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    In his novel The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald used the colors green‚ white‚ and yellow for symbolism-representing money‚ innocence‚ and corruption respectively. The use of symbolic color occurs throughout the novel‚ helping give a better understanding and description of characterization and setting. In literature‚ green is often used to symbolize money‚ envy‚ and in Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby’s love for Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald most often used green to represent old money. This is a factor in Jay

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    THE TITLE can be centered around the relationship of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth. As stated by Joann Morse in her afterword to the novel‚ Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth move past the roles fixed for them to become full human beings with insight and understanding rather than flat figures of pride and prejudice . Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy do still experience some pride and some prejudice ‚ but unlike others‚ they are able to overcome that with some insight and understanding. ELIZABETH is described

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    The Chanupa pipe might not sound too familiar but its shape has created the mold that most of today’s smoking pipes take after. The Chanupa pipe is a very sacred utensil to the cultures that use it. It’s most common use is for conveying prayers to the “creator”. The pipe itself isn’t just one piece‚ its multiple pieces added on to each other. Each of these pieces hold a different symbolic meaning‚ finding these symbolic details would be very hard to members not included in a specific culture because

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    The course of the Montgomery Bus boycott was made up of various significant events. It all began with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the Montgomery Bus on the afternoon of December 1st 1955. She was taken to jail‚ fingerprinted and was allowed to use the phone. This is when Rosa Parks made contact with the Black civil rights leaders and when they began to take action on there plan to boycott Montgomery busses. This was the beginning of the protest against segregation. The protest began

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    In Dante’s Inferno‚ Dante incorporates Virgil’s depiction of the Underworld from The Aeneid into his poem‚ and borrows much of Virgil’s language‚ style‚ and content. Although the Hell depicted in Dante’s Inferno is essentially grounded in the literary construction of the netherworld found in Virgil’s The Aeneid‚ in their features‚ the two realms are quite different. Virgil’s underworld stands largely undifferentiated‚ and Aeneas walks through it without taking any specific notice of the landscape

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    Novel Notebook: To Kill a Mockingbird 1. Setting/Matter: The setting for this book is Maycomb‚ a small stagnant town in Alabama in the 1930s. It is a small town so everyone knew everyone in the town. This setting helped contribute to the results of Tom Robinson’s trial. Since everyone else knew each other‚ the townspeople would know if a member of the jury voted for Tom’s innocence. This greatly contributed to the result of the trial. This book takes place in the 1930s in the south‚ which contributes

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    Griffen Juckniewitz Mr. Murray‚ p. 8 History 9 22 April‚ 2016 Operation Torch World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945. The two sides of the war were the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers. The United States‚ Soviet Union‚ Great Britain‚ and Japan made up the Allied Powers. Franklin Roosevelt‚ Joseph Stalin‚ and Winston Churchill were at the helm of these countries. The Axis Powers were led by Adolf Hitler of Germany‚ Emperor Hirohito of Japan‚ and Benito Mussolini of Italy. This Alliance was sparked

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    The First Sacred War was fought with Thessaly‚ Athens‚ and Sicyon on one side and Kirrah on the other. The battle was fought from 595 B.C. to 585 B.C. Thessaly‚ Athens‚ and Sicyon claimed it to be a “Holy War”‚ hence the name Sacred War. They claimed it a “Holy War” because they were given the blessing of The Amphictyony of Anthela. The First Sacred War would consist of the first known use of biological warfare‚ curses‚ and the god’s divine powers. The war lasted ten years because the

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    Part III. The following discourse is extracted from Barack Obama‚ the US president’s victory speech‚ who addressed his supporters in Chicago after decisively winning a second term on 7th Nov‚ 2012. Clause in Paragraph 1 | Textual | Interpersonal | Tropical | Other themes | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. | | -Thank you-Thank you -Thank you so much | -Thank you-Thank you -Thank you so much | | Clause in Paragraph 2 | | | | | Tonight‚ more than 200 years after a former

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    though they won only land by losing the life of men and becoming wounded. The victory might taste bittersweet in contrast to the “sweetness” in the first stanza. At this point Dickinson switches the perspective to the wounded and dying men of the defeated‚ clinging to the last bit of their life. The last line describes the sorrow of the man. Ironically the victorious are not able to measure the value of their victory as well as the defeated who hear the music from the distance. The defeat is the

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