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    Christopher Mahoney 10 / 26 / 2016 8th Grade PUT TITLE HERE "And we’ve suffered long enough under their tyrannical rule! Fight back against your oppressors‚ who keep you laboring in the fields and factories day and night‚ barely scraping by! Fight back against the people who take your work for granted! Fight back against the people that don’t appreciate you!" The crowd roared in a deafening display of anger. "Who are they to take your things as theirs‚ to call themselves righteous men yet thieve

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    Gone Fishing

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    GONE FISHING We have all heard the saying “Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day‚ But teach a man to fish‚ and you will feed him for a lifetime”. Now imagine if feeding the man wasn’t why the man went fishing in the first place. What if men taught men to fish not only because it delivered a satisfying fullness to their bellies‚ but because they knew that it also meant they would get to enjoy a emotionally fulfilling unexplained feeling they had all once felt. Beneath the obvious

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    Gone with the Wind

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    GONE WITH THE WIND The book (Gone with the Wind) is written‚ with a simple linear plot that lasts about eight years. The events that took place were during the civil war‚ which changed the lives of everyone in the south. Scarlet was a seductive woman that made poor decisions throughout the novel. There was a land of cavallies and cotton fields called the Old South. A civilization gone with the wind (page 3 of the novel) the love of money

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    Once Gone

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    Once gone‚ forever Gone In a life time‚ a person can and will experience a diverse range of fears‚ from small to life changing fears. In the novels it is no different‚ the characters themselves could be ruled by their or they can overcome their fears. In the novel Love in the time Cholera‚ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ aging is a deeply rooted fear in the characters’ lives that to some extent influences their decisions which causes them to be more aware of the dangers in their surroundings. Aging

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    The Dead and the Gone

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    Quinn Perry Mrs. Laureen Batchelor American Literature II April 7‚2013 The Dead and the Gone Life can offer many dark and twisted challenges to an individual. A life can change from a single decision; and‚ perhaps a part of life‚ becomes accepting one’s own decisions…right and wrong. In The Dead and The Gone ‚by Susan Pfeffer‚ seventeen-year-old Alex Morales faces loss‚ remorse‚ and death when an asteroid collides with the moon and chaos erupts in urban New York City. Assuming both of

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    married John Robert Marsh. After ten years of writing her 1000 page novel that takes place in the Civil War era‚ Gone With the Wind was published in 1936. Receiving the 1937 Pulitzer Prize‚ Gone With the Wind became one of the best-selling novels of all time. But Mitchell wasn’t as fond of the uprising popularity of her work and she eventually fell ill from exhaustion. Even though Gone With the Wind was her only novel‚ Margaret continued to write nonfiction. In 1949‚ Margaret was hit by a car while

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    1. "When I recovered‚ Dad picked me up and heaved me back into the middle of the Hot Pot. ’Sink or swim!’ he called out. For the second time‚ I sank. The water once more filled my nost and lungs. I kicked and flailed and thrashed my way to the surface‚ gasping for air‚ and reached out to Dad. But he pulled back‚ and I didn’t feel his hands around me until I’d sunk one more time (Walls‚6). Throughout the book‚ an irregular act of the author was clear mainly due to the harsh parenting style of

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    Overview • Setting (time): 1861–early 1870s. • Setting (place): Atlanta; Tara‚ the O’Hara plantation in northern Georgia. • Major conflict: Scarlett struggles to find love‚ trying out Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler‚ while simultaneously trying to adjust to the changing face of the South. • Rising action: Scarlett confesses her love to Ashley; Scarlett marries Rhett; Scarlett and Ashley embrace. • Climax: Bonnie dies while horseback riding‚ breaking the tie that binds Rhett and Scarlett.

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    He is a self-appointed boss of everyone he knows. From his friends to his family‚ Stanley barks orders to make sure that everything goes as he wants. Even at his poker night‚ he tells his friend when they can leave or not. So‚ when Blanche starts making changes around “his” house‚ he shows a strong hatred

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    Person: I was abandoned by my parents when I was 9 months old. I have wanted to find my parents for a very long time‚ even if they are stinky old drunks. I have one friend named Gavin that has been with me since the first time I stepped foot in the orphanage. He is always cracking jokes and care free. I am planning to leave the orphanage ‚ but I have a hunch that Gavin is trying to keep me from something. Backstory Third Person: Ace was abandoned by his parents when he was only 9 months old. He

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