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    deformed conscience”, he was referring to both Huck’s failure to follow through with exposing Jim to the slave hunters and his inability to send a letter to Miss Watson explaining Jim’s location after running away. One of the first examples of Huck’s sound heart and deformed conscience occurs early on in his journey with Jim, when he decides at the last minute to save Jim from the slave hunters trying to search the raft. Before he interacts with the men, Huck’s conscience decides to turn Jim…

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    “A Modern Love Letter” creates surprise by the buildup of the foreshadowing of hints through the story. The structuring on the other hand was chronological order, with a flashback thrown in, to give us a hint possibly. To start off, first off, the first hint was when Isabella “Bella” found the first love letter, in which was written with an old stationery in which “, revealing a single sheet of thick, old-fashioned stationery—the kind I’ve seen only in my abuela’s antique desk,” this statement…

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    Last Letters a Memoir A short film documentary, "Last Letters" is a memoir from the families of those lost in the Sewol Ferry tragedy in April 2014. On April 16, 2014, the Sewol Ferry, on its way to Jeju Island in South Korea, had held 476 passengers and of those 476 passengers less than 70 survived the capsizing of the Sewol Ferry itself. The passengers on board the Sewol Ferry were mostly Danwon High School secondary students. This is where Nils Clauss' documentary comes in because his…

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    needed to bring out the true potential within. I came home checked the mail since I had been doing this for weeks now and I saw 5 letters. They were letters from school letting me know if I was accepted into Magnet/I.B. programs for high school. Keep in mind I only really cared about Campbell I.B. program. As I opened the first one I read to find out it was a rejection letter. I was disappointed, but I kept going and I opened more letters, both saying…

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    from their homes to people dying, is now hanging over them like a thunder cloud so dark none can look through it. It will never leave them, it will always be there, no matter how hard they try to forget the grief of the jungle will be there. This connects to the theme showing how grief can spread, it doesn't have to be a person it can be a place, and to them, that place is Vietnam. The grief of many, still linhes in the leaves of the…

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    a mailmare. Luna stared trying to process what she saw before her. She never got mail. Why was there a mail mare here. When she realized she was staring, she shook herself out of her stupor and relaxed. “I have a letter for you,” the mare said. “Thank you.” She grabbed the letter with her magic. “Do you know who sent it.” “Nope. Some pony gave me this on the street and told me to give it to you; that's all I know. I’m just doing my job.” “Are you sure you don’t remember anything about the…

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    order to exhibit that every sacrifice is worth a child’s future. When looking at the ad “My Dad Is A Liar” the story starts off with a small girl, about age 6, writing a letter to her father complimenting him and all his hard work. But then the letter takes…

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    in our lives today? I'll give some of modern-day symbols. There are many Christan sybols. The Fish Chritsian symbol is one of the first. The fish is an acrostic, take the Latin word for fish (icthus) and spell it in the Greek alphabet, each Greek letter represents another word. Ichthus, spelled in Greek = Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma. That is an acrostic for "Jesus Christ, of God, the Son, the Savior" [Iesous (Jesus) CHristos (Christ) THeou (of God) Uiou (the Son) Soter (the Savior)]. first…

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    The letters and his interactions with the invisible woman are further explained by Lorrie Smith, she breaks them down by saying “Martha 's writing--and, implicitly, her reading of his war experience--are sexualized through association: her inability to respond…

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a man who stood up for his beliefs even until death. He left us an example of what a true Christian person is like. He lived in the time of World War II and the Holocaust. And because of his involvement as a spy during the World War II, opposing the Nazi government, and maintaining a leadership role in the Confessing Church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is remembered as a very important individual in the fight against human injustice. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born on…

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