It's when you know you are licked before you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. ... According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. ... No longer are the children impressed only by a physical demonstration of courage, but they now see the value in personal goal setting and overcoming obstacles as an act of gallantry. ... " (Lee 39) Scout learns from Atticus to think about people's situations before judging them, like Walter Cunningham. ... This lesson is important because it teaches the children to take the time to be aware of other people and t...

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The translation by John Gardner portrays these themes by using specific characters, medieval symbolism, and various settings within the story. ... Cotton supposedly acquired the manuscript from Yorkshire bibliophile Henry Savile (1568-1617), but its whereabouts before then are unknown (Grolier). ... Unfortunately in 1982, the great and exciting John Gardner died in a motorcycle accident. ... Bercilak teaches Gawain an important lesson that sticks with him for the remainder of his life (Gibbons 1). ...

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The setting of these two stories becomes an important piece of information to further the story. ... For this he thinks he will die. ... The house reflects the personalities of the people that lived there before the nuclear blast. ... Without the ability to learn it cannot learn a lesson. ... A difference from John the house possesses is it does not have a yearning to learn about the man that came before. ...

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The setting of the poem is in a kingdom by the sea a long time ago. ... Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847(http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/eapbio.htm), so the kinsman is actually a disease. ... The wind that chills Annabel is a warning of death (which can also be looked as the illness tuberculosis gave her before her actual death). ... They lived happily together, and when Virginia's death occurred, it was one of the hardest ways to teach Edgar a lesson about life; it's not fair. ...

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Setting: The Pigman's house, Franklin High School, and the zoo. ... That was too much for the Pigman and he let out a final yelp before he fell to the ground and died. ... The book showed very well that people could become friends no matter what and that is a lesson everyone should learn. ...

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Setting The setting of this book was taken place in a normal, casual community, joined together by good families, well-kept schools, and hard-working people. ... The setting in this book ended up influencing the characters and their actions a lot. ... The year before he was caught cheating by Mr. ... Although it was completely unexplainable and not their fault he died, they still felt responsible for kidnaping him and if they would had never done that he would of never died. ... She was also the one who learned a big lesson in life, probably one that some of the others would never learn. ...

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She received conventional lessons in painting, but chose to firmly go against it and pursue her own life's work. ... In 1894, at age 54, Morisot died of Typhoid fever. ... She had met Manet a year before and though her father objected, she became his model and later his student. ... Her father was a sea captain who died soon after her birth. ... Her work emphasized natural light in quiet domestic settings. ...

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Success in College Setting goals have been proven to improve performance on any task. ... Setting goals that focus on sound or vision would be helpful, but with my kinesthetic learning style, the best option for me is one that focuses on manipulating objects or situations. These are represented in Phoenix Online tutorials that put you in a scenario and lets you act it out, while still maintaining the structure and main points to the lesson. ... Stories, histories and ideas would die with the people who spoke them. ... Before today's technological advances people had to write letters to...

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Before taking Wellness, I just thought of health as being without a disease or injury. ... Before this semester, it never occurred to me how different wellness, illness, and health are from each other. ... When I was younger, we had a saying that we would go by, "you don't go to the doctor unless you're dying.... I big lesson in this that really stuck out to me was, when we are nurses we should always treat the patient the way we would want to be treated, the golden rule. ... In order to achieve this goal, I set the plans of setting an alarm to remind me to go nap, setting Thur...

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The setting was in Maryland in the suburbs and it relates to the author's life because she thought that it would be a nice setting for a werewolf story. ... One night Vivian wakes up sick and covered in human blood and learns that the night before there was a brutal murder behind the local bar. ... Before she could though she is stopped by Gabriel and friends who tell her that she isn't responsible for the murders and have been set up. ... Vivian's aunt Persia saves Vivan from dying but she is caught in mid change between wolf and girl. ... If you learn any lesso...

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As the metanarrator drives the audience to the internal setting, the sense of the " Sylvan historian" is clarified: the urn does not only tell stories of the forest, but it does also have it s body embellished " with forest branches and the trodden weed." ... In scene-stanza 4, the narrating director stands once more confounded before the playful urn. ... Now the shift is made to the external setting, and the plot smooth unravels. ... Moreover, it has a lesson to teach: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,_ that's all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" With this final statement...

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We can say the two were mauled by the wolves and they died together in the land the two fought over for years. ... Immediately while reading the story we are drawn in by all the details of the setting. You can instantly visualize the setting as if you are standing there yourself. ... All these details are provided right before our feuding characters meet face to face. ... It is almost as if nature and all its elements were there to teach these feuding men a valuable lesson in more ways than one. ...

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We can say the two were mauled by the wolves and they died together in the land the two fought over for years. ... Immediately while reading the story we are drawn in by all the details of the setting. You can instantly visualize the setting as if you are standing there yourself. ... All these details are provided right before our feuding characters meet face to face. ... It is almost as if nature and all its elements were there to teach these feuding men a valuable lesson in more ways than one. ...

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The theme of unending revenge killing is introduced by relaying events that took place before the play. ... Before the end of the play, Hamlet does get his revenge, but not without his own unfortunate death. ... Laertes is angered by the fact that Hamlet murdered his father and Ophelia died. ... "As Banquo is dying, he tells his son Fleance to revenge his death, setting the scene for more revengeful killing as the play goes on" (Campbell 225). ... It would seem that both the characters from Hamlet and Macbeth should have learned their lesson early on in the plays, but neither do. ...

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At promptly 7 oclock, Rypma began her introduction about the book Sewing Lessons, which she would be reading from that evening. ... Rypma read 14 of the 19 poems in Sewing Lessons. ... From the setting, to the outfit the author wore, everything went well together. ... Ray also enjoyed The Spoils of Death, which brought to his mind the thought of [w]ho does the benefactor become when someone dies? ... Before reading this poem to the audience, Rypma said that her great aunt who d...

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You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out, given the right situation. It's better to examine the consequences of a decision before you make it than to discover them afterward. ... The settings of the two titles are also different to one another. ... The setting of the North Pole, although different to Lord of the Flies, work well in a very similar way. ... Like Simon, he was only an innocent child, and he also dies as a fault of the monster (Beast). ...

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He never knew her in his older years, however, because she died when he was only seven or eight. ... In slavery it was very common, before puberty, for a slave child to play with the master's children. ... This new setting provided a rich environment that helped to develop his natural intellectual abilities and allowed him to be exposed to different and interesting people. ... He ordered her to cease these lessons at once. ... Douglass later had this to say of her, Nature made us friends, but slavery made us enemies.# this taught Frederick a very valuable lesson. ...

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Setting The book takes place in a small town called Sawmill Landing in northern Minnesota. ... The setting of the lake is used symbolically, because water is a sign of life and when he went back into the lake he was infused with a life essence he did not have before. ... Also, the setting was definitely used as an antagonist. The setting represented the major opposition to Paul in the novel. ... This symbol stood for Harvey's love for his father and his internal fight for the resolution of the grief he had about him dieing....

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Before the creation of Enkidu, Gilgamesh is a man without an equal match. ... Setting aside his great pride and power, Gilgamesh opens a place in his heart for his beloved brother, Enkidu. ... He learns a valuable lesson through his search for immortality. ... People want to live longer, healthier lives, but dying is an unavoidable part of life. Indeed, everything that lives will at sometime die. ...

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They also: challenge our views; let us know we are not alone; and edify us, teaching a moral lesson. ... Before the war, Hans painted Jewish homes and refused to join the Nazi party, even though his actions alone could have little impact on the deportation of Jews or the war itself. When he feeds the starving Jew, it could be argued he made a foolish decision as he endangered the life of a younger, healthier man (Max) to offer comfort to a frail elderly man, almost certain to die. ... Or on the man himself, who gets to die 'with the thought that he was a human.' ... Although the s...

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There are invaluable lessons learned through experience that simply cannot be replicated in the classroom. ... In the classroom setting one does not have to deal with this amount of paperwork, and, for myself, it took a little getting used to when I got into the office setting. ... This is just the beginning of basic knowledge students need to know before going out on their own. ... In a classroom setting everything is carefully planned out. ... He held a high position with the Somali government before the civil war. ...

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Died - June 15th, 1875 II. ... Wilmot Proviso (1846) David Wilmot, a Democratic Congressman, presented the amendment to a bill put before the U.S. ... Although some said they were more interested in "keeping the soil free and not for setting men free," they did manage to elect 14 congressmen and 2 senators. ... In 1846, Americans tired of Mexican rule, seized the administrative capital at Sonoma before word arrived about the outbreak of hostilities between Mexico and the US. ... In addition some 11,155 Americans died of disease as result of the war. ...

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The disease died down, only killing on a smaller scale, until it returned at large almost 800 years later. ... Although knowing there is treatment for plague is comforting, this method is preferred in contained settings, and would be unlikely to save a majority of the afflicted population in the event of a large epidemic (Riedel. 2005). ... This behavior has been observed in Yersinia pestis before. ... Since the September 11th attacks and anthrax scare of October of 2001, in which 12 people were infected and four died, the reality of bioterrorism has burst onto the scene (Fong and Alibek. 200...

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His grandfather died during the insurrection at Harpers Ferry. ... His mother, however, went before the board and battled to get him accepted. ... "My writing has been largely with the depicting of Negro life in America," Hughes said before the day he died. ... Remarkable places are seen through the setting on the streets of Harlem at 11 pm. ... 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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Priestley gives a very elaborate and detailed amount of stage settings, lighting and character descriptions. ... Birling's feelings are summed up in the last sentence of his speech before the Inspector arrives, A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own'. ... He does this confidently because he is very sure of his facts before he arrives. ... Inspector Goole, whether a real Inspector or not, is Priestley's instrument for teaching the moral lesson in the play. ... This lesson is learnt well by the younger generation but not at all by the older ge...

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