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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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    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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    pursued further than death? Condemned villain ‚ I do apprehend thee. Obey and go with me‚ for thou must die. Romeo I must indeed‚ and therefor came I hither‚ Good gentle youth‚ tempt not a desperate man For thou nor any man shall prevent me from being with my love tonight‚ Put not another sin upon my head By urging me to fury. O be gone For

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    is a good day to be alive‚ whether the sun shine or not.” -Marry Robbins We must face our life everyday as a new beginning. We must thank God that we our alive and he gave us another day to use to have a new adventure‚ to correct our wrongs from another day‚ to make someone happy and to make your life more

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    the downfall of a tragic hero within a piece of literature. In the play Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus is a tragic hero with a hamartia that leads to his inevitable downfall. He possesses three traits that have been debated on to be his hamartia: his hubris (excessive pride)‚ his heinous temperament‚ and his consummate determination. Of these three traits Oedipus possesses‚ I’ve believe that his hamartia is his profligate pride. Oedipus was a proud man. After all‚ who wouldn’t be proud of defeating a Sphinx

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    damage taken from war is thoroughly shown in the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien‚ the veteran Donald Burkle‚ and the song “Breakdown” by hip hop artist J. Cole. Many people weren’t very happy with the vietnam war because of how the u.s. involved themselves in the war and how it ended. The book The Things They Carried is a story about a veterans experiences in war and talks about how after leaving the war how it affected him. The war caused many soldiers such as Jimmy Cross from O’brien’s

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    go after Rune / Ove has a “big heart” hospital. Scene 1 - Ove just simply wants to end his life‚ “All he wants is to die.”. However‚ he fails to do so because his neighbours continue to bother him‚ which ironically are who he wishes to get away from. “Why can’t these lunatics respect that?” (P.58). He wants to be left alone. Ove has an external conflict and a prejudiced attitude with everyone he meets‚ because he feels that the new generation is incapable of doing any work properly and he fears

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    He does not think his natural thoughts‚ or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him “I always hear Harry’s views from his friends” “You filled me with the wild desire to know everything about life” “Your voice and the voice of Sibyl Vane are two voices that I shall never forget … I don’t know which one to follow” “It must be if you say it” “Dorian Gray

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    Theme: It takes courage to stand up for what you believe is right. 1. “I asked Minerva why she was doing such a dangerous thing. And then‚ she said the strangest thing. She wanted me to grow up in a free country” (Alvarez 39). While Minerva and Maria Teresa are in school at Inmaculada Concepcion‚ Minerva starts sneaking out to secret meetings regarding the unfair government. When she explains to Mate where she had been sneaking off to‚ Mate does not understand and disapproves of the meetings. Although

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    Beatrice: Plot: Act 1 a) Supports Catherine’s request to be allowed to take a job‚ “Listen‚ she’s gotta go to work sometime”‚ and then hints at the perverse nature of their relationship to Eddie‚ “she’s seventeen years old‚ you gonna keep her in the house all her life”. She comments on other similar issues to support her claim‚ “First is was gonna be when she graduated high school‚ so she graduated high school. Then it was gonna be when she learced stenographer‚ so she learned stenographer. So

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