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    heard the announcement the day before I was not worried, I thought it wouldn’t be effective and will last for two to three hours. When I woke up that morning about 6: 45 a.m. I was greeted by darkness and the sound of rain splashing on the roof of my house. My siblings were not doing their morning routine, but was soundly asleep. I went back to sleep for about an hour and woke up again to be greeted to the same thing as before. I went into my sister’s room and asked “Why are you not preparing…

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    Prufrock does not actually have an endless amount of time and he begins to age and die. He is “unable to act [... and] he consoles himself with the repeated speculation that “there will be time” to act on his social [...] anxiety” (Persoon and Watson 4). Eliot himself connects with the character of Prufrock, because he was known to be extremely introverted and shy; he over analyzed things until the chance had long passed, much like how Prufrock did (Bush 1). Another tool that Eliot uses to…

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    Why Ned should stay dead One thing I don't understand: why the hell would you, as a fan, want to bring Ned back from the dead? Let's start with the possibility of it happening. We know that it IS possible to resurrect people - the best example of it being Lord Beric Dondarrion, who was brought back to life 6 TIMES by Thoros of Myr, the Red Priest of R'hllor. That proves that R'hllor has the ability to revive someone. Dondarrion did it himself, too, to resurrect Catelyn Stark. He died while doing…

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    anything themselves and everything being handed to them, no matter the scenario. An example of this in the text is when the dad is eating dinner he forgets the tomato sauce and all he has to say is, “We forgot the tomato sauce”(page 4) and the house replies “Sorry”(page 4) and gives it to him.…

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    the Hubermanns in Molching. Hans, her foster father, teaches her to read, and she befriends a boy named Rudy. Meanwhile, the political situation in Germany worsens, with food and work shortages, and a Jewish man named Max arrives at the Hubermanns' house. Max hides in the basement, becoming friends with Liesel, who reads to him. Liesel steals books from the mayor's wife's library, and Max writes a book for her on the pages of Hitler's autobiography. Max leaves the basement when Hans is punished…

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    Martin Luther KIng Jr. was born January 15,1929. He was born in noon in atlanta. He was the second child of his family. He grow up in his grandparents Large victorain house on Auburn Avenue in Anlanta, Georgia. His original name was Michael given by his father then changed it to Martin Luther King Jr. to honor the protestant leader Martin Luther. He attended Alanta Public School,First David T. Howard Elementry, Then Booker t. Washington high school. He had one brother and one sister he was the…

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    Martin Luther king jr was man who changed the world still to this day. He lost his life in Memphis ,Tn. He was shot dead out of his hotel on April 4, 1968. I believe he lost his life trying to better the world by making black and white come together. He played a key role in the civil rights movement in the 1960 s . He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta,Ga. His father was name Martin Luther King Sr. and he was a minister at the Ebenezer Baptist Church . At the age of fifteen Martin Luther…

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    life, but suddenly it gets cold. As the speaker seems to be dead, we can infer she has officially passed over to the afterlife. This notion is supported as she is wearing “only Gossamer, my Gown/-My Tippet-only Tule” (15-16), a gown that is similar in description to that which people would put on a dead body for a funeral. They “paused before a House that seemed/A Swelling of the Ground” (18-19). The “House” is her new home where her dead body will remain, her grave; the swelling of the ground…

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    road passed through a stark black burn." (McCarthy 2006, 4). It is clear that McCarthy put a lot of effort to describe the road, its appearance and what is close to it "The road beyond ran along the crest of a ridge where the barren woodland fell away on every side. It's snowing, the boy said." (McCarthy 2006, 8). The road itself could also be seen as a symbol of a person's physical and mental state. The post-apocalyptic world is seen as a "dead world" and the author describes it perfectly "The…

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    Silver wolves, while fearing fire, will still attack if their bellies are hungry enough. However your eyes do light up, when you see a loaded crossbow beside the dead soldier. A useful weapon against such creatures, but a weapon that will take time to reload with each shot. Then there is always the option of just looting the nearby houses. After all, who is going to stop you? The villagers? In any case it's time to make a decision. Choice 1. Do you charge in head first, brandishing a fire brand…

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