The rain pelts down in sheets consistent with the wind that blows in waves of strong forceful hatred. ... It blows with the wind letting itself be taken by its continuous movement. ... Leaves move, bend with the wind and rain. ... It keeps the memories of days gone by and happy moments past on top of it. ... Slowly she leaves the window, first stepping away, then turning her head and leaving the fingertips of hand to linger on the lead window pane that little bit longer, and then she's gone, like a wisp of wind. ...

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But no work about the Civil War has attained the place of gone with the wind. ... On the other hand, she becomes entwined with a mysterious, charming man named Rhett Butler. ... Both the movie and book versions of gone with the wind became important documents of American culture for the rest of the world. ...

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I could hear the rustling sound of each leaf swaying in the wind. Suddenly one of those leaves was falling down from the tree and gone with the winds leaving the tree and other leaves behind it. ... Its color was faded quickly with time like human hair color. ... The wind is still blowing. The leaf is still gliding with the wind somewhere out there. ...

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SNAG, my fly is gone; the fish is wrestling with it under the water, so I quickly hank on my pole. ... With a few buckets, frisbees, and a lawn mower you can play Folf (Frisbee golf). ... Whoosh, through the air the frisbee goes straight for the bucket, but a huge wind gust blows my Frisbee back towards me. ... "Noooooooo," I yell, but the frisbee does what the frisbee wants and the wind blows where ever it wants to. ... I think about my past two throws and which way the wind is blowing, aim my throw and put a little bit of luck on it too. ...

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The air was heavy with gloom; the sepulchral gloom of death. ... The one before me had lost the battle of life and was gone forever. ... The wind blew and not another soul could be seen other than the standing corpse of my beloved and her thoughts enveloped me. ... Watered by these tears of sorrow, my thoughts sent off shoots of compassion and remorse to my body and my soul wept with the feeling of being alone. ... I sat there for some time with tears rolling down my face, but then regained my composure, consoling myself by thinking that what is done is done. ...

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How far do you agree with this statement? ... A wind, a cold, has come . ... The reason she is creating the idea of witchcraft is so that she is once again able to be with John Proctor. ... This goes for the rest of the girls, for instance Mary Warren in Act II, "So I"ll be gone every day for some time. ... I do agree with the statement at the start. ...

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As he backed back he saw Lenny's face appear in the ripples, he smiled and looked again but it was gone. ... Slim replied to Carlson who appeared shocked with Slim's remarks. ... Immediately after a cold wind swept through the bunkhouse, like gas it got everywhere and got to everyone. ... He couldn't get an answer from slim but seemed to be okay with it. ... He grabbed the gun and got ready to act calm but the wind blew open the door and everyone saw Curley with the gun in his hand. ...

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Scarlett O"Hara of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is far from an admirable literary heroine. ... In these ways, I identify with her and with the universality of wanting to (and ensuring that you do) have the best of all possible worlds- with having your cake and eating it too. With being more than what you seem to be. ... Another way in which I identify with Scarlett O"Hara is her tenacity. ... Scarlett, for instance, marries her first husband just to make another man jealous, and her second husband because he happens to be the first person she saw with some kind of money. ...

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To build a successful fire, you need twigs to begin with, then some small sticks, and finally large logs. Fallen trees supply you with all of these. ... Now you are ready to build your fire, which is made easier by placing a large log in the ring to build against and to block any possible wind. ... Even if the fire looks like it has gone completely out, there could be smoldering embers that are still hot and all fires should be "cold-out", which means that the coals are cold to the touch. ... Then pour water on top and stir it with a stick. ...

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The imagery is symbolic of the death, despair and destruction that inevitably come hand in hand with war. ... The knowledge that these photos show history brings up the idea of the past, of things long gone, or long dead. ... Through these images, Findley is not only able to show the death, despair and the loss that war brings about, but is also capable of drawing the reader into the novel and giving an almost first-hand experience with the casualties of war. ... With the soldiers, it is a living hell that is comprised of the harshness of their environment and the loss of their fellow soldier...

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.; we were the soldiers of Company B, 1st Battalion, 507th Infantry Training Regiment, we made our first jump: bright blue sky, light-to-no wind, temperatures in the mid-60s. ... For me and the others, Ground Week and Tower Week were long gone. ... The first was with all our combat gear; the second was a mass exit, with us soldiers filing out of two doors at the same time. On Wednesday and Thursday, we were to combine what we learned both days before we did a mass exit jump with combat gear of Friday. ... "I just hope everything goes according to plan with no errors." ...

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Not long after Sethe's reunion with Paul D. she describes her reaction to School Teacher's arrival: "Oh, no. ... This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. ... 'I should have gone on back there? ... Maybe Baby Suggs could worry about it, live with the likelihood of it; Sethe refused- and refused still"(251). ... The black community played a major role in Beloved, especially with th...

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Analysis After Ralph's tense, exciting stand against the hunters, the ending of Lord of the Flies is rife with irony. ... The officer says that he is unable to understand how upstanding British lads could have acted with such poor form. Ironically, though, this "civilized" officer is himself part of an adult world in which violence and war go hand in hand with civilization and social order. He reacts to the savage children with disgust, yet this disgust is tinged with hypocrisy. ... Much of the novel is allegorical, meaning that the characters and objects in the novel are infu...

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