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    or strategy karma will get you. Like with a lion or a monsoon or how about 30 ft snakes. Maybe a stampede of rhinos charging into your living room. And the only way to stop all of this is to finish the game and yell Jumanji! In the book Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg. two siblings Peter and Judy are home alone. They decide that they want to go to the park‚ Peter finds a game with the label of JUMANJI With the child-like writing on the cover. They decide to bring it home after numerous warnings on

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    asked if he was hustling a game of pool‚ the Deacon replied‚ “No. I’m educating.” The most memorable scene for me is when McNulty sits down and talks to Briana Barksdale about D’Angelo. It is interesting to see how McNulty uses both his actual sympathy for D’Angelo

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    means to come from a broken family‚ and Capote’s recount of Smith’s childhood causes the reader to only feel sympathy for Smith. Capote does not portray Smith as a killer‚ whose crime has elevated him to an inhuman status‚ nor as a monster‚ but portrays Smith as normal human being. As a reader‚ discovering Smith’s horrible childhood made me feel something I never thought I would feel: sympathy for a killer. Whereas Capote excelled in making In Cold Blood completely sympathetic‚ some of the

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    a name gradually acquires sympathy throughout the text.   To begin with‚ the monster longs for a companion. The author conveys sympathy for the monster by the means of society isolating him. He receives no help or instruction at integrating himself into normal society.  He craves affection that his creator never gave to him.  The creature’s deprived of

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    In comparing “Sympathy” to the video “Slavery after Slavery” (12 Years a slave documentary)‚ the slaves felt caged by their master when they only wanted to be free. No matter how hard the challenges were they always motivated each other to complete their tasks. When all seem impossible for the slaves‚ they look for strength and wisdom through their belief and faith in God. The slaves were often beaten‚ so they became very angry. Although the bird in the poem “Sympathy” abuse himself‚ it was

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    Paul Dano plays the role of Dwayne‚ a depressed character in the film entitled “Little Miss Sunshine.” Depression is one of the most notorious disorders in adults and adolescents. Many patients often develop depression or depressive symptoms in their childhood or adolescence. Dwayne was a 15 year old male and had a plethora of symptoms of depression. While Dwayne‚ was capable of completing everyday tasks‚ he showed a lack of interest in the majority of things asked of him. Social withdrawal‚ sadness

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    To put it very simply - Sympathy is when you see a person depressed. You say you understand their situation. You agree with their emotion that they are going through. You might even go a step further to say that you would have also reacted in the same way had you been a part of

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    The poems Sympathy and We Wear the Mask are very similar to one another‚ they both express the pain and sorrow that the author is trying to hide. Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first African-American poets to be truly noticed; his parents were once slaves but escaped. Most of Paul Dunbar’s poems are known to be based off his parent’s experiences on plantations and other locations as slaves. We Wear the Mask is about how slavery can break you emotionally and physically‚ therefore the slaves are

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    through out the play. Shakespeare consciously builds sympathy among the audience right from the point when the character is first introduced by portraying him as a ‘vexed’‚ helpless soul ‘with himself at war’ torn between patriotism and friendship‚ giving the audience an opportunity to relate to such a “head versus heart” conflict and not only sympathize but empathize with the character. Then again in act 2‚ Shakespeare regenerates the sympathy by means of Brutus’ soliloquy‚ outlining his sleepless

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    What is the most important thing in your life? Some people think love is most important‚ but not the most important. However‚ there are two people‚ Nora Helmer the protagonist of the play‚ “A Doll House” and Jay Gatsby the protagonist of the novel‚ “The Great Gatsby” both think love is the most important thing in their lives. Even though they have had similar experience about love‚ Nora is more sympathetic because she is brave‚ kind‚ and innocent. Gatsby is less sympathetic than Nora. To

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