Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" takes place on Indian Island, off the coast of England. ... There are ten main characters in this story, some more protaganistic then others, but all play a role in the story. ... There is no single character point of view. ... The remaining group begins to become suspicious of one another, but there is no evidence to suggest which one of them is the killer. ... Also they first take notice of little Indian statues on the dinning room table, where once they are sure were ten, there only stand six. ...

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No one is allowed to live on earth. ... Once Scottie and Wilson came to earth from Zonomonia, they were disappointed to find billions of people already living there, so they hypnotized all the humans. ... Scottie and Wilson were celebrating and partying. All of a sudden there was a loud, POP! ... And then there were none. ...

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And Then There Were None And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a murder mystery in which none of the victims are innocent and all the characters have strong feelings of guilt about themselves. ... All the characters (invited guests) on Indian Island were guilty of murdering someone but were never found guilty by a court of law. The quote "There was a silence - a comfortable replete silence. ... Christie shows that the guilty receive what they deserve and that no one gets away with murder. ... The guests thought he was killing everyone but they were all wrong. ...

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There are a lot of stories about war, but this one is quite unlike most. ... Like the "sound of some stupendous shuffle, as if two animals of the size of islands were fighting", like "the noise which resembled the slapping of shutters during a wild gale of winter", or like "these futile cries, wrenched from him by his agony." ... This Fred Collins gets thirsty, but since the well is on open terrain, it's very dangerous to go there. ... You read all this and it makes you think that there are good things in war, heroic things in war. ... Then, of course, the bucket is spilled by clumsy co...

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There are various statements in the book that support this idea. ... Then the pigs simply acted as overseers, and, in effect, slavedrivers of the working animals, blatantly avoiding anything physically taxing. ... Of course, the ignorant animals put forth no opposition. ... There was nothing there now but a single commandment. ... (Page 123) No animal protested this. ...

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An article titled The case of Ian Stillman, Deaf Man Wrongfully Accused shows an example of a deaf man whose rights were violated and then was wrongfully imprisoned. ... Later that day, police arrived at his house and searched but there was no interpreter present. Two days later, more police arrived, did another search and still there was no interpreter. ... During the arraignment there is still no interpreter so he got another court date for his hearing. ... On the day of the hearing there is still no interpreter. ...

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This can be seen when a person says no to an unreasonable request and then goes along with the request because of feelings of guilt for turning the person down. ... The Nuremburg Trials put the blame on these officials, but even then they claimed no wrong doing. ... Many people believed, and still believe that they felt no wrong doing in what they did, and thought that they were right in cleansing the world. ... While the men knew what they were doing, they may have been so terrified of Hitler that they decided they had no choice but to follow orders. ... While there is no doubt that t...

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We have no way of knowing that there is absolutely a God. However if there is a God in our mind then there must also be one in reality, right? ... In defence of the third way, Aquinas says, "that if the series were infinite then there would be no second or third with out the first", refering to God. ... If there is no God than there would be no purpose to our lives. ... For without God my life would have no meaning, there would be no purpose to live my everyday life. ...

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No Mercy Wednesdays were always good days because it meant that there was only two days until the weekend. I always looked forward to Wednesday but I had no idea about the events that were about to take place on this unfaithful Wednesday. ... Are we then to just sit back and watch what happens? No! ... When the threat is so gigantic and the solution so simple, we are all in the camp of the Shakespeare character who said, "There is no virtue like necessity" (Chapman Online). ...

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Democracy Then and Now Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. ... There would be citizens chosen to be a part of the Council. ... No other civilization has come this close then the creators of it. ... Could a typical tinker, tailor be a leader no matter what his trade or level of poverty? There must also be time set aside for government and the responsibilities of being a member. ...

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There is no evidence to say that capital punishment is more effective than life imprisonment. ... Then why take another life for a life that a person took. ... There is no representation of what crimes capital punishment would include. ... A study in the USA in 1987 reported three hundred and fifty people were guilty of capital crimes yet they were innocent - twenty-three of these people were executed. We have to allow room for mistakes as no one or no system is perfect. ...

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Women in Society: Then and Now Women in any society, no matter what the time period, have never been viewed as complete equals. Women did not get to make many of their own choices and a majority of the time; there life was mainly mapped out for them prior to adulthood. ... So it's no wonder as to why she took pride in the things that she did have. ... A majority of the time, love was no factor in the equation of marriage. ... Life was not fair and if you wanted freedom to marry who you loved then you had to run away. ...

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There were a lot but I worried that some were missing. However, the parameters were set. I then removed from the list those poems to which I was completely unable to ascribe the adjective uplifting', although many of them were certainly inspirational'. ... Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in my marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. ...

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One door, no windows, no closets. ... I had no idea what he was talking about, and then a moan came from the car that hit us. ... No other doors, no windows, no escape. With only two shots left, there was no way of getting past them. ... I had no idea what he was talking about, and then a moan came from the car that hit us. ...

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Throughout the world in the 1880's there was a large need for countries to gain places where they could get natural resources. ... The way the U.S. went about gaining markets was no different then what they had done before to gain land. ... Throughout the war there was yellow journalism to gain support from the American population. ... This helps how that the U.S. attempts to gain land were no different during the Spanish-American War than they were during the Mexican War, where the U.S. gained California and other land by taking it by force. ... The U.S. was no exception. ...

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No, no that can't be it. ... And then he"d give a hearty laugh; typical, good old Pops. ... We were immortal, so we thought. ... When I think back now though, he was the smart one - no drinking, no smoking nothing. ... In either case, it is over and done and there's no turning back and changing it. ...

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So if there is the possibility that everything at one time or another cannot-be, then at one time there was nothing, because everything that could've been wasn't. Yet if there was nothing at one time, then there was nothing that could be, and so there would still be nothing. ... Instead we would think that someone had made the watch, even if we had no idea of what a watch was. ... This contradicts the bible, the bible says that we were created through Adam and Eve. ... If we knew everything and how everything worked then we would be god. ...

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There are several possible reasons for this. ... He then goes on to explain, "Ah, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only the expedient exaggeration. ... No, no. ... The liquor stains have been removed from the couch and there are no more liquor bottles in the cabinet; 'Mrs. ...

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He was an atheist, as were the other members of his family. ... However, it is there. ... ""Muzzle him," said the Queen... he was surrounded by the whole crowd of creatures kicking him, spitting on him, jeering at him...Then there was more tying and tightening of the chords... ... ""Aren't you dead then dear Aslan?" ... "Everywhere the statues were coming to life" (Lewis LWW 166) These statues were the trapped souls of those creatures of Narnia who were enslaved by the White Witch, and now are freed by Aslan. ...

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In every family I believe there is one person in whom we can identify with the best, someone whom we admire and constantly imitate. ... We were in town because of my grandfather's recent passing. ... My cousin Marcus had just run in five minutes before in attempts to wake me, all to no avail. ... Then I was outside, I was free. ... Marcus and I were busy hanging out on the front stoop when he arrived. ...

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By November there were 60,000 more deaths and another 70,000 by 1950 (Takaki 47). . ... Hiroshima, as it turns out, was no exception. ... Then came the Japanese immigrants. ... For the United States during the years between Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were two wars; the European war and the Pacific War. ... Those who were in the houses were buried in the ruins. ...

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Raekwon Kevin English w131 26 March 2002 When We Were Kings Norman Mailer and George Clinton perspective on Don King was sarcastic yet true. ... What makes the difference between levels difficult is that the documentarian sees from his own point of view, his experience, and background, from which he then creates a strong claim. ... One scene was when he was exiting out of the court room and he was yelling that no one in Vietnam ever done anything to him, why should he go out there and fight them while there is still a war going on in America. ... The voice of Don King an...

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Is There Room For Free Will? ... This shows that though there seems to be a choice on the surface, if one is to believe the text of the Bible then there really is no choice in the matter of their destiny. When literally interpreting the Bible, there is absolutely no compromise between believing in God's omniscience and believing in free will. ... Are people just puppets living out the destiny beget to them by how they were raised? ... Simply put, no. ...

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"My mind was set, then and there, to return to Texas and then on to Indiana to find Mary Lou," said Larry. ... No one has spent so much time with me for many years." ... She has spent hour after hour working right beside her father, as there were no boys in the family. ... They built a house and then Larry made the fields ready for planting. ... She received a reply in which they were told his parents were both expired, and the sisters and brothers were spread across the U.S.A. ...

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The movie that I selected for my critique is called "We Were Soldiers", a movie set in November of 1965, during the Vietnam Conflict. ... The first scene that I chose to analyze in "We Were Soldiers" is one that comes some 45 minutes into the movie. ... Moore speaking of himself, "I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. ... The troops then file out and begin their rigorous training schedule. ... The focus then shifts back to Moore and Plumley, Moore making the comment that Kagen is a born leader. ...

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