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    shelter a family of Jews. Even with the fact that she was poor, and little is known about her life, we do know that she saved a family. For deciding to help that family of Jews, she was recognized as Righteous among the Nations (Wikipedia) and is also known as a Woman of Valor (Vashem). With that in mind let’s go uncover what she did. Let’s start with some basic information, Holocaust means “sacrifice by fire” if you trace it back to its Greek origin (Ushmm). Germans wanted the purest…

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    around the world for many years. Terrorism is known as an unlawful act of crime of viciousness. Terrorism takes action to threaten government or society to seek an objective level in political, and or religion. How the collapse of the tower created. We all know terrorism is a conspiracy theory but the terrorism only do what they do because of the US and its government. The government had all rights to take action on terrorism due to the September 11 attack. Since the September 11 attack…

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    Literary Analysis Research Paper Golding’s Lord of the Flies is clearly a story about a return to primeval human instincts of savagery and fear in the face of isolation and danger rather than just a story of the dilemma faced by teenage boys stranded on an island. Throughout the novel, underlying tones such as political ideologies are reflected by the boys’ actions. However, as the novel progresses, it is clear that expansive symbols and motifs largely mirror attitudes of the boys and on a…

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    In the story, The Magic Bus, Thomas is one of the most disturbing and evil characters we encounter from any of the stories. A sociopath is as “defined as a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.” The website Pyschcentral.com says that sociopath is a “pop psychology” term used to describe antisocial personality disorders. Many antisocial personality disorder share similar traits such as breaking the rules or…

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    Cunningham is a mockingbird. The mob has the intention of lynching Tom Robinson before his trial. Scout sees Mr. Cunningham and she starts talking to him about about his saying he’s “a real nice boy. We brought him home for dinner one time. Maybe he told you about me, I beat him up one time but he was real nice about it. Tell him hey for me, won’t you (Lee 205)?”. Scout then goes on to say that “Entailments are bad…

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    being the death of his Mother, Father, and sister. All of the challenges he faced shaped and changed Elie in a way that affected him throughout his life. This shows that when we are faced with problems we try to adapt and change to solve them. In the beginning of the book, Eliezer was a very religious teenager. At the start of the book Eliezer was talking to Moishe the Beadle, one of his good friends, about wanting to continue his studies in a deeper way with Moishe. For example he said “One day…

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    change so much that they actually killed 3 kids. The author wanted to make it seem as if British boys can go savage too. The book before Lord of the Flies made it seem as if the natives on the island were a lower class than the whites. William Golding didn't feel that way so he decided to make a book about the savagery inside British boys. He also placed the the boys in the time period during World War II which was ironic because the boys ended up fighting their own War. The book is described as…

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    the children. Firstly this essay will examine how the children in Kurdistan are forced to become adults at a young age, then it will analyse how education was considered useless and how that differs to the life of people in a western culture. Finally we will consider how gunfire was encouraged to the children in Kurd. In the Kurdish camp, the children were often given a lot of responsibility and they were depicted as the stronger ones of the group. The town leaders often asked for the help of…

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    A theme brought up throughout the play, The Crucible, is the theme of Empowerment. Whether it is characters gaining empowerment to do something or characters losing empowerment within themselves, empowerment is an important theme throughout the play. Girls had little to no respect or power during the time the play was set, so having the trails brought them a lot of attention which led to empowerment. The theme of empowerment mostly involved the female characters of the story, so that’s what I’m…

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    and disciplined days after being on the island. Even though Jack lost the vote to be the leader to Ralph, Jack accepted the role of being the leader of the hunters. By Jack accepting the loss, he showed that he remained civilized even though things didn’t go his way. Being the leader of the…

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