The House of Mapuhi‚ Jack London Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines‚ the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze‚ and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water‚ a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide‚ twenty miles in circumference‚ and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell‚ and from the deck of the schooner‚ across the slender
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Mecca Nelson Mrs. Balas & Ms. Delivuk Period 8 2/7/13 Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman show the effect the death of a great President has on the nation in their two pieces “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Funeral Train.” They include significant details such as the amounts of people affected and the shock of the nation due to this tragic event. Whitman and the American people in Sandburg’s piece have two unique but somewhat similar responses to Lincoln’s assassination. In “The Funeral
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pay. Carnegie like to give back to the people but he wanted recognition for everything he put his money to. Besides all of these‚ Carnegie was really just trying to help the economy and the community at the same time. So that is what makes him a Captain of
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When captain Jaggery thinks that Charlotte murdered Mr. Hollybrass to revenge Zachariah’s death‚ but it was not Charlotte who had done that‚ it was the captain. Captain Jaggery had murdered Mr. Hollybrass to revenge Zachariah’s death and he had put this on Charlotte Doyle. Charlotte had realize that one of the crew was on captain Jaggery’s side when she met Zachariah. It is not just Charlotte who uses their strength
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after Caesar is murdered by Brutus and the other conspirators he and Mark Antony give speeches. Brutus’s speech is over the reasons that he and the others murdered Caesar. Mark Antony’s speech the surface telling the citizens of Rome to not go against Brutus but is actually designed to stir up the people of Rome so that they will go into rebellion against Brutus and that so Mark Antony can Rome. Both these speeches give a huge amount of insight into not only the characters of Brutus and Mark Antony
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In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ there is an obvious conflict between the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ and his boss‚ Captain Beatty. The conflict develops as Montag’s ideas do. Once Montag is introduced to Clarisse McClellan‚ he begins to reevaluate his beliefs toward his society. “You always said‚ don’t face a problem‚ burn it. Well‚ now I’ve done both.” (Bradbury 121) Montag was referring to Beatty. In Beatty’s eyes‚ books were the problem and instead of solving this so-called problem‚ he chose
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Captain Black finds it impossible to see things outside of black and white‚ he sees everything in binary. Anything at all that is not American‚ he fears. Anything related to a utopian society or Nazism is automatically labeled by Captain Black. Because of his black and white point of view‚ Captain Black is seen as a troublemaker. He does not have any desire to hear the pros and cons of things. In an argument he would be the kind of person that votes Democrat because that is “the best choice”. If
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The novel “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” is set during the Second World War on the Greek island of Cephalonia. From the Romans to the Turks to the British‚ countless suppressors had controlled the remote village. The island has a continuous change of control‚ nevertheless the resilient residences have maintained a strong sense of national identify and is. It is because of the numerous invasions that the people of Cephalonia’s community are determined to preserve their pride throughout the Italian and
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House of Burgesses America is a nation that gives its people freedoms and power through its government‚ but it did not come to be over night‚ it has been in the making for hundreds of years. There have been many factors that have made America what we know today. Initially the first Americans did not have an established government‚ they did not even have an assembly to represent the people. The first official Legislative assembly in the English colonies was the House of Burgesses (*history
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Subject: Effective Writing (EL1010) Topic: “Captain James Cook discovered Australia”. Discuss Grade Awarded: Distinction Lecturer’s Comments: A thoughtful‚ well-structured essay. The introduction is perhaps a little long in comparison with the overall length of the essay. (Note: This sample is provided in the exact form it was submitted and corrections and comments made in the text by the lecturer are not included. A Reference List was submitted by the student but this has not been included
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