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    routines and show they are never getting anywhere. The form used in this section is also quite helpful, as Eliot slowly drops more and more references to the setting and where the hollow men are. “This is the dead land”, and “This is the cactus land” now give us an almost clear image of a barren dead, desert where these scarecrows are trapped and cannot move from. Also, time in…

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    Well, Everybody played a part in the vietnam war. It was a bad war cause a lot of people died in the war and i think that why you gonna shoot and kill people and just be looking all around at dead bodys like i don't understand that but from my oppoining i think they were just trying to prove that that they would win and the other lost and died. At first Americans supported the war at once but as it got worse they turned against the war. I think that the U.S. shouldnt have been involved because…

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    The Death Of Ivan Ilych

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    Sometimes it’s the little things that get to you. There are random acts of kindness and hatred everyday, and some of them just seem wrong and stick with us longer than they should. Terrible grammar on facebook and dumb status updates lower our standards on social media, and current wars and riots lower our faith in human kindness. In fact, these ideas are decaying our society, causing a lost faith in humanity. At least, this is what Leo Tolstoy thought This russian writer grew up in a…

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    how he is not going to fight in a war knowing they have already lost, that Shadow must know that the dead must stay dead. Whiskey Jack follows a Native American tradition of advocating for balance above all (Whiskey Jack). He is trying to teach Shadow that he should not try to bring back the dead, as there would be a consequence if he did so. By giving Shadow guidance in that the dead must stay dead, Whiskey Jack is preserved as a culture hero. Whiskey Jack also shows trickery as he does not go…

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    claws and rested its tip on a human skull. “Who are you puny humans who seek to destroy us? We have always ruled this land and we always will. Send your best knights and bravest warriors, I will defeat them all. I am enraged at the death of my brother Sardok, and I will have my revenge. I will hunt his killer and litter the floor of my cave with human bones and weapons until he is dead. I would have the pleasure of eating him alive!” Rumours of Vardok’s killer had Skarbak confused. The humans…

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    Ancient Greek Gender Many nations and civilization have ruled different lands and different people. One of the most ancient civilizations was the Greek civilization. It existed around the Mediterranean Sea where the country Greece is located. The ancient world and society have similar perspectives and different once. Democracy is an example of parallels thoughts in compare to nowadays. Although democracy in ancient Greece and modern life are diverse, the old Greeks, at least, advanced in…

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    referred to as the “Black death” or the “Black plague” because of the symptoms of the plague. The Black Plague first appeared when Genoese trading ships docked in a Sicilian port. To everyone's surprise, everyone in the ship was either gravely ill or dead with black spots all over their skin. The Bubonic plague was spread by a bacillus called the “Yersinia Pestis” which was spread through skin contact, through air, and through infected rats and fleas. The Plague was remarkably contagious as when…

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    They would feel happy with this new style of living. In the poem they use a lot of figurative language for example there is the first one. “We felt like red balloons set adrift over the wide sky of this new land.”- This mean that they felt like they did not know anything about this new land and that they were just wandering around the place not knowing where they were. Secondly, “never staying long enough to learn the secret ways of wood…

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    out of the house barging through the front door with a shotguns and Ak-47s the family killed three cops and shot 2. A call into the radio “take the shot , take the shot, three men down.” Bang, Bang, Bang. Three shots hit the man. The family dropped dead, The 10 snipers deployed to the top of the hill shot down the family.…

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    As heard earlier, Eli slept with Sophie. Eli headed to Nanapush, a man he respects very much, for help and advice. Nanapush helped Eli make some important realizations and helped pave a path for him to take. Eli opened up about some strange things that have been going on with Fleur going to Matchimanito at night, but that is no news to us. There has been some news spreading of Fleur being pregnant, but we are not yet sure if this is gossip or true facts. For revenge for Sophie, Clarence and…

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