In Cold Mountain‚ Charles Frazier describes the epic journey home of wounded Confederate soldier Inman from Petersburg to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Inman’s physical voyage home is paralleled by the mental journey made by his sweetheart‚ Ada‚ in her transformation from city girl’ into mountain woman’. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war‚ all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst
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wanted to read| |this book. |another book of her. | |4. Where and when is the story in the book |In the present in a place called Wildflower Ridge. | |set? | | |5. In short say what the story is about. |It’s about a girl
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McVeigh dropped out of college and joined the army when he was 18 years old. He felt that the government had no reason to kill several people at Waco or Ruby Ridge. This is when he decided to take care of the situation himself‚ and decided to blow up a building and murder countless people. He believed that people learn traits from the government and he felt that the government were not higher up that the people of the United States. It’s an "equal" country‚ so shouldn’t everyone be "equal?" I
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McVeigh became a decorated soldier during Desert Storm while Nichols and Fortier left the military under questionable circumstances. 1. After McVeigh left the military he turned to selling guns at gun shows. That was where he learned about Ruby Ridge. 2. McVeigh with Nichols and Fortier while working together selling drugs all watched the attack on the Branch Dividians killing 75 followers and became even more antigovernment. 3. The three friends decided at that time to fight back against
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Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ the scope of southern novels by authors such as William Faulkner‚ and the appreciation of nature expressed in the poetry of Walt Whitman. Frazier lives in North Carolina‚ and his choice of Cold Mountain’s setting along the Blue Ridge Mountains conveys his profound identification with this hallowed terrain. The epic novel charts its course through the troubled waters of nineteenth-century American history. The action is set in 1864‚ three years after the outbreak of the Civil War
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diesel fuel and many other explosives. The perpetrator was Timothy McVeigh‚ “a member of the American militia movement and hated the federal government” (p.182). That was for the mishandling of the attack on the Waco Complex and the events at Ruby Ridge‚ which were between militia members‚ and the federal government. In revenge on America‚ he packed a rental truck with the explosives and detonated it in front of the nine-story building. This bombing immediately destroyed the federal building
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________. Answer | | craton | | | shield | | | platform | | | belt | 2 points Question 4 1. The most prominent features on the ocean floor are the ________. Answer | | deep-ocean trenches | | | oceanic ridges | | | seamounts | | | lava plateaus | 2 points Question 5 1. The ________ forms the relatively cool‚ brittle plates of plate tectonics. Answer | | asthenosphere | | | lithosphere | | | astrosphere | | |
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drawing her to the farm‚ whether it is her friendship with the Swangers‚ memories‚ or the connection to the woods‚ ridges‚ and the creek. In the book it says‚ “The ground beneath her hands was dry and littered with chick feathers and old chicken shit and the hard dead leaves of the bush.” This describes Ada taking little steps towards living an independent life at the farm until Ruby comes and helps Ada work the farm. “The Ground beneath Her hands” is referring to the ground Ada has to learn to take
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The Oklahoma City Bombing claimed the lives of 168 people and caused hundreds of injuries (“From Decorated Veteran to Mass Murderer” 1). But who did it‚ and more importantly why? The attack happened during a time when most Americans thought terrorism was an overseas problem and served as a wake-up call; no one expected that an act of terrorism would be carried out on US soil‚ let alone done by American citizens. The bombing left the country stunned and has caused various social and political changes
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were injured. The London bombing was done to promote the myths of radical Islam terrorists and in protest of Great Britain’s involvement in the Iraqi War. The Oklahoma City bombing was done to protest the government and the FBI’s handling of the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents. According to the person responsible for the Olympic park bombing‚ it was done in protest global socialism. While all three had different reasons‚ they all are acts of terrorism that killed and injured innocent people. The
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