To gain loyalty‚ he treated all men equally. He made it so that each received the same amount of food even if you were a commander or flag holder. Warriors were not envious of each other due to their equal rights. One-quote stated‚ “A good commander… must understand what his followers feel-or he will allow his warriors to suffer and his horses to starve”. Staying in a group was the key to success of Genghis Khan’s strategy. If one member attacked‚ the whole army was supposed
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“It’s not time to worry yet‚” Atticus Finch famously quotes when he and his children‚ Jem and Jean Louise‚ informally known as Scout‚ confront trials and tribulations within their lives (Lee 139). Harper Lee‚ the infamous author of To Kill a Mockingbird‚ sets the scene of her novel in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ during the nineteen thirties‚ a time of racial prejudice and the Great Depression. Living as a single parent during this pressing time‚ Atticus Finch‚ a lawyer in the town of Maycomb‚ is aware
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While pursuing revenge‚ it is said to start digging a grave along with the grave of the person being avenged. In Book 3‚ Chapter 14 of A Tale of Two Cities‚ Madame Defarge reaped that which she sowed. It was made evident that concerning Madame Defarge‚ the revolution in France is in fact just a euphemism for the revenge she wants to execute against the Marquis Evremonde. She adopted compensating that which the Marquis stole from her‚ which was all her living relatives‚ as her personal mission. Despite
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MOLL FLANDERS QUOTES "Poor child‚’ says my good old nurse‚ ’you may soon be such a gentlewoman as that‚ for she is a person of ill fame‚ and has had two or three bastards.’ Page: 8 soft copy The eldest‚ a gay gentleman that knew the town as well as the country‚ and though he had levity enough to do an ill-natured thing‚ yet had too much judgment of things to pay too dear for his pleasures; he began with the unhappy snare to all women‚ viz. taking notice upon all occasions how pretty I was‚
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* Jerry visits Alex is his bunk. They talk about the impending war at home in Ireland. Jerry thinks the war in Ireland will be easier as there will be no trench warfare and no front lines and no waiting. * Quotes that show the horror of war: ‘I lay down and closed my eyes. The screaming‚ I think‚ continued‚ or maybe it was inside my head.’ ‘One of the stretches of the wall that had collapsed had left raw to the world the remains of what had been a dozen
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Quote Log Casey Mask: "Want coffee?’ Sounds great‚ Amos‚’ [Casey] said." Real Identity: "His coffee was always terrible." Investigation effect: This mask did not specifically mess up the investigation. Although it did show that Casey was not always an honest person to her coworkers. Mask: "By the way‚ is that China sale firm? I keep hearing it’s not.’ She shrugged. I honestly don’t know.’ Has Marder talked to you about it?’ Not to me personally’" Real Identity: "Then
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“‘I volunteer!’ I gasp‚ ‘I volunteer as tribute!’”(00). This quote shows how much she truly cares about her sister and how much she wants to protect her. She is willing to sacrifice her own safety‚ and take on even more of life’s more difficult obstacles to make sure her sister is truly safe. Katniss knows that she needs to win the Hunger games for her family‚ and surviving the games is just an obstacle in her path to see her family again. In the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ the main character
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A SHRED OF GOODNESS. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” This speech is said by John Proctor near to the end of Act IV a moment before he tears up his confession; it is the moment where he finds the shred of goodness in himself. To understand how he finds it‚ we first need to understand the
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Scarlett Letter Dialectical Journal “On one side of the portal‚ and rooted almost at the threshold‚ was a wild rose-bush‚ covered‚ in this month of June‚ with its delicate gems‚ which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in‚ and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom‚ in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him." Chapter 1‚ pg. 46 | -This rose-bush represents Pearl afterwards in Hester’s life. The prison
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humanity. John’s critique of this position is that stability and peace are not worth throwing away everything that is worthwhile about life—“mother‚ monogamy‚ romance” included. Another facet of World State philosophy that is encapsulated in this quote is the idea of constructing a world in which human beings have only one way of behaving. The World State is an enormous system of production and consumption in which humans are turned into machines for further production and consumption. The world
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