English 102 Of Innocence Lost Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted and abused. In the following three stories‚ Margaret Atwood’s “Stone Mattress”‚ Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and John Updike’s“A&P”‚ the three main protagonists deal with a common theme- that of innocence lost and the consequences of your decisions. Innocence is one of the few things that can be lost by making one simple decision. Unfortunately‚ it is also one of the seldom found things that one
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Lost Children The child walks down the path. The child looks left and right at each fork. At each fork a sign points in the direction the child is assigned to walk down. Left right‚ left right follow the path. Do as you are told. Do not question. March along like a good child. Do not upset the system This path is meant for you. Do not divert from it or you will be doomed to a life on the outskirts of society. The child continues down the path. Slowly the child is educated. The child is told what
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The Lost Mistress We have read the poem The Lost Mistress by Robert Browning who was an English poet and one of the best known Victorian poets. He has ability to create an image‚ a scene‚ which is not simply vivid and moving‚ but also somehow‚ psychologically accurate. A situation that can happen to everybody‚ and it almost happens to everyone sooner or later. The poem is about a break-up‚ right after it happened‚ when the boy cannot even believe that the girl has just broken up with him. He
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The Great Impact of War Modern warfare has changed a great deal since we fought for our freedom from Great Britain in the late 18th century‚ and has possibly even changed more since World War 1. Countless Battles have been fought throughout our gracious history here in American‚ and many stories have been told from older to younger generations. This is where “Ogichidag”‚ meaning warrior‚ tells its story. Soldiers from notable wars throughout history have vivid and very detailed accounts of what
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English Composition I 15 January 2013 Privacy is Lost Do we have privacy anymore? Some people say we have no privacy and to simply get over it. Others believe that we have really became comfortable sharing our private information with others. After considering both sides of the issue‚ I strongly believe that privacy is lost. For instance‚ a web-savvy programmer can easily infiltrate your email account‚ replicate the coding‚ and pretend
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Lost at the Fair Every august the family would load up and head to the big fair in Leitchfield. Always excited to get there and head to the rides while dad went to the tractor pull. It was always a great experience until the year 1993. Mom was taking me and my brothers to the rides. We had been to several was having an absolute blast. Then my world froze and I was scared for my life. We were coming out of the fun house my brothers were ahead of me and suddenly I couldn’t find them. I looked
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Hilton‚ James. Lost Horizon. New York: William Morrow and Company‚1939. I read Lost Horizon for my book report. The main characters in this story are Conway‚ Mallinson‚ Barnard‚ and Miss Brinklow. Conway was a man of thirty-seven years old who didn’t have a wife or any other family. Mallinson was a young man of about twenty or so who was not married yet either. Barnard was a middle-aged man that was without a wife or family also. Miss Brinklow was a woman of around the age of fifty. This
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The Lost Children The lost children also known as “The Lost Children Sudan” are a large group of children in sudan who are caught in the crosshairs of civil war that has been taking place in northern africa for a great number of years. The civil war has split Sudan into what is now known as “Sudan” and “South Sudan” which became an independent state on July 9th 2011. This civil war has displaced and killed many families and children and often forcing those children into becoming “child soldiers”
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Utoya Lost It was a quiet summer’s day on the Island of Utoya‚ where each year‚ hundreds of youngsters would come together and spend a week away from their families‚ to do projects‚ activities and other fun things. Little did they know‚ that many would never see their families again... "Just another peaceful afternoon" Is what they told themselves as they all gathered around for the daily assembly. Friends side by side‚ smiles and giggles on every face‚ not only was the atmopsphere lively
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Paradise Lost While watching the HBO Documentary “Paradise Lost”‚ I saw the horrific murder cases of three second grade boys at West Memphis Arkansas. The suspected murderers were Jessie Misskelley‚ Jr.‚ Jason Baldwin‚ and Damien Echols‚ their ages were seventeen‚ sixteen‚ and eighteen. As a motive for the murders the prosecution believed they were performed as a satanic ritual. After an intense trial each of the teenagers were found guilty by the jury‚ although there was a fairly large lack
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