Acceptance is the drive of all humans. ... In doing this Elisa is preparing herself to receive gratitude from the stranger, something she rarely receives from Henry. ... In the stranger Elisa finds an outlet for her emotions and proceeds to except gratitude for her amazing chrysanthemums. ... In discarding only the flowers, the stranger would have been throwing away the recognition of Elisa. ... Gratitude from others is in our human drive. ...

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I was glad when he flew away in the end. ... It was the arrival of a woman that has been turned into a spider for disobeying her parents that finally turned their entertainment away from the angel and onto to something just as sad and horrific as the man with enormous wings. ... They would drive him out of the bedroom with a broom and a moment later find him in the kitchen" (Marquez, 2004, 326). ... Throughout this story Pelayo never shows any mercy, kindness, or gratitude to this angel for what it has done for them. ... It would still be a depressing story with ignorant characters in a se...

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It gives you once again a sense of gratitude for not only your family, but all the things you own that maybe you wish you didn't, and just makes you happy that these people are getting new homes that you are lucky enough to take part in building for them. ... Responsibility and pride go hand in hand with creating the persons drive to do anything, with the knowledge that it will make a difference not matter how small or how big, and it will be something to show off as you did it and no one can take that away from you. ... Once students are able to get out of their own shoes and jump ...

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I also came to understand that serving in the Peace Corps, while a noble cause would not repay the debt of gratitude I owe to the country and soldiers who have protected me all these years. I have always had an internal drive to do and be the best at everything I attempt to do. ... Leadership positions in my mind are earned and not just given away arbitrarily. ... Self-esteem is too important to either a student or soldier to let a bully take it away from anyone. ...

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I also knew I should have been thankful and yet, I found it hard to feel gratitude as a part of me wished I had not survived. ... I have strengthened my resolve to fight and become the person that I know I can for I know at any moment, life can be taken away or my life changed forever. ... My priorities have changed as I find I don't even have the stomach to watch a horror movie or drive fast anymore. ...

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This has caused their character to be formed into an independent, hallucinogenic character, who are driven by their own unseen force, but still drive a certain kindness out of people. ... She has to come to the realization that there is no getting away from it. ... (Welty, 1354), she just accepts his gratitude and continues on her way. ...

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While Pearl's natural curiosity drives her on the quest of discovering the truth behind the scarlet letter, it is her sensitive and intelligent nature which answers a few of the questions associated with the mystery. ... This seems to be Pearl's act of gratitude towards the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Perhaps she notes her mother's frantic voice and posture as Hester pleads with the men whose wish it is to take Pearl away and give her a "proper Christian upbringing." ...

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She drives him to the murder and acts as a more physical catalyst than the witches. ... He owes him gratitude for the honours he has given him. ... He says that he should enjoy all the praise he receives and not throw it away. ...

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The main focus will be the traces of Freud's ideas on the "Life and Death Drives", "Guilt Complex", "Fixation", "Sublimation", "Dream work" and "Ideal Female complex" in this short story. ... The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or Thanatos, Life Drive or Eros, Melancholy, Displacement, Dream Work, Fixation, Guilt, Sublimation a...

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No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs" (Shelley, pg. 54). Frankenstein's need of recognition is what drives the madness that occurs after his creation of the monster. ... By the same token, there is no way to justify Frankenstein running away from his own creation the minute it came to life. ... In the beginning, when the monster runs away and is left to fend for himself he meets people, he learns how to live on his own, and he develops many human characteristics. ... He carefully watched how people interacted with one another and...

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Beyond these two, viewers may also sense the bigger, ultimate virtue of justice, which is also the force that drives Perseus to travel through the underworld and fight against the villains. ... Nonetheless, in Wrath of the Titans, another ominous prophecy is told where mankind moves away from the gods causing the gods to lose their powers, which are obtained through human's worship. ... There was no conversation regarding how people should worship the gods or show gratitude towards them. ...

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Even when Teiresias tells Oedipus, "A deadly footed, double striking curse from father and mother both, shall drive [him] forth out of this land (lines 416-418)," Oedipus refuses to believe it, even though this prophecy shares some likeness to the one that he ran away from years ago. ... Teiresias, however, is a foreigner that does not necessarily have the same gratitude for Oedipus and therefore does not exalt him as such. ...

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The maids work very hard in each house with hardly any recognition or gratitude from those they are cleaning for. ... They also drive bright green and yellow cars most likely designed to distinguish them from burglars. ... They begin to feel as if they have no dignity and that their civil liberties are being taken away. ...

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Upon his departure, he tells Joe that he wishes to walk away alone. ... But, now, as he walks away believing he is destined to become a gentleman to marry Estella, his ambition of becoming a gentleman produces arrogance, unkindness and ungratefulness. ... Estella makes Pip feel as common as he really is and takes away the gentleman he believes he has become. ... Pip realizes he is obliged to protect his benefactor out of loyalty and gratitude. ... In Pip's efforts to help Magwitch escape, he is caught and taken away by the police. ...

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All the axis move out and back away from this point. The piece is given movement because the axes draw the eye away repeatedly away from the central focal point. ... The effect of the eye continually moving away from a central, forward focal point is her body being wind whipped in the sky. ...

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After the delivery, it was customary to offer white rice and seaweed soup to express gratitude, a practice that continued for twenty-one days. ... The custom originated to prevent the bride from running away in frustration as bridegrooms were often much younger than the brides and could not properly perform the duties of a husband, but it was also a sort of joke. ... When the palanquin carrying the bride approached the bridegroom's house, people used to scatter cottonseeds, salt, peas, and red beans to drive away evil spirits. ...

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Though in practice Machiavelli deviates away from this idea, it is not to say that he has rejected justice outright. ... Yet this desire to seek out wealth opens the door for a loss of freedom with the gratitude the republic owes its beneficiaries. ... If freedom is a republic's greatest possession, then ingratitude is the republic's most superior defense against those who will make attempts to steal it away. ...

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The film concludes, as does On the Waterfront, with a lack of faith in humanity, showing that the will to self-preservation dominates over the other drives. ... By this last point, High Noon its mise-en-scene, narrative, dialogue and characterization and its lack of realism, can direct us away from a literal interpretation of the events in the film. ...

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As other kids were learning how to drive and taking the streets on their own, she was not able to, she had no driver's license and that's when she was seen as the ˜weirdo', both Subject A and B had different responsibilities than just the normal chores. ... She grew frustrated, because she was brought up into a family that saw education as the only thing the government or your peers can't take away from you, so she was always the top of her class, graduating with a 3.97 GPA. ... Not only do they face hardships once they have been settled down but also while they are ...

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Crusoe is thus presented as a man who embodies an economical view on life while concurrently maintaining a spiritual drive. ... It becomes clear how many different opportunities in day-to-day lives hinder spiritual growth and lead away from God. ... Defoe carries on his portrayal of Crusoe as a man who seeks to live out a Christian lifestyle while also remaining true to his natural drive to live economically and practically. ...

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When a country is at war, the general population's main sources for breaking news are the government and the media, which are sometimes one in the same. In conflicts since the Vietnam War, the amount of first-hand reporting has diminished. As a consequence, the government became the source for much of the war-related information. However this has changed during Operation Iraqi Freedom with the "embedding- of journalists and also with the increased number of independent reporters. Some questions we must ask then are: "How do reporters go about reporting the details of the war respons...

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By his immense sacrifice, by his great renunciation, and by the immaculate purity of his life he left an indelible impress upon Hinduism, and Hinduism owes an eternal debt of gratitude to that great teacher (Attenborough 102). ... Hinduism teaches to stay away from temptation through various exercises that test one's ability to perform a difficult task; this devitalizes a person and causes him to act on a non-violent level. ... But, he believed that one should denounce the rewards and simply devote one's life to acting on the behalf of others and that life should be lived near the ...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim,...

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They will try to convince the teen that they owe the gang a debt of gratitude and it must be repaid. ... Some signs that a child may be involved in a gang or in gang activities are; they may have new friends or stop hanging out with their old friends or they may not let you meet any of their friends, they may start spending a lot of time away from home, they may display a lack of interest in school or school related activities and their grades may drop, they become difficult to deal with, argumentative, they may start to use drugs or alcohol, they may have themselves tattooed, they may...

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