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    determined to hunt and kill giving into their temptations they continue to chose to do wrong because they know that killing is not right. They chant, “Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Bash her in” (57)! The boys are driven with the temptation to kill and with their humanistic traits they are inclined to chose wrong. The boys not only hunt the pigs but they have a chant which shows their passion and their nature that it is human nature to give into temptation. Later when roger decides to throw…

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    In chapter 1 you are introduced to the main characters Ralph, Piggy, Sam, Eric, Jack, Roger, and Simon. Ralph is a strong leader and is very influential to most of the group, while Jack likes to command the other half of the group into following him through intimidation. Unlike Ralph or Jack, Piggy is a happy and occasionally shy, self-conscious, and friendly child who use to be bullied for his portly size. Roger and Simon are both introverted and timid in front of most of the group. Sam and…

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    grown meat sounds repulsive, but with further research into the subject they may alter their opinion. It all started in 1931 when Winston Churchill proclaimed, "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." Even though he was not a scientist and had no idea of what would go into growing meat, chemists ran with the idea and finally succeeded. The first breakthrough was when Dutch scientists…

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    would also decide who was fit to work and who wasn't. They also sterilized the workers or terminated pregnancies. Some doctors would even have experiments done on people of the camps. Holocaust doctors were inhumane and treated people as their guinea pigs to better their own soldiers, causing even more deaths. To be a doctor in the modern world one must take the Hippocrates Oath promising the taker will intend to save lives, not intentionally making patients…

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    Everybody loves animals but having more than one can properly take care of and properly provide necessities for is also a form of animal abuse(“Animal Cruelty”, ASPCA, 2). Birds are a free flying animal, When you clip their wings and put them in a cage and keep them on display, that is a form of animal abuse whether you take care of them or not(“Reporting”, Avian 1). Animals at rodeos tend to be abused; while they are in the chute they are poked and prodded and sometimes even…

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    decoration was a regaling backdrop of the three little pigs and wolf within the theatre painted by sera Trinity. The Ball commenced at the eighth late bell where the Head Librarian,…

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    The public has taken matters into their own hands, by marching and creating riots to demand change. A march took place in Ferguson in honor of Michael Brown. Protestors carried signs that said “Hands up, don’t shoot”. The group was there to march for injustice and demanding change locally and nationally. This was cry against police violence. When Staten Island grand jury didn’t indict Pantaleo, citizens in New York and San Francisco gathered to protest. On December 4 and 5 more than 300 people…

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    Once again, Salinger wasn’t oblivious to the meanings behind each character’s name. In fact, symbolism plays a part in the character Sybil Carpenter. “Sybil, bright with innocence but already tarnishing, symbolizes for Seymour the human condition: like the sibyls of old, she is the unconscious oracle through whom the prophecy is revealed, the instrument of truth” (Lane). A sibyl is defined as “a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god” (“sibyl”). It is…

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    reason to confide in each other as travel partners, and that would be harder for others to understand. John Steinbeck wrote, “‘O.K. Someday- we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and-’ ‘An’ live off the fatta the lan. (Steinbeck 14)’”. Unlike all of the other workers, George and Lennie have something to look forward to: their dream. The men always think and talk about it, which draws Candy in. To wrap it up, it is…

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    Like a viper an arrow pierced out from the thorn ridden brush before piercing through the side of a wild pig, the tip driving it through the heart. Before the fat brown target could squeal in pain it collapsed, dead. The brown-haired owner of that arrow followed out from the bushes only a moment later, a short bow in his left hand and a quiver of arrows on his right hip. The young man held no excitement on his lightly tanned face, just a small glimmer of satisfaction in his own abilities hidden…

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