His grandfather died during the insurrection at Harpers Ferry. ... His mother, however, went before the board and battled to get him accepted. ... He died from congestive heart failure in the Polyclinic Hospital in New York City. ... "My writing has been largely with the depicting of Negro life in America," Hughes said before the day he died. ... In each story, play, or poem Langston Hughes wrote there is a lesson to be learned, and a flaw to be fixed. ...

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Being amused calls for comedy, sarcasm or witty remarks but Grave of the Fireflies is on a more serious note. ... The emotional scene was when Setsuko died but all in all, the movie can be enjoyed. ... A child has yet to sharpen his higher faculties like the geniuses before him, he must start out small and achieve greater understanding. ... Most of their movies are of lighter notes and this movie came off as a darker grim. But this, alike every animation they have released, a lesson learned for every viewer. ...

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She would teach lessons and I would sit and stare until I got a clear understanding. ... I passed every grade with all A's, even when it was hard to lip read and take notes at the same time. ... I heard noises that I had never heard before such as the birds chirping, wind whooshing, telephone ringing, I even heard my little sister cry. ... I was able to take notes without even reading my teachers' lips. ... It was more challenging, even though my confidence was stronger than it was the year before. ...

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Before this event, Lily lived her life in a way that she was generally confident with. ... There he found that she had died in her sleep. Although several lessons can be drawn from this story, one of the most evident, especially at the end of the book, is that one must never take someone else for granted. ... Had it not been for rumors and their triumph over her, she may not have died the way she did. Yet, on a more positive note, Lily's strength amidst the hindering expectations of her society is also an obvious point in the story. ...

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This refers to when Aristophanes was depressed due to the failure of The Clouds, which was performed in the year before The Wasps. ... In The Frogs, we can see the usage of slapstick just before the parabasis- Xanthias and Dionysus is being beaten to prove "which one of them is god." ... Also, note how Aristophanes creatively uses the orchestra to represent the lake in the Underworld in The Frogs- quite an unusual staging method! ... Aristophanes indicates that his comedy will be informative to the citizens- Xanthias tells us in The Wasps "Just a little fable with a moral," while, in The Fr...

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I believe that Satrapi intentionally presents specific lessons that she learned through a series of events and relationships that fully transformed her into a woman of power. ... With rebellion in her blood and the world before her, she did not let this episode stop her. ... " in which she is instantly punished for simply noting the obvious hypocrisy. ... " Now Marjane was torn between believing her mum's lessons in the power of forgiveness and accepting a new idea that not all people deserve to be forgiven. ... Schools began distributing gold painted plastic keys, telling b...

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Before this, Jim "had been merely drifting." ... "Abos," the girls said with cool disgust, as if the rituals being enacted, however violent were ordinary and not to be taken note of." ... During "a long afternoon unloading ammunition-boxes," the men in "D company" learn the cruel lesson that "even an invisible enemy could kill." ... A few days later Jim goes to visit Eric in hospital, where he is confronted with the truth that not everything "has a place in the world," as he believed before the war. ... They are born, they flourish for a moment and then die. ...

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"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.... If some new information is linked to music before learning, then it is easily imprinted on the brain, especially the young brains. ... Students of music learn to think creatively and to understand the blend in the different notes put together to form a particular song. ... By taking music lessons, students become aware of the cultures of other countries across the world, or of different states in a country, other than the music prevalent in his/her culture. ... These lessons of life are important for students in future, to win the b...

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer born in 1840 and died in 1893 (5 Wiki). ... While a young Peter was taking piano lessons, at night when he'd go to sleep, and wake up complaining to his parents that the music in his head made it hard to sleep (5 Wiki). ... He'd go on to die shortly after he completed his final symphony, "Pathetique," which is the one I plan study. ... He accompanied the first performance of the piece which sadly occurred 9 days before his sudden death (2 Jack). ... Much longer notes are being played here and it much less jumpy and sudden. ...

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In Act I, ii, 75-78, the Captain notes a previous incident in which Macbeth displayed his warrior-like nature: "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),/Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,/Which smoked with bloody execution,/Like valor's minion, carved out his passage/Till he faced the slave;/ Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,/And fixed his head upon our battlements."" ... He is suffering at the end of the play; however, he fails to do so with dignity: "Why should I play the Roman fool and die/...

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The sophist read him the Compstum, on which he spent sixteen years and two months, at which point his said preceptor died" (Cohen, p. 70). After Holofernes dies in 1420, Gargantua was appointed a new tutor, Jobekin Bride. ... As stated by Rabelais: "Meanwhile his father observed that although he was really studying very well, and spent all his time at his lessons, he was making no progress at all under the tutalage of the sophists. ... "This done, Gargantua was dressed, combed, curled, trimmed, and perfumed, and meanwhile the previous day's lessons were repeated to him He picked his ...

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In 1694 his mother died and soon after Bach's father remarried. ... According to Christoph Wolff, "In the obituary Emanuel stated that his father had his first keyboard lessons from Christoph, at Ohrdruf; in 1775, replying to Forkel, he said that Christoph might have trained him simply as an organist, and that Sebastian became "a pure and strong fuguist" through his own efforts" (Wolff). ... John Butt explains, "The surface of the music is coloured by a specific repertory of contrapuntal devices those concerned with dissonance and passing notes, and those relation to the combining of ...

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Thousands of people died, who were fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters to us all, we must reataliate against those who committed these horrifying acts against our great nation. ... Terrorism has occurred within our borders before, such as the Oklahoma Bombing in 1995 and the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. ... This is an interpretation of Nostradamus, because, he wrote in a gibberish fashion while compiling his notes and theories upon the upcoming world. ... This is a lesson for our government and a lesson for the world, exhibiting the facts that we must know and trust our allies...

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Captain Vere learns important lessons when innocent hands bring about destruction of life. ... Motionless, like before, is describing a stoic captain mindful of his duty to remain unmoved by emotion. ... It is important to note that the wavering between his conflicting feelings does not occur once but a few times. ... At the execution Captain Vere, "as before, the central figure among the assembled commissioned officers - stood facing forward" (375). ... Billy, right before he is executed says " "God bless Captain Vere!" ...

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The 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea War had taught the TPLF dissidents enough lesson that the leader who in public was acting like he were opposed to Eritrea, was the main enemy who turned the victorious Ethiopian Army's advance around, and crowned the aggressor with a victory in an independent boundary commission he conspired to set up with the Eritrean tyrnant. ... TPLF died unceremoniously in April 2001. ... So before time runs out, the unity of the civilian and military force of the nation should gain momentum early on, before the nation faces a vendatta by a leader who has a more sini...

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Specifically after Jim's death when Henry is making a speech he is interrupted by a description of the uncaring sun "pasted in the sky like a wafer."" (74) After his first encounter with battle he notes nature by saying "that nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment."" (47) And we are again remind of natures uncaring attitude on (127) " A cloud of dark smoke, as from smoldering ruins, went up toward the sun now bright and gay in the blue, enameled sky."" ... Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history lesson on t...

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