Blake ties this metaphor into stanza two where in line two he asks how the creator "burnt the fire of thine eyes", where burnt could mean to forge from fire. ... This line ties into stanza two line four where Blake asks, "what the hand dare seize the fire", fist introducing the word "dare". ... Blake describes the creation of evil as being forged from fire in the depths of hell by the hand of the Almighty Blacksmith. ...

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Molly stayed with Hays throughout all of his service in the military and they both even spent that very arduous winter at Valley Forge together. ... When Molly Pitcher's husband collapsed because of a heatstroke during the battle, she took his place and began firing his cannon, a skill that she had acquired through watching him. Molly is often depicted firing the large cannon, a task many women of that time period had not accomplished. ...

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And for this, it seems to be required the use of a person's intellect, matured and forged throughout a lifetime. ... He recurs to a material, fragile being that has been given the gift of eternity "O sages standing in God's holy fire". The sages could be interpreted as the burning tree that is never consumed by fire by God's grace. ...

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Venus (the mother of Aeneas) and Thetis (the mother of Achilles) both ask a god to forge arms for their sons. The same god with different names (Hephaestus in Greek and Vulcan in Rome) forged the shields of the two heroes. ... "There the Lord of Fire [Vulcan], / knowing the prophets, knowing the age to come, / had wrought the future story of Italy, / the triumphs of the Romans." ...

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This ring, which turns out to be the One Ring, forged by Sauron, the dark Lord, who filled it with his own power so that he could rule over all the other rings of power crafted by the Elven-smiths. ... This meant that Frodo would have to embark on a perilous journey across Middle-Earth, deep into Mordor, and casting the ring right there by the fires unto which it was forged. ...

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On the island in The Lord of the Flies, like in the real world, society is forged with the noblest of intentions. ... We must make a fire," he reminds them. They all agree to the necessity of keeping a fire, but things are easier said than done. ... The boys tending the fire grow lazy, and under Jack's bloodthirsty influence, leave their posts to go pig hunting. ...

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James Finney Boylan was born in 1958, in Valley Forge Pennsylvania. ... The fire started in 1961 along the outskirts of town when trash was burned in an old open pit mine. The fire in the open pit caught some coal on fire. ... Attempts to put the fires out were unsuccessful. ... "Since the mine fire, it had become a ghost town, with the elementary school torn down, the stores and homes boarded up and abandoned. ...

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Soon afterwards a shot was fired. ... More bullets were fired and John F. ... When he was arrested, the police found that Oswald was carrying a forged identity card bearing the name Alek Hiddell. ... (2) The weight of the evidence indicates that there were three shots fired... (4) The shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald...

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Before the second meeting of the Continental Congress in April of 1775 the situation had changed again- both the British army and colonists fired shots. ... The Battle of Valley Forge was, in my opinion, the turning point in the war, and proved that George Washington was one of the best Generals around and was capable of leading his men to victory because of his uncanny way of holding his men together and keeping them united. ...

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Willy is too driven by his own willfulness to recognize the crooked reality that his mind has forged. ... After talking to his boss Howard Wagner, the son of the former owner of the Wager Company, he was fired from his job. ...

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The young men of the day had had drilled into them by history, legend, verse, story and song that real nationhood is forged in battle. ... Instead of finding the flat beach they expected, they found they had been landed at the incorrect position and faced steep cliffs and constant barrages of enemy fire and shelling. ... The Australian soldiers and the Turks dug in - literally - digging kilometres of trenches, and pinned down each other's forces with sniper fire and shelling. ... While political leaders argued, the Australian soldiers died in battle, from sniper fire and shelling, and tho...

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She forged her father's signature in order to get enough money to travel south for a while. ... Krogstad holds Nora's IOU over her head in attempt to keep his job because Nora's husband has just received the job as bank manager and has all intentions of firing Krogstad. ...

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The third stanza begins with an allusion to the three holy men "standing God's holy fire". ... He declares that he will no longer take his "bodily form from any natural thing," but rather he says, in an allusion to "Grecian goldsmiths," that he will fashion himself as a bird made of gold forged by these craftsmen. ...

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With Torvald thinking of Nora as a child, she thought she could persuade him into not firing Krogstad. ... He told Nora how he figured out that she forged her father's signature to receive the money. ...

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After the death of Aeschere, Beowulf prepares for his battle with Grendel's mother: Beowulf got ready, donned his war-gear, indifferent to death; his mighty, hand-forged, fine-webbed mail would soon meet with the menace underwater. ... For a brief while your strength is in bloom but it fades quickly; and soon there will follow illness or the sword to lay you low, or a sudden fire or surge of water or jabbing blade or javelin from the air or repellent age. ...

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The play A Doll House takes place in an oppressive society. Characters mask their own feelings, and are not individual in thought. So many secrets are kept within their community that when Nora realizes the truth about her own life, she turns her back on society forever. Is the society making the ch...

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However, to get this money Nora forged her father's signature and even dated it several days after his death. ... When Torvald fires Nils Krogstad from his job, Krogstad pushes Nora to help him because otherwise he will reveal her great secret. ...

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Divorce has become widely accepted throughout the world. In today's world, the violent shredding of a family is shrugged off like the daily weather. The play A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, is a prime example of a marriage that didn't work. The marriage of Torvald and Nora Helmer had many problems...

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Hot! Fire! Destruction! These are words that most people associate with volcanoes. But some good effects can come out of volcanoes. Volcanoes also have their own special mythology associated with them. A lot of volcanoes have some general characteristics in common. There are many volcanoes arou...

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