imagination.Cleito soon gave birth to 5 sets of twin boys who became rulers of the nation‚ with Atlas being the first king. Atlantis was a thriving centre for trade and commerce thanks to its location and natural resources.Unfortunately as it is with all the lost civilizations‚ greed and power started to corrupt Atlanteans. Zeus was angered by the immorality of humans and had to decide the fate of Atlantis by gathering other gods and determining the punishment. At the peak of its power‚ Atlantis was swallowed
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Being born a reader‚ is the way I describe my life. Sounds nice right‚ sounds powerful and like this is going to an uplifting story time. Well I’m lost. I started on a path with certainty and joy but now I am lost. I feel as if I was pushed from the road that I had chosen for myself by the society that I live within. The choices that are made are always influenced in some way by your society‚ right? But then I think‚ maybe I wasn’t pushed‚ but just standing on the edge and I just needed a nudge.
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Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure” was a successful persuasive approach to opening society’s eyes to environmental issues. In “The Obligation to Endure”‚ Rachel Carson writes about the earth and how it has adapted to environmental changes in the span of millions of years. “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species-man- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world” (Rachel Carson 267). Carson states that mankind has done some irreversible
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The Obligation to Endure is the second chapter from the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Carson presents the persuasive argument that pesticides such as DDT should be kept away from our homes‚ our place of business‚ and our children. In the 1950s and 60s DDT was a very popular pesticide that was commonly used. The hazardous effects were unknown. Carson expresses her founded concerns about the adverse risks and toxicity associated with these pesticides using logical‚ emotional‚ and ethical
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“All Summer In A Day” “All summer in a day” is a short story by Ray Bradbury about people living on the planet Venus and the weather conditions they live with. One might ask for the purpose of why Bradbury would write such a depressing and saddening story. The reason for that is to stress his audience of the importance of the little things in our everyday lives. We tend to take things for granted and lose our appreciation for them but do not stop to notice how important they are and how big of
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All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury No one in the class could remember a time when there wasn’t rain. “Ready?" "Ready." "Now?" "Soon." "Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today‚ will it?" "Look‚ look; see for yourself!" The children pressed to each other like so many roses‚ so many weeds‚ intermixed‚ peering out for a look at the hidden sun. It rained. It had been raining for seven years; thousand upon thousands of days compounded and filled
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“Reborn‚” written by Allison Vu‚ paints a picture that growing up is confusing‚ but it’s for a better person. In “Reborn‚” there are many symbols that help paint the theme. Vu writes “My string turned golden” (5) and “The door opens to a light” (7). The string represents the speaker’s life and the gold shows that the speaker’s life is turning pure and beautiful. The door represents the stage into adulthood and the light represents the new feelings adulthood produces. In addition to symbolism‚ the
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The protagonist is called Rachel Jade Wilcott. She is generally a good person‚ but she is overly concerned with being one. She wants to keep her family safe‚ and she often pretends that she is closer to them than she is. She wants to achieve equality for muggles and wizards‚ but she often has ‘realisation moments’ when she feels that this impossible. She was a muggleborn‚ and she has a younger brother called Josh. They aren’t especially close‚ but she often wishes that they were and sometimes pretends
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God’s Long Summer The novel Siddhartha and God’s Long Summer both show commonalities of religion as being an important part in the main characters of both books. In God’s Long Summer‚ each of the main individual characters in the first four chapters like the character Siddhartha‚ all were consistent with the statement‚ “What we believe matters.” All of the characters from both books used religion for giving them the strength to speak their minds‚ move on in their lives‚ and fight for what they
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500 Days of Summer Title : 500 Days of Summer Producer : Mark Waters Director : Marc Webb Actors : Joseph Gordon Levitt as Tom Hansen Actress : Zooey Deschanel as Summer Finn Chloë Moretz as Rachel Hansen‚ Tom’s younger sister There is a boy named Tom who works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles. One day‚ he meets Summer Finn‚ the new assistant to his boss. He is attracted to her since he saw her for the first time. They start their first conversation when they
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