I’m not the kind to read sad stories about someones life. I praise Ishmael Beah‚ the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy solider. He put the unthinkable into words that were carefully crafted in order to make them perfectly flow from the text‚ to my head. The boy who was between the ages of 12 & 16 at the time‚ lost everything he thought would be his forever. His village was attacked by a notorious group‚ his parents were killed and his childhood was stolen from him. At his age‚ he never
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"Death is nothing to us‚ has no relevance to our condition‚ seeing that the mind is mortal". So claimed Lucretius: Roman poet‚ philosopher and Epicurean. In prolific verse from The Way Things Are‚ Lucretius denied that death was an evil and suggested that death should not be feared at all. Lucretius’ beliefs put him in the same camp as Epicurus‚ whom he mentions in his verse‚ making him known as an Epicurean‚ which I shall define for the purposes of this paper as someone who believes that death is
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was one of the most shocking books I have ever read. I knew that there were many problems and civil wars occurring within Africa‚ but I never realized how much war truly affected the country and its culture. This is not a typical war that we envision here in the United States‚ this is a dismantling of a country’s way of life. Beah’s story gives detailed accounts of things that seem unimaginable in today’s world. The fact that governments around the world had an
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Ryan Gamel Period 2 10/19/11 A Long Way Gone From Innocent A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a story of a boy soldier and his journey throughout his country’s civil war and his forced transition from childhood to adulthood. A long way gone is a perfect title for the book because throughout his struggles he travels farther and farther from his innocence. When a boy like Ishmael is exposed to the horrors and tragedy of war at such a young age it is only human nature to adjust to the environment
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"Junior‚ Talloi‚ and I listened to rap music‚ trying to memorize the lyrics so that we could avoid thinking about the situation at hand. Naughty by Nature‚ LL Cool J‚ Run-D.M.C.‚ and Heavy D & The Boyz; we had left home with only these cassettes and the clothes that we wore. I remember sitting on the verandah listening to "Now That We Found Love" by Heavy D & The Boyz and watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind." (15). "I took off my old pants‚ which contained
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Serious or Humorous? Uncovering The Way To Wealth’s Message Benjamin Franklin wrote The Way to Wealth because he was frustrated that people were evading taxes‚ especially because these taxes helped the people and the city. He explained that the real issue was not the government’s taxes. He declared that the lack of virtue taxed people much more. Throughout the rest of the book‚ he conveyed that morality and public service were most important‚ and that one can avoid poverty through hard work and frugality
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quotation is said by Marlow who has embarked on a journey in the steamboat through the River Congo. He was on his way to the inner station. In these lines‚ he refers to Kurtz who thinks of everything as his: "my intended‚" "my ivory‚" my station" and "my river." The sentence "Everything belonged to him" sheds light on Kurtz’s character. "Everything belonged to him"‚ yet he did not belong to himself. Kurtz possesses everything‚ but he is possessed and "claimed" by "powers of darkness." He is consumed
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The Stages of Deception used as a way of Persuasion and the thought of Hope in This Way for the Gas‚ Ladies and Gentlemen Throughout Borowski’s collection of short stories‚ “This Way for the Gas‚ Ladies and Gentlemen” various characters have been deceived into their own executions. The thought of being led to one’s own death without even knowing is what went through the minds of many Jews during the Holocaust. These victims had no control or say in their fates and faced the judgment without any
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titled Couple on Two Benches (1985) which represents a couple on two different benches who seem to have been in an altercation‚ but they are still compassionate and undivided with one another. This piece of artwork was created in 1985 and the provenance is Sidney Janis Gallery‚ New York City. George Segal used bronze with white patina‚ cast iron‚ and aluminum to make this piece of artwork. The artwork is about 50 1/4 by 73 by 61 3/4 in. 127.6 by 185.4 by 156.9 cm ( "Couple on Two Benches." Sotheby’s
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“Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes” was written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This poem is about two scavengers on its way home and seeing two rich people in a Mercedes‚ who was just about to go to work. The writer show social Inequality by imagery‚ similes and irony. The whole poem was very descriptive‚ the images are show clearly which makes the readers easy to picture the differences between the rich and poor. In line three and four it describe the scavengers as “A bright
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