proceedings. Parris insists that they may find the source of all the community’s troubles‚ but she leaves anyway. Giles asks Hale what reading strange books means because he often finds his wife‚ Martha‚ reading books. The night before‚ he tried to pray but found that he could not succeed until Martha closed her book and left the house. (Giles has a bad reputation in Salem‚ and people generally blame him for thefts and random fires. He cares little for public opinion‚ and he only began attending
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In his article‚ Stronk ultimately suggests that Ctesias’ writing is a creative narration of history. He claims that “all [Ctesias] wanted was to compose a plausible and interesting narrative” (Stronk 41). He then states that “Ctesias ‘reworks’ historical facts and thus transforms various occurrences into his version of the truth. In [Ctesias’] work history has merely become a part of the plot. What happened or what was said to have happened or even what could have happened and never happened at all
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It is no secret that technology has had an immense impact on modern society with regard to connectivity. In just the last decade social networking sites have become the norm in everyday activities. Nearly everyone is already on a social networking site‚ Facebook alone has one billion users‚ about 1/7 of the world’s total population. Even without social networking‚ people are still interconnected through texting and video chat. If someone goes abroad for a business trip‚ they will have never really
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In this poem MacCaig portrays beautiful yet unusual images and an admiration of nature and many of its qualities. Small and normal parts of nature are hyperbolized with the use of paradoxical similes‚ language and imagery. One of the main qualities‚ which the speaker seems to admire‚ is the tranquility and sedateness of nature and just being in nature. He lies carefree “in the cool‚ soft grass” as he watches nature take its course. While watching nature operate he is also “not thinking”‚ suggesting
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In the article Classic Maya Bloodletting and the Cultural Evolution of Religious Rituals: Quantifying Patterns of Variation in Hieroglyphic Texts‚ readers learn about bloodletting and religious rituals‚ how they came about in the classic Maya‚ and the different patterns showing different regions partaking in these religious rituals through hieroglyphs. Bloodletting in the Maya lowlands was something that was seen in various forms such as social integration and political legitimacy‚ as expressed in
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1. A&P is a short story in which the young character‚ Sammy quits his job at the supermarket because the manager embarrassed three girls and learns how messed up the world really is. Most of the action in the story takes place in this supermarket where Sammy stands at his cash register on a summer afternoon watching three girls dressed in nothing but bathing suits‚ wander the store in search of a jar of “Fancy Herring Snacks in Pure Sour Cream.” By the time the three girls reach his checkout stand
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Chapter One The first chapter gets the reader acquainted with Mr. Alex Rogo and his apparent problems with his production plant. This is shown through a confrontation between Mr. Rogo and his boss Mr. Peach‚ the Division Vice President. The dispute is over an overdue order #41427. Through their conversation it’s learned that Mr. Peach will not settle for anything less than the order being shipped today‚ and since the plant is neither productive nor profitable‚ Alex has three months to show an improvement
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The writer of ’The Luncheon’ William Somerset Maugham‚ in this short story‚relates about a lady who is an admirer of his stories. She wins the author’s favour and expresses her wish to meet him at a high class restaurant.William exposes the false motives of modest eating habits‚ of the middle classes with a touch of humour. Twenty years ago the author was living in Paris‚ when he had met a lady‚ who is an admirer of his stories. She had met him at a play and relates to him the incident during
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In Gwen Wilde’s essay‚ “Why the Pledge Should be Revised‚” Wilde strongly believes that the Pledge of Allegiance should only be used for the sole purpose of patriotism. Included in her essay were many facts of the original pledge. She states that the first “original” pledge‚ which was issued in 1892‚ read as such‚ “I pledge allegiance to my flag‚ and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible‚ with Liberty and justice for all.” She then included in her essay that in 1923‚ “my flag”
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Adi-Parva‚ First Book: The Origins of the Families The story opens as Sauti‚ a storyteller returning from the snake sacrifice of King Janamejaya‚ approaches several wise men‚ or rishis‚ in the forest of Naimisha. He relates to them the Mahabharata as he has heard it from Vaisampayana‚ a disciple of the poet Vyasa. Sauti begins by recounting the death of King Parikshit of the Bharatas at the hands of Takshaka‚ aNaga‚ or snake-man. King Janamejaya‚ Parikshit’s son and successor‚ had held the snake
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