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    The Wall in the Handmaid's Tale is built right next to the church where they are both as old as a hundred years or more. The wall has sentries that will rip through anyone that tries to climb over and barbed wire on top if anyone even gets close. However, there are bodies hanging on the wall by their necks and their hands tied behind them. Atwood writes, “Sometimes, they’ll be there for days, until there’s a new batch, so as many people as possible will have the chance to see them” (Atwood 32)…

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    something for me, or else I going to be in big trouble." Once I heard that I took off in the other direction to my apartment, but he easily caught up to me, grabbed the collar of my shirt and about choked me. Then he backed me up to the wall and said, "Ok, if you don't want to make your life more interesting then don't." With that he let me go and started walking away. I stood there for a minute or two then took off after him. I caught up to him and we walked in silence for a…

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    Zev. “Good Neighbors make Good Fences: Frost's 'Mending Wall'”. Philosophy and Literature 21.1 (1997): 114-22 Pro Quest. Web. 1 Oct. 2015. The poem by Robert Frost “Mending Wall” is a poem about two neighbors getting together every spring to repair the wall separating their property. Robert Frost “Mending Wall” is one of those poems that gets one to think. There are two neighbors in this poem that meet at the same time each year along the wall. There is a purpose to the fence in this poem…

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    The knocks at the door were swift and abrupt as the banged agents the roman style house. And when the slab of wood was pulled out of the way, Feliciano locked eye with angry bright green ones. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Arthur yelled causing the Italian to step back. “As to what are you referring?” Feliciano asked straightening up, knowing full well the implications of his previous actions. “Don’t give me that. You know what I am talking about! These people are dangerous!…

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    clutter on the floor. Cate’s hand flew to her mouth to stifle her yelp, so she wouldn’t wake Sarah, and steadied herself by placing her hand on the cool walls. However, she recoiled when she felt a wet sensation on the walls. Blond curly hair swung into her face as she whirled around, pulling her hand from the damp wall. “The pipe leak in the wall must have finally seeped through,” she muttered softly to herself, and gingerly stepped out of the room.…

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    I lied face down on the bed, waiting for the next memory that awaits me. The Giver put his hands on my back. Before I could take breath, I was transported into another memory. I suddenly felt warmer. I was not wearing a shirt, and my pants only touched my knees. I was bare. I wasn’t naked, but it still felt like it was against the rules to be wearing these ridiculous shorts. I look down at my bare feet to see a warm, cool feeling of something on them. The brown, grainy ground stretched for…

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    sequence on the screen; a shelf with brightly colored packages with labels like “Sun Chips;” and a large, self-contained, shelving unit with containers of varying size full of sandwiches and salads that projects cold air into the area. Opposite this wall is a counter at average waist height with two cash registers and a glass display box with various bars and cookies. At 4:30 on a weeknight, the area is sparsely populated. After five minutes, the first of what will be become many people over…

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    Plato Book 7

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    In Book 7 of the Republic, Plato beings it with Socrates giving a scenario about the people living in a dark cave all their lives. They are bound to a wall, unable to turn their heads to look on either side of themselves or behind themselves. There is only a fire behind them to illuminate a wall like screen in front of them. Behind the wall are the puppeteers who have puppets and the prisoners hold artifacts. All the prisoners see are the shadows from the screen, so they are forced to believe…

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    Casey and Abby eventually say their good nights and head home, Bryna heads up to her old room to go to sleep. I was not ready for bed and was still sipping on some coffee I had made. After tonight, I needed to feel a little bit more of Jack with me so I brewed a small pot, and grabbed Jacks favorite red coffee cup from the shelf. I poured a seconds glass for Flynn and we move our conversation to the front porch. “You don’t have to stay. I’m sure you are tired.” I say taking a seat “No, I’m fine.…

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    Mending Wall Essay

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    the world in the poem Mending Wall. The narrator of the poem does not really see the point in repairing the wall, but he continues to come out each spring with his neighbor, which suggests that the experience is fulfilling in some sort of way. A fence is usually associated with division and setting up boundaries between specific areas but in this poem, it is a motive for two neighbors to work together to accomplish a common goal, inevitably not just building a wall but establishing a…

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