and shows leadership qualities and a knowledge of warfare. Private Matthew Dodd is separated from his regiment during a retreat and finds himself stranded behind enemy lines in Portugal. Dodd manages to survive throughout the book on his willpower‚ determination‚ and also with the occasional aid of a group of Portuguese guerilla fighters. Dodd harasses the French with his rifle while trying to prevent them from building a bridge across the Tagus River. The book depicts a war of attrition
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Isabelle Allende In every good work of fiction the narrator plays a crucial role and this is also true in Isabelle Allende’s novel “And of Clay are We Created”. As the tale begins to unfold‚ Eva Luna‚ the narrator‚ starts to portray many different emotions in such a way that readers can emphasise strongly with her character. The story is seen through the eyes of the narrator Eva Luna‚ She displays a wide range of emotions throughout this tragic tale. Her greatest qualities are persistence and
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unknown Period 7 3/08/2013 I do not know whether or not I believe in reincarnation simply because of all the things that have been fed to me through my church/ school I tend to research on things I do not understand. I have often found myself thinking of such topic when brought to my attention. What happens to us‚ IF anything happens to us after we die continues to be a subject of debate and mystery among people of all religions as well as philosophers and religious scholars. Have it be Abrahamic
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Throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ a series on witch trials occur that creates mass hysteria in the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts. Abigail Williams‚ one of the main characters‚ fabricates the lies that begin the witch hunt in her attempt to divert everyone’s attention towards her including the attention of John Proctor. In the play‚ Proctor has an affair with young Abigail while his wife goes through postpartum depression causing Abigail to fall in love with him but John returns to his wife
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done a lot faster and easier. As said in sentence 8‚ “Dr. Perry generously acknowledges that he has stood on the shoulders of iants‚ in particular Robert Benchley ‚ the Algonquin Round Table Member. In 1930‚ Benchley revealed how he mustered the willpower to pore through scientific magazines and build a bookshelf when an article was due.” Therefore speaking‚ I think procrastination is a good thing if you’re using your time and mind in the right way. Not by playing video games‚ watching television
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the educated person will be open to the views of the others and be tolerant of opinions‚ which differ from his own. Education should break down the barriers created by prejudice and ignorance. It should also make a disciplined individual with the willpower to stick with any task‚ no matter how tedious of demanding. For the Grade twelve student it is a matter of sitting at the desk at night‚
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In Homer’s Grecian epic The Odyssey‚ Odysseus is the heroic main character. Throughout his countless escapades‚ Odysseus can best be described as reckless‚ clever‚ and loyal. In The Odyssey‚ Odysseus’s journey is a long and tedious one‚ which partially can be attributed to his careless decisions along the way. Nevertheless‚ whether he is outwitting Polyphemus or defending his crew‚ Odysseus’s shrewdness and loyalty always seem to be his saving grace. Undoubtedly‚ impulsiveness and rash behavior
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Salva begins the story as a boy who is reliant on everyone else during a walk to Ethiopia and becomes a man who has the strength to lead a group of refugees throughout Africa. As a young refugee from Sudan‚ Salva constantly relied on others in order to find the strength to complete his journey. Salva is forced out his school by war when he is only a young child and finds a group that eventually abandons him. Salva finds another group and while he is walking with them he realizes that his uncle
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Throughout our lives‚ we all go through a fairly similar story where we start off making our own ordinary world full of predictability and comfort‚ that we all eventually get taken or drawn away from. Many will attempt to refuse this call to adventure‚ and many others will have no choice and get tossed into an unknown‚ difficult world. In this new world‚ we’ll have to go through at least one supreme ordeal‚ if not much more‚ being hindered by our own demons and by the demons of others‚ and getting
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have creative ideas‚ but they are different in their paths to success. “A Sticky Problem For Farmers” explains the difficulties of farming the Midwest‚ and how one man‚ named John Deere‚ helped by inventing a new plow. “Lewis Latimer” shows the willpower and creativity of a black man working in a white community. Both John Deere and Lewis Latimer had different‚ new ideas that would change the way certain people lived. Both Deere and Latimer had the creativity to improve upon a design that they felt
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