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Even though they already eve hundreds of pounds of equipment to carry, they still choose to carry these things. This is very justifiable however, because most of these items are something from home, something to remind them of what they have back home, and gives them hope that they will someday return there. Hope is…

Langston Hughes was an African American poet and author who joined other black artists to break literary barriers during the civil rights movement. The poem entitled Theme for English B was written thirty years or so after the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, but still embodies why the Renaissance had originated in the first place….

In The Great Gatsby, the Valley of Ashes prominently displays the color gray, symbolizing despair in this desolate location. Fitzgerald describes it as a peculiar farm where ashes grow like wheat, shaping ridges, hills, and strange gardens. The ash-gray men tirelessly swarm with heavy shovels, forming an impenetrable cloud. The Valley of Ashes is inhabited…

I, living in the 21st century, would be inclined to agree with the above statement, but a 17th century audience might be more likely to disagree due to an increased belief in the supernatural – therefore I believe that the question that needs to be asked is, to what extent is Macbeth responsible for his…

The speech was Rizal’s toast to the triumph of Juan Luna’s Spolarium and Felix Hidalgo’s Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al populacho in their work of arts whose works illuminates two ends of the globe: East and West (Spain and the Philippines). It’s about the acknowledgement and thanking them for the pride and glory they gave…

Abtract Anger can be destructive. When unleashed without due consideration for others, it can be disparaging. The negative outcome is usually irreversible. Anger may stem from different reasons which may be seen as justifiable, as in the case of being abused and the offended party gives vent to rage over the transgression; or uncalled-for, like…

This book was vary informative to me. This book mainly talked about theaffects of nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by thefirst atom bomb ever dropped on a city. It speaks about how even if you didsurvive the blast you were so badly injured that you would die soon anyway. Ittalked about…

After they meet at the ball, Romeo makes the choice to trespass on Caplet property to see Juliet again. Shortly after they agree to go and be married. Juliet, who was supposed to marry County Paris but is now secretly married to Romeo, makes the decision to pretend to die so she will not have…

During the dissenter period, youths often become self-centered and argumentative, rebelling against authority and feeling vulnerable. However, as they enter the leader phase, they begin to develop a sense of security, confidence, and capability. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, love, embodied by Romeo, acts as the guiding force that leads Juliet through the stages of…

Timothy Hurd ENGL 102-D18 April 8, 2013 Young Goodman Brown, The Lottery and the Evil of Mankind It is said that beauty is only skin deep. On the surface, mankind in general appears to evoke a beautiful sense of nobility, a concern for doing what is right and treating your fellow man with respect and…