I couldn't fathom how or why it wreaked stenches of dead bodies and tar. ... I looked up to see the man of my dreams in front of me. ... I placed myself into the hands of another man, once more, but this time I was surer. ... I remember the day we met like it was yesterday; we were both walking down the boardwalk off of 5th avenue. He was walking with his friend and the reflection of the sun off of his chest caught my attention. ...

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Hyde, a small, violent man rejected by Victorian society for his unusual behavior, personifies Freud's id. ... It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut (Stevenson 40). ... Another example of Hyde's violence being released is in "The Carew Murder Case," when a maid looking out a window sees Hyde approaching an old man who happens to be walking along the street at night. ... Enfield says, "Blackmail, I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. ... "I am quite done with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any all...

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In this speech, Socrates gives the jury the picture of himself that is normally portrayed others who are ignorant of his thinking, saying that he is known as a "wise man" who "ponders everything about the earth and investigates everything beneath it, and turns the weaker argument into the stronger" (18b-c, page 28, Defence of Socrates, Oxford World Classics, Plato). ... Socrates also says that he would then be fairly judged, unlike on earth, by the three judges of the dead, and that he would free from death and dying again. ... He is introduced as "walking upon air and attacking the mystery...

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Give me the daggers; the sleeping, and the dead are but as pictures; "tis the eye of childhood that dears a painted devil. ... Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him! ... This shame that lurks inside of her is so strong that it is coming out subconsciously in sleep walking episodes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sajda's father was a very independent man, but what he could not bare was his wife Saida (Sajda's mother), they were constantly arguing everyday about silly things, but with mutual decision Sajda's parents both decided to call it a day when Sajda was seven. ... On her way home, she saw Sajda walking with a tall Asian guy, this was the moment when her heartbeat was faster then normal, Saida just stood there shocked and with a thought in her mind thinking " Sajda will not do anything stupid will she?" ... Sajda phoned for an ambulance and then phoned her mothers friend Aish...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate