My ally is my Uncle George for many reasons. The main being that he is my role model because of what he has achieved in sports. What he has done is more than anything I have ever done. I want to be like him at football. He has always been someone I looked up to. My goal is to be like he was in highschool because of his talent in football. What he has achieved is beyond anything I have ever seen someone do. My dream is to be at his level of excellence and be on varsity next year. He is also my
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the shrine that is Edgar Allan Poe’s grave who cares that the only poem they know by him is “The Raven”. He is their patron saint‚ a manifestation of all they wish to be deep‚ misunderstood‚ and enigmatic. The Raven is the perfect representation of what these kids want to be it’s
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through the countryside with her cow she encounter a lost ornithologist who was in search of a white heron that he had spotted in the area weeks before. At first‚ the little girl was frightened of this man who carried and gun and killed the creatures that he cared so deeply about. She could not understand why this man would do such a thing. However‚ as they spent time together‚ Sylvia found this man most charming and delightful. In the short story‚ "A White Heron‚" by Sarah Orne Jewett‚ a young country
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sword is covered in the hot blood of the enemy. After these few references to honour‚ the symbol of blood now changes to show a theme of treachery and treason. Lady Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to "make thick my blood‚". What she is saying by this‚ is that she wants to make herself insensitive and remorseless for the deeds which she is about to commit. Lady Macbeth knows that the evidence of blood is a treacherous symbol‚ and knows it will deflect the guilt from her and
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©Journal 1: “Just the Way I Liked It” Throughout the story the red hunting hat is very significant to Holden and the way he acts. In the beginning when Holden is at boarding school‚ you first hear about Holden’s hat. It is introduced when Holden walks into his room and tells his roommate that he got it at a dollar store in New York. The reason Holden got that hat was because of its color‚ which was red. The color is significant to why Holden bought it because it was the color of his little sister’s
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mothers and homemakers‚ resulting in many hardships. The narrator receives a prescribed cure of ‘home rest’ to overcome her sickness by a high standing doctor‚ her husband. John Bak‚ who studies literature‚ states in his article that “John prescribed what many nineteenth-century physicians
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In “ The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman‚ an important symbol is the Yellow Wallpaper‚ which represents the unknown woman’s illness and life. Throughout the story as the woman’s mental health gets worse‚ the wallpaper pattern gets more unbearable. She becomes obsessed with the atrocious pattern‚ and repulsing color. When the narrator and her husband arrive at the mansion‚ she knows she is depressed but nothing too serious. And when she first sees the wallpaper‚ she thinks it’s disturbing‚ but she can
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The Bronze Bow is a very religious and political book written by Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow takes place in Galilee‚ Israel during the time when Jesus was preaching. An 18 year old young man named Daniel bar Jamin‚ who is the main character and a Zealot‚ has a lot of conflicting emotions because he watched his father being crucified by the Romans. He vows to avenge his father’s crucifixion by overthrowing the Roman empire. However this journey of revenge leads him to separation from his
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people act in an unprincipled manner when there is no authoritarian figure watching over them. In most cases‚ people will be disorderly or even become rebellious without some sort of hierarchy and social rule to follow. A perfect example of this is what often happens when a teacher leaves a classroom‚ some students will start talking‚ getting up and moving around‚ or even throwing items to each other‚ all actions they would normally refrain from when the teacher‚ an authoritarian figure‚ is present
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wraps around his red uniform. The words on his cape say “BETTER THAN U” because that represents Caesar character throughout the play. He was very hubris and the citizens of Rome loved him‚ putting him on a pedestal. The uniform is red because that is what Roman soldiers wore since Caesar was a military leader‚ it made sense to make his uniform red. I also put a crown on Caesar’s head. Caesar really wanted to be crowned and refused it 3 times when Mark Antony offered. Caesar actually wanted the
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