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    you to do but throw away everything and follow Him‚ and if He didn’t‚ then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can- by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness.” (O’Connor 211) If the Misfit could have seen with his own eyes the work of Jesus he would believe but because he can’t see it‚ it isn’t real. Manly Pointer in Good Country People is a traveling bible salesman and con artist

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    Gender Roles In Bullying

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    Bullying is a social process which involves a person’s intent to harm another. The behaviour is repetitive‚ and there is an imbalance of power between the bully and the victim. There is both direct (verbal and physical) and indirect (cyber and relational) forms of bullying. It has been argued by literature that bullying involves a power struggle between the bully and the victim. Bullies engage in behaviours such as building alliances‚ recruiting loyal followers and engage in interpersonal manipulation

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    Bibliography: Ingersoll‚ E (1996). Engendered Trope in Joyce ’s Dubliner‚ Carbondale‚ IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Joyce‚ J (1914). Dubliners‚ p27-33‚ Penguin Books‚ Melbourne. Mandel‚ J (1985). The Structure of ’Araby‚ Modern Language Studies 15:4‚ p48-54. Mangan‚ J (1922). Dark Rosaleen‚ http://www.daypoems.net/poems/616.html‚ viewed 19th April

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    hawk is in no condition to continue to live‚ and he must do something about it. He is very sympathetic towards the condition of the hawk and contemplates on what would be best. He says “Leaving her wing-shot in the dirt like that would take more meanness than I thought I could manage. At the same time‚ though‚ I knew the right thing to do would be to step quickly across the sand and kick her to death.” He is very empathetic towards the hawk‚ and doesn’t know what would be the best way of handling

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    up killing them. Steinbeck never portrays Lennie as a killer as he never tries to kill anything in cold blood. Throughout the novel Lennie kills different things and always feels regret afterwards. In the novel George says ‘Lennie never done it in meanness. All the time he done bad things‚ but he never done one of em mean”’. This shows How George feels sympathy for Lennie as he always manages to get other people upset at him and always manages to get himself into trouble but Steinbeck is showing the

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    been out with the guys‚ but nobody wanted to talk to her because they thought she was a tramp so they discriminated her. Now she’s lonely and can’t talk to anyone except for a few “bindle stiffs.” When she was killed‚ Steinbeck describes as “the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face” (Steinbeck 92-93). Steinbeck makes her seem like a tramp at first from what the ranch hands say about her‚ but all she wants to do is talk to someone. Since

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    In the story "Of Mice & Men"‚ John Steinbeck creates a pair of low-class companionship as the story ’s main character. This pair of companionship‚ George and Lennie is very different from each other‚ nothing alike‚ no matter talking about their figures‚ personality‚ IQ‚ etc‚ except that they both carry the same American dream as they spend their hard days traveling together and working in the ranch. Lennie is portrayed as being childlike. He looks up on George as a parental figure: "Lennie ’s lips

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    1729 - first Potato Famine abortions - the scheme will prevent _____ absentee landlords - ________ were sucking the money out of Ireland alive - besides making 8 shillings‚ the parents won’t have to worry about keep the child ____ after the first year alms - money or goods given to the poor; charity animosity - n: hostility; hatred annum - Yearly (as in per annum) appeal to authority - cites "experts" in the field as if this action would resolve the issue appeal to pity - arouses strong feelings

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    “Araby‚” a short story from James Joyce’s Dubliners‚ recounts an unnamed boy’s transition from childhood into adulthood‚ from a life filled with fantasy to all the harsh realities of life in Ireland under British rule. The narrator of the story is the older version of the protagonist‚ and as a result the prose seems far from what a child would write—a preadolescent would not display such self-awareness and understanding. Further examination of the text shows that the narrator is actually embarrassed

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    you’re always going to feel as though someone is better than you and this will always leave you coming up short. This could cause us to be jealous or envious of others. This negative comparison leads towards insecurities‚ which then can lead to meanness and even bullying. Just as you can find someone who is better than you‚ you can also find someone worse than you‚ which brings us to our second reason why we shouldn’t compare. When you believe someone is not as good as you‚ you began to judge

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