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    Julia Cubbedge Mr. Loza English 10/ Period 4 13 September 2012 World Peace The only things we hear on the news lately are what country is getting bombed‚ who hates who‚ and the sheer number of people dying every day. There is too much discrimination‚ madness‚ and anger circulating through our world right now. We have soldiers dying every day for our country in a war that could be stopped with peaceful actions. Instead‚ we have become oblivious to what is going on around us. Music has always

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    Many of his characters remain as open and searching as he himself was. As a result‚ something can click or go awry for them in an instant‚ and they can develop new personalities. Thus in the same way that “War and Peace” lacks a central plotline‚ we see that Tolstoy does not have a set agenda for Marya’s story. He develops her‚ as well as his other male and female‚ to his/her own unique tune. This focus on organic essence is important to keep in mind when discussing

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    existence the day I entered it‚ was vibrantly real while I was a student there‚ and then blinked out like a candle the day I left." Helping embellish this reality were his friends‚ including Leper Lepellier‚ who appeared in only five scenes in A Separate Peace. Elwin "Leper" Lepellier’s role as a minor character was vital to the story‚ although not nearly as visible as Gene’s or Finny’s. His appearances stole the attention of the reader‚ altered each character’s own perceptions

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    File under:  #poem Peace Not War (Speech Choir Piece) PEACE NOT WAR by Patricia Lithuanian Boom! Blood Flesh Struggle and Fear surrounding in the Atmosphere If one is sulky one is scorned if one is not a noble one is a peasant there are drugs‚ abuses‚ hex and injustice and the only thing that rules the earth is immorality Shhhhhh! silence! for the end may come voices are not made to speak the truth but to shout and scream eyes are not made to see the reality but to hide the

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    "…It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities‚ but wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." The background of "A separate Peace" is the Second World War and the focus of book is a group of sixteen-year-old boys who are moving towards a war. The extract comes from the end of the book where Due to what Gene had done to Finny‚ he has been made to look at himself and now sees the war differently from the other boys. Gene has been

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    Islam: A religion of Peace and Community Brian J Cobb As I stepped into the home‚ I immediately began to feel welcomed. I entered the home of the parents of one of my wife’s students to learn about their culture. Having an interest in learning more about Islam and Muslims‚ I had arranged to meet and sit down for an evening in an open discussion about both our cultures and religions. I wanted know how they were the same‚ and how they differed. This was the start to a long‚ deep‚ and one of

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    The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads

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    A Separate Peace-John Knowles The novel A Separate Peace is a story about two best friends‚ Gene and Phineas (Finny)‚ who both attend the Devon school in New Hampshire in 1942. Gene Forrester is an intellectual‚ confined‚ straight-laced seventeen year old‚ while Finny is an athletic free-spirit who isn’t afraid to say what he thinks and is admired by everyone. The story is a flashback in which Gene recalls his fears and insecurities during the midst of the Second World War at the Devon school

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    Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe: Summary The well-known Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s short story ’Civil Peace’ is a realistic story which presents the condition immediately after the Civil War. The story is about a Biafran civil war and its effect on the lives of ordinary Nigerian people.   Chinua Achebe It is an interesting and touching comment on quick and easy recovery from hardship after the war. Most people are damaged by the aftereffects of the war‚ but Jonathan Iwegbu thinks himself very lucky

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    1. Essential Element | Quote | Sentences | Symbolism | “This was the tree‚ and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men‚ the giants of your childhood‚ whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth‚ but that they are…shrunken by age.” Ch. 1‚ Pg. 14 | The tree is symbolized to represent something grown up from. The tree is the past‚ and it was so much more meaningful before rather than now. The change in importance is due to Gene

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