...their circle. Sometimes those duties conflict with a person’s moral compass, giving them an “unstable” border. Having that unstable border can create confusion in the individual, or inner turmoil as they struggle to understand what’s right in their hearts, rather than what their duty tells them to do. However, “duty” can be three things—duty of occupation, survival, and morals. All form the basis of a person’s identity that’s often adapted to safeguard any resulting vulnerabilities by projecting borders that repel out those not from or part of their community. Three movies that exemplify these ideas are (2003) Tears of the Sun, (2006) Blood Diamond, and (2009) Sin Nombre. While they follow different plots, each has lead characters that exemplify how they’re identities, vulnerabilities, and borders are challenged by their various duties as human beings. Briefly, Tears of the Sun follows a career soldier, whom is forced to choose between following orders and saving lives. Lt. AK Waters is a veteran Navy SEAL whose commander has given his team a special assignment. A central African nation is on the verge of war at any moment, and Waters and his cohorts are to escort any American citizens in the area to safety, most notably Dr. Lena Kendricks, a doctor from the United States who has set up a clinic in the jungle. Waters and his men find Kendricks, but she refuses to leave with them unless she can bring along 70 refugees who have been left to her care. Kendricks makes it clear that...
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...see the clear expression of pain of Margot’s small features. “The sun,” she whispered quietly, barely audible and without emotion.”The sun.” Suddenly and without warning, all the frustration and pain that had been welling up inside Margot exploded, like a balloon popped by a needle. As these emotions turned into tears, a new emotion began to seep into her soul. This emotion was new to Margot; it was deep, pure, and longing. Every tear that escaped Margot’s eyes reminded her of all the things she wanted. Every tear also took a small shard of pain away from Margot, until there was no more pain and no more tears to be shed. After the last desolated tear rolled down her face, she silently looked up. Sixteen pairs of concerned eyes met her. One by one, the children wrapped their arms around Margot’s body. She soon realized that these were the people who had taken her chance to see the sun. Yet, she felt no resentment or hate, just coldness inside of her. A girl with thin black hair walked over to Margot. She cleared her throat nervously. “It was beautiful,” stammered the girl. “It was just like you said it would be.” Margot could only nod; her voice seemed to have slipped away. “Excuse me,” Margot said meekly, forcing out the words.”I have to go home now.” The children nodded. They let her pass without argument. Marot walked over to the door, and then was gone, just like her hope of ever seeing the sun again. The next day, Margot’s classmates crowded around the school...
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...When Mersault starts his return to the beach, Meursault expresses that “the sea gasped for air” because of the “dazzling red glare” coming from the sun (57). This personification creates imagery of the sea, which can be alluded to heaven, being harmed by the sun, which can be alluded to heaven, especially the red glare of the sun because red can often be viewed as a hostile and devilish color. Next, when Mersault is having his initial confrontation with the Arab, Mersault says his environment manifest a “fiery air” (58). Most people would describe hell as also containing a “fiery air” so Mersault’s environment in this scene can be seen as a metaphor to the environment of hell. During his quarrel with the Arab, Mersault proclaims that the sea now “carried a thick, fiery breath”(59). The sea’s taking up of the fire trickling throughout Mersault’s environment alludes to an overtaking of heaven by hell. This allusion reveals that the harmful effects that Mersault gains from his environment...
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...The stomp dance is considered to be a holy event for worshipping Unetanv (God, The Creator). The dance begins with the leader and he circles the sacred fire and is followed in single file by those who are invited to participate. He leads the dancers counter-clockwise around the fire, singing, shaking leg rattles, and dancing in a stomping order. Men and women alternate positions behind the leader, organizing themselves by age and skill, with the youngest and least experienced dancers at the end of the line. Of course the stomp dance is not the only dance performed. Their purpose of dancing is also seen throughout the names given to dances. Such as the rain dance, sun dance, and snake dance, all have a story that goes a long with the title of dance. Dances in the Cherokee are mainly just performed in order to insure the community’s wellbeing and honor the...
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...THE class-room was hot, and outside the sun was hard on the dusty earth and the grass was going brown on the playing fields. The boy looked at his exercise book, at the figures and the red-pencil corrections, and they were nothing, related nothing in his experience. He raised his eyes very slowly and saw the hard light and the bare ground and the drying grass. Over by the fence the two old jarrahs with the spread tops framed the piled houses of the suburbs. He had his hands to his head and he looked out of the low window and then back at the figures on the paper, and slowly the tears began to force their way on him. He made no sound and the others working did not know. Now out beyond him were the wide flat acres of wheat, heavy in ear, and the cut patches bare to the earth dotted with the stooks. The wagon moved slowly out, and when they reached the stooks his father began to pitch the hay. The sheaves thumped on the wagon. He helped Ted, who worked for them, to build the load. As the wagon started for the next stook he felt the jolt and looked at the load to see if it would hold. High up he sat when it was built and they drove in to the stack. He got on the stack and Ted threw the sheaves to him and he passed to his father. The sun was hard on the paddocks and the dull scrub and the few trees. It made the wagon hot and the hay held a heat, and his clothes were hot. It was hard to say when the shadows first started to come on the ground, but they began to shift out from the stooks...
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... the Choctaw, was derived from the Creek term “chate” or “red”. Around the time of 900 c.e., these Indians learned how to cultivate their staple crop of corn. There is a legend about the arrival of the Choctaws in their native land, and another about how corn came to be. The customs and beliefs greatly resemble those of very far-off lands. However, most of these cultural ideas were crushed when Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto disrupted the simple Choctaw way of life in 1540. This was further worsened when settlers came and forced their beliefs to be adhered to as opposed to tradition. The Trail of Tears did not improve the connections between the two races. Nevertheless, conditions improved when the United States recognized the Choctaw Indians as the Choctaw Nation in 1934, in the Indian Reorganization Act. The Choctaw still speak their native language today....
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...Good afternoon everybody in this class. My name is Tien. I have been living in PT city when I was born. Today, in my presentation, the purpose of my talk is comparing and contrast between 3 resorts in my hometown namely Novotel (4 star resort), Anantara and Sealink (5 star resorts). Nowadays, people go travel more and more popular. Choosing a quality resort is an important step. There are some similarities and differences between them. . I have devided this talk into 4 part. There are a number of points. I’d like to make: 1- Location 2- Facilities 3- Prices 4- Conclusion And if you have any question, please ask me.I’ll be happy to answer them at the end. I should only take about 5min of ur time.Let’s start by their location. All of their locations vary considerately. While Novotel is located near in the heart of Phan Thiet city, both of Sealink and Anantara is far from the city. however, they are located in the middle in Mũi Né resorts. Sealink and anantara are situated about a 20-minute driving motor from the centre of Phan Thiet city. the distance from Novotel to the Phan Thiet centre is only 5 mins by walking and close to many transport station like bus stop, train station. Now, moving on the facilities. There are some differences and similarities among the resort regarding facilities. All three resorts have variety of facilities such as spacious rooms, bar, villa, restaurant, swimming pool. However, Novotel and Sealink have own golf course. In contrast...
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...said we’d go with him … But I followed him all the same”. These two lines show that Meursault don’t care what others want, and that he will not consider it and will do what he wishes to do instead. This makes the extract effective because it shows the difference of what he feels before the incident and after. ” The sun was crashing down … into little pieces “, imagery used to show how harsh nature can be. That’s effective because we hardly picture nature as being harsh, and walking on the beach was always something beautiful pictured in a good way. Meursault describes nature or the beach in a difficult way to imagine, and that shows how he’s strongly affected by the surrounding nature. Nature has a great impact on Meursault and that what makes it more effective by showing how he’s influenced by nature, and that’s why it used a lot. He links between what’s happening and nature surrounding, “when Raymond handed me his gun, the sun glinted off it. “, this line is written as if nature is watching them, and when the gun was handed to Meursault the sun glinted off as if it rested and stopped watching, and if we described it that way it’s a personification, by giving the sun the ability of looking, and its visualized like a mother who don’t want any of her children injured. “Amid the sand … at a standstill”, he’s in a position where he’s responsible to take care of Raymond and shoot if anything happens to him and all he cares about is the nature surrounding and how its stabled, just as...
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...The Sun Rising by John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices, Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. Thy beams, so reverend and strong Why shouldst thou think? I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink, But that I would not lose her sight so long: If her eyes have not blinded thine, Look, and tomorrow late, tell me Whether both the'Indias of spice and mine Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me. Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday, And thou shalt hear: "All here in one bed lay." She'is all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compar'd to this, All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy. Thou, sun, art half as happy'as we, In that the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere. (5) (10) (15) (20) (25) (30) 17. both the'Indias: the East Indies was famous for spices; the West Indies for gold and silver (mines.) 24. alchemy: false gold. Questions on Donne's "The Sun Rising" 1. _____. In the first stanza of the poem the speaker is: a. surprised...
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...and dark and was called Maat. Maat was a feather. Shu and Tefnut produced Geb, the Earth and Nut the Sky. Nut produced rain for Geb and Geb made things grow on earth. Sky gave birth to the sun every night before dawn, and every day it would follow its course over the earth and die at sunset. Shu and Tefnut produced other Gods, Isis, the queen of the gods. Hathor, the goddess of love and beauty. Osiris the god of wisdom and justice. Seth, the god of evil. Thoth, the god of wisdom and Nephthys the protectress of the dead. Atum’s children had got lost so he sent his all- seeing eye out to find them and when they came back he was so happy he cried tears of joy and when the tears hit the earth, they became the first men. The Zulu myth long ago before man or any animals it was just darkness and a large seed. They seed fell into the earth and long weeds began growing which were called Uthlanga, which is the source of all things. One weed grew into a man named Unkulunkulu. He was the first man and the creator of all things. He grew larger until he fell of the weed and started walking onto the earth. As he walked up and down earth he saw that other men and women were forming. He pulled off cattle and fish and birds. He created streams and mountains, lakes and valleys, wind and rain and the sun and the moon. He created everything we see around us today. He taught the first men and women how to hunt, make fire, make...
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..."Cathredal river gums", "sun filtered" Reminds me of christian values and churches. The sun through the leaves, makes me think of the presence of a higher being. 9. The boy feels empty, dissapointed by what did not acure when he shot the animal. One could wonder that, the preparations following uo to the act, became bigger then the act itself, did for the boy. He thought that this would be the life changing tranformation from a boy to a man. But he was sorely mistaken. 13. unaware, numb - autoreflex, is the word I would use to describe both the way the boy shoots and how he shoots. HE is disconnected from the riffel he is carrying. I'm not there. 14. he sees his father as some kind of supreme being, given the animals the kiss of death. and like a god he sees him without mercy or understanding...
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...Just Like That [pic]Written by: Michael Richards 'Dead,' said the man, 'just like that'. He stopped the engine. The boy stared out the window. 'Well?' demanded the man. 'Do you think you can do it?' The boy said nothing. The man said, 'If you can't do it now you never will.' [pic]'Yes'. said the boy, 'I can do it.' [pic]'If you can't do it now you never will.' They left the car sprawled across the crest of the road. They walked into the paddock. The boy lagged. [pic]'Don't walk behind me,' said the man. [pic]The grass glistened in the early morning sun. The boy stretched hard to keep up. The wet grass was cold on his legs. Grass seeds stabbed through his socks and prickled his ankles. Flat seeds stuck to his skin. The soft hairs on his legs were soon matted and tangled with the sticky dew and the seeds from the grass. [pic]The man stopped. He said, 'Watch'. [pic]He raised his rifle. It cracked and the first kangaroo flipped into the air and fell down. The second kangaroo froze, staring directly at the man. He fired. The second kangaroo flipped and fell in the grass. [pic]They walked to the bodies. The boy was slightly behind and on the man's left. As he walked his rifle wavered. [pic]'Watch where you point that,' said the man. [pic]The first kangaroo lay on its side with its head in a puddle of blood. Its forepaws were curled like small hands. It lifted its head to caress the boy with its large limpid eyes. he was surprised how peaceful it looked...
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...We walk along the coast of the beach, with the radiant sun glowing in our eyes. The delicate waves of the roaring ocean crash against the banks, leaving the sand drenched. As we walk, we remember all the memories we had together, and we feel like cherishing them again. We start to laugh and play like children, tossing seashells into the water, while running across the golden sand. When the sun set, we gazed upon the sky, watching vibrant colors and luminous clouds go by. I remember this moment so clearly, it felt like it happened yesterday. I awake upright on the bed, and stare into the light. She’s here. Katherine. I crack a smile, and slowly manage to whisper her name. A single tear slid down from her deep cerulean eyes. “Elijah, don’t go,” she pleaded. Tears stream down my cheeks, my vision growing weary. I try to focus on her but it’s too late. I drift off, allowing the darkness to consume me and my thoughts....
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...Lowe, D.J Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Tears, Idle Tears,” On the Edge Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Tears, Idle Tears,” conveys the complex emotions of one whose life is steadily reaching its end and death is looming over him. He has come to that point in his life where he truly realizes his position. Death is no longer surreal as it once was; however, the speaker is still at peace because he has lived his life. His friends have all gone on and now his own time has arrived. This poem is a lamentation of that person as they are reminded of their past and “of the days that are no more”. The poem’s message is reinforced through Tennyson’s diction and similes, which create many parodies within the poem. However, theses parodies are the keys to the readers’ noticing and understanding the intricate thoughts of one so near to that final breathe. The poem begins with the speaker describing his tears as “idle” and being groundless. Tennyson is not saying that the tears are unmoving or that they are without cause. The speaker may not necessarily be able to admit to the exact reasoning behind the tears, but he knows what causes them to surface, “some divine despair”. Yet despair is not divine; divine means heavenly or celestial. Tennyson means that the focus is on something from above. However, the irony can truly be seen in the physical cause of the tears, “In looking on the happy-autumn fields.” The word autumn implies harvest, almost winter, which signifies an end to something light...
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...In Trail of Tears , John Ehle draws and creates images of the people and the events and problems that led up to the trail of tears also known as the removal and killing of thousands of Cherokee Indians . This Act was put into place to make the indians move to Indian Territory in Arkansas and Oklahoma . This book takes place in the time periods of 1771 through about 1841. The settings takes place during the time when white settlers were trying to take over the Cherokee lands. Many of the lessons in this book helped shaped the world today , most importantly it keeps us to correct the past mistakes and not let these problems reoccurs .The Cherokee were a very religious tribe. They mainly worshipped the sun and prayed for great harvests. The...
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