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    Tubman” explains how “She had been taught to say, “Yes, Missus,” “No, Missus,” to white women, “Yes, Mas’r,” “No, Mas’r,” to white men. Or, “Yes, sah,” “No, sah.”’ This is similar to what is implied in “The People Could Fly” because the driver would whip any slave that was slow or not doing…

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    themselves. If these corrupted minds continue to go near witchcraft and turn away from God, everyone will suffer God’s wrath. Rev. Parris believes that his slave Tituba is one of the major causes of the scare of witchcraft in the town. He says,”I may whip Tituba 100 times, but she still defies my word and goes to do her own thing. I saw her and a group of children performing an outlandish procedure in the woods. I immediately thought that Tituba had influenced the children to join her in demonic…

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    to find soap from the neighbor’s mistress, a black woman, and the master was mad that she had left. She tried to explain that the master’s wife hasn't been giving her soap to wash with but he didn't believed her. The master’s wife encouraged him to whip Patsey, instead the master told Northup to do it. Northup expressed "the most cruel whipping that ever I was doomed to witness one I can never recall with any other emotion than that of horror”. Patsey was a victim of love and hate because the…

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    People would whip boys all day, until only one man stands. They bravely endured this, cheerful and proud. The last boy standing was held in a special repute. The game was called “The Flagellation”and it takes place every year. Their trainers encouraged them to to steal…

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    criminal to teach the town and the criminal a lesson. After the humiliation was over, the criminal was free to go but was shamed for the rest of their life. 200 years later, punishment has truly evolved. Now, it would never be appropriate to publicly whip or burn somebody. Yet, somehow our system finds it necessary to subject humans to months on years of prison sentences; during which, tax payers spend money supporting the heinous acts they continue in prison. These…

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    was lined up and very interesting. It has a lot of details and lots of repetition. It has a good variety of words that most people wouldn’t think of using .It was wrote by Alfred Noyes . When the highwayman comes riding he hits the shutters with his whip. He whistled a tune to the window ,and who should be waiting there but the landlord's black eyed daughter .This poem is about a man and a woman in love back in the older times. His eyes where hollows of madness,his hair like moldy hay. That is…

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    Being A Slave

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    This I will not forget, that whip left some marks on my back. However, I pity more on my fellow slaves who tried to escape and got caught. The plantation administrators fasten shackles to the slaves feet, strapped spiked collar on their necks and wore bell to make sure they don’t try…

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    it was time to head back home. We were all racing, trying to get home, me and one other bro were doing some sick wheelies on our bikes, I was amping with adrenaline from all the wheelies and the jumps off the sides of the dunes also cracking small whips of the dunes, with all of this being done only under the guidance of the moonlight. Finally we got back, it was pitch black. We didn't quite make it to Pouto but no one cared because we had had an amazing day and with all that fun the day was…

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    his forsaking of Hester Prynne and Pearl (Dibble 63-64). The city of Boston continued to view the Revenant as a strong and wholesome man who spoke the truth. Knowing he had failed his primary social and spiritual Obligation, Dimmesdale proceed to whip and lash himself in a failed attempt to earn purification (Kaul…

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    1. My character is Joseph he is David’s father and is against blasphemy’s these are some words to describe him. Cruel, Mean, Lazy, Irritable, Angry, Bossy, short tempered. All of these words describe Joseph very well because of his strong religious beliefs and beating his son David so he can understand the secret that David is hiding. Cruel, mean, irritable, angry and short tempered describes the way he treated his son after David found out of Sophie’s 6 toes which means she is a blasphemy. Lazy…

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