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    Textual Analysis: Love in these texts is quite superficial, as the driving force behind these feelings of love is physical appearance. In each of the four stories, for example, the characters fall in love within seconds of simply seeing a person. They become instantaneously attached, and they start thinking about how to turn their feelings into marriage. In the Ramayana, Rama and Sita see each other in the same moment, Rama from the street and Sita from her balcony. Narayan describes a tension-filled

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    The American dream brings hope to every non-American who wants to move to America, but what they don’t know is what really happens whenever they move over to this country of supposed dreams. They face the dark modern society of today with no knowledge of what they have to face. The modern America that we live is very dark and gloomy in the eyes of whoever live in it. People are getting deported, walls are being built, riots are roaring across the streets, arguments spewing out about if our president

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    In this short story by Tim O’Brien, Lieutenant Jimmy cross leads a platoon of men in the Vietnam War. Unable to keep his thoughts from his unrequited love interested, Martha, Cross allowed his platoon to become lax in their duties and mentally removed from the war. The conflict arises when one of his men, Ted Lavender, is killed on a mission. The conflict is resolved when Lieutenant Cross abandons his youthful fantasy world for the reality of the war he is living in. Cross finds new purpose in

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    rather have lectures with my boring math teacher than this. "MOM?! WHOLE MONTH?!" that long with a 10-year-old girl, how could she not think about the worst possible things that could happen? Like I don't know? What if I accidentally feed her to a tiger when she tells me she wants to go to the

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    Papoose Analysis

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    It is safe to say that Laura has a fascination with the Indians. It is the promise of seeing Indians, and most importantly Indians babies, that allows Pa to secure Laura’s desire to move west. However, she does not associate the Indians with humanity but rather views them as a form of entertainment; more specifically a form of animalistic entertainment. Laura’s main obsession with Indians is their babies. She asks several times “Pa, when are we going to see a papoose?” (Wilder 123). Her pleading

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    Murder Mysteries Essay

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    How Far Are The Speckled Band And Lamb To The Slaughter Typical Of Murder Mysteries? How Are The Stories The Same And How Are They Different? Compare The Ways In Which The Stories Are Told Murder mystery usually means where there is a murder involving money, love or revenge. The victim's friend or a family member goes to a detective and tells them what they know about the murder and the suspects and where they were, and what they were doing at that time. There are a lot of famous detectives

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    Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, orator, and writer. He became the leader of the of the abolitionist movement after escaping from slavery and publishing his autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. His narrative showed white anti-slavery sympathizers, how slaves were brutalized by the slave holding system. Harriet Jacobs was an African American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs

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    Male and female relationships have different aspects to them. The male in most male and female relationships reflect how dependent the female will be in everyday life. Depending on how dependent the female is on the male in her life, may cause her to not be able to think for herself. The more dominant the male is, the more dependent the female will be. This statement can be proved in Fin’s “The Bridegroom,” in Gilb’s “Love in L.A.,” and in Boyle’s “The Love of My Life.” Ha Jin is the author of the

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    Vampire Existence

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    not. If medical science can identify genes within the human race as mutations, and therefore, the people who have them as mutations, or mutants, then why can’t a subculture of otherwise healthy people call themselves vampires. According to an Indian lady Issabella, “she said that practically every culture in the world has some sort of ancient story about a blood-sucking creature that relates to the vampire. India is no exception. In fact, Indian mythology has several creatures that could easily be

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    Often at times we find ourselves excited about going on a trip to an unknown place can be a mystery, we can be taken back in-to time by the beauty and architecture structure to really get to know the true meaning. The history of the Tower of London will amaze you on how the structure was built and how it came to be. Multiple executions were taken place in the tower of London, executions of many famous people. It soon became a prison to house prisoners. Was even involved in becoming a zoo. The Tower

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