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    Manipulators In The Cave

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    experience this for their entire life unless they make an effort to do something for a better future. Everyone has had the feeling of being trapped in a damp, wet cave at least once in their life. However, only the bravest and smartest people will escape the cave using knowledge obtained by disbelief of the manipulators, or the oppressors. The bravest and the smartest people will find the truth and have a better life than the ones who remained trapped inside the cave with lack of knowledge and…

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    The Darkest Path Summary

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    forces when he was eight. The path is a religion that gives people "The Choice" which is a way of recruiting. You join or die. Cal tries to escape the path and go back to his home in New York, but he is at the bottom of the U.S. so he has to walk on foot. He meets many people along the way that help him get to New York but he gets captured again. He finally escapes with the help of his brother and they travel to New York yo find their parents. But will they make it Cal is held in a path…

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    Why Is Alcatraz Obsolete

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    to withstand cannon fire must have some pretty thick skin. This rock of solitude was completely surrounded by freezing water. Although, many believe that it is impossible nobody escaped from alcatraz I am not one of those people. Many had tried to escape, for example Robert Stround AKA The birdman of Alcatraz who in 1909 murdered a bartender who had allegedly failed to pay a prostitute who Stround was pimping in Alaska. This building held the worst people in the United States; therefore, the…

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    Irving’s character Rip Van Winkle was a man looking to escape his troubles. When he escaped he slept for twenty years. During his sleep wars were won and lost, a new country was formed and people moved on from their memory of him. Rip Van Winkle’s town, townspeople, and house changed physically and politically while he stayed in the past during his sleep. His sleep demonstrates Irving’s idea of escapism. Irving writes how Rip Van Winkle wanted to escape due to his troubles. Before Rip fled, he…

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    Escape Uniqueness

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    Writing: Escape, Comfort, and Uniqueness Throughout the entirety of my high school career, writing, both for academic and personal reasons, has fabricated my individualism, distinctively segregating me from the rest of my peers. Being heavily involved in numerous clubs and organizations (having the presidential office in the majority) and holding academics on the highest pedestal, I utilize writing to further advance my involvement in the community. Being a writer has not only created an…

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    The Hairbreadth Escape

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    that touched my heart the most was when she was losing hope for herself and for her children, she felt trapped and heavy hearted like she would never get away from her captors truly. The passage that I found this in was Chapter XXXVI, The Hairbreadth Escape on page 147, when she said “It was evident that I had no time to lose; and I hastened back to the city with a heavy heart. Again torn from a comfortable home”. The thought of being torn from everything you know is unimaginable for me or for…

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    What Is Alcatraz?

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    There were 36 men who were involved in 14 separate escape attempts two of which who had attempted to escape twice. Twenty three were caught, 6 were shot and killed during the escapes, 2 drowned, and another two of the men were caught later and executed in gas chambers. Whether or not someone successfully escaped from Alcatraz all depends on your definition of ‘successful escape’. Officially, as of this day, there have been no successful escapes from Alcatraz though there are 5 prisoners listed…

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    Analyzing Kafka's Escape

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    Freedom: an escape that allows the body, mind, and spirit to escape from whatever chains might constrain it. Although escape might be necessary in case of physical harm or abuse, allowing a person to relieve the stress of living with their abuser making them temporarily feel like they are free and in control of their own fate, choices, and destiny, it isn’t what brings peace. However, even if there’s a physical escape, the psychological effects and worry will follow if the problems are not given…

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    Escape From Alcatraz

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    prison to break out of or was thought to be until the night of June 11 1962 at exactly 9:30. Alcatraz is known to be the toughest and most feared prison in America. Alcatraz is said to be impossible to escape from and the men who tried to escape didn’t survive the escape. Men who have tried to escape before drowned in the frigid cold waters of the San. Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was nicknamed “Uncle Sam’s Devil’s Island,” when it opened as a federal prison in August 1934. Men who broke the rules…

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    Shikitsune: A Short Story

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    The creator was named Shikitsune, she lived within a realm of nothing; an emptiness. She held her hands together and a stone was created, she crafted 10 stones and placed them in a circle suspended in the nothing. The stones would represent the solid ground ones would stand on, and the solid ground beneath them even when they were too far away in their minds. She wept into the center of the ring of stones, and water filled the center. The water would fill their bodies and fuel the beings…

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