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    ointment. 31. A fool always rushes to the fore. 32. A fool and his money are soon parted. 33. A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 34. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. 35. A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. 36. A fool’s tongue runs before his wit. 37. A forced kindness deserves no thanks. 38. A foul morn may turn to a fair day. 39. A fox is not taken twice in the same snare. 40. A friend

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    survive. In the passage‚ it was about a guy needing shelter‚ getting shelter‚ and then making soup. The poem was almost the same‚ but the soldiers needed food to survive. In the poem it states‚ “They came into town battered and torn‚ The soldiers hungry and worn‚ Door to door looking for food‚ All they got was firewood‚ So a clever plan was born.” The first statement shows that the soldiers had a rough time where they were coming back from. Than‚ they asked for food because they had none‚ but got

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    “You Can’t Hide From Your Shadow” Should Natural Born Killers be Banned? In 1994 a film was released that sent religious groups‚ politicians and the sensationalist media into a fever; Natural Born Killers was “a bold new film that takes a look at a country seduced by fame‚ obsessed by crime and consumed by the media.” through the tale of two young murderers. In the years that followed the film was blamed for scores of tragedies in America‚ including but not limited to the case of a boy who

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    Fiela's child

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    Literary Analysis Pg. 61 Reference: She herself had much to do. The white rooster had to be slaughtered‚ she had to knead and bake pan-bread‚ for the child had to take enough food with him to last till Saturday…She was not hungry but she kept on eating because Benjamin was watching her as if to make sure that she was not upset. (Matthee 61) Explanation: The reference to food within this passage characterizes Fiela as worrisome and melancholy about Benjamin leaving. The way that she is keeping

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    fantastic prizes that people vie to win; however‚ in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery‚” the exact opposite is true. Jackson transforms this rather innocuous-sounding practice to a dark‚ perverse town ritual in a shocking twist that leaves the reader hungry for more details. Jackson conveys her message that tradition is not always best with her omission of details‚ use of foreshadowing and abrupt ending. Jackson begins her story in a very simple manner: describing the scenery of the town in which

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    and civility‚ or hunting and being savage? "He’s not a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t a perfect and we don’t know anything about him. He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. All this talk”‚ Jack is now being power hungry‚ he tries to show that Ralph is not a good enough chief for not wanting to hunt. Jack begins to change drastically‚ he leaves and starts his own group of him and all the hunters who want

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    The Sea

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    poet compares the different behaviors of the dog at different moods with the sea. The first stanza shows the begining of the violence due to the hungry nature of the dog which metaphoricaly depicts the sea waves turning out to be heavy and rough. The second stanza shows the waves quickening and becoming more rough due to the enviromental change‚ thereby the dog is so hungry and angry that it is ready to eat anything it finds. While the third stanza depicting the total calmness and quietness of the sea which

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    by one; she was coveted - by the big‚ ugly troll who lived under the Fremont Bridge in Seattle‚ but not because she was beautiful‚ but because she wore the cloak. The troll was ugly‚ so ugly that one glance was enough to turn any living thing into stone. All the

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    the sound of the rhythmic waves which created a melodic‚ soothing combination. I reached out and buried my hand into the sand and then sifted the handful of small worthless stones using the gaps between each finger. Left in the golden sandy palm of my hand laid a rather familiar object – Turkish delight. It was a smooth stone that was almost a perfect cube and of a delicate rosy colour. It glistened like dew-drops and under the light it exposed a subtle rainbow of colours within its translucent walls

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    and the dog resemble each other. They have identical traits and behaviour. Connections between these two can be made in so many different ways it’s uncanny. This poem is pretty much one long metaphor and in the first line of the poem‚ ‘The sea is a hungry dog’ using the metaphor technique Reeves begins to create an image on how similar the sea and dog are. He then develops this image by quickly establishing the connection between the sea and the characteristics of a dog. As the poem continues we see

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