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    Quotes for Maya Angleou

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    so much. Racism has already made its way into Maya’s world—and it’s not leaving any time soon. Quote #2 • Boys? No‚ rather men who were covered with graves’ dust and age without beauty or learning. The ugliness and rottenness of old abominations. (3.10)Mr. Stewart wins understatement of the year by calling the Ku Klux Klan members "boys." We bet he also calls monster trucks "tricycles." • Quote #3 • I wanted to throw a handful of black pepper in their faces‚ to throw lye on them‚ to scream

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    Hamlet​  quotes     “Frailty‚ thy name is woman!”    Hamlet; Hamlet is angry with his his mother for re marrying as quickly as a he did. He  is saying that a woman changes her mind quickly​ .      “Thrift‚ thrift‚ Horatio! The funeral bak’d meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”              ​ Hamlet; it was right after they buried his father that his mother married his uncle. It  happened in such a short time that Hamlet feels like the food from the funeral could have  been used for the wedding tables

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    do u ever feel like screaming ‘fuck you’ to your family members but you can’t so you just keep the anger inside and complain on your blog how do girls look so hot at the beach with their wet hair and their wet bodies and i just look like a real fuked up peice of seaweed why don’t murderers just hide the bodies in cemeteries tumblr: teaching your children how to successfully murder people since 2010 excuse me‚ this post is actually teaching us how to successfully evade the law after murdering

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    bring forth innovative creations that changed the course of humanity. They don’t have to be professionals‚ highly educated‚ or from wealthy‚ noble families. They need only the drive to fulfill a purpose‚ prove a point‚ and change lives. Henry David Thoreau‚ a well-noted polymath of the 1800s‚ and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ a pivotal African-American activist‚ spoke about the necessity for change in their time in influential ways. In Thoreau’s essay‚ “Resistance to Civil Government‚” he responds

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    Thoreau felt like he had a need to live in the woods because he felt like it was the best choice for him. He felt like he didn’t really need anything at all so he lived in a cabin. Thoreau has a lot of assertions about man ‚nature and society and although some of them may be a little extreme he had valid points. Thoreau states we as people have to stand on tip-toe to read and devote our most alert and wakeful hours to. He is saying that if you are going to read something that is more difficult

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    Throughout history there have been many influential people who advocate for peace. such as thoreau an American writer in early American history. There was Martin luther king jr. a man who doesn’t need an introduction. Same as the second man Gandhi doesn’t need an introduction. Each of these men change a way a nation thinks. Thoreau came first leading the way for Gandhi and King. Thoreau is the one that inspired the other two with his papers about how we should view life and the way we treat

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    1. The main purpose of this article is to argue that change isn’t made through votes and discussions‚ but rather through actions. 2. The key question that the author is addressing is how we should stand up to the government. 3. The most important information in this article is Thoreau’s opinion that actions speak louder than words. The pleasantness of Thoreau’s prison experience is also important in helping the reader feel more comfortable with disobeying the rules to fight for what’s right. 4

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    “He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went‚ despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side” Miller about Parris and how he doesn’t belong to the community but belongs to religion pg13 “To the European world the whole province was a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics” Belonging to a place – Miller says this about Salem 13 “Their creed forbade anything resembling a theatre or ‘vain enjoyment’.” Miller says what belonging to a community/group can lead

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    In Walden‚ Thoreau uses techniques to convey thoughtful reflection and unwavering confidence towards his actions and convictions. By contemplating his past ventures and personal beliefs‚ he urges the reader to take specific paths in life with a strong and forceful credibility. Thoreau’s use of syntax expresses his philosophical yet audacious approach towards his quest to live simply and without superfluous needs. The semicolons and commas in the first sentence of paragraph four string together his

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    from day one it was like society was this violent ‚ complicated dance and everybody had taken lessons but me . knocked to the floor again ‚ climbing to my feet each time ‚ bloody and humiliated . always met with disapproving faces ‚ waiting for me to leave so I’d stop fucking up the party . they wanted to push me outside ‚ where the freaks huddled in the cold . out there with the misfits ‚ the broken ‚ the glazed-eye types who can only watch as the normals enjoy their shiny new cars and careers

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