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    Cures for bubonic plague (which never worked) 1. Kill the Jewish The governors of different cities would gather all Jew’s and burned them alive. Now you’re probably thinking that how did they know if they killed a few people that weren’t Jews. Well that never happened because the Jews had to wear the colour yellow. The Jews admitted they poisoned the well and the rivers that leads to their cities, however the Jews were tortured into admitting they…

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    themselves and the people. When examining and comparing the difference between theses two cultures, it becomes evident that the Hispanic culture is superior than the American culture. To begin with, often food’s just seen as what keeps the human body alive and running, but the role of food, if gone…

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    Mary Maloney had one month until her house is foreclosed. She had to find a job before she moved out. If I was Mary Maloney I would be a butcher. Or I would be a construction worker because you get to hit things with a sledgehammer. Mary Maloney could not find a job that's hiring women. So after one month arrived she was living in a abandoned building. . She was hungry and had a baby on board.I would have married rich if I was living in a dirty building. Then one week later she sees a man who…

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    Departures Film Analysis

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    treating the dead and their families with respect through the way that they are ceremonially dressed and prepared before being cremated. The film in some of its lighter moments also provides insight into Japanese meals, such as the special meal that is eaten on Christmas. Overall, Departures is an emotional look into the life of a mortuary worker and portrays ideas about death and the deceased in…

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    People can either enjoy life taking it slow, while others can be can completely indifferent to all it’s beauty, and thus taking life for granted. In the poem “Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, it is communicated that spring is deceiving and it is shown that there is no point to life. “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke is more about going with the flow and appreciating life as is. The poems are similar because they both approach death and what is to come. Whereas, the two poems are different in…

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    returns home to find the men in his cave, he tells them they are ninnies. The cyclops traps them and ends up eating a total of 6 men. Odysseus has to form a plan to make the cyclops drunk and stab him in the eye so they can escape. They make it out alive, but if they just raided the cave and left, he wouldn't have lost his men. This shows how stubborn and full of himself Odysseus can…

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    “A young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious… food” This is a line used by Jonathan Swift in A Modest Proposal. In this writing, Jonathan Swift expresses his belief that the children of poor women should be sold and eaten. He is, of course, using this writing as a satire and is to not be taken seriously. He meant to bring light to all of the poverty in Ireland. The literary devices of ethos, pathos, and logos can be seen throughout the essay. Ethos, the…

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    the turkey was alive before I shot it twice before leaving. I thought it was just me. I was starting to feel a little weird so I asked Bobby if he could carry the turkey. I got to my house at the sun was setting it was as pretty as the girl who lives next door…. Anyway I started plucking it with Bobby,but the first feather we got it went all loco around my house. It even got in…

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    The Fire In The Road

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    Throughout the entire novel, “carrying the fire” has been a significant term that is used by the man and the boy. The importance of carrying the fire is referred to as the ‘good guys’, as the man and the boy encounter few people in the novel. However, the boy finds it hard to determine whether they are the good guys who carry the fire or the bad guys. Which is why the man shows his son how to carry the fire with him. Later on, when the father dies, it is up to the boy to continue carrying…

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    sides needs to be considered. I referred to this in my initial post, using Jean de Brébeuf as an example, who had "the nails torn from his fingers, boiling water poured over his body, his tongue and lips cut off, was burnt and scalped alive, and had his flesh and blood eaten in front of his eyes" by the Iroquois. If Native people need to get renumeration for injustices committed, certainly the descendants of de Brébeuf ought to have compensation given to them by the Natives as well. One last…

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