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    Pearl Harbor Picture yourself as a crew member on one of the naval ships in Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1944 before complete destruction began. It’s a perfectly calm Sunday; everyone’s going about their own duties in a peaceful manner. Suddenly in the sky dozens of fighter pilots zoom overhead. Crew members have zero time to react to the planes as they begin to fire and drop bombs in the harbor. The initial surprise and confusion of the attack prevents any actions of defense. This attack on Pearl

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    Power is the source of evil‚ and is used in multiple scenarios. In the books The Pearl and Animal Farm a common theme is shared; power corrupts people’s minds. In the stories they show characters minds being corrupted by power. In this essay I will show you how Kino and the doctor from The Pearl and Napoleon from Animal Farm gets corrupt. First of all‚ Animal Farm is about a farm run by animals. Snowball was the lead animal. But another animal‚ a pig name Napoleon wanted that power. So

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    with. The Pearl couldn’t be a better example as the protagonist‚ Kino‚ goes mad over the opportunity he has to change his life. Upon finding the pearl‚ he was stuck in poverty but his simple life suddenly becomes as complex as the pearl he found. Of the many symbols in the book‚ the most important three are best represented in the things Kino loved the most‚ the pearl‚ his family‚ and a fancied rifle. Let’s start off with the item that made the story what it is‚ the pearl itself. The pearl of the world

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    Drawing inferences from The Pearl. 1‚2‚3‚6 1. Juana does not consult Kino about getting the doctor when the baby is stung. Yet Juana is a dutiful‚ submissive woman to Kino in all things: why not in this situation? “The doctor would not come‚ Kino said to Juana. She looked up at him‚ her eyes as cold as the eyes of a lioness. This was Juana’s first baby—this was nearly everything there was in Juana’s world. And Kino saw her determination and the music of the family sounded in his head with

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    that day‚some were in it‚some had family in it. On that very day at 8 a.m Pearl Harbor was attacked. Ships went under the water as the poor souls swam for their lives. Airplanes crashed into loved ones homes and their work places. The poor American people were running for shelter when most were shot and killed or very badly wounded. The attack went on for two hours from 8 a.m to 10a.m. The soldiers‚ the people of pearl Harbor and people just visiting had to hopefully survive the attack. Most

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    Pearl Harbor Battle Analysis On a pleasant and beautiful Sunday‚ December 7‚ 1984‚ Japan implemented a surprise attack on the US Naval Base in Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu‚ Hawaii which gave United States a door to enter into World War II. Even though Japan did not follow through with the attack causing the third wave of bombers to break contact from dropping bombs to finish off the rest of the fleet docking in Pearl Harbor‚ it was a well prepared‚ and carefully orchestrated attack on

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    Anything can be used as a symbol‚ and in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne there are many different symbols. A certain import symbol to me in the book is Pearl‚ Hester’s daughter. Pearl was born out of Wedlock and Hester chose to name her Pearl because “as being of great price‚ purchased with all she had—her mother’s only treasure.” A pearl is a gemstone

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    short story The Pearl‚ Kino and his family are taken through a course of fortune‚ misfortune‚ and sadness. As events take place in the story the readers and kino learn that many things are too good to be true. The best examples of this are through the pearl‚ the mountains‚ and the evil doctor. In this essay i will show how the pearl is false hope‚ how the mountains are salvation and death‚ and how the doctor is evil yet doctors are supposed to be good people. When Kino finds the pearl‚ Kino is in a

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    are many actions that took effect in The Pearl that can relate to actions that are currently in effect today. The statement “Literature is meant to serve as a magnifying glass allowing all to see what is wrong with the world” proves and serves as a true statement in The Pearl. The statement being presented can relate to The Pearl for many reasons such as greed‚ racism‚ and dehumanization. Greed is presented and can relate for reasons such as Kino and the pearl. Racism is presented and relates because

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    1. Introduction Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor is one of the most well-known military installations in the world. Pearl Harbor is located on the south coast of Oahu‚ the third largest of the eight major islands generally considered to be Hawaii. In the vicinity of Pearl Harbor are there many U.S. military installations: the U.S. Pacific naval base‚ Hickam Air Force Base‚ Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station‚ and Camp H. M. Smith‚ headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Command. The U.S. first gained rights there in

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