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    own niche. “If there is a hurricane‚ you always see the signs of it in the sky for days ahead‚ if you are at sea. They do not see it ashore because they do not know what to look for‚ he thought. The land must make a difference too‚ in the shape of the clouds. But we have no hurricane coming now.”(Page 51) Hemingway theorizes that in life unexpected collisions will occur. Just as the sea creates storms life creates storms. Those who live life to the fullest will be the least affected by these storms

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    The Old Man and the Sea Heros are made and remember in many different ways‚ in The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway an old man named Santiago show just how he is ideal everyman hero. The Old Man and the Sea symbolizes man different things that we are able to experience in our lives. In this book the great fish I believe represents the struggles and challenges that we must try and over come even if the only person you are doing it for is yourself. Sometimes in life we must do things

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    South China Sea dispute has long being discussed and also complicated. Controlling the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea is not only claiming the countries’ territory‚ but mainly gaining economic benefits of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). These benefits include natural resources: the US Energy Administration estimates that 11 billion barrels (bbl) of oil reserves and 190 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas reserves under the South China Sea. The US Geological

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    In The Heart Of The Sea‚ a book written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published on May 8‚ 2000‚ revolves around the tragedy of a whaleship named Essex‚ in the year 1820. Aboard the Essex African Americans were treated equal to the white once they set foot on the vessel. From Nantucket in 1819‚ the Essex set sail on a whale hunt that was supposed to take two to three years out in the Pacific ocean.Once at sea the whale hunters had a bad feeling of the squall that slowly approached them‚ but the

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    ENC 1101 Essay Assignment: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway There is a scene in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea‚ when after a shark has taken a big chunk “about forty pounds” off Santiago’s prize marlin catch‚ Santiago begins to doubt whether he should have gone out to sea and wishes that he had never “hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers” (103). Immediately after that‚ Santiago says‚ “But man is not made for defeat . . . A man can be destroyed but

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    it cannot escape any informed and thoughtful reader’s notice" (O’Conner 153). Ernest Hemingway was one such author. Very rarely did he summarize statements‚ therefore the only way to solve his puzzle was to take it apart and examine each components. One of the hidden elements that the reader must analyzie closely is the parallel between Santiago and Jesus Christ. In the novel‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ Ernest Hemingway creates connections between Santiago and Jesus Christ that adds religious coloration

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    Review on Oppression: An One-act Comedy by Xilin Ding After having read the excellent one-act drama by Xilin Ding‚ I was amused by the humorous dialogue and plots. At the same time‚ I feel that there are some pent-up feelings I must talk about. This play uses a humorous way to express the agony of the playwright about the bitter experience of his friend who later died a nasty death. The topic of oppression and anti-oppression is supposed to be serious‚ but in this play‚ the playwright made good

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    The Journey from Illusion to Disillusion in Hemingway’s Old Man and The Sea 	In our world today we are constantly bombarded with messages of illusion and falsity‚ however the states in which people travel through their lives differ. Some people are suspended in a state of illusion for all their lives‚ only realizing their potential on their deathbed. Others have their illusions stolen from them as a child and are brought up in a world without magic and fanciful ideas. For most‚ we discover

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    Analysis of Satellite Derived Sea Surface Temperature Data for South China Sea and Java Sea Md. Monirul Islam*‚ Kimiteru Sado* and Chan Eng Soon** *Dept. of Civil Engineering‚ Kitami Institute of Technology‚ 165 Koen-cho‚ Kitami 090-8507‚ Japan e-mail:islam-m@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp‚ sado@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp **Director‚ Tropical Marine Science Institute‚ National University of Singapore‚ 14 Kent Ridge Road Singapore 119223 e-mail:tmsdir@nus.edu.sg Abstract Monthly time-series

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    ambition to do anything‚ complain about everything‚ are brittle‚ and even senile. So one could reasonably ask how the stoic but old Cuban fisherman Santiago could possibly go without catching a fish for 87 days and then fight a fish two feet longer than his skiff and probably ten times Santiago’s weight for three days while remaining calm‚ collective‚ and strong. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel‚ The Old Man and the Seaone learns the tale of Santiago’s epic voyage to bring in the catch of his life. Through

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