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    way he expects. Although Faye works as a prostitute, she is unwilling to have unpaid sexual intercourse with a man she does not love, which she uses as a response to Tod’s constant suggestions of having sex. Her refusals are what rile Tod up and turn his desires more ravenous: “If only he had the courage to throw himself on her. Nothing less violent than rape would do. The sensation he felt was like that he got when holding an egg in his hand. Not that she was fragile or even seemed fragile. It wasn’t that. It was her completeness, her egglike self-sufficiency, that made him want to crush her.” (91-92). Tod sees that Faye is a strong woman, but still desires to dominate her and destroy her body and mind to satisfy his own wants. Tod is destructive in ways harsh enough to light a city on fire or destroy a young woman’s innocence: “Like a locust, Tod is intent on destroying and plundering everything he sees, including Faye.” (Sanderson). Alluding to the Biblical plague of locusts,…

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    Surname 1 Surname 2 Name Instructor Course 27 November 2017 House-Sitting and Destroy All Monsters “House-Sitting and “Destroy All Monsters” are certainly captivating stories, partially due to the eeriness they present. To develop the stories in an eerie fashion, Sims ends up using carefully selected language. Therefore, this analysis delineates Sims’ choice of language, and the impact of that choice on the development/depiction of the two stories’ underlying values and views.…

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    France has had a huge year this year 2016,with several terrorist attacks, for many reasons. One being that they want to destroy Western civilization because they don’t like it. They targeted France because of the US coalition. A US coalition is when a group of people or countries have joined together for a common purpose or goal. Several people don’t understand why France is ut there are also other reasons to the attack. One other one is people are leaving the country or now not wanting to…

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    Alcohol Destroys a Community Alcohol abuse harms communities beginning in the family environment and extending outward to the community. Although people abuse alcohol because it makes them feel better about themselves, the truth is that over-use of alcohol tends to negatively impact the abuser’s personality and family. The abuser becomes irritable and uses poor judgment. Alcohol abuse is attributable to verbal and physical abuse of the spouse and the children. “Rowdy and his mother are always…

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    Commemoration Destroyed As a twelve year old, a rather normal, everyday twelve year old with big ambitions and an impressive talent for soccer, suddenly no words could be formed or found! How could Jayden convey the depth of his worries upon hearing such terrible news? Like it or not, the new utopian government, which had taken over everything would soon require an act called “mandatory commemoration” of each of its citizens the day after his or her 16th birthday. Forcible commemoration? What…

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    I was actually going to write about obesity but giving the many have already do so, I decided to shed some light on Alzheimer. The personal troubles of most of the illnesses we are discussing are that they attack the body; however, Alzheimer’s is a little different because it destroys the mind; It's a brutal and debilitating disease. As the patient's brain slowly dies, they change physically and eventually forget who their loved ones are. Patients can eventually become incapacitated, unable to…

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    “When is Daddy coming home, Mommy?” the little girl asked. “Not soon honey, not ever,” Mother answered. Many children were asking this question after the Civil War. Most family’s brothers and fathers hadn’t survived the war. Almost every man that was in the household over the age of 11 was drafted. If they survived the war, there was a big chance they would die from a wound or a disease. Did the North or the South destroy the Reconstruction? The Reconstruction was the attempt to rebuild the…

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    Recently, a lot things like Trump temporarily banned immigration from 7 countries, he also wants to build wall on the U.S-Mexico border makes me thinking about Patrick Buchanan’s essay “Can Diversity Destroy Us?” and “A.D. 2041 – End of White America?”. He mentioned “That America is gone forever. Last week we learned that in the last seven years 10.3 million people, almost all from the third world, entered the United States, more than half illegally.” (Buchanan) Is this one of the reason why…

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    plains or the sunburnt land and the shimmering, blue water we are surrounded by. And yes, the majority of us take pride in our sun flared lifestyle and rhapsodise about what nature brings to us. Consequently, it is no surprise that many Australian poems are based on ideas of the Australian environment, landscape and nature, whether with respect to our untouched and pristine environment or to our domesticated farmlands. Two of our current poets who explicitly portray very different ideas about…

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    Today I am going to talk about how Christianity destroyed Rome. God gave Christianity power for helping Constantine believe only in him. Christianity enforced their will on Emperor Theodosius. Finally, Augustine showed the Romans that they were spared by the barbarians through the respect of Christ. In Rome their were a group of men that were called Christians and had a great power. “They offered a spiritual comfort and the prospect of salvation on the one hand, and even riches as a worldly…

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