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    Arrived in the gold fields in Ballarat 1853 from Ireland, Peter Lalor was a freedom fighter, a rebel and the leader of the Eureka stockade. He believed in fighting for the miners’ rights and liberties. He had a great impact on Australian democracy. Peter Lalor played a great role in shaping Australia’s identity. Peter lalor was born on 5th of February in Ireland 1827. He the youngest in a family of 11 children. He later married Alicia Dunne; they had a daughter named Anne and a son named Joseph

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    Deep inside a forest, lives the evilest goddess of them all. Ech is an evil witch among all gods, her darkened heart is filled with negativity and hatred, she is more villainous than Hades. Her surrounding is padded with human waste and skulls with the blood dripping from her gloomy knife. She lives to punish mankind. Taking away innocent humans lives as a punishment for their sins. Every life punished, becomes a gift of joy to her. Her cruelness can not be stopped nor questioned near her. As

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    Catherine Autonomy

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    because you are too brave, nothing ever happens to the brave" (Hemingway 139). Catherine disagrees with this statement and foreshadows her death. They both can agree that the brave die; nonetheless, Frederic believes the brave die just one epic death while Catherine believes not. She points out that whoever said that the "coward dies a thousand deaths and the brave but one" (339) was a coward himself as "he must have known a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies, perhaps

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    Winston Is a Hero

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    against Big Brother and he wants to join O’Brien’s group, and that he doesn’t care about the fact that O’Brien may be just pretending to be an ally, or the fact that even thinking of going against Big Brother can kill him. This clearly shows how brave Winston is compared to all the other people in Oceania who have yet to dare such a thing. Winston also shows determination throughout the novel. For example, when he was caught for having an affair with Julia, he did not give up his beliefs. O’Brien

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    their initial option to spend their leisure time. Nowadays, the high technology of cameras and exquisite techniques of filming give the audiences a best quality and high definition of vision. Therefore, watching movie become the most popular activity among the teenages. Different genres of films help us to gain different kinds of informations or knowledges those we would never learn in the reality. If I am given a choice to choose two favourite genres of the movies, I will definitely select adventure

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    The Odysseus: A True Hero

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    The Book called The Odyssey is centered around the hero Odysseus. The part about this story that makes it challenging to talk about is the argument around whether Odysseus is a hero or not. Many Literary scholars of The Odyssey by Homer have argued that Odysseus is not a hero, closer examination shows that he clearly was a hero because he led them to victory in the Trojan War, he turned his men back into actual men, and he even went to the underworld where few to none have escaped freely. The logic

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    What is it like to be a prisoner of war? Very few ever live to tell the tale. There are survivors though. Among these survivors is Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel survived the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of thirteen. Elie wrote a book to tell his story of how he survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Elie’s account details his daily life as a prisoner. Throughout the entire book, In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changes as a person because of his experiences at Auschwitz

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    “Brave New World Characterization: Bernard Marx” In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, a world culture universally partitioned by numerous distinct manufactured social castes is depicted. Bernard Marx is an individual belonging to the highest of said castes. That being established, however, Bernard is first met upon the self-discovered notion that he is a freak in relation to other fellow Alpha-Pluses. His apprehensive disgust is discovered in the Alpha Plus changing room when he observes Henry

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    Pocahontas Research Paper

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    “laid her own upon his [Smith] to save him from death” and treated him kindly, but that was it. He then proceeded to praise her in his letter to Queen Anne. In all of this, feelings between the two is never mentioned, for she is known only as his brave saviour for standing up to her father. This idea is brought forth to the movie Pocahontas, but she saves him after she becomes infatuated with him. If she wasn’t in love with him, she could still save him and her courageous act would still be effectively

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    In the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley creates a utopia world, where people live in a society with the motto of community, identity, and stability. In this novel, human are created in test-tubes. Taking soma to fix human problems and having multiple sexual relationship with different partners are considered as progress of civilization. From my opinion, throughout this novel, there are various contradictions among the characters. Huxley creates many characters who stuggle from their own values

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