The climax of the story occurs when Gene and Finny finally have a two-sited discussion about the incident at the tree. ... He is the same height as Finny, but Gene weighs 140 pounds where Finny weighs 10 pounds more giving him a more athletic build. ... Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not death by violence." This is stated by Gene after looking at the infamous tree 15 years after his schooling at Devon had commenced. The tree is the same it has always been, but in his mind has been dwarfed by time and his physical growth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The climax of the story occurs when Gene and Finny finally have a two-sited discussion about the incident at the tree. ... He is the same height as Finny, but Gene weighs 140 pounds where Finny weighs 10 pounds more giving him a more athletic build. ... Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not death by violence." This is stated by Gene after looking at the infamous tree 15 years after his schooling at Devon had commenced. The tree is the same it has always been, but in his mind has been dwarfed by time and his physical growth. ...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session was another way Leper tried to stay peaceful with himself, but he never did jump out of the tree the way the other boys did. ... When jumping out of the tree for the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session, Gene jounces the tree branch and causes Finny to fall. ... "(183) This gives Gene his own personal freedom from strife because he couldn't forgive himself for hurting Finny until Finny forgave him. ... Brinker made Finny realize that Gene had pushed him out of the tree. ...

• Word Count: 967
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• Grade Level: High School

It begins with a description of what the room he is in is like, it mentions "spilling flowers, arms of great trees" this choice of words give the impression the painted walls are alive, which may be what he believes them to be. ... There is a reference to how the tribes treated him "strapped me onto a cradle", this gives the reader the impression that the tribe is going to look after him and care for him as though he where a child. ... The overall passage gives the impression that Almasy was once a romantic person "he remembers picnics, a woman who kissed parts of his body that are now burne...

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He then decides to smoke a cigarette, even thought he knows that lighting one in the dark might give way his position. ... In "The Interlopers," Ulrich and Georg get separated from their men and both get pinned under a tree after it gets struck by lighting. ...

• Word Count: 720
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• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the 1960s, this same Oscar Schindler was honored in Israel and declared "Righteous" and invited to plant a tree in The Avenue of the Righteous, which leads to the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. ... Many people may still look at Oscar schindler as a follower of Hitler and it is true he was a follower of Hitler but u have to give the man credit for taken a stand and doing his own thing and standing up for what he thinks is right. ...

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This beast kept order in his camp and if someone disobeyed, they would be tortured like Maurice when Jack tied him to a tree for a whole day. ... Hitler and Jack are very similar: Both give powerful speeches; Both had unthinking masses and both were cruel to others who didn't follow them. ...

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An example that the poet gives of disdainful people and people not being treated as equals is in the fifth stanza. ... Throughout this stanza the poet give the feeling that the child has no control, he is controlled by society. ...

• Word Count: 2163
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In Call of Duty, however, members of your team tend to take cover, give supporting fire, and generally fight like you do. ... Items like trees, rocks and people will have shadows that cast an accurate depiction of the object and will even leave shadows on other objects. ... It gives a teeth gritting sense of adrenaline while watching your enemies run for cover when you stand up with the trigger down. ... The sound of bullet fire and your sergeant giving orders sinks into an eerie slow deep tone while you crawl to take cover. ...

• Word Count: 923
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Jack and his tribe are clearly not satisfied with the heavenly setting and become obsessed with hunting and getting meat, even though they have food supply from all the fruit trees. ... Much the same, Adam and Eve become obsessed with the forbidden fruit and find themselves in lust for it, even when they have the option of choosing from all the other fruit trees. ... After Jack, Roger is second to give in and show brutality that he finds satisfaction in. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. They leave the so...

• Word Count: 3388
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Caputo was getting fed up with the snipers and at one point he stood along the tree line and started yelling at the sniper. "C"mon Charlie, hit me, you son of a bitch, HO CHI MINH SUCKS HIT ME, CHARLIE," Caputo yelled into the trees at the potential sniper. ...

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Jessie Pope uses colloquialism in a highly persuasive way, " Who"ll give his country a hand?" ... Owen creates an image of "Light blue trees" this is pleasant creating an inviting and enchanting atmosphere. ...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: High School

As defined in Lexus and the Olive Tree by international business connoisseur Thomas Friedman, globalization is, "the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world-(9). ... Each country has a different skill to offer, and when a country must take from a neighbor and give to another a more connected, peaceful world emerges. ...

• Word Count: 1058
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jessie Pope uses colloquialism in a highly persuasive way, " Who"ll give his country a hand?" ... Owen creates an image of "Light blue trees" this is pleasant creating an inviting and enchanting atmosphere. ...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Yet, with the evolvement of modernism in the 1930s and 1940s, Dylan Thomas tended to present tragic situations in his poems, often giving way to more disjoint and uncertainty. ... Even though the reader does take solace in the fact the hunchback at least "has his nights," Thomas's closing lines, " the birds the grass the trees the lake and the wild boys innocent as strawberries had followed the hunchback to his kennel in the dark" (lines 39-43) leave the reader steeped in thoughts of violence and chaos, a highly representative literary effect of the modern era. ... Thomas, on the other ...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What is war? Is it a battle? Is it struggle? What is war defined as? Well, for a debater it may be outsmarting the opposition with words. For an environmentalist it may be saving that last tree. For a traffic control officer it may be his constant battle with the traffic. However war is generally de...

• Word Count: 2077
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The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by William Golding sums up his view of the soul of mankind. This feeling is shared by many authors, especially modern ones. ...

• Word Count: 4223
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• Grade Level: High School