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 were more children than adults now, and the adults were about war and there were only a few like myself there to help them. ... I turned and looked at him and his eyes were as animal bright as ever and there was no expression on his crunched, little face. ... I lay there when he was finished and thought about all I had done for the children and thought about the war and all that had to be done afterwards, knew then that my love for the children, their needs, were the obsessions of my life. They were my reason to live, more than just living to exist I knew then that I had to let their ...

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If every answer were to be given to society on a silver platter then there would be nothing but mindless drones wondering around and every one making the right decision. ... The idea that in order for something to exist it must be thought up and if it can be thought up then it does exist. ... This is understandable because though at one time unicorns could have roamed the earth it is hard to prove they did the only possible way is that they were before the flood, and literally missed the boat. ... If there was no God then there would be no moral right or wrong line that society tries to balan...

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After we do encounter our new experiences we then realize that there are consequences to them, and find out that they are too much for us to handle and we were not ready for them. ... As days passed and the reality of pregnancy grew greater and greater for us we then realized that we were not invincible, and that we were not ready for the decision that we had made. ... We knew that we had made a mistake and that our morals were forever changed, but only to our eyes and in our minds, no one else's. ... That no matter how big we thought we were there will always be things that can make u...

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She doesn't make anything of it until the next morning when some of the others confirm that there were planes flying fairly low and they were fairly loud. Robyn and Lee, two of the teenagers say they heard the planes and there were a lot more than the six or so fleets that Ellie saw. ... And all the livestock are dead or mal-nutritioned, there's no one home and the place is far too quiet for that time of year. ... It's then that they start to think something serious has happened. ... They get the supplies back with no real hassle, and then they do some more thinking and deci...

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There she was the lonesome girl all alone in her bedroom, she was a girl of eighteen years old with no brothers or sisters to talk to. ... Sajda's grandparents were living in Pakistan, her mum (Saida) was thinking of going to Pakistan for a holiday, but there was one thing stopping her, Sajda! ... Saida had no relatives in England they were all in Pakistan. ... That night Sajda went to the toilet, she tried to open the bathroom door but to her it seemed jammed, so she went to her mothers bedroom and she turned the light on and her mother was not insight, she went back outside the bathr...

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In reading the book Eight Men Out then watching the movie, I was left somewhat disappointed. ... The White Sox, at the time, were the best team in the business, but surely were not getting paid like it. ... If he were to pay his men what they earned there would have been no reason for the fix, and it may not have even occurred. After reading this book, and thinking what I would have done in the movies, then watching the movie, I became shocked. ... There is no way a person could fully understand the happenings of the time just by watching the movie. ...

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Hobbes believed that all people did something for a reason, there was no faith in anything, and his distrust of democracy actually had a point. ... No matter if it was good or bad, he figured there was some kind of evil behind every action made by a person. He figured that every action made by humans were for themselves and not for anyone else. ... Hobbes grew up with big businesses ad the ones who were big were the ones that had all the money. ... He thought that with one representative, then no business would ever get too big and controlling. ...

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No people were really afraid. ... In fact there were few problems and everything worked for the best. ... "Everybody thinks he deserves to live forever, so if there's anything out there that can cure them, then you get it. ... "All the time I was saying no that's the president, and no not my president there's no way this could be true. ... "There were a whole bunch of us sitting around watching this on TV, I mean we were having our won little party going on. ...

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The reason I say that is because the women's heads were shaved and they had no clothes on. I thought for sure they were going to gas them and just leave them there to die. ... I think that there were two themes to Schindler's list. ... But then he realized there are better things than just himself and money. ... There were people standing there playing the violin. ...

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Our lives were absolutely perfect and what better way was there to spend our never ending afternoon than to take up on some friendly conversation about another? ... As a pair my friend and I were able to come together and dissect then figure out their problems without even having to take a step in their shoes. We were amazing! ... No matter how bad things get, it is important to realize someone has it worse. ... Now in these recent years that I have no shoes, I can now point at the people with no socks....

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There is nothing and no one that can help me now. ... There's no running from the government. ... It was pure because there was nothing bad that you could possibly do, for you were too afraid of the PPA. ... Right then there was a connection between the two that could never be broken. ... It was probably a sign for him, since there was no beauty in this world of his. ...

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The first was to find one that if you knew that there were four pegs on the boundary, and none on the interior, you could get the area. The second was if you knew that there were 4 pegs on the boundary, and you knew how many were on the interior, you could get the area. ... This works in all shapes with no interior pegs, like Freddie described. ... I noticed patterns in groups, I saw a pattern if there were 0 pegs on the interior, or 1 peg on the interior, but not one that flowed through-out them all. ... Then, for Frashy's I had to find a formula that gave me the area if I knew how many ...

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What is the purpose of education then? ... If university education is meant for this and only the kind of this, then I would rather have no education at all. ... Then I shall ask, how do you define beneficial'? ... Were we not born to observe and think? ... Perhaps this is the very reason why there cannot pertain a universality in education, in university education, because all the educators have not come to the truth yet "or, is there no truth at all? ...

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There are people that are murderers and there are people who work for charity. ... What kind of place would we be living in if everything were the same. ... Now society is safe If this were true there would be no reason for living, no reason for one person to be better than another. ... Then, there is another similar but different way of looking at this. ... Maybe the fact is that knowledge is more dangerous then any gun or knife. ...

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Some answers were even in the back of the book, so we just copied. The exams were based on pure memorization of the text. ... The history is no longer some dead facts presented in the textbook, but was then given its life again throughout the communication. ... Therefore as for the assignments of my college history class, there was no right and wrong answer but my genuine ideas. ... The process of learning was then more fascinating, motivating and memorable. ...

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There were other solutions before the idea of moving into the Plainville facility. ... Plus the majority stockholders were not likely to support that idea. ... They were afraid of low product quality. ... The advantages to moving there on a short term bases are: there is no need for any licensing, foreign or domestic, quality control remains firmly in the company's hands, and increase in the product price will be unnecessary. ... Then Byte Products is going to move in there and it is going to happen all over again. ...

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There were other solutions before the idea of moving into the Plainville facility. ... Plus the majority stockholders were not likely to support that idea. ... They were afraid of low product quality. ... The advantages to moving there on a short term bases are: there is no need for any licensing, foreign or domestic, quality control remains firmly in the company's hands, and increase in the product price will be unnecessary. ... Then Byte Products is going to move in there and it is going to happen all over again. ...

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No matter what the situation was, I was always honest even through a wall of lies. ... Even if there was nothing to do, I remember her company would be the most interesting experience in my life. I remember an occasion when we were waiting for her parents to get home. We talked for a while and then there was an awkward silence that lasted for about five minutes or so, and then Samantha said the exact same thing I was thinking the second before. ... I didn't notice at first, but there were signs to the trained eye to show a seperation wasn't ruled out for this seemingly happy relation...

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That scoundrel beat my mom with five consecutive sticks, but my dear mother didn't move and then I understood she was no more in the world. ... My eyes were wet and I left her alone. ... Then I understood the people in the picture were no more, needless to say one lady was his wife and the other his daughter. ... There was note kept beside him on the table. ... He was there for my dinner, which comprised of fresh mutton and milk. ...

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Also it means that God is there guiding us not just though life but death also. ... Most people believe that God is for our lives and then once we die and our places and determined he is still there for us. No matter who we were, how we died, or where we reside for all eternity. He is still there, now if our lives lead us to hell's gates he does not forget about us. ... Also in the meditation Donne states "No man is an Island, entire of itself- which tells us that no matter how great we think we are, we are part of something greater then ourselves, a community of people, a community ...

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And the fact that I had to search for the background story of the lyrics and then saw the meaning and the value of that song seemed no enough to be the ultimate 'aesthetic value. ... I do not insist that being typical 'American folk song like music' is no of aesthetic value. ... And my answer is 'yes', with no doubt. But there needs to be some conditions as well. ... In a nutshell, an aesthetic value is what makes you feel sense and then think the embedded 'beauty' that you were not able to detect easily. ...

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Basically there is no set standard for determining the meaning of life. ... We all know that there is no physical immortality. ... If we were never introduced to the idea, can there ever be? ... Essentially then, there must be and individual, because we couldn't have evolved without individual thinking. ... If it were cold, we would not have the idea to put on clothes, and next to a wardrobe full of clothes we then could freeze. ...

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Then she began to scream. ... They said they were going to send someone down to pick me up. ... You could see that her eyes were bloodshot and there was no way she could have been in a normal state of mind. ... Then, I stumbled across a weird cemetery. ... Then I felt something abnormal happen inside me. ...

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They have no homes, no family, and no one to help them. ... "Then Homer made an unpopular suggestion, "I think we should split up," There was a whispered howl of protest, if you can have that." ... "No they can't can they? ... Chris" bad habits (smoking and drinking) were a concern as they were a waste of space when they picked up supplies. ... They were eating more then they could afford to and had to start thinking long-term. ...

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