1996. The British novelist Fay Weldon offers this observation about happy endings. “The writers, I do believe, who get the best and most lasting response from their readers are the writers who offer a happy ending through moral development. By a happy ending, I do not mean mere fortunate events – a marriage or a last minute rescue from death – but some kind of spiritual reassessment or moral reconciliation, even with the self, even at death.” Choose a novel or play that has the kind of ending Weldon
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funny face, gets really famous. Being popular often means taking a fewer risk. The lives of celebrities and the outrageous characters on television, movies, professional sports and sensational talk, all these things are promising to fill up the emptiness in our own lives. Celebrity Culture is harmful because popularity gets in the way of good and famous people shouldn’t be cared about as much as they are.
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. Spring vs. Cisterns 10 June 2013 Older generationsare probably familiar with the concept of cisterns and may have used them.Before the city started supplying water, people would collect rainwater from their roofs and divert the water flow into a cistern. Cisterns were also important in Israel during Jeremiah’s day. Archaeologists have uncovered thousands of them. The land was arid as Israel experienced long dry spells. In those days, people would dig cisterns and line them with bricks and
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From A Passage to Africa George Alagiah writes about his experiences as a television reporter during the war in Somalia, Africa in the 1990s. He won a special award for his report on the incidents described in this passage. I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces as I criss-crossed Somalia between the end of 1991 and December 1992, but there is one I will never forget. I was in a little hamlet just outside Gufgaduud, a village in the back of beyond, a place the aid agencies had
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Values Reflection James A. White Sr. CJA/474 October 22, 2013 Marcus Gamble Values Reflection My core values are what I have determined of what I believe in. Some people never take the time to communicate what their values are. Once a person determines what, he or she believes in and what is important to him or her, his or her values are set in their lives. There are several ways that an individual can determine his or her core values. Here are some questions that some people ask themselves
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bring the emotional discomfort or distress known as loneliness. It begins with an awareness of a deficiency of relationships. This cognitive awareness can play through our brain like an emotional soundtrack and make us sad. We can start to feel emptiness within ourselves and may be filled with a longing for contact. We feel isolated, distanced from others and deprived. These feelings can ultimately tear away at our emotional well-being. Despite the negative effects of loneliness, it can hardly be
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Claire Anderson-Wheeler is the author of this text “Vernissage”. The text is about a young boy, named Alex and his two parents; his parents are having some troubles in their relationship. The middle of this text Alex is hiding under his mom and fathers bed, because he doesn’t want to do his homework. While Alex is hiding his parents come in, they are wrangle a bit, his mother tries to get the fathers attention, but he keeps dismissing her instead. He don’t want to listen to her, he’s
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drugs, or someone simply not looking after their own emotional and physical needs. Why do some people self harm? Self harming, for some people, can be a coping mechanism to deal with their inner feelings and emotions for example, rage sadness, emptiness, grief, self hatred/guilt, fear, loneliness. Self-harm could be for a number of reasons such as, a way of releasing pain out, or being distracted from inner self pain instead of communicating the feelings to somebody else. Other reasons for self
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whom, when sickened the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself and be known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. Even thus much of truth would save me! But, now, it is all falsehood!- all emptiness!- all death!” He was so angry with himself and God for allowing him to do such a horrible sin. Dimmesdale says, “What else could I look for being what I am, and leading such a life as mine? Were I an atheist- a man devoid of conscience- a wretch
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Showdown “On the afternoon of October 12, 2012, Jeff Brooks entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God that his sins will be forgiven” (Lamb). Once inside of the carrel, Jeff set down his Under Armour backpack and proceeded to pull out its contents, setting them down on the desk. On the desk was a FN P90 personal defense weapon, a silencer and a Smith and Wesson Model 2214 pistol. He put a magazine in the P90 and twisted on
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