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    lighter to re-start the fire. And decided to cook some freeze-dried food using his cooking set. There where so many choices to choose from. But after sorting through them all he finally chose a beef and potato dinner, an orange drink, and a peach whip for…

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    the girls to perform witchcraft in the woods, along with doing it herself. She, without evidence was blamed for nearly everything. When Tituba was blamed, they beat her with a whip yelling “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death!”(Miller 1119). After continuously being beaten with a whip, she admitted her friendship with the devil and asked for forgiveness claiming she needed help in being pulled away from it. Due to revealing that she worshiped the devil,…

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    effect, he places “ministers” next to “men-stealers”, “missionaries” with “women-whippers”, and “church members” with “cradle plunderers.” Douglass uses logic to denunciate the religion of the slaveholders. He condemns the whip of the slaveholder and he condemns the holder of the whip. He condemns the Church of his masters and he condemns the ministers of that church. The same emotions displayed by Douglass are then embraced by the reader as the reader begins to relate with Douglass; the…

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin

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    death brings the bleak doom to Tom. Emancipation fails because of his deep but narrow ideas. Simon Legree is Tom's final earthly master, a remorselessly evil, depraved man who represents slavery at its worst extreme. He overworks slaves under the whips of overseers…

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    express this, he conveys the tone with the rhetorical device called Pathos (an appeal to provoke an emotional response). “The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin.” (4) The strong use of imagery vividly shows the horrors Douglass faced, and what many other slaves went through as…

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    Taking place in 2540 London, not even a hint of the world we know exists. Natural pregnancies are frowned upon, soma, a drug stimulant to make you happy, takes hold of almost everyone, and cars do not exist and helicopters have taken their place. The people grown are also placed into castes; Alphas, Gammas, Betas, Epsilons and Deltas. Three of the types Epsilons, Deltas, and Gammas are usually produced to undergo a procedure to make exactly 96 identical humans. Epsilons, Deltas and Gammas are…

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    Reconstruction In Baseball

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    pitched, earned run average (ERA), walks, and hits per innings pinched (WHIP), wins, losses, in percentage, walks per nine innings (BB/9), strikeouts per nine innings (SO/9), strikeouts per walk (SO/BB), hits per nine innings (H/9), home runs per nine innings (HR/9), wins above…

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    Can a poem actually have psychological characteristics that influence how we view the story that is being told? That is what will be found out at the end of this essay when psychological criticism is used to conduct a view on the author or speaker’s motivation in the poem “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”. Finding disguised psychological traits such as fear, love, or hate. Also, finding out specific developmental concepts that help to explain the behavior’s that are portrayed by the speaker or…

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    An Ordinary Autobiography

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    Beginning I suppose that an ordinary autobiography would began with a date of birth. Regretfully, I do not know of the time which I was born. I, like many other slaves, was not afforded the privilege of such knowledge. Not because our masters did not want to tell us, I’m pretty sure that they were not aware of it either, no, if anything, having the knowledge of when their slaves were born was most likely considered blasphemy to them, but I digress. I was born in Talbot County, Maryland, and my…

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    Some people believe that slavery was morally acceptable because slaves had the necessities of an average lifestyle: clothes to wear, food to eat, and a place to live. Due to the research taught in history lessons and Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, however, this belief can be strongly opposed. It is taught that slaves, especially those from the south, had a terrible life. Regardless of the fact that they were given some of life’s basic essentials, the argument…

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