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    The Old Man and the Sea

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    The Old Man and the Sea In the novel‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ Santiago the fisherman can be viewed as either a failure or a success. In the aspects of Rishi‚ Devata‚ and Chhandas we can see that Santiago is not a failure. He has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish‚ and he is the laughingstock of his small village. Regardless of his past‚ the old man determines to change his luck and sail out farther than he or the other fishermen ever have sailed out before. When we look at the Rishi

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    communication have turned the world into a global village. They have helped man in conquering time and space; nations of the world have come much closer to one another as a result of these wonderful achievements. Now the people of the world feel far more close to one another than in the past‚ however‚ separated by vast distances. These scientific and technological developments have almost revolutionised the life. Let us have a look at what kind of global village it is. What similarities and dissimilarities

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    Was Salem Village Unique?

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    Puritan Communities: Was Salem Village Unique? Salem village in 1692 is something every student learns about in their basic American history course. They learn about the witchcraft trials‚ and the hangings that followed. They learn about Increase and Cotton Mather‚ father and son on opposite sides of the issue of witchcraft. If they are lucky‚ they learn about Rev. Samuel Parris and what led some to like him and his judgments‚ and others to despise him. But they do not typically learn about the

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    Leonard Woolf’s village in the jungle is a fascinating novel written about the life of the peasants in Sri Lanka during the British rule. The story takes place in a remote jungle village called “Baddegama”. The writer recalls the strange happenings not only within Baddegama but also in its surroundings. The story is between a high cast family and a low cast family and how a foreign man who comes to the village influences these two families. The story goes on describing how the low cast family is

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    The Old Man and the Sea

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    The old man and the sea The Old Man and the Sea Author Bio spent the next 14 years living in Cuba. After a final move to Idaho‚ Hemingway took his own life in 1961‚ leaving behind his wife and three sons. w w w. L i t C h a r t s . c o m Background Info Full Name: Ernest Miller Hemingway Pen Name: Ernest Hemingway Date of Birth: July 21‚ 1899 Place of Birth: Oak Park‚ Illinois Date of Death: July 2‚ 1961 Brief Life Story: Ernest Hemingway grew up outside a suburb of Chicago‚ spending

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    It Takes a Village to raise a child The book ’s title is attributed to an African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child." The saying and its attribution as an "African" proverb were in circulation before it was adopted by Clinton as the source for the title of her book. The development of our children in this day and time is as hard as it was in our parent’s time. It takes the community as a whole‚ doctors‚ teacher‚ police‚ and local school administrators. These have an essential

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    The village without a name Once upon a time‚ in a small and forgotten village in the outskirts‚ lived a poor farmer’s family‚ The Babbitts. They were one of the seven families living in the small village‚ that didn’t even have a name. There were seven farms and every farm had one small field each where they grew their food‚ mostly potatoes‚ carrots and some beans‚ but the earth was dry and the harvest bad. This meant work around the clock for the whole family‚ even for the three children. The two

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    Stars of the Sea

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    Write a commentary on one of the following: The music of the ship was howling around him. The low whistlings; the tortured rumbles; the wheezy sputters of breeze flowing through it. The clatter of loose wainscoting. The clank of chains. The groaning of boards. The blare of wind. Never before had he felt rain quite like it. It seemed to spew from the clouds‚ not merely to fall. He watched the wave rise up from a quarter of a mile away. Rolling. Foaming. Rushing. Surging. Beginning to thicken and

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    Sea Creatures

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    Reduce our usage of paper – Save our trees! Tips on how to reduce paper usage: Do not discard waste paper. Recycle scrap including newspaper. You can earn extra money this way! Do not print documents unnecessarily. Read off the computer screen if you can. Use the back of used paper as scrap if you can. Use toilet paper sparingly. Encourage your parents and school to buy recycled paper products. All space in old books should be used before using a new one. Encourage your school and parents

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    The Sea of Monsters

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    BOOK REPORT I think the title “City of Ember” is good because it is telling a city being underground . Ember means a glowing light that lights up and starts to dies out. An ember can also be the same thing but in buildings when they turn on the lights it is like an ember. Because the city is underground ‚it is very dark. They need electricity to light up the city. An other title for the book can be “Sunless city”could be another title because the city does not have any light from the

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