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himself. In chapter fourteen he has thoughts of jumping out the window, although he doesn’t go through with the though, it is an ongoing battle for Holden. Holden comes close to attempting suicide once as well, he goes to central park near the duck pond and sits there freezing and having thoughts of dying. He eventually stops after thinking about his sister Phoebe and how she would be sad about his…

Built in 1714-15 the Obelisk is 79 feet (24m) high; it commemorates the Duke of Marlborough’s campaign victories in the War of the Spanish Succession. The route to Coneysthorpe passes the Obelisk Ponds, and there are also views of the Great Lake. The picturesque village of Coneysthorpe has a large green, lined with stone cottages. Standing at the top of the green is the 1835 Chapel of Ease, refurbished in 1894 by Temple Moore; it has a large bell-cote…

“The ‘Lost Girls’ of Sudan” states, “She lists her chores: cooking, cleaning, washing, fetching water from the distant stand-pipe, looking after her guardian's children.” (Matheson, 69) On the other hand A Long Walk to Water states, “To the pond and back— to the pond and back—nearly a full day of walking altogether. This was Nya's daily routine for seven months of the year. Daily. Every single day.” (Park, 20) This shows how within both stories the girls have challenging chores that can take all…

He believes that lives are too complicated and wanted to understand the little things in life. He wanted to gain wisdom and knowledge about life, finding a new way of life. He thought that if he lived in the woods, in Walden Pond for two years that he would understand the true meaning to life. In order to find the true meaning to life one has to take themselves away from the factors in life that prevent them to do so. He believes that everything on does have a purpose to their…

and happiness are guaranteed. This article aims to show you that humor can be the best component of life. We were walking with my younger sister together with our niece who is four years old beside a nearby pond. The sight was breath taking- the sight of ducks in it, the blue water of the pond, the tall green trees, a little park and the people feeding them. My sister broke the silence.” Ifra (my niece), what can you recall from the recent home country visit ?”she answered without delay,” The…

Fishing “No!!” I screamed as I saw my dad’s fishing bobber fly off the line and land on the other side of the murky, dirty pond. His last words I heard echoed in my mind “Don’t break or lose anything on my fishing pole please Emma, you are responsible for it.” My friend Liz ran over to me, she followed my gaze to where the bobber landed in the water, she didn’t say anything. “I tried to tie my Dad’s bobber on, but as you can see I didn’t do very well. I have to get the bobber,” I said with a…

“You show you care you die. You show you fear, you die. You show nothing, maybe you live”(McCormick 53). These are the words of 12 year old Arn Chorn-Pond in his story of life in the Killing Fields of Cambodia, brought to us in gripping detail from the book Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick. Never Fall Down brings the life of Arn Chorn-Pond, a boy from a village in Cambodia into the public eye for all of us to see. Arn’s village was seized and harassed by the Khmer Rouge, then taken and…

similarity. In the second stanza, Shapiro’s usage of the word, “one”, shows that the different police officers are going about each individual duty. The officer’s actions include “one is still making notes under the light. One with a bucket douches ponds of blood… one hangs lanterns on the wrecks that cling.” (17, 18, 20) This parallelism produces a sense of action after the dreary death of a victim for the audience. The use of “light” and light synonyms in the first and third police officer’s…

terrapin); 2. Cyclemys tcheponensis (Stripe-necked leaf turtle); 3. Geoemyda spengleri (Black-breasted leaf turtle or Chinese leaf turtle, aka Vietnamese Wood Turtle); 4. Mauremys (Annamemys) annamensis (Vietnamese or Annam leaf turtle, aka Vietnamese Pond Turtle); 5. Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Borneo black leaf turtle, aka Malaysian Black Mud Turtle); 6. Hieremys annandalii (Yellow-headed temple turtle, aka Asian leaf turtle). Focusing on Cyclemys dentata, the current article will…

Many would agree that murder is the most morally atrocious and impermissible thing that an autonomous being can commit. As well, many would agree that there is a certain moral obligation that everyone should have to their fellow man, and hence feel some obligation to help prevent the suffering of a fellow man if the opportunity presents itself. However, how far does that obligation stretch? Does it go beyond the bounds of only being morally responsible for the circumstances that you can see in…