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    Crosby Defeats his Enemy One cold and gloomy day in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania a guy named Sidney Crosby was just having a normal day. Crosby was a enormous and thick guy. He didn’t like it when people would get bullied. His dream was to play professional hockey for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was always practicing hockey to be as good as he possibly could. He played on a little league team that had won their league five seasons in a row. Sidney’s enemy was a fella named Shady McCoy. They play each

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    THE WORST The elders told us tales of Der Grossman. I always thought they were just stories to make children stay at home and not run away into the woods‚ I was wrong. I remember it was a foggy night during the middle of winter‚ the coldest winter our village had ever experienced‚ many of the farmers crops had been destroyed and most of the townspeople had died from starvation or were poisoned by the food that actually made it through the winter. Many of the townsfolk were in a panic because of

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    is responsible for his downfall. In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth‚ Macbeth is a tragic hero who destroys himself by his own wicked and selfish ambitions. At the beginning of the play‚ Macbeth is portrayed as a courageous‚ noble hero of Scotland who has bravely won the war. As the story continues‚ Macbeth soon becomes a tyrant king who is willing to murder anyone who becomes a threat to his kingdom. As the play begins‚ Macbeth proves himself to be a hero as he demonstrates his bravery and courage.

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    ‘When No Man Was His Own’: Magic and Self-Discovery in The Tempest In the article‚ ‘When No Man Was His Own’: Magic and Self-Discovery in The Tempest‚ Ellen R. Belton explains‚ in detail‚ the way Prospero’s magic helps characters find their true identities (128). Belton writes that Prospero’s magic has two sides: manipulation of nature and spirits of nature; and the attempted manipulation of human beings (127). Prospero’s success in natural magic is considerable while‚ according to Belton‚

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    The Enemy Within

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    Juan Conde Professor Muñiz 19 November 2012 English 67 The Enemy Within Throughout life everyone is forced to face their own worst enemy and will have a lot of trouble confronting and dealing with them that worst enemy will always be themselves. This enemy brings many problems and inner conflicts that are difficult to solve. Everyone has their own way of coping with these problems‚ some more critical than others. In the book Drugstore Cowboy‚ by James Fogle‚ the main character Bob deals with

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    inviting her to meet his father. The first weekend on the country estate is a success‚ and they just repeat it the next weekend. Then someone throws acid into Penny’s sister’s face. This shocks their father more than anyone expected‚ and he simply disappears‚ together with Benson‚ the butler. Now nothing is as it seems. Malcolm Jaggard has to reveal to the policeman leading the inquiry into the acid-attack that he is working for an agency for economical counterespionage‚ a fact his fiancée Penny

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    testimony to his own character. Hamlet had no control in the death of his father‚ causing Hamlet to find himself obsessed with revenge when he suspects that the man who killed his father was King Claudius. The decision of Hamlet to take action into his own hands leads Hamlet on a prolonged journey to avenge his father’s death‚ however Hamlet’s over analyzation and series of missed chances or opportunities to kill King Claudius‚ proves Hamlet to ultimately be procrastinator who is responsible for his own

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    21‚ 2014 Final The Man‚ the Myth‚ the Legend… a True Master of his Own Fate Monsters. Storms. Temptations. One must be pretty strong to overcome all that. In Homer’s epic‚ the Odyssey‚ the main character Odysseus is faced with all of those and suffers for many years due to his struggles with the gods. After winning the Trojan War‚ he is desperate to return home to his family in Ithaca‚ but the gods who want to control him are disrupting his voyage. However‚ throughout his journey‚ Odysseus makes

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    In the story‚ Macbeth is ultimately responsible for the actions that lead to his fate .It could be argued that Macbeth is not totally to blame for his own destruction‚ allowing himself to be influenced by others. First‚ Macbeth ignores the voice of his own mind. He knows what he is doing is wrong even before he murders Duncan‚ but he allows Lady Macbeth and greed to cloud his judgment. Secondly‚ Macbeth willingly listens to the witches with no proff to believe if what they were saying was true. Macbeth

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    An Analysis of Enemy of the State Enemy of the State is a classical tale of good versus evil‚ complete with a tortured hero and a powerful villain. The plot revolves around Washington lawyer Robert Dean (Will Smith)‚ an average family man‚ who suddenly finds his life turned upside down when an old acquaintance slips a video tape that no one is supposed to ever see into his shopping bag. The tape contains footage of the murder of a United States senator by a member of the National Security Agency

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