As I mentioned before, Anthony is currently a member of North Kingstown Town Council. ... Because North Kingstown does not have a mayor, the council appoints a town manager to run daily operations for the town government. Decisions are made by the Town Council, whereas the town manager actually carries them out. ... He feels it is the government's responsibility is to "preserve and safeguard the character of our community and our neighborhoods." ... In closing I would like to leave you with a quote by Anthony Miccolis; "My entire career has been devoted to public services and I hope t...

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This is especially true in towns of under 30,000 people, like in a town called Pittsburg, Kansas in southeast Kansas, which is a college town and houses two Wal-Marts. ... I will quote Wal-Mart's chief executive officers now and they have been known to say some very interesting things. ... Don't forget to sign that petition or create one of your own to circulate because every citizen and every voter has a voice and Wal-Mart will hear our protests! We don't want Wal-Mart to take over our towns any longer! Wal-Mart be gone for good in our small communities, because you don&#x...

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Their source of entertainment is the word around town. ... This quote shows that he was the only male presence she had had for years. ... Everyone else in the town believed that Homer had just abandoned her. ... This quote shows how they were viewed from the community's eyes, the white southern moderately wealthy class. ... By showing this in Miss Emily, the author has successfully depicted how even the idols and monumental people in our societies can be corrupted by their fears....

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Act Against Billboards Billboards should not be permitted in our community. ... "The bigger the better,"" this is a quote of many; although, bigger may get peoples attention it is not always for the better. ... Nobody wants to drive through a town cluttered in ads. ... Billboards bring down a town, and clutter to a neighborhood. ... Billboards should not be allowed in our community. ...

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"I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. ... The quote above states that Atticus Finch was a man who did "unpleasant things," but this quote is false. ... Her point could have been better understood if "our unpleasant jobs" were replaced with "what is right." ... Atticus remained a pillar of righteousness in a town whose moral foundation was weak. ... His unpleasant task in taking up Tom's case was for his children to see, for the town people to see, and for Tom to have hope. ...

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Luigi Murica grew up in the small peasant town of Rocca dei Marsi. ... Similarly to Murica, Silone seems to feel an overwhelming sense of guilt about his behavior, which is supported in a letter inserted into Stille's article: "Our relations can become more regular and frequent only if they change in nature and character. ... The best way one can describe Uliva is the famous Allen Ginsberg quote: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." ... He learns from his former friend that after years of adamant participation in the revolution, he had been forced into isolation ...

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This is why she wrote that quote like she did. ... "Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. ... Not of revenge, not of our families. ... I think most people turn evil from their parents, their rulers, or from censorship in the town they are living in. ... Anne Frank's father thought she was crazy to say a quote like that. ...

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This is why she wrote that quote like she did. ... "Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. ... Not of revenge, not of our families. ... I think most people turn evil from their parents, their rulers, or from censorship in the town they are living in. ... Anne Frank's father thought she was crazy to say a quote like that. ...

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People in the town compare Santiago to his father, from Victoria Guzman (pg. 10) "He was just like his father, a shit". Also, the town was relatively poor, noticing when someone had money, they thought it defined the person. ... " In this quote Fausta is stereotyping not only the wealthy but the Arabs at the same time. ... " In this quote Marquex uses the word "poor" very strong wording, since this word is used for either economic status or in this case, an innocent stance. ... This helps cement Santiago's innocence because Jesus died for our sins and was sin...

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An excerpt from the Boston News-Letter on September 1, 1774, "Letters from Philadelphia say that City only has raised 4000 pounds in currency for the support of the Town of Boston in its present difficulties " shows that the towns around Boston, Massachusetts do not like the fact that the British control the regulating of trade in the Americas, and defy Britain by raising money to support the town of Boston under its trade ban. ... In a speech, Patrick Henry also stated that the colonists had tried all possible solutions available to them, which was also supported by the Declaration of Causes ...

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Among our other Christmas traditions reading A Christmas Carol out loud has been one of the more enjoyable aspects of the day. ... From the initial "Bah Humbug" to the concluding "God bless us, everyone," Dickens' poignant novella holds our interest and our emotions. ... Quotes Quote 1: "Oh! ... Stave 1, pg. 59 Quote 2: "'Bah! ... Stave 4, pg. 111 Quote 10: "'If there is any person in the town who feels emotion caused by this man's death, . . . show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!'" ...

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In Miss Emily the narrator describes the actions of women in the town with a alien method. Almost bewildered by the actions of the women in the town. "The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom-(Faulkner 972). This phrase almost seems like he is criticizing the custom of the town. ... This quote is another of his long sentences to describe the great detail that the women had done to an unknown drowned man in a small village. ...

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After the first year of marriage, Bram would always go to town by himself and Hagar would stay home. ... After the first year of our marriage, I let Bram go to town alone, and I stayed home. ... Her pride has kept her to minimal sociability with other people in the town that she has kept far from society. ... This quote proves that Hagar considers John as a Shipley. ... The quotes mentioned above prove that Hagar was a poor mother. ...

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He took us to where we would be spending our nights. ... There, we quickly set up our hammocks, dropped our luggage, and hopped back in the vans to tour our work cites. ... For the next ten days, live your life, but live it for the people you saw in town today.... Children of all ages, from all parts of town, came to see us and lend assistance in any way possible. The whole town seemed to come together and unite in order to help accomplish the building of these two houses. ...

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Yet their struggles are curiously similar to concerns and difficulties evidenced in our own popular culture. ... Then after his daughter goes into a trance to disprove the town's thoughts of witchcraft he called for reverend Hale. ... This quote is a perfect description for the town of Salem and their Puritan belief system. ... When the witchcraft scare came through the town the town's first reaction was to hang any witch, even when John Proctor brought logic and reason to the court. ... And finally how in the present day how the American people voted for the Republicans to end o...

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" More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood (Cather 2)."" ... " Now, don't you go and be a fool like some of these town boys. ... It's hard for her to think of him wasting away in this town remembering the good ol' days'. ... This quote portrays what kind of person Jim has become. ... Next comes on of the best quotes of all time, the mother of all love quotes. ...

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First of all, I found the town way too skittish and rather uneasy. ... That's the kind of feeling that I got for the town... This quote makes me pictures a mob of people standing around the black box and Mr. ... At first I thought that this town and all of the other towns that participate in the lottery had no real value for life. But then you look at us and at our world today, with all the mass murders and slaughtering of innocent people. ...

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I absolutely agree with this quote. This critical lens applies to the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird ,by Harper Lee because we the "evil" is being represents as the prejudice of the town. ... Conrad's quote, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." applies to the novel , To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. ... The people create the prejudice in this town, and so this prejudice is the "evil", which Conrad speaks about, the evil which men create. ... Characterization is used to more improve our prospect on the evil o...

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I absolutely agree with this quote. This critical lens applies to the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird ,by Harper Lee because we the "evil" is being represents as the prejudice of the town. ... Conrad's quote, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." applies to the novel , To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. ... The people create the prejudice in this town, and so this prejudice is the "evil", which Conrad speaks about, the evil which men create. ... Characterization is used to more improve our prospect on the evil o...

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Shaara does not have a bibliography, but he does have quotes at the beginning of the book from letters and interviews. ... It is also our culture to go to war with other countries (and apparently ourselves) since we have been involved in so many wars in our relatively short history. ... Shaara tells his story by jumping right in to a dramatic scene with a southern spy wandering through the rain, quoting Shakespeare. ... However, on the next day, the Confederate army defeats Union defenses north and the newer defenses south of town. ... The Union troops retreats from the heights north of town ...

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Huck and Jim were trying to reach a town namedCairo. ... Cairo was just oneof the many towns Twain referred to in this novel. ... This quote showed thegreed and prejudice of Southerns. ... Many of the towns Twain described were based onhis hometown and nearby towns along the Mississippi shores. ... (Twain 47) and "...whymama, struck out for this town of Goshen..." ...

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But, he knew the person was white by this quote someone said he said. ... Another thing is that some people even put animals above blacks, as told in the rest of the quote. ... Because he is doing this, most people in town are calling him a "nigger" lover. ... Confident that you gentlemen, would go along with them on one assumption, the evil assumption, that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are immoral beings, that all Negroes are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption that of one mind of their caliber. ... As you tell by this quote, " you've got to do something about her. ...

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This quote by the female protagonist in Tobias Wolff's short story, "Say Yes- addresses the unlikelihood of an interracial couple as presented in Ann Petry's novel, The Narrows. ... Another way she proves this point is by showing how their town yearns for a break in traditional same-race marriages through dichromatic descriptions of the town in contrast to monochromatic descriptions of Abbie. ... Petry purposely writes of it poetically to heighten it to our typical sensations of what love means to us. The repetition in the three lines phrased slightly differently each time streng...

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What commonality are these writers describing about our western civilization that is so typically unbalanced. ... The town felt a deep sense of sorrow for not appreciating Johnson more while he was alive. ... Hagenthorpe quotes, "No one wants to advance such ideas, but somehow I think that poor fellow must die." ... Trescott who quickly loses business in town because of Henry's exploits. ... He asks them to find his mystery "benefactor" that resided in the town. ...

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