they do while they are alive or admired for who they are when their gone? John Lennon was a hero because people love him for the way he followed his dreams, fought for what he believed in and lived his life. When John Lennon died it was a shock because he meant so much to the world. Even though Lennon lived a short life, he had such an impact that so many things came to mind when you think about him such as The Beatles, world peace and political activist, determined musician and amazing song writer
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against their own specie, but they made an oath to stay by our side and help us protect our kind no matter what, so I guess they already knew what they were signing
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bought. Over 2,00 people were killed because of the tornado, many people lost their home’sthat day. Becky saw that her best friend Jessica house was really damaged and that her dog Lucky had dies and she lost her sister. She went over to confront her because Becky new exactly how Jessica was feeling. When Becky went over to Jessica to see if she was okay, Jessica’s house was really damaged and she had lost her dog Lucky and her sister Rebecca. She was devastated, I couldn’t think of what to do
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wanted adventure he wanted more, so he left. He got what he wanted, but never could leave behind Laura. I think that there was a sibling bond but not a motherly bond. Tom trusted Laura ,but not his mom. In the The Great Gatsby, Gatsby betrayed himself when he left his old life for his new one. He thought that if he could become rich he could get Daisy. He got Daisy but only for a
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one? Family plays a major role in “Landfill”1 and “A House on the Plains.”2 In “Landfill”, before Scoot’s death, his family appeared conventional. Scoot, the son, graduated from high school and left for college; Mrs. Campos, the mother, blindly loved her son, and desired continuing dependency; Mr. Campos, the father, was somewhat absent from the family. There is no father in “A House on the Plains.” It is Earle and his mother, Dora. The Campos family appears conventional, particularly in contrast
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go wrong and he would passively take it as it came because the teachings of Pangloss, “everything was made for a purpose, everything is necessarily for the best purpose” (Voltaire 16). The philosophy stuck with him through everything while he battled his way to surviving in whatever society he ended up in. Candide sacrificed so much to survive in simple society. From the moment he was kicked out of the castle and had his free will taken from him, to losing a friend on the water, to finding and losing
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Daisy married Tom even though she loved Gatsby just to keep up appearances. She stays with Tom even though she does not love him and he frequently steps outside their marriage. Daisy hurts Gatsby by giving him the impression that she will leave Tom for him, even though she never will. To protect herself, she even lets Gatsby take the fall for running over Myrtle. Daisy never realizes her actions
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Laius’s and Jocasta’s son, which was given to shepherd and was order to kill Oedipus, because it was found out that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother. He was very shocked after hearing this because he did not believe that he would ever do something like that. Jocasta then mention how Laius was killed on the three-way intersection. Oedipus found this incident very familiar because it was he who killed Laius along with other men at such intersection. Later on in the play it was found
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1. “ I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” 2. “You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow…Sophisticated – God I’m sophisticated!” 3. “We heard it from three people so it must be true.” 4. I'm one of the few honest people I have ever known 1. “It’s just a crazy old thing, I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.” 2. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic
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Survivor’s Tale—And Here My Troubles Began The Holocaust was one of the worst epidemics in the entire world. Many people were killed, more importantly the Jewish community, with millions dead. Families were torn and never mended. Among these families were the Spiegleman’s. Art Spiegleman was the son in the family who wrote about his father’s experience in the Holocaust. Maus I and Maus II are his two works of art that share historical information and his personal struggle. Within Maus II, Art talks
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