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    jog to guard the other player he scored a goal and my friends started laughing at me there was only 10 seconds left my coach called a timeout my friends put a cockroach in my gatorade I drank it. When I went on the field I started to feel something in my throat I ignored it so right when I kicked the ball it hoped out my throat the cockroach messed my shot and i missed it hit the post and hit my head and just ran to the car with embarrassment. The next day me and mom stop by at Dairy Queen…

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    Metamorphosis, Kafka weaves Christian values into the struggles of Gregor, a salesperson whom turned into a cockroach, seemingly overnight. Gregor 's family relied on Gregor, as he was the only one with a source of income in the whole family. When Gregor changes into a cockroach, his family is rendered helpless. While the title might refer to Gregor’s literal metamorphosis into a cockroach, it might also refer to each of his family member’s growth throughout the book, each with a metamorphosis…

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    outsider – “a German speaking Jew among Czech-speaking Christians (Puchner, 1202).” Most of his stories show his inner struggles, including his popular story The Metamorphosis. His story, The Metamorphosis, is a story about a man who turns into a cockroach. As elementary as a story with a plot like this sounds, the way that Kafka delivers the story, along with the themes, make the story a memorable literary work with a meaningful underlying societal critique. There are six main themes: man…

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    uninteresting because it should show that it works or not. Also, it also didn’t say much about what it would be used for. A big piece of the article is about it’s strength, speed, and how it inspired others. While the statistics of this robot cockroach were really good, the title seemed like a…

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    “The Passion According to G.H.,” by Clarice Lispector was a very exiting reading because it oddly portrayed spiritual rebirth. The small act of squashing a cockroach strangely crashes the story’s narrator and leads her into a waterfall of profound thoughts. The story is centered on the life of a narrator, who is only identified G. H. She basically just sits in her servant’s room and has these bizarre, inevitable thoughts. It is though that G.H.’s entire life is very structured, planned, and…

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    they are treated. In these stories, the protagonists both have similarities in their appearance in the way that they are much different than those around them. In Metamorphosis, Gregor becomes a cockroach one morning in opposed of being a human, and he has to show to his family that he is indeed the cockroach that is in replacement of his old self. In The Invisible Child, Ninny is an invisible child that is introduced to the family by…

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    “Speaking of Annihilation”: Mobilizing for War Against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945 written by Edmund P. Russell is about the chemicals from World War II that affects human and insect and the impact to the environment. In term of protecting the environment and wilderness, not many of the environmentalist have focus on warfare impacting the environment and the cause of chemical industries that have shape our environmental history on domestically and globalize. Hence, Russell’s journal…

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    a puzzled look. "KILL IT!" You scream as the spider climbs onto the blanket you were previously in. "Kill what?" He stands up and searches the floor. "C-cockroach." Your eyes start to water as you point at the petrifying oversized bug. Bellamy lets out a loud laugh as he finally sees the vile creature. "You're scared of a harmless cockroach?" He questioned with a laugh, walking over to it. "PLEASE JUST KILL IT." Bellamy…

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    acted like a bug before his transition because he allowed everyone to step all over him and then he changed into a cockroach. His mindset, family, and the financial situation guided him to his metamorphosis. Another form of irony from the literature includes how Gregor, before he turned into an insect, took care of his family and began to hate the consequences. When he turned into a cockroach, his family felt obliged to care for him and toward the end of the piece, they saw this as a burden…

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    Sargasso Sea, Antoinette remembers being harassed while walking to school:“I never looked at any strange negro. They hated us. They called us whitecockroach... One day a little girl followed me saying, go away white cockroach,go away, go away, ‘I walked fast, but she walked faster’, white cockroach, goaway. Nobody wants you. Go away”…

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