Perhaps the foremost purpose of The Scarlet Letter is to illustrate the difference between shaming someone in public and allowing him or her to suffer the consequences of an unjust act privately. According to the legal statutes at the time and the prevailing sentiment of keeping in accordance with a strict interpretation of the Bible‚ adultery was a capital sin that required the execution of both adulterer and adulteress--or at the very least‚ severe public corporal punishment. Indeed‚ even if the
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Finally it’s December 5th my anniversary with my wife‚ Maddie. Where should I take her. Do I take her to a romantic restaurant‚ take her to a flashback of our first date‚ take her to where we first met. Ah! I don’t know! I finally made a choice to take her to the 5 star restaurant with glass windows everywhere and a view of the Brooklyn Bridge. We drove a black Honda to a parking lot. A man with the suit stood with the valet sign on the beautiful wooden brown podium. “Hey!” he said. “ Hey! I replied
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aid‚ but before he arrived‚ she had stopped breathing‚ and passed away. John’s heart was shattered‚ and he was overcome with disbelief. His stomach was in his throat‚ and his eyes poured out tears. Lonesomeness and depression would accompany his life from that day forward. The quaint town all mourned for
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Brown Coffeekins 123 Brown Street Singapore 656000 May 17‚ 2012 Coffee Supplies 132 Midnite Road Singapore 556677 Dear Sir or Madam‚ RE: My complaint on 13th May 2012 I am writing with regards to a terrible experience I had at Coffee Supplies one week ago. I ordered coffee beans as usual on March‚ and till now‚ I have still not receive my coffee beans. It’s been 2 months since I ordered‚ so I decided to give your company a call to see what went wrong. As I always liaise
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Creative Writing: Letter to Principal Dear Mr.Johnson‚ This Letter is on the issue of closed campus‚ in my opinion this should not even be an issue. Haslett High Scholl students should be able to go out during lunch‚ we have a right to choose what we pay for and we have the right to seek a comfortable environment. I have very strong reasons to back up my opinion. If I want to not wait in line for at least five to eight minutes for food I must skip the trip to my locker and lag around a heavy
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LIVING AT HOME AND LIVING AWAY FROM HOME Nowadays‚ society develops very fast. A human’s life is enhanced and children grow up faster than the past generations. They can do everything; can learn as soon as they want to be dependent from their parents. For them‚ life without parents is freedom‚ paradise. But they don’t know they must face many problems if they live alone and far from their family. So living at home and living away from home have problems that people should understand clearly before
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I was ripped from the home I grew up in. It can be hard for kids to move. I think it was tough for me because I had to leave my friends‚ my safe place‚ and the home I grew up in. At the age of ten‚ I moved to a new house. It was disappointing because I had to leave the friends I grew up with behind. We would play together every day‚ but the day I told them I had to move‚ we all sulked around. My mom was in a very good mood‚ but every time she looked at me I couldn’t help but cry because I was leaving
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identify with home and their birth country‚ China. By putting the two in conversation with one another‚ I will claim that the problem of feeling at home is ultimately the problem of identity. We are not born into an identity‚ we develop one instead. How we develop our identities is shaped by our life experiences and is greatly shaped by our surroundings. It is even more so for multiple identity individuals‚
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war the less I want to discuss it‚ however I know you are sixteen now and may see it a duty to follow my footsteps. So I am taking the time to describe the theatrics of my life in the trenches and the daily occurrences. Firstly I must enquire on the home life‚ how is your brother and mother? Has the grieving process of father slowed‚ are they coping? Make sure you take good care of them Michael‚ keep the farm up and running and enjoy yourself at Christmas time. The time spent at the Etaples base training
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Dearest Mother‚ April 8‚ 1917 I hope all is well at home. Tell everyone that I miss them very much. I managed to find some paper to write on so I can send you this letter. It’s cold and rainy often here and they haven’t blown the whistle in a while. I have been in the trenches for nearly a month with the British troops. It feels like I have been here for years. “I am preparing to go to the
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