Blood Red Sunset By: Ma Bo This memoir of Ma Bo’s sent shock waves throughout China when it was published and was even first banned by the Communist Government. This passionate story paints a clear picture for what the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was really like. Many Chinese living today can attest to similar if not identical ordeals as expressed in Ma Bo’s story. The toils of being a young Red Guard in inner China were experienced by many if not millions. The horrors and atrocities
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Memon Theme Analysis The theme of "Blood on the River" is make decisions out of love not anger.x One event that showed this theme was when Samuel needed to make decisions out of love not anger because Samuel had stolen his dead mother’s locket. The text states‚ “There is the locket‚ displayed on a piece of beaver felt. I close my fingers around the cool‚ smooth silver. I haven’t touched it since the day she died. Mine. It should be mine‚ because it was hers.” (2). This quote shows that the theme is
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Major Themes Generational conflict Although the most prominent conflict in Blood Wedding is between the Bridegroom and Leonardo Felix‚ generational conflict plays a subtler and more insidious role in the tragic events. The Bride rebels openly against the social mores of her parents’ generation; her actions can be read as a response to feeling trapped by the limited prospects that a woman had at this place and time. Although he is a man‚ the Bridegroom is similarly constrained‚ constantly having
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The Rocking Horse Winner The dramatic short story "The rocking horse winner‚" is about a young boy who desires to be loved by his mother. The author‚ D.H. Lawrence develops a theme that states‚ the desire for money and social status is a destructive force. The story is about a young boy named Paul who tries to win his mothers love by gambling for money. Paul has a supernatural power which he can commute with his rocking horse to find out the winning races. However‚ in the end Paul tries too hard
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My Journey Through the Human Body My name is Ruby; I am a red blood cell. I am a dazzling ruby red color (hence my name) with a small area of inner pallor and I am very small: only about 6 µm in diameter. I get my red color from a protein chemical called hemoglobin‚ which is bright red. Hemoglobin not only gives me my beautiful color‚ it also contains the element iron‚ which makes it a good vehicle for transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide. I have a very important role in the circulatory system
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Rob the Red Blood Cell Rob is an ordinary bllod cell and does the same thing every day. This is not a boring life though as he get the thrills of the lumps and bumps of the circulatory system. Rob enters the Vena Cava and enters the right Atrium where he is then pushed through the Tricuspid Valve and into the right Ventricle. While in her he currently has no oxygen in his biconcave dome so he needs to go and get some. He goes through the Pulmonary Valve and up and out of the Pulmonary
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The Themes of The Lottery and The Rocking Horse Winner In D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner and the Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery are different stories about different topics but have a similar ending. Each story teaches a lesson. If everyone where to sit down and read both of these short stories in a critical manner people’s lives would be changed for the better. The Lottery is a short story‚ third-person‚ objective. In short the citizens of this New England village gather at 10:00 AM on
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Blood Red Snow‚ by Gunter K. Koschorrek is a graphic rendition of the German War in the Eastern front‚ which began in 1942. Koschorrek is a former German soldier who kept a frequent account of his experience in the steppes of Russia and the advancement of the German battalion in Stalingrad. Written as a memoir‚ Koschorrek’s writing serves as a first hand account of the tank and cavalry warfare in the Eastern front. Rather than glorifying the heroic aspects of death and destruction in war‚ Koschorrek’s
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“Fear of Failure” is a well known theme that we are all familiar with. Theme can be related to movies‚ books‚ and or plays. Every movie‚ book‚ or play has a main message known as the theme. The film‚ “Home Alone”‚ and the short story‚ “Ransom of Red Chief”‚ by O’Henry both share the same theme. One theme is “Never underestimate someone smaller than you”. In the film‚ “Home Alone”‚ Kevin outsmarts the robbers and he’s just a little boy. This proves the theme “Never underestimate someone smaller than
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The universal theme‚ no one can escape death‚ is displayed in “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe. In this story‚ Prince Prospero threw a masquerade to distract him from the pestilence that was The Red Death. His guests were worried about the plague getting to them and killing them all‚ and they tried forgetting about it. Eventually‚ The Red Death came and everyone‚ including the prince‚ was killed. This theme is not just found in this story‚ it appears in other places. The universal
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