is an odd thing‚ one moment you’re sitting in front of a desk pondering how to answer the question in front of you‚ the next extreme pain as if you’re entire body is being roasted alive. Then‚ well nothing. Just darkness‚ dull and boring. Those were the thoughts of the boy as he drifted in the abyss. His mortal coil no longer existence‚ only a dimly lit sphere in its place. “I’m not sure what’s worse‚ exams or this...” he muttered inwardly‚ originally he hadn’t been
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Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns Ulric Neisser (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard‚ Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Ceci Diane E Halpern John C. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina In the fall of 1994‚ the publication of Herrnstein and Murray ’s book The Bell Curve sparked a new round of debate about the meaning of intelligence test scores and the nature of intelligence. The debate was characterized by strong assertions as well as by strong
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Werner 05 March 2012 The Unknown Citizen By W. H. Auden Several conflicts are dramatized in The Unknown Citizen‚ the most prominent being: conformity of the middle class‚ government manipulation‚ and the loss of individualism to the standards of an average citizen. The speaker of this poem is non-traditional as the poem is‚ in fact‚ an inscription on a “marble monument erected by the State.” The inscription is dedicated to a “JS/07 M 378”—presumably‚ “The Unknown Citizen‚” although this term
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One of the most well known area visited of Arlington National Cemetery is the Tomb of the Unknowns. Many of the soldiers buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns fought in World War One. Additionally‚ millions of soldiers had died during the first World War and many American soldiers were brought home from the European battlefields and many others’ were never identified. On October 21‚ 1921‚ four coffins were dug up from the four American military cemeteries‚ which were located in France. Corporal
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