for Literature. He composed the text of both India's and Bangladesh's respective national anthems. His body of literature is deeply sympathetic for the poor and upholds universal humanistic values. His poetry drew from traditional Vaisnava folk lyrics and was often deeply mystical. Wrong Man’s Worldly Life: The man had never believed in mere utility. He had no useful work, he indulged in mad whims. He painted and made little pieces of sculptures, men, women and castles. Thus he wasted his time
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to a small town called Arrowholde in New Jersey. He moved to live with his grandparents, Mildred and Robert. His parents, Lisa and Cody, were firefighters in California. They had died about a month ago during a big wildfire, back in Las Angeles. He woke up, went into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. He couldn’t see himself clearly without his glasses. He grabbed his glasses off of the counter and put them on. He could see himself again. He could see his chocolate brown hair, emerald green
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own home on circumstantial evidence that he kidnapped and raped a seventeen year old girl ten days earlier. The woman who reported the rape worked at a movie theater in downtown Phoenix and got off of work shortly after 11pm on March 2, 1963. The woman and one of her male coworkers took the bus home but before the woman reached her destination her coworker got off at one of the bus stops. Once she got off at her stop and started walking toward home she said a car pulled out of a driveway and almost
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chastise the two young men standing before the bench. His face was cold with majestic contempt. But there was something false in all this that Amerigo Bonasera sensed but did not yet understand. “You acted like the worst kind of degenerates,” the judge said harshly. Yes, yes, thought Amerigo Bonasera. Animals. Animals. The two young men, glossy hair crew cut, scrubbed clean-cut faces composed into humble contrition, bowed their heads in submission. The judge went on. “You acted like wild beasts in a jungle
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Bud Caldwell is ten years old. At the age of six, Bud’s mother died. Bud lives in an orphanage, called the Home, since he does not have any family members to take care of him. When Bud heard he was going to live with the Amos, he wasn’t very excited. He heard that Mr. and Mrs. Amos’ son, Todd, was two years older than he is. Bud’s friend, Bugs, was going to live with a family that had three little girls. Bud would rather take Bugs’ new family than live with a twelve year old boy any day. Bud
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The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving woman who lives in the past era of the south. She has the same prejudice attitudes of that time. The grandmother’s untruthfulness while on the trip will cause certain doom for the family and her Christian faith would be put to the test. The grandmother tries desperately to change her family's vacation destination as she tries to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. Her reasons for wanting to go Tennessee
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long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind. He was waiting for a call from the President of a far distant country, and between wondering when the wretched man would telephone, and trying to suppress unpleasant memories of what had been a very long, tiring, and difficult week, there was not much space in his head for anything else. The more he attempted to focus on the print on the page before him, the more clearly the Prime Minister could see
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Wednesday after she spent four days on the stand. Defense attorney Jonathan Shapiro grilled Rachelle Bond about her beliefs regarding Satan and continued to question her claim that her ex-boyfriend Michael McCarthy killed her daughter, Bella. "He killed my daughter," said Bond. Bond continued to maintain that McCarthy was the one who killed Bella, punching her until she died. He allegedly punched her because there was a devil in her. Shapiro argued that despite Bond's story, she had no problem
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whoie college was aware of it. Although he was a Brahman Keshav re garded marriage with this Baniya girl as the culmination of his life. He didn’t care a straw about his father and mother. Caste traditions he considered a fraud. If anything embodied the truth for him it was Prema. But for Prema it was impossible to take one step in opposition to the dictates of caste and fami ly. 10 her from their own blood and reared her with love. To Keshav she said hum bly, ‘Can love be considered only in
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pondered all day whether to return Pamela Eltroy’s phone call. If she’d called about the case, he would have called her right back. But instead, she’d asked him to take her out to dinner. Although he thought her very beautiful, she was linked to a murder case, be it by a few degrees of separation, but nevertheless, part of the suspect pool until ruled out. He could, he thought, justify it if while at dinner he gathered information about the case. And since Maddie was busy tonight, she’d agreed with
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