light is faith‚ family‚ or friends but once they are gone it comes down to personal choices‚ even if they have to be made blindly. Similar choices are seen in Elie Wiesel’s Night‚ JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ and John Knowles A Separate Peace. Elie‚ Holden‚ and Gene have to make decisions about their lives and how they are going to live them. The choices offered to them‚ however‚ are not always win or lose. The line separating good and bad‚ right and wrong‚ and love and hate is changing
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Gail Tsukiyama’s The Samurai’s Garden is set in 1930s Japan‚ the theme of war and peace is developed through Character interaction. Characters in the story have very different reactions to the same circumstances. Through the character of Stephen‚ one can conclude that outside forces do not control a person’s life because in life‚ people can take what has been given to them and do with it what they wish. In other words‚ life is what you make of it. Even though the war in China is very important
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War I caused mass devastation to the world. The lives taken by the war included a total of about 16.5 million civilian and soldier casualties and about 20 million wounded persons. The ramifications of the war were dealt with through the creation of peace treaties and armistices. This includes‚ but‚ is not limited to the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine‚ The Treaty of Sèvres‚ and the Treaty of Versailles. When focusing on the Treaty of Versailles‚ it was due to the strength of liberal and conservative forces
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Friendship can change people’s lives for better and for worse. In John Knowles’ A Separate Peace‚ the main characters‚ Gene and Phineas‚ have a complicated relationship which changes both of their lives. Gene is better off having been friends with Finny because Finny’s death causes him to accept responsibility and reality. Preceding Finny’s death‚ Gene does not admit responsibility for Phineas’ fall. Gene decides to tell Finny that the fall was his fault‚ because he thinks that is what Phineas would
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Palestinians Ifat Maoz Department of Communication and Journalism Hebrew University of Jerusalem‚ Israel Reference: Journal of Peace Research‚ Revised and Resubmitted Abstract In the past few decades‚ planned contact interventions between groups in conflict have played an important role in attempts at improving intergroup relations and achieving peace and reconciliation. This article focuses on such reconciliation-aimed intergroup encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians that
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World Peace‚ Is It Even Possible? We need to try something new to make world peace because politics and the government say that they will improve‚ but look at the world‚ there is still war going on. It may not be here‚ and we might not see it but it’s going on in so many other countries. We need to start thinking about it not just for the people‚ but for all the animals that live in those conditions as well‚ and the water we are polluting. in the long run‚ it affects us all‚ that’s why we need
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Every teenager struggles with figuring out who they are. Sometimes‚ it takes someone else to help them fully understand themselves. In the story A Separate Peace‚ Gene Forrester is a senior at a boarding school called Devon. Just like most other teens‚ Gene doesn’t know himself completely and has yet to discover who he really is. But Gene forms an incredibly close relationship with his best friend Phineas‚ and together they make new discoveries about themselves. Their close‚ sometimes complicated
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Brenda Rodriguez August 27‚ 2012 Brenda Rodriguez August 27‚ 2012 A Separate Peace ABC List A is for Author‚ who is John Knowles. Athletics which Finny is best at. B is for Blitzball: Finny invented the sport to copy what he believes it is like in the war. C is for Codependency: Finny depends on Gene to play sports and Gene depends on Finny to provide him an identity other than his own. D is for Devon School: Devon School is the setting of A Separate Piece. Denial: Gene
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Jonathon Iwegbu is the main character in the story A Civil Peace. He would be classified as the protagonist throughout the reading‚ meaning he is the leading character throughout the story. The first description that is observed of Jonathon is that he feels to be a very lucky man in the face of a grave disaster. ‘He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings” (Achebe). He survived the war himself‚ and all but one member of his family survived. It doesn’t state if the loss of his son
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injustices of the government. How ever this is true also when talking about Gene and Finny‚ Gene is consistently trying and failing to find fault in his flawless best friend Phineas. This begs the question of is Gene truly evil? In the novel A Separate Peace‚ Gene is inherently evil‚ because he is mis-trusting‚ self- centered‚ and cannot bring himself to accept the fact that there is such a thing as a true friendship. The fact the Gene is mis-trusting is evident throughout the book. After being best friends
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