the azure above us. It is‚ after all‚ an occurrence that happens almost daily. Every now and then‚ when we look up to the heavens‚ we could sometimes see one lone bird soaring against the blue. What makes this line surreal‚ though‚ is the fact that it gives the reader the idea that the bird is trapped in an eternal flight. That it is forced to cover the vastness of the heavens‚ never to rest‚ never to stop in its journey. Yes‚ some birds are known to migrate from one place to another‚ and they could
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I knew that tomorrow I would begin the whole thing over again. I would wake up and wonder if I’m crazy. I would meditate and try to contain myself throughout the day. I envied the dead who can look forward to becoming bones with their hair scattered around their skulls. What can I say‚ I long only to sleep without dreams. I have only my weed and my beer to console me. I am tired of all this war stuff swirling around me. How I wish I could find a woman to sleep with. I wish I could look into her
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FORMULATING A CONCLUDING SENTENCE FOR A PARAGRAPH Why is a concluding sentence important in a paragraph? It is needed to show that the writer has completed what he wants to say and to leave in the reader’s mind a final statement of the paragraph’s main idea. What is a concluding sentence? It pulls together or summarizes the main idea of the paragraph‚ usually in a single sentence. The concluding sentence also provides a definite ending point for the paragraph. What can you do to make sure that
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BOB KNOWLTON Case overview: Bob Knowlton is the team leader at Photon Lab headed by Dr. Jerrold. All of sudden a new member Simon Fester was introduced to the lab with being proper introduction and defining his role and position. Fester in intelligent man looking deep into the projects under execution in lab and start to cross over Bob and take his position with his aggressive and oppotunist approach. Bob‚ who believes in team work‚ starts feeling inferior to his new member and feels that he cannot
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Confessions of an Embarrassed Soldier Tim O’Brien’s personal short story‚ “On the Rainy River‚” evokes an inner struggle to serve‚ or to “run” to Canada. O’Brien shamefully expresses his own horrific tale of compromise of the draft in the summer of ‘68. At 21 years old‚ “young‚ yes‚ and politically naive‚” he feels “moral confusion” for the decision he has to make. O’Brien’s use of first person narration in his old age‚ evokes a sense of embarrassment which he feels for choosing to fight in
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sisters on a car trip‚ with Jackson Rapier at the helm and wife by his side as they end up exploring ‘by providence’ an absolutely authentic Cherokee trading post‚ as the author put it elsewhere‚ in a “John Wayne movie and TV reruns of The Lone Ranger” version of Indian culture. Riley uses a clever literary device in the choice for the name of the foster family‚ as a rapier is in fact the name for a short sword…and this family does indeed live up to this as it relates to their antagonistic
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her husband and is then tortured by isolation. The Wanderer is about a lone man who is traveling over an ice-cold sea‚ hoping for God’s mercy despite being condemned to loneliness. The elements of an elegy are found in The Seafarer‚ The Wife’s Lament‚ and The Wanderer. The Seafarer is an old Anglo-Saxon poem in which a man is traveling across the sea while he is being troubled with harsh weather conditions. In this poem‚ the lone sailor laments his old life. This is shown through the weather; the
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are more important. The biggest mountain of the whole would be Mount Whitney which happens to be the tallest mountain in all of the continental United States. Mount Whitney stands at a modest 14‚505 feet. It is located right outside of the town of Lone Pine and is an obvious attraction because of its record holding. Therefore‚ many people are eager to reach the highest point in the US so a trail was built on the western slope to allow hikers to conquer the mountain. The main trail is the Mount Whitney
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by white writers for white audiences that feature Native American characters: Robinson Crusoe from the eponymous novel by Daniel Defoe‚ Ishmael from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick‚ Hawkeye from James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales‚ and The Lone Ranger‚ the titular hero of radio and television serials. King furthers this theme of cultural conflict by demonstrating the power that popular culture has in shaping one society’s perception of another. In addition to the names of the four Native American
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or not he should follow his own desires or turn back and face his fears. O’Brien spoke of courage that builds up over time; this courage was finally taped into when he becomes fully alone‚ away from society and his family‚ much like his hero the Lone Ranger. “Like a weight pushing me toward the war” At this point in the story‚ O’Brien realises that his loves and passions were at the very center of American Society “I loved baseball and hamburgers” and he would have to join this conformity to become
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