These feelings can include anger, sadness, despair, hopelessness, etc. ... This ending seems to be associated more with a feeling of sadness. ... " (Wiesel xii) These quotes from the preface allow us to detect the author's anger when thinking about the Holocaust and its present collective memory of it. ... The use of the word 'corpse' when describing this reflection also adds to the weight of the quote. ...

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In the passage from the novel Alias Grace by Margret Atwood, the author uses many narrative techniques to convey the feelings and thoughts of the main character Grace Mark. Atwood uses a great mixture of metaphors, similes and motifs to describe what is happening to Grace and her point of view throu...

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All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity". 1 With this quote he is able to evoke Diana's charming essence and benevolent attitude as the Princess of Wales. ... In his quote: "My own, and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum". 1 he also allures to ethos, by suggesting that those who disliked Princess Diana only really disliked her strong moral values. ... He carefully chooses his words and utilizes personal pronouns such as "we" and "us" to encompass the audience in his gr...

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A following quote by Jerry Sienfield reads as the following, "I am not gay. ... This originally was from a comedy skit but there is so much truth within the quote. Unfortunately, the sad reality is that people generally like to use stereotypic cues to create certain inferences about a group of people. ... Unfortunately the sad reality of these socioeconomic disparities is that people are designed to notice differences amongst other people. ...

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I feel very strongly about this I was awe struck by this quote by a very influential rapper "if money is the root of evil, why does it say in god we trust knowing what it does to people". It affects humankind so deeply it tends to have man put money over religion, although it's sad it's also true. ...

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The satirical novel "Candide," was written by the French philosopher, Voltaire, during the Enlightenment period, an intellectual movement that occurred in eighteenth century Europe. The plot of the story follows Candide, a young and naive man who discovers true happiness after he loses his true love...

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The second issue, being sorrow, is dealt with in many of his poems simply because of his sad childhood, which had many terrifying events: his father's imprisonment in Hajjah horrible prison, Nafi'; the execution of many colleagues of his father's and his; and his brother and friend's deaths. ... Sad and disappointed, he turns to calling Saif Ibn Dhi-Yazan as the only inspiration to free him from grieves and sorrow. ... The latter quotes Ibn Isehaq....

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The ad displays two orphaned boys caring for each other and the sepia tone of the photograph makes the scene feel very dim and sad. ... The picture of the little girl smiling with the quote "Life skills are a main ingredient in every Girl Scout cookie,"" gives you the want to guide the child, which is the opposite of nurture as it is the need to be nurture or guided. ...

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Licensed fools are usually sad characters themselves, often outsiders. ... Therefore we can assume – while using the quote "I jest to Oberon, and make him smile" – that Oberon is Puck's only ally. The previous quote also supports the conclusion that Puck is a licensed fool as he does not say that he jests to anybody other than Oberon. ...

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Hardy himself seems unclear about the nature of Henchard's hamartia when he quotes Novalis: "Character is fate"--certainly a useful aphorism for a Victorian novelist, though something about which Aristotle in The Poetics does not address. ... A tragic hero's sad story comes from his own flaws, and Michael Henchard was certainly not lacking in faults and poor judgments. ... Thomas Hardy has been quoted as comparing the rural setting of this and other of his novels to the stark and simple setting of the Greek theater, giving his novels something of that drama's intensity and sharp...

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Senator Barack Obama's A More Perfect Union begins with a quote from the most important document which has been a lynchpin of controversy since its origin. ... Although many Americans think that hard work will make them rich enough in order to live the American Dream, the sad fact is that most Americans are not rich and will never reach beyond the poverty line, regardless of hard they work. ...

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To quote Brad Pitt's character from the film Fight Club, "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need ". ... While I'm not suggesting these are unworthy causes, the fundamentals of propaganda still apply: the ads use music that invoke a response of sadness or even guilt on the part of the viewer. ...

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