Bobby J. Alexander Given the context of the speech‚ do you believe everything Pericles say’s about Athens in the Funeral Oration? Why or Why not. I feel that given the context of the speech‚ I would have to agree with what Pericles said in it to be true. First of all‚ I think that the way Pericles gives praise to his fallen comrades‚ couldn’t have been said any better. Of course maybe they were over exaggerated a little by the writer‚ but the way he spoke of them was as if he knew every
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"If at first you don’t succeed‚ dust yourself off and try again‚" is a saying I have said to myself since elementary school. One of my most cherished assumptions is that all goals are reachable if you work hard to achieve them. I believe with dedication and faith‚ any person can accomplish what they set out to do in life and become a winner. Throughout history there were many people we considered winners‚ who‚ in fact‚ lost many times in their lives. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because
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Nancy Chen 8.9.11 Everything You Live Through Helps Make the Person You Are Now “I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past‚ even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live helps to make the person you are now.” by Sophia Loren. Everyone has memories of pain and ecstasy of the past‚ but we should keep them so it
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Rice Su Mrs. Murphy ENG2D1 Monday‚ March 17‚ 2014 Profit is everything In Lather and Nothing Else and The Bicycle In short stories that will be discussed‚ Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez and The Bicycle by Jillian Horton‚ both authors convey an idea of “profit is everything” which is implied in the plot. Ostensibly‚ these two stories are both talking about the theme of choice which can be seen many times over the course of them. Essentially‚ even though the way of making choices is different
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L.M. Montgomery once stated “..we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world..”. What he is saying is the choices we make in life‚ whether they be good or bad‚ consequences are received. These consequences don’t necessarily have to be bad nor have to be good on your part. I find this quote to be accurate. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Montgomery’s words are proven true. Scout and Jem Finch‚ the protagonists of the story To Kill A Mockingbird
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The impact of attitudes towards interracial marriage is an extensively integrated theme in Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and “The Night I Survived Meeting His Parents” by Carmel Jones. In Ng’s novel‚ Marilyn’s relationship with James is profoundly inflicted by social pressures and judgements. In a time where racial equality was not commonplace‚ the prejudice she faced and her ensuing struggles had a detrimental effect on her identity. In Jones’ short story‚ the attitudes towards interracial
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When too much information is given‚ usually one doesn’t know what to do with it. One cannot take everything and not get confused in the process. In Linda Holmes’ article “The Sad‚ Beautiful Fact that We’re All Going to Miss Almost Everything‚” she states that being “well-read” can either mean knowing everything or making the effort to explore many different things. One is unable to know everything yet a lot of different things can still be learned making an individual well educated‚ and that is what
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L.M. Montgomery once stated “..we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world..”. In other words Montgomery is saying that the choices we make in life‚ whether they be good or bad‚ always have consequences. Two literary works that help support this quote is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The author uses conflict in To Kill A Mockingbird to help support the quote. Conflict is a confrontation or struggle between opposing forces. After hearing
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Identity is now so hard to define. No longer as simple as whom am I? Identity is it solid or fixed? Neither is it constantly changing from birth till death. In addition to the problems faced with growing a developing an individual also faces problems from ideas surrounding personal problems. These can be examples from the environmental influence‚ such as arriving into a new school or even a new culture. These experiences can be both positive and negative though‚ negative as they may leave an individual
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