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    poem that in the future Indigenous Australians will not be segregated anymore, while becoming equal to all Australians. This messaged is expanded when she writes using the words ‘Dark brothers, first Australian race, Soon you will take you rightful place.’ In other words, soon the Indigenous Australians will receive freedom and equal opportunity.…

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    Santiago Symbolism

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    or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought." On the other hand, the younger, inexperienced fishermen address it as el mar (masculine pronoun)."They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy." Santiago believes this is a negative way of describing something that so marvelous. Lastly, Santiago not only depicts the ocean in this poetic form, but he also personifies the animals of the sea. He speaks to the animals, and…

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    accept the notion of a social compact. An implicit agreement of mutual cooperation that sets self-enforced limits on individual freedoms and desires in exchange for the protection and happiness of the whole. Whatever their stripe, whatever their place in the social order, these individuals view all others as either competitors, temporary allies, or chattel. They view themselves as stronger, faster, smarter, and craftier than all others. And so, logically, they believe themselves to be…

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    people they must fit in the four descriptive categories of his Peoplehood Model. As a matter of fact, unlike anything introduced before, Thomas’s Peoplehood Model lays out the boundaries individuals must collect in to be considered a people. According to his Peoplehood Model, individuals must all have a language, sacred history, place territory, and ceremonial cycle in common before being considered a people. Many researchers use Thomas’s Peoplehood Model to…

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    A Hanging Symbolism

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    A Hanging by George Orwell is a short story focusing on a hanging taking place in a Burma Jail. The story is narrated by a jail guard as he witnesses an all too common hanging taking place against a Hindu prisoner. On the surface, Orwell is trying to show the audience the horrible mistreatment and inhumane actions of guards and prison staff again the prisoners. The slightly deeper theme of the story is appreciation, respect of human life and how Orwell feels about a man deciding the fate of…

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    unwanted, intrusive, and frightening communications from the perpetrator by phone, mail, and/or email. Repeatedly leaving or sending victim unwanted items, presents, or flowers. Following or lying in wait for the victim at places such as home, school, work, or recreation place. Making direct or indirect threats to harm the victim, the victim's children, relatives, friends, or pets. Damaging or threatening to damage the victim's property. Harassing victim through the internet. Posting information…

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    Things we do not have much of here” (165; ch. 13). Though both set in the future, it is clear to see that both dystopias assume very different settings. Brave New World takes place in an industrious city, while Matched takes place in a much more rural area. The tones of both stories sets the authors’ attitudes toward the plot. Huxley sets a dramatic tone to Brave New World. He writes, (2) “Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical…

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    Virginia Woolf discuss how women’s place in society can be shown by the difference of the two meals she received when she went on college visits (one to a male college one to a female college) she use her tone and the diction she uses. In every culture you can see a correlation between how high you are on the totem pole and the food you eat. The upper class may eat things like caviar, lobster and to tap it all off maybe some wine or Champaign. Whereas the lower class may have ramen noodles and…

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    work really captures and envelopes the reader into its universe. Freedom and the fight for it is the main theme which carries throughout the book. The book is a delight to read with its action and drama filled plot. The United States of Japan takes place mostly in 1988 in the California area of the now USJ. The cause of this is that in the book, Japan won the second World War. Because of the Japanese’s very strict order and vast knowledge, there are many common devices and practices that we…

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    into the story. Consequently, the idea of the intrusion of a first-person perspective comes into effect. There are other times the narrator’s opinion is shown, including the nicknames he gives Bilbo. While the narrator is telling the story in a descriptive and factual way, he inserts his own opinions on Bilbo, such as calling him “Mr. Invisible Baggins” (Tolkien 227) or “poor little Bilbo” (Tolkien 153). The narrator also adds his own asides throughout the story with the first-person pronouns.…

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