Xiao Liang Kelly Robert English 101-02 Essay #3 3/30/2014 What Did the Firefighters Die for? A Response to Timothy Egan Do you have a friend or a relative who is a firefighter? Have you heard of what firefighters do? Have you seen how firefighters rescue people and property at the spot or on television? What is a firefighter? A firefighter also known as a fireman‚ is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting‚ primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian
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Characterization of Atticus Finch In the novel To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Lee introduces Atticus Finch as a as a loving and caring father‚ a supportive keeper of the law‚ a man of hidden talents‚ and a man of wisdom. Atticus has a mind of his own‚ and is unusual in both qualities and social status. As a man of honesty and wisdom‚ he is well respected throughout the city of Maycomb. Father to Jem and Scout‚ Atticus plays the heroic figure in the novel. He is a rather considerate
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TO WHAT EXTENT DID THE RESULTS OF WW1 INFLUENCE THE OUTBREAK OF WW2? INTRO: World War 1 ended with the Versailles Treaty in 1919. The peace-making process was extremely complex and even now it is doubtful whether any perfect solution to organising the post-war European order could have been found. After the settlement many international matters still remained unresolved and many countries were dissatisfied. To what extent did the results of WW1 determine the outbreak of another‚ big war ~20 years
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expressed in what they say - the dialogue - and what they do - the action (198 1:2) Therefore characters are important element in the story. The stories always introduce their characters to give a description to the readers. Character is commonly used in two ways (Stanton. 1965:17). The first is that character designates the individuals who appear in the story. The second is that character refers to the mixture of interests‚ desires‚ emotions‚ and moral principles that makes up each of these
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In the context of the years 1485 to 1603 to what extent was the government of England dysfunctional in the mid-Tudor period? During the Tudor Dynasty it is easily thought that the years between 1547 and 1558 were ones of crisis. With the succession of a child and the first woman within England‚ people have assumed that the years between Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were an unproductive interlude. The mid Tudor period is seen as negative years within the Tudor Dynasty. It is regarded that Henry VIII
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The Graduate – Benjamin Braddock Characterization The film „The Graduate“‚ published in 1967 tells the story of a young man who has to deal with the problems of having no aim in life and getting seduced by an elder woman. Benjamin Braddock‚ played by Dustin Hoffman‚ is the protagonist and he is going to be the topic of this characterization. Benjamin‚ a recent college graduate‚ got the features of a normal 20 years old male in the 1960`s. Brown hair‚ mid-tall‚ well-dressed‚ trained and good-looking
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Slavery made its way to the colonies during the 1600s due to a lot of major factors. Before there were any slaves‚ there were indentured servants. The indentured servants mostly came from Great Britain. Looking for new space‚ life‚ and opportunity. The catch was the fact that these people had no money to pay their way into the New found land. So‚ that turned into people looking for a way to get over here. So people thought and talked about working off a debt‚ if someone were to pay their way over
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conversation due to the resemblances of French‚ English and Spanish‚ it is still annoying not being able to know what exactly the characters are saying. I also found a few chapters being a bit bland and uneventful like Chapter 6 where we get an inside view on Hugh’s past which I did not particularly care for. Aside from this‚ I found the novel being very engaging. The Downfall of a Man: One cannot live without love. Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is an impressive novel in every sense of the term. Be it
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Characterization Interpretation of Atticus Finch The characterization of Atticus finch is definitely more accurate in Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Courthouse Ring: Atticus Finch and the Limits of Southern Liberalism” than in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The way Harper Lee depicts Atticus makes him seem unrealistic‚ while Gladwell’s interpretation has more evidence behind it and seems more accurate. Gladwell’s interpretation of Atticus reveals the unrealistic world he lives in‚ the weakness
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