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    characters they were. John Proctor, in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, was a brave man. John knew that if he was say he was a witch to survive and go back to his wife, he would make the deaths of others like Rebecca Nurse look bad and allow the hangings to go on. John easily…

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    peers my whole life has taught me who are my real friends. Who i can trust who to hang out with and who to go to when i'm in need of some help or advice. I've had the chance to do things i enjoy such as playing soccer, hanging out with friends , getting to go fishing, and hanging out with family I've realized though how small Live Oak is compared to other cities around and miles from us. Having the chance to go to mexico and meeting relatives. I would not like to live out there nor drop out of…

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    Beautiful. Clever. Lively. These are all terms that could be used to describe my mom, Michelle. Although she only stands at 5’2” if you challenge my mom on a issue without facts she will come after you with a fury that shines bright in her blue eyes. But when I sat down with my mom for an interview on a cloudy Seattle saturday, I began to see a different side of this woman I had looked up to my whole life; I saw a woman who had gone to struggles just like me. As she pauses and thoughtfully…

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    Washington Crossing the Delaware is a painting that inspires patriotism in the hearts of many across the United States. It is hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many smaller versions of it hang in the classrooms of history teachers across the nation. The painting, by Emanuel Leutze, was born out of a desire to inspire the people of Germany and it has historical inaccuracies yet symbolic depictions (Harmon). Emanuel Leutze was born in Germany in 1816 and moved to the United States at a…

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    From the beginning of the book to the end of this section, it strikes me of how changed Elie and his Jewish companions have become. The instances when Idek attacks Elie for personal reasons, how Franek extorts Elie for his gold tooth, and how Elie lacks sympathy towards some Jews in some instances is part of a bigger picture in my eyes of how the Holocaust destroyed these civilized people to a state-of-nature-like beings. Elie also lacks sympathy for his father after being attacked by Idek,…

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    The story starts out with a fifteen year old girl writing in a diary that she had just bought. Her name was never actually stated since she’s writing the journal about her own life, but as a reader, I could only assume that her name was Alice. When she first got her journal she only wrote about topics like school, boys, and fitting in. Her family eventually ends up moving to a different town after her dad gets a new job. She’s worried about making new friends at her new school and fitting in.…

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    freshman year till I noticed he was getting out of hand it was a whole person that I didn't know. I slowly started distancing myself from him because I was trying to get myself together at the time because I got into some trouble as well. He started hanging out with the wrong crowd ditching and up to no good. I didn't want to lose him completely out of my life because we had been friends for the longest but I could not have those kind of people in my life. A couple of months before school had…

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    Morality can be defined as the principles of what is right and what is wrong. People merit acclaim for good deeds, and discipline for terrible ones. Discipline may extend from a variety of things, however the discipline must fit the wrongdoing. Usually known as lex talionis, or as many people would say "a tooth for a tooth or an eye for an eye." Abolitionists regularly demand that in the event that we contend for lex talion equity we must be arranged to assault attackers, beat cruel people, and…

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    dire situations as the cruelty continuously occurs. During the brutal hanging of the Pipel, a young boy, Eliezer says “For God’s sake, where is God? And from within [Eliezer], [Eliezer hears] a voice answer: ‘where he is?’ this is where-hanging here from this gallows..”(Wiesel 65). Eliezer’s innocence disappears after witnessing a child, a few years younger than him, linger between life and death. From the horrors of the hanging, Eliezer’s faith falters. As Eliezer witnesses this atrocity, he…

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    Tituba also knew that if Betty did not get well soon, she would be blamed for her illness. While Rev. Parris was sitting on the bed with Betty, guests started arriving at his house. Among the guests were Rebecca Nurse, Corey, John Proctor, Ann Putnam, and Thomas Putnam. These guests had come to Parris home because rumors started to spread around concerning Betty’s condition and some people of the town said that her condition was caused by witchcraft. As Tituba welcomed the guests, she hoped…

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