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    Amber Vandepoele Ms. Rose English II Acc. October 7, 2015 LOTF Lord of The Flies is a dystopian novel written in 1954 by William Golding. The book begins in the midst of a nuclear war, when a group of private schooled British boys crash onto an uninhabited Island and try to establish a form of government that creates disastrous results. Throughout the novel, Golding unveils the brutal truth about the littluns and biguns savage instincts and unmanageable urges. He ultimately links the boys to…

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    Story Of An Hour Analysis

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    lot and couldn’t live her life for her, she loved Mr. Mallard dearly. When she heard the news of her beloved husband “She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dream.” Death happens to everyone, it’s the one thing in life that you can’t escape. In a way, it is unexpected, but you know that it is going to come. Mrs. Mallard knew that one…

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    Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential Spanish artist of the twentieth century. Picasso was so great at what he did that his art work, still lives on today and influences artist all around the world. Even though, Picasso was best known for his great paintings and sculptures, he also was one of the people that created one of the art movements known as cubism. Picasso painted people and events in his life. He was good for showing diversity in his paintings. At a young age many people knew…

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    Silla's Hwarang System

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    Ancient Korea was separated into three main kingdoms. In the order of the biggest and to the smallest kingdom, it was Guogurye, Baekjie, and Silla. Silla was the weakest and the smallest of the three, but Silla was the one that unified the whole Korea into one, and the one that lead to the fall of Guogurye and Baekjie. This was what made me interested. Who thought that the weakest kingdom could unify the kingdoms? And the reason behind the success of Silla was the Hwarang System. This leads to…

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    emotion towards anything, even when his wife died from suicide. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a loyal man and well respected by King Duncan. When Macbeth was leading the bloody war of the Norwegians, the general says to him "Which nev’r shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’ chops, And fix’d his head upon our battlements."( Shakespeare…

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    "You won’t see nothing!" Her lips moved. "Nothing !" he cried. "It was all a joke, wasn’t it?" He turned to the other children. "Nothing’s happening today. Is it ?" They all blinked at him and then, understanding, laughed and shook their heads. "Nothing, nothing !"” This shows how eager William is to ruin any little scrap of happiness Margot may have. William knows that the rest of the class shares his hatred so he can do whatever kind of horrid things to Margot and instead…

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th century poet, shook the country with his eye-catching lectures and philosophical beliefs. In his essay, “Self-Reliance,” he uses sundry figures of speech to impart his beliefs to his readers. To come to the point, Emerson assertsthat you can choose your path in life and make the best out of it. To begin with, Emerson’s ways of using figures of speech is complicated but expressive. Some of the figures of speech I detected were metaphors and personifications.…

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    Fannie Mae

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    During their statistics-filled speeches, bankers used to walk out confident there weren’t going to be any surprises. When the company went public in 1989, it acquired thirsty stockholders in search of profit growth. In December 2003, Freddie Mac shook investors by overthrowing its CEO for second time in three months. Freddie Mac had hidden billions of dollars in profits to…

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    Shensi Earthquake

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    the capital of Shaanxi. This earthquake has took 830,000 lives and ground fissures landslides and city walls were destroyed. This quake also affected Liuyang 500 miles away from shensi. 2. 1964 Alaska Earthquake. A magnitude of 9.2 earthquake shook alaska and created many damage in communities. Anchorage has many damaged because of no earthquake proof structures Port valdez had 30 death because of an underwater slide. This earthquake create a 27 foot earthquake 3. 2004 Indian…

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    He feels out casted like Gaston as stated, “They shook hands instead, as if they were strangers” (131). The situation is like Gaston’s as he felt as a stranger would in his own home, (Gaston really only had half a home). Another quote from the story to promote the symbolism of the father and Gaston,…

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