Pi remembered that tigers could drink saltwater, and the survival manual taught him he could poke a fish in the eye to paralyze it and that he could drink turtle's blood for water. ... He prayed to the gods of his three religions, and although it is expected for one to be depressed, Pi became grateful for and happy from the small things, such as a solar still full of freshwater. ... She finds this terribly funny. She giggles and buries her face in the crook of his neck. ...

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She knows that she is to be judged so she tells Nathan's story as her defense, and prosecution. ... Rachel shows Nathan Price through a totally different view of the mind's eye. ... As she tells her father's story, she receives a sense of herself. ... She learned from her father that the options are to live life in the here and now, and to accept it, or to live a life of boredom, full of lackluster glory. ... She, and she alone, gained total freedom from her father's story. ...

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She set up housekeeping with her mother. ... And before she was full-grown she had established the distinct elements of her later working style, an eye that looked hard and remembered. ... #She was not yet twenty, and she had never owned a camera. Lange might have shunned the classroom but when she wanted to learn something she was tenacious, aggressive, and persuasive. ... The face of the young woman is marked by wrinkles, the gaze full of worry directed in the distance. ...

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Later, she finds him attractive for his thoughts on being successful in his business and in a way falls in love with him. ... She produces lies about her life to make it look like she is beautiful but the reality is that she has just built a lie but Lester she her in the light of her beauty, the way she want s people to see her. ... The film sees through these obsessions as well as the characters and makes a realization that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that life, although has made a wrong turn, can always be changed. ... At this climax of the film Lester knows his wife is so con...

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The Whaler English essay The world of a child is full of illusions, which help with the foundation of a secure and manageable understanding of its existence. ... She had taught him and his classmates religion while she had had an affair with the Whaler, a fact that shocked the boy even more than the Whaler's whaleless past. ... "Thar she blows."" (p. 4 l. 158) he says realizing that she was the true whale of the Whaler's life. ... (p. 4 l. 122) In the end when he they are about to say goodbye the boy looked him in the eye (p. 4 l. 148-149). ...

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Unwillingly, I found myself drowning in a room full of tears, my tears. ... Everything that could have gone wrong, smacked me in my face and left me with a black eye and my right cheek swollen with ignorance and carelessness. ... She was so beautiful with her short blond hair and her hazel eyes, and now I can't even look into them the way I used too. ... She was apart of my life, apart of my soul. Without her, nothing seems right, and I"m left here in the dust as she moves on with her life. ...

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Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving there spouses in order to move in together. ... The film starts with Christie's eye in extreme close-up on the camera, the eye is supposed to be the window into the soul but as we find out for Diana, this is not so, "A lie can be shown with integrity, just like anything else". ... She has lived a life of pretence for so long that she doesn't even know who she is or what she wants any...

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In a poem by Sharon Olds she explains the feeling around Marilyn Monroe's death. ... While each man blankly stares at their once dream girl, they realize she is no longer in their dreams. ... The day wasn't as bright as it started out to be, and things weren't so full of life. As always the men went out for a drink and couldn't stand to look each other in the eye. ... The last man stood in the doorway and listen to a woman's breathing patterns as she slept. ...

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It stands out immensely and catches the reader's eye. After the first stanza the reader is in full knowledge of the death of the poet. ... The buzzing fly blocks her view though of where she is heading and the light that was once there is now gone. ... The speaker mentions children at the beginning of the stanza because she is reflecting back to a time in her life when she once played at the school. ... Death plays a large part in Dickinson's poetry and it greatly shapes the way she writes and the way readers perceive her. ...

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Laura had the most beautiful brown curly hair and her eyes were so dark yet full of so much life. ... Sadly, Laura must have found them in the house because she was tied up and was unable to make it out of the fire. ... My brother and I stayed hidden for three hours before hanging upside down in the funnel, revealing one eye at a time for a quick radial look around. ... I remember watching helplessly as a nun got chased down the street by a group of people just because she had light skin. ... In a room full of strangers, I am the man who takes mental notes of everyone's location and what ...

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Kim grows up in an environment full of physicality and sin. ... In exchange for a blessing from the lama, the old lady allows him and Kim to ride along with her and she supplies them with food and shelter. ... Kim then continues to describe the truth that he sees: bustling and shouting, the buckling of belts, and beating of bullocks and creaking of wheels, lighting of fires and cooking of food, and new sights at every turnoff the approving eye. (62) Kim perceives movement and chaos, noise and action as his truth. ... Sitting closer to Kim, the old lady "...would talk a great deal...She ...

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One by one, Keats would have to face death in the eye and try to overcome major losses in his short-lived life. ... Immediately after the death of her husband, John's father, she remarried a man named William Rawlings (Kipperman 180). Soon, she became unhappy and became increasingly ill with tuberculosis and divorced William and returned home to be with her children, her death followed three months later (180). ... "His (John's) brother had filled a large part of his world and he missed him terribly [ ] In a life full of reticence and strong feelings, this was his (John's) mo...

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The hospital is full of other patients who seek the doctor's attention, so checking up on these patients is just wasting their time when they could be helping other patients. Doctors and nurses need to keep an eye on the patient's nutrition, hydration, heartbeats, lungs and other organs in the body that could possibly fail. ... She was known as the "Human Vegetable " to many people. ... Terri always would tell her husband her wishes were that there was to be not to be any help of her dying, but her parents did not agree with what she wanted. ... Her parents still today blame the hosp...

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Children seem to have a genuine angelic outlook on life. They see the world as a big place filled with little forms of life. However as they grow older, they begin to forget what life is all about. Growing up was a hard thing for me. Everything seemed out of place and now doing what was right did no...

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