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Oscar Romero
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 569.... Then, on 12 March 1977, a radical priest, Rutilio Grande, was murdered. Romero had known him. Now he observed that there was no official inquiry. He recognized that power lay in the hands of violent men, and that they murdered with impunity. The wealthy sanctioned the violence that maintained them. Death squads committed murder in the cities while soldiers killed as they wished in the countryside.
When a new government, which represented many powerful interests was elected it was seen to be by fraud. There was talk of revolution. More and more Romero committed himself to th .....
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Heracles
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 772.... that got Hera angrier. Then she tried to kill the baby by sending snakes into his crib. But little Hercules was one strong baby, and he strangled the snakes, one in each hand, before they could bite him. Hera decided to pay Zeus back by making the rest of Hercules life as miserable as she could.
When Hercules grew up and had become a great warrior, he married Megara. They had two children. Hercules and Megara were very happy, but life didn't turn out for them the way it does in the movie. Hera made Hercules go so crazy that put him into a great rage. murdered Megara and th .....
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Isolation And The Individual I
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3449.... reflexive and dynamic in nature: responsive yet stable” (Hoyle 2). Therefore, the outsider must be an individual, fully capable of organizing his or her thoughts and emotions and the consequences of each upon the self and the world. Logically proceeding the definition of the individual outside of society is the definition of society; a term that “can be used to designate the specifically relational system of interaction among individuals and collectivities” (Sanford 219). By positioning the polarities of individual and society in a conflict of values the satirist has created .....
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Ethan Frome Book By Edith Whar
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1007.... town" (pg 71). It was believed that her sickness was derived from the "effect of life on the farm, or perhaps, as she sometimes said, it was because Ethan "never listened" " (pg 72). Due to this Ethan felt it was his responsibility to take care of his wife. Zeena had been trying hard to get help as she occasionally left town to seek medical assistance. Ethan had "grown to dread these situations because of their cost" (pg. 62). Zeena had always returned with expensive remedies that were promising but never ended up working. Ethan felt his commitment of marriage was enough for .....
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A Land Rembered
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1583.... forces. During the excursion to chop down trees, confederate deserters raided Emma and Zech and burned down their house. Tobias and Emma made the decision that the war was getting to close to the scrub, and that moving South would be a good idea. The MacIvey clan packed up their wagon and headed south along the St. John’s and Kissimmee rivers and settled in a hammock along the Kissimmee river.
In Kissimmee is where Tobias begins his empire that turns the family into one of the wealthiest families in Florida. In the swamps of Florida, wild cows live and Tobias trie .....
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Indian Boarding School
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1597.... her people was not uncommon, or it could simply be a tool she used to express racism towards them in general. With that fact, the reader must remember that although the words are from the runaways' point of view, there are not necessarily any real runaways.
From the point of view at which this is told, the runaways are eager to find their way home. They do not necessarily really try to runaway, it may just be in their fantasies, "Home's the place we head for in our sleep." (line 1). The first use of personification is in the line, "The rails, old lacerations that we love,"(lin .....
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The Great Gatsby 10
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 344.... yard high. They look out of no face but, instead, From a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose . . . his eyes, dimmed a little by many painless says under the sin and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.” The description gives a sense that there is a giant being that watches constantly over the land in any weather. The eyes are also describes as unhappy, as thought it is unhappy of what it is seeing in society. The eyes are unhappy of the 1920’s society, the people are spending large amounts of money and act selfishl .....
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American Gulag The Death Of Bu
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 987.... Budd no!", and several curses as a few of the cameramen dove to the floor. The man with the gun tried in vain to calm the panic stricken crowd by waving his free hand around in placating manner and repeatedly saying, "No." After only a few seconds the room quieted and the man said, "Please leave the room if this will offend you." He then said, "Please stay back, this will hurt someone.", and without any further hesitation he placed the gun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. There was a hollow "pop", no louder than a Fourth of July firecracker as the mans body slumped to the .....
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