They were there for his pleasure and amusement, only if it was suitable to him. ... Then, for some reason, something exploded inside me (Pg. 115). ... The events that led to his execution were his deep beliefs - the obsession for the truth. ... There is a question that arises. ... It appeared that none of his dreams ever had closure, none that is, except the last one, Then with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last (pg.81). ...

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We stayed there for nine wonderful days, two of which were used for traveling. ... I wanted to go swimming right then and there, but we had to unload the boat. There were bare footed native children waiting or us on the shore-line. ... All the teens were really nice and we got to hang out the rest of our stay there. ... That there is a lot more beyond our towns, there is a whole world out there to discover. ...

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It was in his hometown, in an average house that his beyond average values were instilled in him. ... He admits to not having everything but also acknowledges there were many worse off than him. ... They sit and talk for hours; he then comes home and calls his mother and sisters in St. ... He then sits down at his make shift desk in our family room and turns on his favorite Rod Stewart CD and diligently works until bed time. ... Of all the people I have come across, none of them have held but the highest regard for him. ...

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Video games and books were my safe haven. ... Days were long and nights were longer. ... For the first time in a long time, there was a connection and a subconscious bond that resulted in a strange little attraction. ... But faith in society is essential, if not for the optimism of a brighter future, then for the conviction that one's life is meaningful. ... My eyes were opened and pride in humanity was regained. ...

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There was a sign over the kitchen door, "Grand Central Station.... Neighborhood kids were a household staple. ... " She then looked at me and said, "Well, I want to go out the way I came into this world, living life!... The funny thing is; none of us spoke of her dying either. We were protecting her too, a circle of love. ...

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It would make no difference to die obtaining all your goals in life, or none. ... Cioran, you wrote "Is there anything to win in this world? ... I think that yes there is something to win in this world. If death is all we have to look forward to, then if one were to say, "Live everyday like it's their last--cliché, then they would have everything to win. ... Yet, if we all lived our lives like they were meaningless, then existence itself would be over. ...

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It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square." ... When we were living by the power of the circle in they way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of ago. ... But there is another world." ... He is saying that eventually, his people will all be back, and then things will go back to how they should be for Black Elk's people. ... It gives no quarter and asks for none in return. ...

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Yet many people fail to realize that we humans came up with a meaning when there otherwise is none. "If there were no God, it would become necessary for mankind to invent one" (Voltaire). ... It's incredibly depressing that there could be no life after death and that maybe we just return to the void that was there from when before we were born. ... " "Then God can help you," he said. ... In death, there is no difference to who you were as a person. ...

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"There can be no idle hands in His Kingdom." ... Krebs does not think American girls were worth the effort. ... Only one change can be noted in the town after Krebs returns from war: Nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up There were so many good-looking young girls. ... Krebs misses France and Germany, "he thought about France and then he began to think about Germany. ... Still, none of it had touched him. ...

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The more popular you were, the more your attention was worth. ... By then everyone heard the news, and I heard what everyone really thought about my then ex-girlfriend. None of my friends liked her. ... When I woke up in the morning, the only people that were at my friend's house, were two of my best friends, Ross and Spencer. ... "Well buddy, it seems you've got yourself into a mess there. ...

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Horatio invites Hamlet to join then that night, Hamlet agrees, suspecting the ghost might be connected to his father's death. ... He sends Guildenstern and Rosencrantz to their deaths in England, then boards a pirate ship to sail back home to Denmark. ... For one, after the deaths of Polonius, Laertes raised the people of Denmark to storm the castle, so the people were ready and willing to have a new king (Act 4, scene 5). ... Consider individuals, survey men in general there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. "What harm is there in this," you might ask. ...

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Then, the next day, they come out with a cell phone that has a camera in it. ... Or, maybe they just wanted these new things because they were the so-called "new trend," and they had to have it or they were not cool. ... One may assume that there is not as much advertisement everywhere as we have here. ... They will have none of their material items that they had before. ... I do not feel there is any other reason to have the so-called new and improved cell phone; however, there are some people who do not care about these material items. ...

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Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing"(Flower 1-7). ... After establishing its submissive position, the flower then goes on to proclaim its fealty and dedication to its God. ... After this is established, the flower then expresses its desire to live in God's favor in order to eventually exist in a paradisaical afterlife: "O that I once past changing were; Fast in thy Paradise, where no flower can wither! Many a spring I shoot up fair, Offring at heav'n, growing and groaning thither: Nor doth my flower Want a spring-showre, My sinnes and I joining tog...

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If the person who created him would have nothing to do with him, then what hope is there for others to. ... The second groups were given artificial mothers made of cloth. ... They were often fearful or inappropriately aggressive. ... Unsociable females that did have babies were neglectful. ... Of the events that unfolded in Shelly's masterpiece Frankenstein none of them can be excused, but given the creature's upbringing can easily be justified. ...

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Especially in the case of Poe, what he is about to say may not be received well, so he waited until they were just about to part. ... "Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?" ... Troubles are continuously overwhelming him and there is nothing he can do but stand and take it. ... Then to end the poem he repeats the final line from the first stanza, but in the form of a question. ... There have been multiple times in my own life when I have lost things that I were going to be permanent. ...

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His poems were also often in first person. ... So far, there is woods, and snow. ... Frost then makes mention of a frozen lake. ... The next Stanza then begins to describe the second path. ... In the third stanza, he describes both paths as having leaves on them, and none of them are black. ...

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- were his last dying words that were "clearly remembered- and passed and discussed through generations, but still they had not found their listeners and were considered "just things- anyone could "hardly bear even to think of. ... Depend on none. ... "Then we check out that we on the Fifth Avenue and everybody dressed up in stockings. ... I do not deny the fact that there are such things as inequality, racial oppression, suppression and slaughtering of individuality, as well as many other awful things. ... Nevertheless, we should not forget that we live in one enormous diverse society, and t...

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Making mistakes is human nature, none of us are exempt. ... I immediately swerved to the right, hitting their car, and then swerved to the left, hitting the hill side. ... They were no where in sight. ... I found out just who my true friends were and how much I was loved. ... People say that there are no guardian angels, well it was not luck that kept me from being killed. ...

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"Has God, then, no world to look after, but ours? ... "There were children crying for bread and fire, and mothers who questioned His grace? ... To number the bloody stabs that were there, to look at and judge the dead" (802). ... They were also ready for it. ... God tells her that none of that was important, it was all a dream. ...

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There was no point. ... My dreams were living death, morbid fantasy and nocturnal wake. ... I hoped that I would be remembered briefly, then forgotten. ... None that I know of because the story continues. ... Many others continue to live life as if death were the only answer. ...

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These airstrips were just two lanes of run down dirt that were around six thousand feet long. ... If this area was really built to be a bombing range like the government said, then why was there a need for all of these new buildings and runways? ... The government refused to give the area a name, saying it had none. ... Then they informed the public that it was the site of a NASA base. ... But if there really are extraterrestrial life forms and spacecrafts, then who is looking over them, and who else in involved? ...

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Formal and informal charge's were brought against Socrates; corrupting the youths of Athens with his teachings and impiety were among the formal accusations. ... That would have been a dreadful thing, and then I might truly have justly been brought here for not believing that there are gods, disobeying the oracle, fearing death, and thinking I was wise when I was not " (Apology 31-32). ... Ivan's final days were gloomy and full of misery. ... "There was no fear because there was no death. In the place of death there was light"(Tolstoy 152). ...

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There are many reasons why the plague can be seen as analogous to life. ... No one is protected, there is no discrimination, everyone is ultimately the same. ... Just as there are those who wash the plague infected bodies and escape its wrath, there are those who catch it with no obvious exposure to it, and there are some who are conceived even when various forms of birth control are used, and those who die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. ... Then at least you could add some familiar faces to the anonymous mass. ... There are those who fail to see the truth as it is. 2) Denial. ...

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This was one of her few options though as she couldn't go to her immediate relatives because none of them liked her. ... Franks father was never there to provide for Frank or anyone else in his family. ... He was in the hospital with typhoid and then contracted a disease of the eyes, which his family couldn't afford to give proper care to. ... These people that were continuously putting these hurdles in his was were people that you would lest expect it from, they came from the people of the church. ... These two were twins and they died months apart. ...

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