... my comrades and I, I already knew that all my purpose was this: to win the good will of your people or die in battle, pressed in Grendel’s fierce grip. Let me live in greatness and courage, or here in this hall welcome my death!” is considered for his great courage and his fierce strength of overcoming the evil Grendel with his own bare hands for terrorizing the people of Herot. believes in a fair fight and no true fighter should have the upper hand. “I have heard that the monster’s scorn of men is so great that he needs no weapon and fears no none. Nor will I. My Lord Higlac might think less of me if I let my sword go where my feet are afraid to, if I h ...
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... information on. I guess, for the most part I was right. All the references available in our school library were pretty easy to find; such as the Roget’s Thesaurus, the Unabridged Dictionary, and surprisingly the Book of Quotations and the Concordance to the Bible. On one day there, at the St. Paul library four were down and there were four to go, which wasn’t too shabby for the first day. I figured I was doing well getting half of my list taken care of before Christmas vacation, and then during vacation I would finish the job. Well as any normal teenager would agree the plan of doing work during vacation vanished as soon the final bell rang to start vacation. O ...
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... in the Civil Rights movement, but was also one of the most well-written, most powerful and most persuasive pieces of writing. "The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter"(King 14). This vivid comparison reflects the innate talent for writing possessed by Dr. King as well as his strong idea. By reinforcing his statement using powerful and persuasive words, Dr. King's "The Letter From Birmingham Jail" has become a memorable piece of literature. Use of the resource of language is another aspect that helps to defin ...
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... Be My Friend, the teenagers set out from New Zealand to assist a small group of elite New Zealand soldiers attack the new airbase that has been built in their town. In this book, the New Zealand soldiers disappear without a trace and the teenagers have to attack the airbase themsleves... I think that this book is as much about adventure and survival as it is about emotions, friendships and relationships. The book is written as the diary of the unofficial leader of the group and she speaks a lot about her thoughts, her relationships with the other members of the group and of her emotions about what she was forced to do during the course of the war. "I was determined ...
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... with fear. The speaker uses fear to complete the assurance of the people to do his intentions. Although the Edwards excerpt sentence involved fear, emotional deception and mental deception to obtain the audiences full attention, the opening sentence of Jefferson’s Declaration gives the audience a much different approach to procure the audiences focus. Jefferson’s opening sentence has a mild tone of diction, for the beginning of an informative speech. The eloquent words highly imposed among the speech, when dictated, create a powerful sentence that attracts the attention of the audience with curiosity in what the speaker has to say. Thus intriguing the p ...
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... body and drags it over his friends grave. Achilles's pride almost overtook his other traits and this flaw demonstrates the fact that Achilles was still human. The hero from the Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna, did not posses such super-human strength as Achilles did but is still classified as a hero. Arjuna was stuck with the choice of fighting ones in which he respected. What he wanted was to not fight, "how can I fight against Bhishma and Drona with arrows when they deserve my worship?" Krishna, Arjuna's charioteer who is really a god tries to convince Arjuna to fight. Arjuna tells Krishna that he will not fight. By doing this it shows that although he is a hero he ...
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... Pilgrim treats Billy as if he has no feelings and he is a disgrace to him. Unfortunately for Billy, fathers are very influential in a boy’s growing up. In a terrible encounter with his father when Billy was young, Mr. Pilgrim sets the stage for Billy’s insanity: Little Billy was terrified because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or-swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim. It was like an execution. Billy was numb as his father carried him from the shower room to the pool. His eyes were closed. When he opened his eyes, he was on the bottom of the pool and there ...
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... their childhood again. But with Harold, the situation is more dramatic because he has not only lived on his own, but has dealt with -- and been traumatized by -- life-and-death situations his parents could not possibly understand. Hemingway does not divulge why Krebs was the last person in his home town to return home from the war; according to the Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] 'the first of 132 former Star employees to be wounded in World War I,' according to a Star article at the time of his death" (Kansas City Star, hem6.htm). Wherever he was in the intervening time, by th ...
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... However, the stages that her mind her took through with coming to terms with her involvement in Beloved’s murder, her redemption of that burden, and near madness were the elements that helped to guide her through the guilt. From the redemption of her guilt, Sethe has learned that when a branch of her tree has weltered a little, which means that her family bond is not as strong, the tree does not die, because it has a strong root. A root that represents all of the sorrow’s of her life, but she is still strong and is willing to fight to get rid of the weltering branches and sprout new ones, which represents new hope, new life and new beginning. In comp ...
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... but they both mean well. Cletus collects stories and Calvin writes them. Ob from Missing May and Clay's mother from Monkey Island both seemed lost. They were both caught in a world of disillusion and denial. Ob couldn't believe that May was gone and Clay's mother had a baby coming and was terribly confused. In the end, they both seemed to find peace. I preferred Monkey Island because it seemed the most real to me. I couldn't "exactly" relate but I know what it feels like to be alone and scared. A friend and I were once homeless for a day. We went to New York with two dollars and a blanket. It was the most horrible experience of my life. I was cold and hung ...
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