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    and live a sinless life, “Then, also, the blameless purity of her life during all these years in which she had been set apart to infamy, was reckoned largely in her favor … it could only be a genuine regard for virtue that had brought back the poor wanderer to its paths” (166-167). Having her sin brought to light set her on the course to it’s redemption. In the final chapter of the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne reveals to the reader a moral of Dimmesdale’s situation, “Be true! Be true! Be true! Show…

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    If you have ever read the book “The Adventrues of Huckleberry Finn” you will know that it has some conterversal issues within the book. Then if you have also seen the Huck Finn movie by Disney that they made you will be able to find some big diffrences from the book to the movie. The book does not censor the language like the movie does. The movie skips a lot of information though that is in the book. The biggest diffrences though between the movie and the book of “The Adventures of…

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    The Odyssey by Homer holds many symbols and ideas that sink the story further into itself but, one of the most prominent symbols is the the Odysseus’s bow. This weapon, given to the hero in his travels as a prince, presents a key to further understanding the depth of the epic. The bow is used to symbolize the hero’s relationship with Penelope, the will of Odysseus, and irony of the suitor’s peril. Just as the bow has been restrained from its’ owner, Penelope, the queen of Ithaka, has been…

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    and how these two mans had become best friend from strangers. By employing the images to the poem, the author also conveys the tone of helpfulness and optimism, “about this thing and that, / as I had known him well a thousand years.” “And I a wanderer been; / he was my bosom friend, and I was his.” These two lines shows the…

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    How can literature and life be a parallel some may ask, it can be a parallel in ways that people may not think about on a regular basis. Parallels between the genres that we have covered in class and real life are very prominent. The poetry unit in class shows how life is like poetry in the way that everyone sees and feels things in a different manner. Reading A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, demonstrates how life is like a play,even if it is misled one, also it shows how life is like a triangle of…

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    Rebecca Solnit Open Door

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    storyteller-anthropologist who believes there are two outcomes to wandering in one’s surroundings, “wandering can lead to death, to hopelessness, to madness, to various forms of despair, or that it may lead to encounters with other powers in the remoter places a wanderer may go” (19, Solnit). The state of mind of a person has to be accepting or surrendering, because nothing can be obtained without going beyond what the person already knows. As Solnit says “You get lost out of a desire to be…

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    Valentin Klinkpe T. Murphy English 102 05/04/2016 Reasons and Challenges Immigrants Encounter in the USA According to Wikipedia, Immigration is the movement of people into a destination country which they are not natives of or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker. However, immigrate are known to have different…

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    The United States was built on the backs of immigrants, pilgrims, and refugees. Innovation generates great new ideas as thoughts come together. From the industrialization of steel to the invention of the light bulb and telephone, immigrants welcomed into the United States have improved the infrastructure and lives of all Americans. Currently, the Islamic State and civil war are displacing twelve million families from their homes. These people flee into the wilderness in mass travelling as…

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    Zeus is known as the supreme ruler of both gods and men, He is depicted in both the Iliad and Prometheus Bond. Each story shows a different perspective as to how the immortals view Zeus, and how Zeus views both the immortals and men. For instance, the daughters of Oceanus feared that Zeus would hear Prometheus talking bad of Zeus. Also we see that the gods are always betrayed as going against Zeus' orders behind his back, but no matter what the case, Zeus always finds out about it. Both stories…

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    life, shooting people finding new creatures everyday formed from the nasty concoction of people and radiation, and waiting for the one day I fuck up. Cause one day I will. I will and no one will care. Out here I’m my own group, an outcast, the lone wanderer. Sometimes I’ll occasionally go to prim gamble a little bit with caps (the new currency since they’re so common) and trade for some guns or ammo or whatever I need. The world I knew is no longer here. It’s a new age, and I really needed a cup…

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