"For you‚ there’s nothing in this world I wouldn’t do." This quote directly correlates to my life in so many different ways. My time in middle school has been a series of learning opportunities and reckoning with who I strive to be. Middle school has been a time of figuring out my faith‚ further strengthen of my family’s relationships‚ and finding true reliable friends. The relationships with friends and family that have evolved throughout middle school have strengthened me and will have a place
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Address (January 20‚ 1981)-. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. 4 5. "Ronald Reagan." The White House. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. 6. Michael Schaller‚ Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford‚ 1992)‚ 66. 7. Lawrence E. Walsh‚ Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up (W.W. Norton‚ 1997). 8. Michael Schaller‚ Reckoning with Reagan: America and its President in the 1980s (Oxford‚ 1992)‚ 72. 10. Quoted in Michael Kort‚ The Columbia Guide to the Cold War (Columbia‚ 2001)
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Acts of resistance against Nazi rule was commonly seen throughout Hitler’s empire. To resist is to ‘stop course of‚ repel‚ be proof against or unaffected…‚ strive against‚ oppose‚ try to impede‚ refuse to comply with’ . However‚ the meaning and levels of resistance within Nazi Germany varies between historians. This essay identifies resistance as stated by the Bacaria Project‚ “Resistance is understood as every form of active or passive behaviour which allows recognition of the rejection of the
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Works Cited Miller‚ Arthur. The Crucible‚ a Play in Four Acts. New York: Viking‚ 1953. Print. Hawthorne‚ Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Pleasantville‚ NY: Reader ’s Digest Association‚ 1984. Print. The Scarlet Letter‚ and Abigail Williams‚ from "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller‚ have both committed a crime and they are both hated by their societies. However‚ there are also differences between the two characters. Hester Prynne is the more respectable Puritan woman of the two because she
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Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sister. And that is all‚ and mark this. Let either of you breathe a word‚ or the edge of a word about the other things‚ I will come to you in the black of some terrible night‚ and I will bring with me a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it. I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine. And I have seen some reddish work done
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important in life. In the beginning‚ two people talk as if money is the most valuable thing in the world‚ but only to find out they were wrong. “And this wild‚ senseless bet was carried out! The banker‚ spoilt and frivolous‚ with millions beyond his reckoning‚ was delighted at the bet.” (Chekhov‚ 3) During the story‚ a little bit towards the ending‚ it portrays the prisoner’s sudden understanding of himself and who he is. The idea that worldly goods blind you from what is truly important in life exists
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During the sixties‚ in the poem Homecoming‚ Bruce Dawe expressed a rather solemn‚ empty and somehow tranquil view of the impact the Vietnam War had on society. He writes in such a way that those who could not fathom or recognise the devastation it brought may now have the chance to comprehend it. The entire poem is a single sentence and the overall structure is unusual‚ with no rhyme‚ rhythm or pattern. This means the readers can read it as their own thoughts‚ enabling anyone who underestimated
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mother‚ breaking another commandment. Old Hamlet serves as a lesson to those who have neglected godly commands. Prior to his untimely death‚ Old Hamlet did not make confessions to the church‚ leaving him‚ “Unhouseled‚ disappointed‚ unaneled‚ no reckoning made…” (1.5.84). Without having a chance to confess his sins‚ Old Hamlet is subjected to purgatory‚ where he suffers unimaginable pain and torture. Old Hamlet’s testimonies acts as a warning those who commit sinful acts and foreshadows the misfortune
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house tried in vain to save itself from the fires‚ but their efforts to save their masters were ludicrous‚ for the master race had exterminated itself and left the servants all alone‚ impotent. Not one of man’s creations could stand at the day of reckoning and save him from extinction- nor would many mourn his passage. This is a humbling thought that our planet would survive quite well without us. Were we to rid it of our presence‚ and that in just a short while‚ it would almost be as if we had never
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Reality vs. Illusion If an illusion masks reality‚ lies and injustice will pervade. Reality is the basis of how life is lived‚ but when illusion tarnishes the normal‚ people are provoked into thinking as a group‚ and loose their individuality. People in general are intelligent‚ but once people submit to a group consciousness‚ they turn into panic-driven animals. This theory is proven in Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible by characters Abigail Williams‚ Reverend Hale‚ and Judge Danforth. As
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