“I am proud to be an Indian” India is a great country with many religions. It has rich natural resources and lengthy frontier with vast region. North has The Himalayas and south with the Hindu ocean‚ Bay of Bengal in the east and the west has the sea Arabian. It’s being administered with language wise partition. All are leading peaceful life with national integration. Enemy’s conspiracy is impossible with the unity of the nation. Festivals are celebrated here with memorable function. People
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soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others‚ Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.”(Rowling 81). In addition‚ three of them would take the risks together as a team with Harry as a leader to find the stone‚ “ i’ll use the Invisibility Cloak‚ said Harry. ‘It’s just lucky i got it back.’ ‘But will it cover all three of us?’ said Ron. ‘All – all three of us?’‘Oh‚ come off it‚ you don’t think we’d let you go alone?’‘Of course not‚’ said
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particular line so important? These words were coming from a frustrated and broken Biff Loman towards his father Willy Loman. This very quote portrays both sides of a contradicting theme: the concept of selfishness vs. selfishness. Willy Loman’s selfish character in comparison to his son Biff’s selfishness presents opposing characteristics that together end in tragedy. These concepts along with the idea of identity were observed in Arthur Miller’s‚ Death of a Salesman. There is no doubt‚ a traditional
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Pushing one’s friends and families aside to go after a treacherous‚ egotistical dream is an extreme display of selfishness. In the book‚ Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris McCandless abandons both his family and friends when he undertakes a solo adventure to Alaska‚ which he was ill-prepared for‚ but went through with anyway. McCandless went on this endeavor for the sole purpose to examine his own‚ self-indulgent curiosity about the wild‚ no matter how that affected his family. This decision‚ in
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The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ named after the Mesopotamian king of that name‚ tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures and his struggles with the forces of the divine. The Epic does not describe Gilgamesh‚ the part-god part-human‚ in his role as the king of Uruk in great detail; what is described‚ however‚ is hardly flattering. Gilgamesh is portrayed as arrogant and demanding. In particular‚ he uses his position of power to bed married women before their bridegrooms do; it is this offense which first introduces
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OEDIPUS REX In the tragedy Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus commits several immoral acts. Typically‚ society views these as evil and unjust. However‚ although Oedipus commits several licentious deeds‚ Sophocles makes the reader sympathize because Oedipus is oblivious to the incriminating facts. Throughout the play Oedipus Rex commits numerous crimes the society see as immorally wrong. Oedipus believes that if he leaves Corinth he will be able to avoid his fate. The oracle says the Oedipus will kill
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In the short story The Scarlet Ibis The older brother is an extremely harsh‚ selfish‚ and proud young boy‚ he compels and manipulates Doodle to overcome his disabilities out of embarrassment leading to disastrous consequences. For example‚ the older brother makes Doodle learn how to walk because he is humiliated about having a crippled little brother‚ the narrator even admits Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.”(178) The older brother had absolutely no concern
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Nathaniel Hawthorne challenges love’s true power in his novel The Scarlet Letter‚ a tale of adultery‚ sin‚ repentance‚ and emotion. Living in a Puritan colony in the 1630s‚ Hester Prynne had been separated from her husband on their journey from Europe to America. During the 3 years of separation‚ Hester had an affair with a secret lover‚ and a child was born. The colony realized what she had done and immediately convicted her of adultery and punished her by requiring her to wear an embroidered
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that could noticed that the moon was shining over the white sands was a sailor named Rodrigo. In fact‚ it was the Island of the Bahamas‚ in the Caribbean Sea. Rodrigo was supposed to get a good amount of money‚ but never receive it‚ because this selfish man claimed that he had seen a light the evening before‚ and sure he got the reward. As we know‚ the Arawaks tribal was one of many that Columbus found in the new world‚ but the first Indian tribe who received him lived in a village and works
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I think that in this story‚ it makes it clearly how lazy and selfish Arnie is and how kind and hard worker José is. In the story José asks Arnie‚ about his part in the team and his says “ Shoot‚I’ll round up all kinds of jobs for you. You won’t have to do anything. Except-you know- do the work.(86)” In here Arnie demonstrate how lazy he is to work and how selfish he is that wants José to work alone. Also‚ when Arnie and José went to spray paint for a job they had to do‚ in the story it says “ While
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