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    parts‚ only half of them come back‚ bringing with them a contagion so lethal that within hours‚ almost all aboard the Purge are dead - the half-dozen survivors are two teenage brothers‚ Kale and Trig Longo‚ a ruthless captain of the guards‚ Jareth Sartoris‚ and the chief medical officer‚ Zahara Cody‚ all of whom seem to possess natural immunity. The Purge’s onboard computer informs Cody that there are also two survivors in isolation‚ and Cody leaves the medibay to release them and administer an antidote

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    family so as to keep them warm and satisfied. These two examples reflect Abner Snopes’ failure to provide a comfortable life for his family. An other basic need that Abner Snopes fails to fulfil is to provide a permanent home for his family. Colonel Sartoris Snopes is overwhelmed by the image of the house that enters his eyes when he walks towards Major de Spain’s house. It is clearly portrayed in the following quotation: They walked beside a fence massed with honeysuckle and Cherokee roses and came

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    Regardless of millions of tragic roles in the literacy history‚ about eighty years ago‚ William Faulkner‚ who was an American Nobel prize laureate in literature‚ intended to mold the most gorgeous‚ but miserable one‚ Miss Emily Grierson. Emily was the tragic protagonist in William’s short story‚ A Rose for Emily‚ constantly criticized by the town people because she steadfastly refused to accept the modern ideas and the fluctuations in her life. Despite the rose‚ which is generally accepted as a symbol

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    Faulkner 1. What award did he receive in 1950? In 1950 Faulkner received the Nobel Prize and‚ at home‚ the National Book Award. 2. How did Faulkner regard his major works? Faulkner regarded his major works as a “saga‚” a reconstruction of the life of Yoknapatawpha County‚ his fictional name for Lafayette County in northern Mississippi‚ where he lived at Oxford (the "Jefferson" of his novels). 3. “The novels of the cycle move on several planes of southern society.” Explain. “The novels of the

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    in Jefferson‚ Mississippi. During this time the home was considered upscale‚ built on what was then considered the “select street” (9). Emily’s family may have been considered of a wealthy background and favored by officials like the mayor Colonel Sartoris of the town who decided Emily did not have to pay taxes. The narrator describes the house as once been “big‚ squares frame house that had once been white‚ decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of

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    of people who viewed her as a distant woman who lived in her past. She is portrayed as a very mean‚ stubborn old woman‚ however as the story unfolds‚ she is viewed more as a kind character whose story could not be fully understood. 2. Colonel Sartoris: A former mayor of Jefferson. He nullifies Emily of any tax burden after the death of her father. H is elaborate and kind gesture is not heeded by the generation of town leaders before him. 3. Tob: Emily’s servant. His voice is supposedly rusty

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    The narrators explain how their search of Emily’s house went: ““But miss Emily-” “see colonial Sartoris.” “I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!” the negro appeared‚ “Show these gentlemen out.”(Faulkner‚ 1.14) Emily prevented her interview by kicking the colonial Sartoris out While Emily refused to let her home be searched by the author. word “Gray” has connotations regarding age‚ and is associated with gray hair‚ a symbol for age.

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    After the death of her father‚ a dispensation had been made for her by Colonel Sartoris‚ a leading figure in the town‚ allowing her to live without paying taxes‚ “from the death of her father on into perpetuity.” This dispensation was reviewed by the next generation of town officials‚ and the decision reversed. Action was taken to collect

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    IV. The Classification of Party System Party System‚ unlike constitutional system‚ is not an institutional arrangement or rules of the political game‚ but is an imagined whole that is made up of all the relevant parties in a democratic regime. Party system is not just a collection of parties in a democratic country‚ but the matrix or the structure of interactive and competitive relationship between and among these political parties. This concept‚ party system‚ makes perfect semantic sense because

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    she is unaware of the time‚ or the change‚ and still prefers to live in the past. When the town authorities visit her regarding the payment of her taxes‚ she tells them to see Colonel Sartoris who is already dead. As she doesn’t accept the death of her father‚ she now refuses to accept the death of Colonel Sartoris. By denying that‚ she declines the present‚ and prefers to stay in the past. The past is the world of her father and Colonel‚ where no one would ask her to pay her

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