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    Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is fear can control people and make them have bad decision.The theme begins to appear in the story when Les Goodmans car was the only thing that started on the block. The neighbors started to accuse him of being a alien, making les back up on to his porch.In the episode it shows, when the mobb was chasing after charlie, one of the neighbors through a rock at him to try to knock him down or to impale him. This shows…

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    Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is that weird things can happen to ANY ordinary street, and that people can, but should NOT be accused without evidence, ‘cause it’s just not fair! The theme begins to show when Tommy started making people scared by telling them that they were all bad, and he KNEW the story, and he was making people afraid. In the text Charlie says, ”I swear it isn’t me! I swear it isn’t! But I know who it is! I know who the monster…

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    Kansas said that the house on Maple Street was haunted. Nobody really knew that for sure though, until one day a boy named Noah decided that he wanted to be the first one to explore the house. That’s where it all began…. Of course, his friends, Sam and Thomas, told him it was a bad move. They made him promise not to do it. But of course on the way home from school he thought to himself: Who doesn't want to explore a haunted house? So he took a little detour down Maple Street. After that day he…

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    The story of "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," written by Rod Serling was originally a book but turned out to be an episode in the series of "The Twilight Zone". There are many similarities and differences between the two. In the TV episode that aired March 4, 1960, probably the most different thing is that Tommy (the boy that knew about what was going to happen. In the book, it is said that Tommy is a young boy about 8 to ten years old with glasses. Although Tommy wore glasses he…

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    In the Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", the neighbors on Maple Street were out performing their everyday duties when suddenly an unknown flew across the sky above. Based on rumors, the object was supposed to be some type of foreign media from out of space. After the strange object 's appearance, weird things started happening on Maple Street: several homes were without electricity, car engines would no longer start, and several other unusual activities were observed.…

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    like that of a classical piece. Even so, the combination of both African-American and European classical forms were what led to his creation of ragtime. This piece was structured in sixteen-measure increments like most rags, as discussed earlier. “Maple Leaf Rag” contains a typical technique in ragtime in which the left hand is in direct coordination with the right hand. Specifically in this piece, the left hand alternates between playing chords and playing the bass while the right hand…

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    The jeering crowd roars as they strike. The meat packing industry is appalling; poisoned rats and tuberculosis infected steer are thrown into the quality meat. People call to end these horrendous practices. Upton Sinclair wrote, The Jungle, in response to the alleged horrors and intriguing claims. To prepare himself for informing the world, studied, lived, and breathed in the meat packing industry for several weeks. There were many people that thought badly of him and opposed his efforts,…

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    Symbolism In The Jungle

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    In the novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the author criticizes the meatpacking industry during the nineteenth century and uses vivid imagery to display horrible living conditions of the people in that time. The Jungle was a book that truly showed the the migrant workers in the factories who were in poor working conditions and put anything in meat as long as they did not get in trouble. This brought many unsanitary conditions in and outside the factories. In the novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair…

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    In the early 1900’s, many immigrants moved to America with hopes that they could live freely and work to have a better life. The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, is about a Lithuanian family who worked in the Chicago Stockyards and discovered the true horrors of working in the meatpacking plants. The theme in Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, reveals how much damage capitalism caused and the effect that capitalism had on people. As the main character goes throughout life, he is constantly…

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    Teddy’s Triumph “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”( Roosevelt 1). Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City and strucken with asthma as a child. He was mostly home schooled through his early childhood but when he got older he was a governor of New York before he became a vice president. Theodore Roosevelt accomplished to fix the…

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