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    my life. The story helps me to remember the general choices that I had to make in life. The hard choices that confronted me when growing up. The story brings two distinct ways, the adult way that surfaces with obligation and development and the youthful side that showcases the different adventures the main character has. One would consider poverty as a disease that should be annihilated by all means possible; however the opposite is true for Jackson. Rather than putting a ton of effort to save every coin he gets with the goal that he can figure out how to purchase back his grandmas dancing regalia, Jackson spends everything on liquor and companions. The little money he gets from individuals he spends and he returns back to the original circumstance. Saving to get the $999 required is a hard task, however one that can be accomplished with appropriate planning and discipline. His actions is a physical manifestation of the common Indian poor kid growing up in a foreign place. Rather than concentrating on the best way to…

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    As a child, having rules to follow wasn’t unheard of with my family. There was always a way to behavior with friends/family, at school, at home and out in the street. Often I found myself getting into trouble because I didn 't listen and also the fact that I always found some kind of way to slipping out of having to doing something that I knew I was supposed to do. But out of all the people in my family my mom was the strictest. When expectations set high, not meaning them meant my siblings and…

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    When we look upon ourselves we think of two things who we are and were we came from this just a normal way that humankind has always thought of themselves. Firstly they ask who they are as if there very exsitence may not be valid even though there right in front of you flesh and bone. Everyone has a purpose in life but believe that if they dont do anything remarkable that stands out that there mere life is just that nothing. We as homosapiens believe in a convaluded way of reasoning and since…

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    says “’I can ‘member Grandma Dee without the quilts’” (par. 74) showing that she will always remember the times they had together. Mama is also seen as a character of symbolic importance because of her ways of seeing situations throughout the story. She talks about a dream she had, going on a game show and re-uniting with her daughter when she herself weighs one hundred pounds lighter. Farrell reminds us, “It is important to remember, thought, that this Johnny Carson daydream is Mama’s…

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    you know how things go. Another example would if in the past you loaned friend money but that friend never paid you back. But then later that same friend came again and asked to borrower money again. Well you do know how that’s gonna go that friend may not pay you back once again. The term “People like us” is usually used when speaking, or thinking negative of another race or culture. Unfortunately me being Black I’ve heard this term way too much. I have said in the past and maybe just the…

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    But this difference does not mean that one way is right and the other one is wrong. Quite to the contrary, both O’Brien and Bowker can learn from each other and deal with Kiowa’s death in an even better way. “The Man I Killed” and “Ambush” both concern O’Brien’s feelings of guilt over killing an enemy combatant. Guilt is often associated with death. When a friend or loved one dies, the people left behind often feel that they could have rendered more assistance during the person’s life. These…

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    He knew that the only way to keep Inka out of the path of danger was to tackle the man before he neared her, or in other words, as soon as humanly possible. He jumped, pinning him to the ground as sirens rang nearer. Oliver decided to take a shower to try and clear his head. As the water rushed down his body, he realized that any day could easily be his last. Inka had left the city for a few weeks with family on a vacation. After a few minutes of thinking, Oliver decided to write a letter to…

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    deeper for more of an understanding. All animals have certain instinct knowledge on how to survive in the environment. Animal babies they were born into this world with a capacity and knowledge on how to survive in the wilderness by making a nest. Some in high and underground to avoid any danger lurking around. This instinct is like a small map in their minds. Did you know they are a part of our genes and may not know what a nest looks like and able to still make one. So you’re probably…

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    chaperone his actions and behavior, furthermore Foucquet “In case he should behave wildly again, Hu is being kept within the house and gardens.”(Spence,62) is like Foucquet is punishing by grounding him in a way. Hu’s behavior throughout the journey hasn’t been much of progress as times his mannerisms are the same and other times he starts acting out and yelling. For example, wherever Hu travels and stays he continues to lay the mattress down on the floor as evidenced by when he is in Paris…

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    purpose, and point. At first glance, the image simply consists of a wolf seemingly attacking a woman in a field of grass surrounded by trees. Yet, there is a story behind it. A reason for why it set up the way it is and it deserves to be further analyzed aside from whatever first impression a viewer was able to gather from…

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