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    Letters From Odysseus

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    declare that their deaths were rarely ever swift or painless. I have held down a boy of 16 years‚ four men pinning down each of his limbs‚ two others pointing their barrels straight at him‚ while I shoved the barrel of my gun down his mouth to keep it from shutting‚ and pumped saltwater into his lungs till his limb’s dutiful machinations ceased and he drowned on dry earth. We have taken prisoners who held up their hands with peaceful reverence and submission and shot their bodies full of bullets till

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    Birmingham Bombing

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    Michael Reynolds English 101 001 Dr. Roger West May 13‚ 2013 The sixteenth street Baptist church in Birmingham‚ Alabama used for meetings to protesting the cities unwillingness to desegregate it’s public schools on September 15 1963 a bomb exploded during Sunday school killing Denise McNair‚ Caroline Robertson‚ Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins‚ it would be fourteen years before anyone was even charged with the crime and many more before all were brought to justice. On that same day Governor

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    “Imagination in A Christmas Carol” Graham Holderness says A Christmas Carol categorically that the writer’s imagination fails. Scrooge is allowed to slide into a rarefied limbo of Christmas sentiment and Christian charity‚ so abstract as to be empty of life and meaning. His encounter with the three ghosts is far more credible‚ far more realistic‚ than this closing vision of life of permanent goodness‚ which scarcely resembles human life at all. In one respect‚ of course‚ this misses the point

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    A Letter from the Trenches

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    brown rats ripped through the Germans brains and was still hungry. In fact‚ he got scared so much‚ we tried to hide in No Man’s Land to get away but their snipers shot through him quite literally. By the time it was safe‚ we had finished breakfast from the last of our uncontaminated supplies. And just after that we got on ‘Lice Duty’‚ picking out all those eggs was futile‚ as there were some hidden in the seams of the clothing. Those slugs and beetles were worse than ever‚ crowding the walls of the

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    Letter from Trenches

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    A letter from the trenches Grade 9 Humanities - Assessment Task AOI: Health and Social Education Imagine you are a soldier fighting in the First World War in 1915… Your character could be in the trenches on the Western Front as: British‚ French or German soldier a native conscript from one of the colonies in Africa or Asia a volunteer from a commonwealth ally like Canada or South Africa Alternatively‚ your character could be: a German or Russian soldier on the Eastern Front a Turkish

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    transportation‚ a difficult time to import items from other states and then adjustment from war of peace. Winter did not just represent cold‚ snow‚ wind‚ gray sky‚ limited sunshine‚ but a limiting of the senses. With this in mind it have also been difficult to obtain an orange that would have been harvested in a usually warm place‚ such as Florida or California. The orange not only became a symbol of a season and the holidays but an object that turned the senses on. From the orange’s color‚ touch of the skin

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    A Letter from the Front

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    My Darling Amy‚ I hope this letter finds both you and the boys fit and well. I know that I said I would write every day‚ but it has just not been possible for the past couple of days‚ I hope you haven’t been worrying too much? We moved into a new position yesterday. I am now in a place called the Somme‚ It’s somewhere in the north of France. This morning I received two of your letters‚ dated the 3rd and 7th December in addition to the package you sent. Will you thank the boys for the lovely pictures

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    Well one that stood out strongly would be grief… Dominique: Define what you mean? Joey: (sighs) I was about to… Well there were two different griefs within the novel. The grief of the family and friends of Susie. But also her own grief being apart from the ones she loves and cares about‚ watching their sadness would be heartbreaking. The fact that our country experiences death of teenagers‚ in fact New Zealand has the second highest rate of teenage death in the Western world is also pretty sad. All

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    Letters from the Trenches

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    Dear my Beloved wife and children‚ At last‚ my opportunity to write you a letter has come. This opportunity will not come for awhile so sit comfortably and have a cup of tea with the children when you read this. I miss you‚ Elena. Every day I yearn to hear the soft voice of yours and your touch against my skin. I miss hearing and seeing the kids fight with each other over a wooden toy. Although it irritated and caused me stress‚ I would rather hear that than hear the faint cries of young innocent

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    Letter from hospital

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    Letter: Ms Vanessa Johnson 16 Whitehall Lane London‚ Essex AB12 3ZY 7 July 1916 Dearest Mother‚ I thought I should write to let you know im safe and im recovering. I miss you and the rest give everyone a hug from me and tell Rosie I hope she’s being good. The hospital is constantly got new soldiers coming in suffering from nervous exhaustion and shell shock too so im not the only one‚ the doctor said it is an injury to the nerves and told

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